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The Bronx rapper released his seventh solo studio album on November 14, 2006, through his own Terror Squad Entertainment, two weeks after “Make It Rain” with Lil Wayne hit the market. The record opened at No. 14 on the US albums chart with 60,000 copies sold in its first week. It did better on the genre charts, reaching No. 3 on the R&B/hip hop albums list and No. 2 on the rap albums list. By September 2007 it had sold 206,000 copies in the United States. The Memphis idea behind Make It Rain The single came first, on October 31, 2006. According to the song’s history, Fat Joe was on tour in Memphis when he noticed what local clubs were playing and decided he wanted his own Southern-style record. He asked producer Scott Storch for a beat in that style, and Storch did not like the idea at first. Producer Irv Gotti then suggested bringing in Lil Wayne, a New Orleans rapper who fit the regional sound. Fat Joe had already written the hook and sent Wayne a demo. Wayne returned the finished vocal the very next day, and on the original version he sings only the chorus. The bet paid off slowly. “Make It Rain” entered the Hot 100 at No. 55 in the week of November 18, 2006, then climbed for 13 weeks before peaking at No. 13 on February 17, 2007. It was certified platinum for a million downloads in May 2007 and earned a Grammy nomination for best rap performance by a duo or group. A Miami record from a New York rapper For an artist so tied to the Bronx, Me, Myself & I was made almost entirely in Florida. Three Miami rooms hosted the sessions, the Hit Factory, Circle House and Panic Room, with Record One in Sherman Oaks, California, the lone outpost. Behind the boards were Scott Storch, DJ Khaled, The Runners, StreetRunner, Grind Music and Nu Jerzey Devil. The guest list was short on purpose. Lil Wayne appears twice, on “Make It Rain” and “The Profit,” and the only other features are H-Mob and The Game. The 12 tracks run 49 minutes and 53 seconds. Samples range from Bob Marley and the Wailers’ “War” on the Game collaboration to Isaac Hayes on “Jealousy” and a Michael Jackson song on “Bendicion Mami.” Twenty years on, by the numbers The sales curve tells a clear story. That 60,000 first week works out to roughly 29 percent of the 206,000 copies the album had sold by September 2007, which means most buyers came later, pulled in as the single kept rising through the winter. The release date also put Fat Joe in heavy company. The Game, his guest on “Breathe and Stop,” put out his own album the very same day, and as we noted in our look at the Game’s Doctor’s Advocate at 20, that record opened at No. 1 with 358,000 copies. That is about six times Fat Joe’s opening week. Reviews were mixed at the time, with several critics ranking the record below its 2005 predecessor All or Nothing. Others praised the quieter tracks, such as “Bendicion Mami” and “Story to Tell,” for balancing the club songs. Fat Joe followed it with The Elephant in the Room on March 11, 2008. He is still performing two decades later, most recently with a second Tiny Desk concert alongside Remy Ma, Jadakiss and Stove God Cooks. For more anniversaries, browse our entertainment section. Further reading Wikipedia: Me, Myself & I (album) Wikipedia: Make It Rain (Fat Joe song) Image: scoregbf, CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.", "markdown": "https://badiyaa.com/fat-joe-me-myself-i-20-years.md" }