Track Listing

1. Intro
2. Light Your A** On Fire - Busta Rhymes Featuring Pharrell
3. Blaze Of Glory - Clipse Featuring Pharrell & Ab-Liva
4. It Wasn�t Us - Ludacris Featuring I-20
5. Frontin� - Pharrell Featuring Jay-Z
6. Good Girl - Vanessa Marquez
7. If - Nelly
8. Hot - Rosco P Coldchain Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic
9. It Blows My Mind - Snoop Dogg
10. Half-Steering - Spymob
11. F*** N� Spend - The High Speed Scene
12. Loser - N.E.R.D. Featuring Clipse
13. Rock N� Roll - FAM-LAY
14. The Don Of Dons (Put De Ting Pon Dem) - Super Cat Featuring Jadakiss
15. Hot Damn - Clipse Featuring Ab-Liva, Pharrell & Rosco P. Coldchain
16. Put �Em Up - N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell
17. Pop Sh*t - Dirt McGirt Featuring Pharrell
18. Popular Thug - Kelis Featuring Nas

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15503 in Music
• Released on: 2003-08-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

CD Description
As if making their mark as one of the greatest pop and hip-hop production teams to come out of the late '90s wasn't enough, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo took their Neptunes persona to the other side of the recording glass for CLONES. Having worked as producers for a broad array of artists including Britney Spears, Mystikal, Ice Cube, and Perry Farrell, the Neptunes were able to cash in quite a number of chips forthis wide-ranging 2003 project. Fueled by the duo's trademark mix of beats and loops, numerous major names make this eclectic scene.
Standouts include Busta Rhymes praising booties ("Light You're A** On Fire"), O.D.B. returning from jail as Dirt McGirt, spitting out rhymes over a sparse cut ("Pop Sh*t"), and Nelly slipping into a slick St. Lunatic-like groove ("If"). Williams and Hugo move easily from an infectious Kelis/Nas duet ("Popular Thug") and an ultra-funky Jay-Z jam ("Frontin'") to whip-smart dancehall reggae with Supercat ("The Don of Dons [Put De Ting Pon Dem]") and straightforward alt-pop by the High Speed Scene ("F**k n' Spend"). Eclectic with a capitol E, CLONES keeps with the Neptunes penchant for casting a wide creative net.

Customer Reviews

The Neptunes Present... Clones
The first time I played this album it has to be said aside from the Tim Westwood favourites, it did not come across as a particularly outstanding album. I've been listening to the album for a couple of months now, and my opinion has radically changed.
Clones is collaborative album by the now infamous pop-rap-rock-R'n'B producers the Neptunes. The Neptunes are Chad Hugo, and Pharrell Williams a partnership, with a common history of school band and penchant for star trek. The two Virginians hit mainstream superstardom with their production of Justin Timberlakes solo album and Britney Spears song 'Slave 4 U'. Unlike the aforementioned, this album is un-desputably skewed towards the genre of rap, with the appearance of rap heavy weights such as Snoop Dogg, Dirt McGirt (A.K.A. Ol' Dirty Bastard) and N.O.R.E. (formerly Noreaga). Having said this, the full spectrum of The Neptunes artistic capacity can be heard, to varying degrees, with appearances by Kelis, Vanessa Marquez, The High Speed Scene and Chad and Pharrell's own group N.E.R.D. This diverse and inventive collection of artists makes for an album with 'legs', a record which unlike many other, more genre specific albums, demands time and thought in order for the listener to gain full enjoyment. Perhaps, in saying this I have made it sound like listening to this album is a chore, on the contrary. Clones is an album which draws the listener in through cyclonic attraction and introduces what inevitably is an audience of closed mined genre slaves, to numerous other styles of music. Each song while bearing the distinctive minimalistic retro sound of The Neptunes is uniquely original. From the Busta Rhymes' opening track 'Light your ass on fire' with its thunderous bassline to the meloncholic melodies of Kelis and Nas's final track, 'Popular Thug' each song could be a single release, many appealling to very different markets.
Hmmm, at this point I really must divert from this blatant arse licking! Having so highly praised this album, it has to be said that the eclectic styles on this album, despite their common neptunic sound does not make for a wholly comfortable listen. The transition between Snoop Dogg's 'It blows my mind' and Spymob's 'Half-Steering...' comes as a surprising jolt. Indeed when I was listening for the first time I was certain I'd sat on the remote and inadvertedly switched my stereo to the radio. This however is a minor problem, Clones is an album which through its ecclectric construction helps blur boundaries of 'cool'and 'taste' providing further impetus for the growth of an increasingly culturally aware youth.

Totally the Neptunes!!
I can only recommend this album. Pretty much anything touched by the neptunes is amazing(with the definite exception of "good girl"). Clones contains catchy, bangin beats typical of the neptunes and the neptunes definite inclination towards Hip-hop/rap is evident here. Pharrell's vocals on "pop sh*t", "put em up" and of course "frontin" make this album and are invaluable to it. Spymob and high speed scene, however, don't seem to have a place on the album and arent that good anyway!!!!
These songs were made for the album and the absense of excellent songs including Excuse me miss (Jay Z) and Pass the couversier (Busta Rhymes),to name just two!, is a critisicm but it does make room for these fantastic tracks.
I recommend this album and if you like this you'll love n.e.r.d!

Pretty monophonic
This album doesn't really go anywhere, the tracks are nothing outstanding & although theirs no doubt that the neptunes are incredibly talented & fantastic producers (they have created some big stars (such as Justin Timberlake who would have been nothing without the Neptunes behind him)).

The Neptunes are fantastic great & much better producers & Frontin' is a good song but that's about it in regards to the album, it doesn't seem like much effort has been put into it which is a shame really & doesn't give you value for money.