No Way Out

No Way Out is the debut studio album by American rapper Puff Daddy. It was released on July 22, 1997, through Arista Records and Puff Daddy's own Bad Boy Records. The album is credited to "Puff Daddy & the Family", with "the Family" referring to guest appearances from his signees at Bad Boy, including its then-recently deceased flagship artist, the Notorious B.I.G. No Way Out's production was heavily influenced by the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. months prior to its release. This album conveys this as a tragic event with a profound impact on Puff Daddy, who channels both aggressive and introspective lyrics capturing the before-and-after of his death. Production was largely handled by Bad Boy's in-house production team The Hitmen, while guest appearances include B.I.G., Busta Rhymes, Mase, Lil' Kim, Carl Thomas, Jay-Z, Black Rob, the LOX, Ginuwine, Twista, Foxy Brown, Faith Evans, and 112. Five singles were released from the album. Its lead single, "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down", reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 several weeks after its January 1997 release. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Way_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)