- hip hop, pop rap
- 78 min
- 17 tracks
- Bad Boy Records
No Way Out is the debut studio album by American rapper Puff Daddy. It was released on July 22, 1997, through Arista Records and Puff Daddy's own Bad Boy Records. The album is credited to "Puff Daddy & the Family", with "the Family" referring to guest appearances from his signees at Bad Boy, including its then-recently deceased flagship artist, the Notorious B.I.G.
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Classical in form, spare, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- effortlessdemanding
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyC+
- The Guardian2/5 ★
- NME6/10
- Pitchfork7.8/10
- RapReviews9/10
- Rolling Stone2.5/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1No Way Out (intro)1:22
- 2Victory4:56
- 3Been Around the World5:26
- 4What You Gonna Do?4:55
- 5Don't Stop What You're Doing3:58
- 6If I Should Die Tonight (interlude)2:59
- 7Do You Know?6:06
- 8Young G's5:26
- 9I Love You Baby4:03
- 10It's All About the Benjamins (remix)4:38
- 11Pain5:08
- 12Is This the End?4:34
- 13I Got the Power4:05
- 14Friend6:37
- 15Señorita4:08
- 16I'll Be Missing You5:44
- 17Can't Nobody Hold Me Down3:51
17 tracks, 78 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Puff Daddy & the Family
- Label
- Bad Boy Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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