Back For The First Time

Back for the First Time is the commercial debut and second studio album by American rapper Ludacris. It was released on October 17, 2000, via Def Jam South and Ludacris's Disturbing tha Peace. Production was handled by Shondrae, I-20, Jermaine Dupri, Lil' Fate, Mike Johnson, Organized Noize, Timbaland, The Neptunes, and Ludacris himself. It features guest appearances from I-20, Lil' Fate, Shawnna, 4-Ize, Foxy Brown, Pastor Troy, Trina, UGK and Pharrell Williams. The album debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200 and number 2 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts, with 133,000 copies sold in its first week in the United States. It was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on May 7, 2002 for selling over 3 million units in the US and also received a gold certification by Music Canada on April 19, 2001 for shipments of more than 50,000 copies in Canada. Its lead single, "What's Your Fantasy", which previously appeared on Incognegro, made it to No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 10 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in the US and number 19 on the UK singles chart. On November 30, 2022, it was certified double platinum by the RIAA. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_fo...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)