The Equinox is the third and final album by heralded Queens

Queens

Queens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The largest borough in area and the second-largest in population, it is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States....

 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 Organized Konfusion

Organized Konfusion

Organized Konfusion is an alternative hip hop duo from Queens, New York. Though not commercially popular, the duo was one of the most respected and acclaimed underground hip hop acts of the 1990s, largely due to the groundbreaking lyrics of Pharoahe Monch and Prince Poetry.-Recording career:Group...

, released on September 16, 1997, on Priority Records

Priority Records

Priority Records is an American record label, owned and operated by EMI, which has made a name for itself dealing primarily in hip hop, pop and world...

. The group branched out to work with a number of outside producers, including Diamond D

Diamond D

Diamond D is a hip hop producer and MC from the Bronx, New York City, and one of the founding members of the legendary D.I.T.C. crew. He started out as a DJ for Jazzy Jay back in the late 1980s and was at the same time perfecting his skills in beat making and turntablism, and together with rhyme...

, Showbiz, Buckwild

Buckwild

Buckwild is a Hip hop producer hailing from The Bronx, New York. Originally a DJ, Buck began producing after meeting MC/Producer Lord Finesse. He later joined Finesse's super-crew D.I.T.C., along with Showbiz and A.G., Diamond D, Fat Joe, and the late Big L and brought O.C. with him...

 and Rockwilder

Rockwilder

Rockwilder is an American hip hop and R&B record producer, rapper, and R&B Singer. A long term friend of Def Jam rapper Redman, Rockwilder got his start producing for East Coast Hip Hop artists in the mid 1990s. In 1999 Rockwilder produced Method Man & Redman's hit single "Da Rockwilder"...

. The effort is a concept album, with tracks linked together by storytelling skits. Included on the album are two very ambitious tracks: "Invetro" and "Hate." The former gives voice to the unborn, with Pharoahe Monch

Pharoahe Monch

Pharoahe Monch is an American hip hop artist. He is known for his complex lyrics, complex delivery, and internal and multisyllabic rhyme schemes.-Biography:...

 and Prince Po

Prince Po

Lawrence Baskerville ,also known as Prince Po, is an American rapper and former member of the rap duo Organized Konfusion with Pharaohe Monch. Originally the duo was called Simply 2 Positive. Prince Poetry MC'd and Monch beat-boxed...

 rhyming as unborn twins, one hoping for their mother to get an abortion, the other praying for a chance to live, respectively, while the latter features Monch and Po rhyming as white supremacists. "Invetro" follows in the same steps as "Stray Bullet" from the group's previous album, giving voices to things that can not speak.

Track listing

#	Title	Songwriters	Producer(s)	Performer (s)
1	"Interior Assassin's Car, 3:35 AM [Skit]"			*Interlude*
2	"They Don't Want It!"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson	Organized Konfusion	Prince Po
3	"March 21, 3:45 AM [Skit]"			*Interlude*
4	"9x out of 10"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson	Organized Konfusion	Prince Po, Pharoahe Monch
5	"Questions"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson, J. Kirkland	Diamond D Diamond D Diamond D is a hip hop producer and MC from the Bronx, New York City, and one of the founding members of the legendary D.I.T.C. crew. He started out as a DJ for Jazzy Jay back in the late 1980s and was at the same time perfecting his skills in beat making and turntablism, and together with rhyme...	Prince Po, Pharoahe Monch
6	"Soundman"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson, J. Watson	Rasheed	Pharoahe Monch, Prince Po
7	"Move"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson	Organized Konfusion	Pharoahe Monch, Prince Po
8	"Confrontations"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson, R. Lemay	Showbiz	Prince Po, Pharoahe Monch
9	"Life & Malice Exterior, Club, Night [Skit]"			*Interlude*
10	"Numbers"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson, T. Hogan	Casper	Prince Po, Pharoahe Monch
11	"Shugah Shorty"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson, A. Best, Palmieri, Clash, Palmieri	Buckwild Buckwild Buckwild is a Hip hop producer hailing from The Bronx, New York. Originally a DJ, Buck began producing after meeting MC/Producer Lord Finesse. He later joined Finesse's super-crew D.I.T.C., along with Showbiz and A.G., Diamond D, Fat Joe, and the late Big L and brought O.C. with him...	Prince Po, Pharoahe Monch, Hurricane G Hurricane G Gloria Rodríguez, better known by her stage name Hurricane G, is an American rapper of Puerto Rican descent. Her 1997 single release Somebody Else charted at #10 by Billborad Magazine on Hot Rap Singles, and at #54 on their Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart.-Background:She was born in...
12	"Interior Car, Night [Skit]"			*Interlude*
13	"Invetro"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson, A. Best	Buckwild Buckwild Buckwild is a Hip hop producer hailing from The Bronx, New York. Originally a DJ, Buck began producing after meeting MC/Producer Lord Finesse. He later joined Finesse's super-crew D.I.T.C., along with Showbiz and A.G., Diamond D, Fat Joe, and the late Big L and brought O.C. with him...	Prince Po, Pharoahe Monch
14	"Chuck Cheese"	L. Baskerville	Organized Konfusion	Prince Po, Rude One, Tha Ill Rahlos
15	"Interior, Marisol's Apartment [Skit]"			*Interlude*
16	"Sin"	T. Jamerson, T. Hogan	Casper	Pharoahe Monch
17	"Hate"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson	Organized Konfusion	Pharoahe Monch, Mike, Prince Po
18	"March 21, 3:47 AM [Skit]"			*Interlude*
19	"Somehow, Someway"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson, D. Stinson, A. Young, C. Broadus, Webster, Adams, Arrington, Waddington, Turner, Casey	Rockwilder Rockwilder Rockwilder is an American hip hop and R&B record producer, rapper, and R&B Singer. A long term friend of Def Jam rapper Redman, Rockwilder got his start producing for East Coast Hip Hop artists in the mid 1990s. In 1999 Rockwilder produced Method Man & Redman's hit single "Da Rockwilder"...	Prince Po, Pharoahe Monch
20	"Epilogue"			*Interlude*
21	"United as One"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson		Pharoahe Monch, Prince Po

Chart positions

Chart (1997)	Peak position
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...	141
Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums	29
Top Heatseekers	4