Anakonda Explained

Anakonda
Type:	album
Artist:	Akinyele
Cover:	Anakonda album cover.jpg
Released:	July 10, 2001
Recorded:	2001
Genre:	Hip-Hop, dirty rap
Label:	Koch Records
Producer:	Lord Finesse, Earl Thomas, Tom Brown
Prev Title:	Aktapuss
Prev Year:	1999
Next Title:	Live at the Barbecue: Unreleased Hits
Next Year:	2004

Anakonda is the third album by the American rapper Akinyele.^{[1] [2]} It was released in 2001 on Koch Records.^{[3] [4]} Anakonda proved to be the least successful of Akinyele's albums, not making it to any of the Billboard charts.

Critical reception

Exclaim! wrote that "undoubtedly the intention was to shock, but the mediocre skills and pedestrian beats instead induce rolling of the eyes."^[3] Entertainment Weekly thought that "the veteran Queens rapper again spits out the raunchiest raps north of Miami’s 2 Live Crew."^[1]

USA Today listed Anakonda as the fifth worst R&B album of 2001, writing: "The explicit rapper's raunchy antics used to make you laugh or cringe. But at this point, there are no surprises left."^[5]

Track listing

1. "Gangsters" (Akinyele Adams, Earl Thomas) - 3:39
2. "I Like" (Akinyele Adams, Sandra Clough, Thomas) - 4:09
3. "Guns Bust" (Akinyele Adams, Chris Moore, William Young) - 3:53
4. "Do You Wanna?" (Akinyele Adams, Moore) - 4:26
5. "Love My Bitch" (Akinyele Adams, Lord Finesse) - 3:13
6. "Eat Pussy" (Akinyele Adams, Christine McClean, Andre Venable) - 3:25
7. "I'll Kill 4 You" (Akinyele Adams, Tom Hill) - 2:31
8. "Pimps and Hoes" (Akinyele Adams, Armstead, Lou Brown, Thomas) - 5:05
9. "Do You Even" (Akinyele Adams, Lou Brown, Mahoghony) - 2:21
10. "Problems" (Akinyele Adams, Eric Brown, Mobutu "Boo" Evans) - 4:27
11. "What" (Akinyele Adams, Moore) - 3:09
12. "The Rhyme" (Akinyele Adams, McClean, Venable) - 4:13

Personnel

• Akinyele – vocals
• Louis Brown – vocals
• Tom Hill – producer
• Lord Finesse – producer
• Jessica Rosenblum – executive producer
• Earl Thomas – producer

Notes and References

1. Web site: THE CHARTS. EW.com.
2. Web site: Bedroom Lyrics, Business Sense Drive Akinyele's Success. https://web.archive.org/web/20210624215251/http://www.mtv.com/news/1444342/bedroom-lyrics-business-sense-drive-akinyeles-success/. dead. June 24, 2021. Shaheem. Reid. MTV News.
3. Web site: Akinyele Anakonda a.k.a. Benny Ill | Exclaim!. exclaim.ca.
4. Book: Bynoe . Yvonne . Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip-Hop Culture . 2006 . Greenwood Press . 6.
5. News: Jones . Steve . Critics spin through year's albums . USA Today . 27 Dec 2001 . D6.