Description
Black Eyed Peas – Bridging The Gap / Interscope Records Audio CD 2000 / 490 661-2
UPC 606949066123
Bridging the Gap is the second studio album by American hip hop group Black Eyed Peas, released on September 26, 2000. This is their last album where they are credited as Black Eyed Peas, until the release of Masters of the Sun Vol. 1 in 2018.
The album had three official singles: "BEP Empire/Get Original", "Weekends" and "Request + Line", the last featuring Macy Gray. The song "Weekends" was later remixed and renamed "Another Weekend" for the Deluxe Edition of their fifth studio album, The E.N.D.
Singer Kim Hill was deeply involved in making the album, but left the group after it was released.
The album received favorable reviews, and holds a score of 74 on Metacritic.
| Label: | Interscope Records – 490 661-2 |
|---|---|
| Format: |
CD, Album
|
| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
2000 |
| Genre: | Hip Hop |
Tracklist:
| 1 | BEP Empire | 4:39 | |
| 2 |
Weekends |
|
4:46
|
||
| 3 | Get Original |
|
2:52
|
||
| 4 | Hot |
|
4:04
|
||
| 5 | Cali To New York |
|
4:04
|
||
| 6 | Lil' Lil' |
|
4:10
|
||
| 7 | On My Own |
| 3:52 | |||
| 8 | Release | 5:07 | |
| 9 | Bridging The Gaps |
|
4:56
|
|||
| 10 | Go Go | 4:53 | |
| 11 | Rap Song |
|
3:42
|
|||
| 12 | Bringing It Back | 3:36 | |
| 13 | Tell Your Mama Come |
|
3:14
|
||
| 14 | Request + Line |
| 3:53 |
- A&R [Coordination] – Tatiana Litvin
- A&R [Direction] – DJ Mormile, Ian Alexander
- Art Direction – Seth Friedman (2), Will Adams
- Art Direction, Design, Illustration – Vinnie Arnone
- Bass – Jerry Duplessis (tracks: 11), Michelangelo Fratantuno (tracks: 6, 9, 10, 14), Miles Taket (tracks: 4)
- Clavinet – will.i.am (tracks: 7)
- Coordinator – Andrew Van Meter
- Drum Programming – apl.de.ap (tracks: 4, 8, 9), will.i.am (tracks: 2, 3, 5 to 7, 10 ,12 to 14)
- Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – will.i.am (tracks: 2, 10)
- Executive-Producer – DJ Mormile, Ian Alexander, will.i.am
- Guitar – George Pajon Jr. (tracks: 2 to 6, 9, 10, 13, 14), Michelangelo Fratantuno (tracks: 14), Wyclef Jean (tracks: 11)
- Horns – Asdru Sierra (tracks: 13), Jose Espinosa* (tracks: 13), Eulises Bella* (tracks: 13)
- Management [Interscope Marketing] – Ashley Fox
- Mastered By – Tom Coyne
- Mixed By – Dave Pensado (tracks: 2 to 10, 12 to 14), Dexter Thibou (tracks: 1), Jerry "Wonder" Duplessis (tracks: 11), Wyclef (tracks: 11)
- Organ [Hammond] – Michelangelo Fratantuno (tracks: 14), Printz Board (tracks: 2), will.i.am (tracks: 3, 5, 12)
- Photography By – Anthony Mandler
- Producer – apl.de.ap (tracks: 4, 8, 9), DJ Premier (tracks: 1), Jerry "Wonder" Duplessis (tracks: 11), Rhett Lawrence (tracks: 14), will.i.am (tracks: 2, 3, 5 to 7, 10, 12, 13), Wyclef Jean (tracks: 11)
- Strings – Kevan Torfek (tracks: 11), Roberto Cari (tracks: 11), Susan Chatman (tracks: 11), Suzanna Girdano (tracks: 11)
- Synthesizer [Moog] – will.i.am* (tracks: 3, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13)
- Trumpet – Printz Board (tracks: 13)
- Turntables – DJ Motive (tracks: 2 to 4, 8, 11, 14)
ć
