Capital Punishment (Big Pun album) - Composition

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Capital Punishment is the debut studio album by American rapper Big Pun, released by RCA Records, Loud Records and Fat Joe's Terror Squad Productions. Released on April 28, 1998, it is the only album released during his lifetime and was regarded as "super groundbreaking" upon release.[1] The album peaked at number five on the Billboard 200 charts and number one on the Top R&B Albums chart for two weeks. It was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 1999 Grammy Awards, but lost to Jay-Z's Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life. It was also the first solo Latin hip hop record to go Platinum.[2]

Capital Punishment

Studio album by

Big Pun

Released

April 28, 1998

Recorded

1997 - 1998

Genre

Hardcore hip hop
East Coast hip hop
Latin hip hop
mafioso rap
horrorcore

Length

71:53

Label

BMG
RCA
Loud
Terror Squad

Producer

Big Pun (also executive)
Fat Joe (also executive)
Matt Life (executive)
Ju-Ju
Rockwilder
Knobody
Dahoud
Nomad
Mike Zulu
Domingo
Frank Nitty
Younglord
L.E.S.
Dr. Dre
The Infinite Arkatechz
Minnesota
dead prez
V.I.C.
RZA
Danny O & EQ
Showbiz

Big Pun chronology

Capital Punishment
(1998)

Yeeeah Baby
(2000)

Singles from Capital Punishment

"I'm Not a Player"
Released: August 7, 1997
"Still Not a Player"
Released: March 28, 1998
"You Came Up"
Released: August 22, 1998

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Christgau's Consumer Guide	[4]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[5]
Los Angeles Times	[6]
Q	[7]
RapReviews	9.5/10[8]
Rolling Stone	[9]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[10]
The Source	4/5[11]

Entertainment Weekly (7/17/98, p. 85) – "Everything about this Bronx-bred Puerto Rican rapper is generous, his 400-pound girth, his multiple rhyming within each line, and his talent for spewing out verses without stopping for breath." – Rating: B+[5]
Q (6/00, p. 123) – 4 stars out of 5 – "Displaying huge lyrical prowess and the requisite 'sensitive' side...[the album] established Pun as a serious rival to Biggie Smalls and something of a ladykiller to boot....funk and fun aplenty....Outrageously good."
The Source (6/98, p. 159) – 4 Mics (out of 5) – "He'll rhyme every possible word in a line because he wants to be twice as nice....Capital Punishment's all about execution."
Rap Pages (9/98, p. 120) – 4 (out of 5) – "Big Pun is at his best with all barrels firing bullets lacing the air like embroidery on grandmama's quilt."[12]

Legacy

Rolling Stone included Capital Punishment in their list of The 200 Greatest Hip-Hop Albums of All Time at 128.[13] Big Pun "was a superhelix of rhymes inside rhymes inside rhymes, meticulously shaped into devastating tracks." The songs Beware & Twinz (Deep Cover) both appear in the 2005 video game Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories in the fictional hip-hop radio station The Liberty Jam.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Intro"			0:33
2.	"Beware"	Christopher Rios Jerry Tineo	JuJu	3:15
3.	"Super Lyrical" (featuring Black Thought)	Rios Tariq Trotter	Rockwilder DJ Iroc (scratches)	3:28
4.	"Taster's Choice" (skit)			1:20
5.	"Still Not a Player" (featuring Joe)	Rios Jerome Foster	Knobody Dahoud (co.) Nomad (co.)	3:56
6.	"Intermission"		Mike Zulu	0:21
7.	"The Dream Shatterer"	Rios	Domingo	3:33
8.	"Punish Me" (featuring Miss Jones)	Rios Frank Pimentel	Frank Nitty	4:15
9.	"Pakinamac Pt. I" (skit)			1:35
10.	"You Ain't a Killer"	Rios Richard Frierson	Young Lord	4:14
11.	"Pakinamac Pt. II" (skit)			0:57
12.	"Caribbean Connection" (featuring Wyclef Jean)	Rios Frierson Wyclef Jean	Young Lord	3:24
13.	"Glamour Life" (featuring Cuban Link, Triple Seis, Fat Joe & Armageddon of Terror Squad)	Rios Leshan Lewis	L.E.S.	4:43
14.	"Capital Punishment" (featuring Prospect)	Rios Michael Dewar Collin Dewar	The Infinite Arkatechz	4:20
15.	"Uncensored" (skit) (featuring DJ Funkmaster Flex)			2:12
16.	"I'm Not a Player"	Rios Kenny Gamble Leon Huff	Minnesota	3:41
17.	"Twinz (Deep Cover 98)" (featuring Fat Joe)	Rios Joseph Cartagena	Dr. Dre	3:49
18.	"The Rain & the Sun" (Interlude) (featuring dead prez)	Rios Clayton Gavin Lavonne Alford	dead prez	1:49
19.	"Boomerang"	Rios Cartagena Vic Padilla	V.I.C.	3:35
20.	"You Came Up" (featuring Noreaga)	Rios Stinson	Rockwilder	3:54
21.	"Tres Leches (Triboro Trilogy)" (featuring Prodigy and Inspectah Deck)	Rios Albert Johnson Jason Hunter Robert Diggs Eric Barrier William Griffin, Jr.	RZA DJ Roc Raida (scratches)	4:19
22.	"Charlie Rock Shout" (skit)			0:26
23.	"Fast Money"	Rios	Danny O & EQ	3:48
24.	"Parental Discretion" (featuring Busta Rhymes)	Rios Rodney Lemay	Showbiz	4:33
Total length:				1:11:53

Sample credits

"Intro" samples an dialogue clip from the 1994 film Fresh.
"Beware" samples "Theme for the Losers" by Henry Mancini, "Shook Ones Part I" by Mobb Deep, and interpolates "Hot Potato" by Naughty by Nature.
"Super Lyrical" contains vocal samples from "One More Chance / Stay with Me (Remix)" by The Notorious B.I.G., "It's Logic" by Canibus, and dialogue clips from the 1985 film Rocky IV.
"Still Not a Player" samples "A Little Bit of Love" by Brenda Russell and interpolates "Brazilian Rhyme (Bejio Interlude)" by Earth, Wind & Fire.
"The Dream Shatterer" samples "Funk & Wagner" by Don "Sugarcane" Harris.
"Punish Me" contains a vocal sample from "Not Gonna Be Able to Do It" by Double XX Posse.
"You Ain't a Killer" samples "With a Child's Heart" by Michael Jackson.
"Caribbean Connection" samples "Ready or Not" by Johnny Osbourne, "Moshitup" by Just-Ice, and "It's All About the Benjamins" by Puff Daddy.
"Glamour Life" samples "The World Is a Ghetto" by George Benson.
"I'm Not a Player" samples "Darlin' Darlin' Baby" by The O'Jays, "Singers" by Eddie Murphy, "Darlin', Darlin', Baby (Sweet, Tender, Love)" by Steve Khan.
"Boomerang" samples "Le Bracelet" by Alain Goraguer.
"You Came Up" samples "Don't Ask Me" by Ramon Morris and interpolates "Hail Mary" by 2Pac.
"Tres Leches (Triboro Trilogy)" samples "Las Vegas Tango" by Gary Burton, "The Start of Your Ending (41st Side)" by Mobb Deep, "Method Man" by Wu-Tang Clan, "I Ain't No Joke" by Eric B. & Rakim, and "Guillotine (Swordz)" by Raekwon.
"Parental Disrection" samples "Le Bracelet" by Alain Goraguer.

Personnel

Credits for Capital Punishment adapted from the album liner notes.

Armageddon – featured artist
Denise Barbarita – assistant engineer
Carlos Bess – mixing
Big Pun – executive producer, primary artist
Black Thought – featured artist
Busta Rhymes – featured artist
Sean Cane – A&R
Chris Conway – mixing
Cuban Link – featured artist
Dr. Dre – producer
Dahoud – producer
Danny O – producer
dead prez – producer, featured artist
Domingo – producer
"E" – mixing
EQ – producer
Fat Joe – executive producer, featured artist
Funkmaster Flex – featured artist
Paul Gregory – assistant engineer
Che Harris – A&R coordination
Daniel "PhotoChop" Hastings
Troy Hightower – mixing
Tom Hughes – assistant engineer
Ken "Duro" Ifil – engineer
Wyclef Jean – featured artist
Inspectah Deck – featured artist
Joe – featured artist
Ju-Ju – producer
Jugrnaut – producer
Knobody – producer
Ola Kudu – creative direction
Adam Kudzin – engineer
L.E.S. – producer
Matt Life – executive producer
Laurie Marks – A&R coordination
Mike D. – A&R
Minnesota – producer
Miss Jones – featured artist
Nastee – engineer
Frank Nitty – producer
Nomad – producer
Prodigy – featured artist
Prospect – featured artist
Roc Raida – scratches
Rockwilder – producer
RZA – producer
Schott Free – A&R
Tony Smalios – engineer, mixing
Triple Seis – featured artist
Showbiz – producer
Soundboy – engineer, mixing
Kevin Stone – assistant engineer
Nikos Teneketzis – mixing assistant
Kieran Walsh – engineer
Gregory "Gold" Wilson – assistant engineer
Ted Wohlsen – mixing
Trauma – producer
Young Lord – producer
Leon Zervos – mastering
Mike Zulu – producer

Album chart positions

Year	Album	Chart positions
Year	Album	Billboard 200	Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums	Top Canadian Albums
1998	Capital Punishment	5	1	11

Singles

Year	Song	Hot 100	Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks	Hot Rap Singles	Rhythmic Top 40	Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales
1997	"I'm Not a Player"	57	19	3	-	7
1998	"Still Not a Player"	24	6	13	5	1
1998	"You Came Up"	-	49	43	-	-

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[14]	Gold	50,000^{^}
United States (RIAA)[15]	Platinum	1,000,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

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"Gold & Platinum - Big Pun". RIAA. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2010-08-15.
Huey, Steve. "Capital Punishment – Big Pun". AllMusic. Archived from the original on June 28, 2018. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
Christgau, Robert (2000). "Big Punisher: Capital Punishment". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 0-312-24560-2. Archived from the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
Mukherjee, Tiarra (July 17, 1998). "Capital Punishment". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on February 2, 2009. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
Baker, Soren (June 7, 1998). "Big Punisher, 'Capital Punishment,' Loud/RCA". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 18, 2020. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
"Big Pun: Capital Punishment". Q. No. 165. June 2000. p. 123.
Juon, Steve "Flash" (February 20, 2001). "Big Punisher :: Capital Punishment :: Loud Records". RapReviews. Archived from the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
Mao, Chairman (May 6, 1998). "Big Punisher: Capital Punishment". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 1, 2007. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
Ex, Kris (2004). "Big Pun". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 71. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
Alvarez, Gabriel (June 1998). "Big Pun: Capital Punishment". The Source. No. 105. pp. 159–160.
"Big Punisher – Capital Punishment CD Album". Cduniverse.com. 1999-08-24. Archived from the original on 2012-01-22. Retrieved 2012-02-09.
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"American album certifications – Big Punisher – Capital Punishment". Recording Industry Association of America.

v t e Big Pun
Discography
Studio albums	Capital Punishment Yeeeah Baby
Compilations	Endangered Species
Singles	"I'm Not a Player" "Still Not a Player" "You Came Up" "It's So Hard" "100%" "How We Roll"
Featured singles	"Off the Books" "Banned from T.V." "Feelin' So Good"
Other songs	"Beware" "Top of the World, Part II"
Related articles	Terror Squad Fat Joe Loud Records Big Pun: The Legacy

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