Bigger & Blacker
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Bigger & Blacker | ||||
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Live album by Chris Rock | ||||
Released | July 13, 1999 | |||
Recorded | May 1999 | |||
Genre | Comedy, spoken word | |||
Length | 67:53 | |||
Label | DreamWorks | |||
Producer | Prince Paul & Don Newkirk | |||
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Bigger & Blacker is an album by Chris Rock, originally released on July 13, 1999, on the DreamWorks label. The album features live stand-up comedy tracks recorded for an HBO special at the Apollo Theater in Harlem and studio-recorded comic sketches, featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard, Biz Markie, Gerald Levert, Ali LeRoi, Wanda Sykes, Kaz Silver, Horatio Sanz, Ice Cube, Kali Londono, Don Newkirk, Kate Wright, and Nneka Kai Morton.
The HBO special premiered on July 10, 1999 and directed by Keith Truesdell. Slick Rick opened for Rock with 'The Show'.
Bigger & Blacker won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album.
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Track listing
- Clermont Lounge #1 – 0:55
- "Black Mall" – 3:47
- ODB Words of Wisdom #1 – 0:15
- "Crazy White Kids" – 8:26
- Monica Interview – 1:58
- "Porno PSA" – 1:32
- "No Sex" – 4:22
- "Taxes" – 1:57
- ODB Words of Wisdom #2 – 0:17
- Savion Glover – 1:02
- "Insurance" – 8:17
- Clermont Lounge #2 – 0:58
- Nerd & Fly Girl – 2:58
- "Race" – 4:17
- NYPD – 1:29
- ODB Words of Wisdom #3 – 0:19
- Roger & Zapp – 0:29
- "Two Women" – 4:07
- Table Dance – 2:29
- Snow Flake – 3:10
- "Women" – 7:54
- Me & ODB – 7:09
TV Ratings
1.016 million viewers on Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 9:57pm.[1]
DVD Version
A DVD version of the show was released July 11, 2000.
External links
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- 2000s American television specials
- Chris Rock albums
- HBO network specials
- Albums produced by Prince Paul (producer)
- 1999 live albums
- 2000 live albums
- 2000 video albums
- Live video albums
- Stand-up comedy concert films
- Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album
- Albums recorded at the Apollo Theater
- 2000 television specials
- DreamWorks Records live albums
- 1990s comedy albums