Creep Wit' Me is the debut album by East Coast

East Coast hip hop

East Coast hip hop is a regional subgenre of hip hop music that originated in New York City, USA during the 1970s. Hip hop is recognized to have originated and evolved first in the East Coast...

 hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 duo Ill Al Skratch

Ill Al Skratch

Ill Al Skratch is a hip hop duo consisting of two rappers, Big Ill and Al Skratch based from Brooklyn. They have released two albums, 1994's Creep Wit' Me and 1997's Keep It Movin.-Biography:...

. It was released on August 2, 1994 by Mercury Records

Mercury Records

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. It features slow and smooth production from The LG Experience and LoRider, as well as light party rhymes. It was Ill Al Skratch's most commercially successful album peaking at #137 on the Billboard 200

Billboard 200

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. Nonetheless, Al Skratch blames its lack of more success on poor distribution by Mercury Records. It contains three singles: "Where My Homiez? (Come Around My Way)," "I'll Take Her" and "Chill with That." The first of the three was an underground

Underground hip hop

Underground hip hop is an umbrella term for hip hop music outside the general commercial canon. It is typically associated with independent artists, signed toindependent labels or no label at all....

 hit that managed to reach #34 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. It was followed by "I'll Take Her," a single that featured R&B

Contemporary R&B

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 singer Brian McKnight

Brian McKnight

Brian McKnight is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, producer, and R&B/Pop musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays nine instruments: piano, guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussions, trombone, tuba, flugelhorn and trumpet....

 and reached the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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. It was followed by the last and least commercially successful of the three singles, "Chill with That."

Track listing

1. "They Got Love for Us" (1:21)
2. "Where My Homiez? (Come Around My Way)" (5:41)
3. "This Is for My Homiez" (5:35)
4. "I'll Take Her" (4:53)
   • Featuring Brian McKnight
     Brian McKnight
     Brian McKnight is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, producer, and R&B/Pop musician. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays nine instruments: piano, guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussions, trombone, tuba, flugelhorn and trumpet....
     
     
5. "Chill with That" (4:53)
6. "Where My Homiez? (Come Around My Way) (Dub Version)" (6:14)
7. "Creep Wit' Me" (3:51)
8. "Get Dough" (4:44)
9. "The Brooklyn Uptown Connection" (4:20)
   • Featuring LRC, Mark Sparks & Zoundwavez
10. "Classic Shit (Ill's Solo)" (4:14)
11. "Summertime (It's All Good) (Al's Solo)" (4:34)
12. "I'll Take Her (Brian's Flow)" (4:24)
    • Featuring Brian McKnight

Instrumental/Production credits

• Production
  Hip hop production
  Hip hop production is the creation of hip hop music. Though the term encompasses all aspects of hip hop music, it's most commonly used to refer to the instrumental, non-lyrical aspects of hip hop. This means that hip hop producers are the instrumentalists involved in a work...
  
  : The LG Experience & LoRider
• Guitar
  Guitar
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  : LoRider & Mike Tyler
• Bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  : LoRider
• Keyboards
  Musical keyboard
  A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
  
  : LoRider
• Organ
  Organ (music)
  The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
  
   (Hammond B3
  Hammond organ
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  ): Loris Holland
• Percussion (Beats)
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  : LG
• "Music Vibes": LG

Samples

• "Where My Homiez? (Come Around My Way)"
  • Contains samples from "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up" and "Playing Your Game Baby" by Barry White
    Barry White
    Barry White, born Barry Eugene Carter , was an American composer and singer-songwriter.A five-time Grammy Award-winner known for his distinctive bass voice and romantic image, White's greatest success came in the 1970s as a solo singer and with the Love Unlimited Orchestra, crafting many enduring...
    
    

• "I'll Take Her"
  • Contains samples from "You're So Good to Me" by Curtis Mayfield
    Curtis Mayfield
    Curtis Lee Mayfield was an American soul, R&B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer.He is best known for his anthemic music with The Impressions during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's and for composing the soundtrack to the blaxploitation film Super Fly, Mayfield is highly...
    
    
  • Contains samples from "Jane" by EPMD
    EPMD
    EPMD is an American hip hop group from Brentwood, New York. The group's name is a concatenation of the members' name "E" and "PMD" or an acronym for "Erick and Parrish Making Dollars", referencing its members, emcees Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith...
    
    

• "Creep Wit' Me"
  • Contains samples from "Deep Cover
    Deep Cover (song)
    "Deep Cover", also known as "187", is Dr. Dre's debut solo single, his first song since the N.W.A. break up. It was made for the soundtrack from the film Deep Cover . The song features Snoop Dogg making his first appearance on record.-History:...
    
    " by Dr. Dre
    Dr. Dre
    Andre Romelle Young , primarily known by his stage name Dr. Dre, is an American record producer, rapper, record executive, entrepreneur, and occasional actor. He is the founder and current CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and a former co-owner and artist of Death Row Records...
    
     & Snoop Dogg
    Snoop Dogg
    Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. , better known by his stage name Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, record producer, and actor. Snoop is best known as a rapper in the West Coast hip hop scene, and for being one of Dr. Dre's most notable protégés. Snoop Dogg was a Crip gang member while in high school...
    
    

• "Classic Shit (Ill's Solo)"
  • Contains samples from "(It's Not the Express) It's the JB's Monaurail" by The J.B.'s
    The J.B.'s
    The J.B.'s were James Brown's band during the first half of the 1970s. On record the J.B.'s were sometimes billed under various alternate names such as The James Brown Soul Train, Maceo and the Macks, A.A.B.B., The First Family and The Last Word...
    
    
  • Contains samples from "Red Baron" by Billy Cobham
    Billy Cobham
    William C. Cobham is a Panamanian American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader, who has called Switzerland home since the late 1970s....
    
    

Album

Chart (1994)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	137
U.S. Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums	22

Singles

Song	Chart (1994)	Peak position
I'll Take Her	U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	62
I'll Take Her	U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...	16
Where My Homiez? (Come Around My Way)	U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs	34