Exclusive Audio Footage

Exclusive Audio Footage is the unreleased debut studio album from Virginia hip hop duo Clipse.[1] Despite being unreleased, the album spawned one single, "The Funeral" prior to the album's cancellation. Promotional CD and vinyl copies exist and the album has been leaked online on several occasions. In 2004, counterfeit vinyl pressings of the album were released.[2][3] The album artwork is taken from the 2002 Lord Willin' photo shoot because of the promo CDs and vinyl of the album not containing any visible artwork, over time and through other bootleg copies the image was used as the album's default cover.[4]

Exclusive Audio Footage
Studio album by
Clipse
Released1999
Recorded1996–1999
GenreHip hop
Length68:26
LabelElektra Records
ProducerThe Neptunes
Clipse chronology
Exclusive Audio Footage
(1999)		 Lord Willin'
(2002)

Background

Exclusive Audio Footage was meant to be the debut album of Clipse, after the group signed with Elektra Records.[5] The album's only single was "The Funeral". It failed to catch success, and its label, Elektra, decided to indefinitely shelve the album. Clipse was released from its record contract not long afterward. At the time of the album's release, Clipse member Pusha T was known as "Terrar" and No Malice was known as "Malice".[6][7]

Exclusive Audio Footage also marked the beginning of the Clipse's recording partnership with The Neptunes. Most of the album's content is very similar to the Clipse's following albums Lord Willin' and Hell Hath No Fury, focusing on the duo' drug-dealing pasts, though it was much more "theatrical" and "movie-esque" than either of its following albums.[8]

Track listing

All tracks produced by The Neptunes

Exclusive Audio Footage — Unreleased bootleg track listing.
No.TitleLength
1."Prayer"1:03
2."Hear Me Out"2:55
3."Power"3:58
4."Interlude"1:18
5."You Don't Even Know" (featuring Kelis and Pharrell)4:06
6."Breakfast in Cairo" (featuring Kurupt and Noreaga)4:10
7."Interlude"1:40
8."Hostage" (featuring Tammy Lucas)4:25
9."Wild Cowboy" (featuring Markita)4:16
10."Got Caught Dealin'" (featuring Pharrell)4:17
11."Interlude"0:14
12."Taiwan to Texas" (featuring Pharrell)4:08
13."Interlude"0:15
14."Stick Girl"4:00
15."You Can't Touch Me" (featuring Lee Harvey and Nako)4:54
16."Feel Like Me" (featuring Pharrell)3:43
17."Bodysnatchers" (featuring Pharrell)4:50
18."Diana Ross"4:23
19."Watch Over Me"4:02
20."Interlude"2:17
21."The Funeral"3:32
Total length:68:26
Notes
  • On some editions of the album, there is a 22nd track titled "Got Caught Dealin' - Part 2" featuring Pharrell, this track along with "The Funeral" and the original "Got Caught Dealin'" were all released as promo CD singles throughout 1999.[2]

References
  1. "Exclusive Audio Footage by Clipse" – via rateyourmusic.com.
  2. "Clipse - Exclusive Audio Footage". Discogs.
  3. "Clipse - Exclusive Audio Footage". Discogs.
  4. https://www.allcdcovers.com/
  5. http://globalgrind.com/2009/06/09/clipse-exclusive-audio-footage-unreleased-re-up/
  6. "Clipse's Malice Changes Name To 'No Malice'". Billboard. March 6, 2012.
  7. Fuertes-Knight, Jo (October 9, 2013). "The Evolution of Clipse".
  8. "Features: Clipse" (Print interview). Format Magine. Retrieved February 1, 2008. External link in |work= (help)
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