Listen to samples used in the making of the album on WhoSampled. The track ‘Played Like a Piano’ appears on our Classic Material 1990 Mixtape. The album comes in at #19 on Ego Trip’s Top 25 Rap Albums of 1990. Its single “Ruff Rhyme (Back Again)” peaked at number 18 on the Hot Rap Songs.” The album peaked at number 175 on the US Billboard 200 and number 35 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. The album spawned four singles: “Ruff Rhyme (Back Again)”, “Diss You”, “At Your Own Risk” and “Played Like a Piano”, which were later included on the rapper’s greatest hits album titled Ruff Rhymes: Greatest Hits Collection. It also features guest appearances provided by Ice Cube and Breeze on the album’s final track “Played Like a Piano”. Production was handled by several record producers, including DJ Pooh, E-Swift, Bilal Bashir, Bronick Wrobleski, J.R. It was released on Octovia Capitol Records. “At Your Own Risk is the second studio album by American West Coast hip hop artist King Tee. Coes, Bronick Wrobleski, E-Swift, DJ Aladdin
Producers: DJ Pooh, King Tee, Bilal Bashir, J.R. Sure, you have a blast, but you do not want to make it your regular hang and definitely do not want to see it with the lights on.King Tee - ‘At Your Own Risk’ 30th Anniversary In the end, The Beginning is like spending a wild night at a cheesy eighties-themed nightclub. Though you can understand them employing some auto-tune to Will.I.Am's vocals on the chest-thumping, guitar-speckled club power-ballad "Someday", they unnecessarily damage Fergie's vocals on poppy acoustic love song "Whenever" destroying what should be a showcase song for the singer. The more original works, like the fuzzy, grumbling "Do It Like This" and pulsating "The Best One Yet (The Boy)" are decent enough dace tracks, though Fergie's vocals on "Just Can't Get Enough" leave you wondering why they did not use her more on this effort. They do much better when paying homage, as with playful ode to text-messaging "Xoxoxo", with a hint of the early eighties break-dance loving rap of Newcleus' "Jam On It".
Club anthem "Light Up The Night" recalls Slick Rick's "Children's Story" with its shaken beat and horns, and the twirling guitars buried under waves of synth on "Play It Loud" sound as if U2's The Edge mistakenly stumbled into the wrong studio. The synth melody driving "Love You Long Time" is technically original, if only because it cannot decide whether to lean heavier on The Who's "Baba O'Riley" or Pete Townshend's "Let My Love Open The Door". They do their best Blondie impression with the shimmering guitar and blipping keyboards of "Fashion Beats", complete with Fergie attempting a modernized "Rapture" inspired rap. Though it works fantastically for them on that track, their excessive use of samples and borrowed lines brings them ever closer to becoming a pop cover band. They manage to turn a bit of eighties cheese, Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes' Dirty Dancing hit "Time Of My Life", into a Frankenstein-ish mash-up that is equal parts airy synth-pop and hip-hop club-thumper on "The Time (Dirty Bit)". Given their reliance on familiar samples on their latest album, that is a tough claim for Black Eyed Peas to make. On siren-blaring club banger "Don't Stop The Party", Will.I.Am proclaims, "This is that original / There is no identical".