Hatred, Passions and Infidelity is the second album from hip hop producer

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...

 and emcee

Rapping

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 Diamond D

Diamond D

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, released five years after his acclaimed debut, Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop

Stunts, Blunts and Hip Hop

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. It received positive reviews from music critics and fans.

In the period between his album releases, Diamond spent time producing a number of artists, including Brand Nubian

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, Cypress Hill

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, Fat Joe

Fat Joe

Joseph Antonio Cartagena , better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper, CEO of Terror Squad Entertainment, and member of musical groups D.I.T.C. and Terror Squad....

, The Fugees

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, House of Pain

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, KRS-One

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, Lord Finesse

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, Tha Alkaholiks

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, The Pharcyde

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, Illegal, and Xzibit

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. Hatred, Passions, and Infidelity features the single "The Hiatus" and the Kid Capri

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-produced D.I.T.C.

Diggin' in the Crates Crew

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 crew cut "5 Fingas of Death."

Track listing

#	Title	Producer(s)	Performer (s)
1	"Intro"	Diamond D	Kid Capri, Busta Rhymes
2	"Flowin'"	Diamond D	Diamond D, John Dough
3	"MC Iz My Ambition"	Diamond D	Diamond D, Don Barron
4	"No Wonduh (The Projects)"	Diamond D	Diamond D
5	"The Hiatus"	Diamond D	Diamond D
6	"J.D.'s Revenge"	Sha-Eaze	Diamond D, John Dough, Gina Thompson Gina Thompson Gina Thompson is an American R&B vocalist. Born to Edward L. Thompson, Sr. and Eugenia Thompson, Gina Thomson began singing at an early age and was signed to her first recording contract with Mercury Records shortly after graduating high school.-Recording career:Nobody Does It Better was Gina...
7	"Painz & Strife"	Diamond D	Diamond D, Pete Rock Pete Rock Peter Phillips , better known by his stage name Pete Rock, is an American record producer, DJ and rapper. He rose to prominence in the early 1990s as one half of the critically acclaimed group Pete Rock & CL Smooth... , Phife Dawg Phife Dawg Malik Isaac Taylor , better known by his stage name Phife Dawg, is an American rapper of Trinidadian descent, and a member of the acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest with high school classmates Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad...
8	"Can't Keep My Grands to Myself"	Diamond D	Diamond D, Mark-Lo, Paradise
9	"5 Fingas of Death"	Kid Capri	Big L Big L (rapper) Lamont Coleman , better known by his stage name Big L, was an American rapper. Coleman was born and raised in Harlem, New York, where he started his rap career with Three the Hard Way. He founded the group Children of the Corn and was a member of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew before pursuing a... , A.G. Showbiz and A.G. Showbiz and A.G. are an American hip hop duo from The Bronx, New York City. Showbiz is a producer and A.G. is a rapper. The two debuted on Lord Finesse's Funky Technician album in 1990. Show and A.G... , Lord Finesse Lord Finesse Lord Finesse is a Hip hop artist and producer, hailing from The Bronx, New York, best known as the leader of the D.I.T.C. rap crew.- Career :... , Fat Joe Fat Joe Joseph Antonio Cartagena , better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper, CEO of Terror Squad Entertainment, and member of musical groups D.I.T.C. and Terror Squad.... , Diamond D
10	"This One"	Diamond D	Diamond D, Busta Rhymes Busta Rhymes Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr., better known by his stage name Busta Rhymes ,Smith is an American rapper, producer and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the alias Busta Rhymes after NFL wide receiver George "Buster" Rhymes...
11	"Never"	Diamond D	Diamond D, Sadat X Sadat X Sadat X is an American rapper, most famed as a member of Alternative hip hop group Brand Nubian. Originally known as Derek X, Sadat takes his name from former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat.... , K. Terroribul
12	"Cream N Sunshine"	Diamond D	Diamond D, Veronica
13	"Gather Round"	Diamond D	Diamond D
14	"K.T."	Diamond D	K. Terroribul
15	"On Stage"	Buckwild	Diamond D, K. Terroribul, John Dough
16	"Epilogue"	Diamond D	Diamond D

Samples Used

• "Flowin'"
  • "Why Can't People Be Colors Too?" by Whatnauts
  • "Piktor's Metamorphosis" by David Sancious
    David Sancious
    David Sancious is an American musician. He was an early member of Bruce Springsteen's backing group, the E Street Band, and contributed to the first three Springsteen albums, and again on the 1992 album Human Touch. Sancious is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known as a keyboard player and...
    
    
• "MC Iz My Ambition"
  • "The Warning Pt.1" by David Axelrod
    David Axelrod
    David Axelrod may refer to:* David Axelrod * David Axelrod , Senior Advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama* David B. Axelrod , poet and educator...
    
    
  • "Passacaglia" by Yusef Lateef
    Yusef Lateef
    Dr. Yusef Lateef is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator and a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam in 1950.Although Lateef's main instruments are the tenor saxophone and flute, he is known for...
    
    
  • "Bam Bam" by Sister Nancy
    Sister Nancy
    Sister Nancy, aka Muma Nancy, real name Ophlin Russell-Myers, is a dancehall DJ and singer. She is known to the world as the first female dancehall DJ and was described as being a "dominating female voice for over two decades" on the dancehall scene...
    
    
• "No Wonduh(The Projects)"
  • "Whole Lotta Love" by Dennis Coffey
    Dennis Coffey
    Dennis Coffey is an American guitarist. He was a studio musician for many soul and R&B recordings.-Biography:Coffey learned to play guitar at the age of thirteen, in the Michigan Upper Peninsula town of Copper City...
    
    
• "The Hiatus"
  • "Swahililand" by Ahmad Jamal
    Ahmad Jamal
    Ahmad Jamal is an innovative and influential American jazz pianist, composer, and educator. According to Stanley Crouch, Jamal is second in importance in the development of jazz after 1945 only to Charlie Parker...
    
    
  • "Studewood" by The Jazz Crusaders
• "J.D's Revenge"
  • "(You're Puttin')A Rush on Me" by Stephanie Mills
    Stephanie Mills
    Stephanie Dorthea Mills is an American R&B and soul singer, and a former Broadway star.-Career:Mills began her career appearing in her first play at the age of nine. Two years later, Mills won Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater a record six times...
    
    
• "Painz & Strife"
  • "Pueunomia" by Kool & The Gang
    Kool & the Gang
    Kool & the Gang are an American jazz, R&B, soul, and funk group, originally formed as the Jazziacs in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964.They went through several musical phases during the course of their recording career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, then becoming practitioners of R&B and...
    
    
• "Can't Keep My Grands to Myself"
  • "Can't Keep My Hands to Myself" by T.S. Monk
• "5 Fingas of Death"
  • "A Diamond Love" by Georges Garvarentz
    Georges Garvarentz
    Georges Garvarentz was an Armenian-French composer, noted for his music for Charles Aznavour's songs.-Biography:Georges Garvarents was born in Athens, Greece, to a family of Armenian immigrants...
    
    
• "This One"
  • "Jazz" by Bobby Hutcherson
    Bobby Hutcherson
    Bobby Hutcherson is a jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His vibraphone playing is suggestive of the style of Milt Jackson in its free-flowing melodicism, but his sense of harmony and group interaction is thoroughly modern...
    
    
  • "Procession" by Bobby Hutcherson
    Bobby Hutcherson
    Bobby Hutcherson is a jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His vibraphone playing is suggestive of the style of Milt Jackson in its free-flowing melodicism, but his sense of harmony and group interaction is thoroughly modern...
    
    
• "Never"
  • "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Jerry Butler
    Jerry Butler (singer)
    Jerry Butler is an American soul singer and songwriter. He is also noted as being the original lead singer of the R&B vocal group, The Impressions, as well as a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.Butler is also an American politician...
    
    
• "Cream N' Sunshine"
  • "Moonchild" by Rick James
    Rick James
    James Ambrose Johnson, Jr. , better known by his stage name Rick James, was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. James was a popular performer in the late 1970s and 1980s, scoring four number-one hits on the U.S. R&B charts performing in the genres of funk and R&B...
    
    
• "Gather Round"
  • "Get Out of my Life, Woman" by The New Apocalypse
  • "Give Me a Happy Day" by Heart
    Heart (band)
    Heart is an American rock band who first found success in Canada. Throughout several lineup changes, the only two members remaining constant are sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson. The group rose to fame in the 1970s with their music being influenced by hard rock as well as folk music...
    
    
• "On Stage"
  • "Diana by the Sea" by Stouffville Grit

Album singles

Single information
"The Hiatus" Released: 1997 B-side: "No Wonduh (The Projects)"
"J.D.'s Revenge" Released: 1997 B-side: "This One"

Album

Chart (1997)	Peak position
Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums	40
Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...	31

Singles

Year	Song	Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales
1997	"The Hiatus"	11