City Under Siege (album)

City Under Siege is the fifth studio album by American rapper E.S.G., from Houston, Texas. It was released on April 25, 2000, via Wreckshop Records. The album peaked at #65 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, #22 on the Independent Albums and #30 on the Heatseekers Albums in the US Billboard charts.

City Under Siege
Studio album by E.S.G.
Released	April 25, 2000
Studio	Wreckshop Studios (Houston, TX)
Genre	Southern rap
Length	1:17:00
Label	Wreckshop Records
Producer	D-Reck (exec.) Noke D Blue Double D Lil' James Sean "Solo" Jemison
E.S.G. chronology
Shinin' n' Grindin' (1999) City Under Siege (2000) All American Gangsta (2004)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Intro"	Blue	1:58
2.	"Ride Out" (featuring Big Pokey & Tyte Eyes)	Noke D	3:34
3.	"Luv It How You Get It" (featuring Too $hort)	Sean "Solo" Jemison	4:18
4.	"Drop Yo Top" (featuring Big Moe)	Blue	4:56
5.	"Boss Hawggin'" (featuring D Gotti)	Lil' James	3:44
6.	"Grippin' Grain" (featuring Slim Thug & DeShawn Hill)	Blue	4:19
7.	"Money & Power" (featuring Ronnie Spencer, Lil' O & Will-Lean)	Noke D	5:05
8.	"First Brick"	Lil' James	4:14
9.	"City Under Siege" (featuring Nutty Black)	Blue	5:00
10.	"Good Life" (featuring Ronnie Spencer)	Lil' James	3:46
11.	"Billion Dollar Deal" (featuring Jainea)	Double D	3:44
12.	"Ballin Outta Control" (featuring Yung Redd, Kano & D Gotti)	Noke D	4:35
13.	"Keep on Grindin'" (featuring Ronnie Spencer)	Double D	4:24
14.	"Trickin' off Doe" (featuring Tyte Eyes, Mista Madd, J-Mac & Dirty $)	Blue	5:12
15.	"Superstar" (featuring Double D & Devin The Dude)	Blue	4:42
16.	"What's in Yo Cup?" (featuring Big Moe, Lil' Shay, D-Reck & Dirty $)	Noke D	4:34
17.	"Fix Yo Face" (featuring D-Reck)	Double D	3:49
18.	"Thugs in Heaven" (featuring D-Reck, D Gotti & Noke D)	Noke D	5:06
Total length:			1:12:36

Personnel

• Cedric Dormaine Hill – main artist, vocals
• Darrell "D Gotti" Monroe – featured artist (tracks: 5, 12, 18)
• Ronnie Spencer – featured artist (tracks: 7, 10, 13)
• Derrick "D-Reck" Dixon – featured artist (tracks: 16-18), executive producer
• Tyson "Tyte Eyes" Duplechain – featured artist (tracks: 2, 14)
• Kenneth "Big Moe" Moore – featured artist (tracks: 4, 16)
• Dirty $ – featured artist (tracks: 14, 16)
• Milton "Big Pokey" Powell – featured artist (track 2)
• Todd Anthony Shaw – featured artist (track 3)
• DeShawn Hill – featured artist (track 6)
• Stayve Jerome Thomas – featured artist (track 6)
• William "Will-Lean" Gibbs – featured artist (track 7)
• Ore Magnus Lawson – featured artist (track 7)
• Nutty Black – featured artist (track 9)
• Jainea – featured artist (track 11)
• Kano – featured artist (track 12)
• Christopher Dejwan Gallien – featured artist (track 12)
• Ben "Mista Madd" Thompson – featured artist (track 14)
• J-Mac – featured artist (track 14)
• Devin C. Copeland – featured artist (track 15)
• André "Double D" Sargent – featured artist (track 15), producer (tracks: 11, 13, 17), co-producer, engineering
• Lil' Shay – featured artist (track 16)
• Derrick "Noke D" Haynes – featured artist (track 18), producer (tracks: 2, 7, 12, 16, 18), production coordinator, co-producer, engineering & mixing
• Blue – producer (tracks: 1, 4, 6, 9, 14-15)
• Lil' James – producer (tracks: 5, 8, 10)
• Sean "Solo" Jemison – producer (track 3)
• Skip Holman – engineering & mixing
• Deon – engineering
• Donavin "Kid Styles" Murray – art direction, design, photography

Charts

Chart (2000)	Peak position
scope="row"	US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[2]	65
scope="row"	US Independent Albums (Billboard)[3]	22
scope="row"	US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[4]	30

References

1. "City Under Siege – E.S.G." Allmusic. Retrieved March 18, 2018.
2. "ESG Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard.
3. "ESG Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard.
4. "ESG Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard.

External links

City Under Siege at Discogs (list of releases)