| Blood Money | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Mobb Deep |
| Cover: | Mobb Deep-Blood Money album cover.jpg |
| Alt: | A photo of Mobb Deep with a pile of money on a table in front of them. Behind them is a green badge labeled "MOBB DEEP" and "BLOOD MONEY", with the Eye of Providence symbol in the middle of it. |
| Recorded: | 2005–2006 |
| Genre: | Hip hop |
| Prev Title: | Amerikaz Nightmare |
| Prev Year: | 2004 |
| Next Title: | The Infamous Mobb Deep |
| Next Year: | 2014 |
Blood Money is the seventh studio album by Mobb Deep, released on May 2, 2006. It is the group's only album on G-Unit & Interscope. It features guest appearances by G-Unit and Nyce. The album also features artists Mary J. Blige and Nate Dogg. Blood Money is the only Mobb Deep studio album to not feature Big Noyd.
Blood Money was released on May 2, 2006, by G-Unit Records and Interscope. It was originally scheduled for an April 11 release, but the release was postponed to finish sample clearance.[1]
Blood Money has received generally mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 55, based on 17 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
In the United States, the album debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 selling 106,000 units in its first week of release.[2] [3] This entry at #3 on the Billboard 200 tied Mobb Deep's 4th album Murda Muzik for highest entry on the chart, with Murda Muzik entering the chart at #3 in 1999.
As of December 2006, Blood Money had sold 257,000 copies in the United States.[4] In his 2012 autobiography titled My Infamous Life, Prodigy claims the album went gold, with 500,000 copies sold.
The bonus track "Have a Party" originally appeared on the Get Rich or Die Tryin soundtrack, released in 2005. The other bonus track on the album, "Outta Control Remix", also originally appeared elsewhere, appearing as a bonus track on the re-release edition of 50 Cent's The Massacre. "Outta Control Remix" was also released as a single off of The Massacre and peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100.