Life Story album cover

Studio album 2000

Black Rob Life Story

Billboard peak
No.3
RIAA certified
Platinum
Released March 7
2000
Runtime
69:13
Tracks
21
Label
Bad Boy Records

Black Rob's debut: Whoa! as the indelible single, Harlem street talk, and a Bad Boy classic that outlived its chart run.

Life Story introduced Black Rob as more than a Family posse member. Whoa! became the era’s call-and-response staple—simple, sticky, endlessly chanted. Spanish Fly and I Dare You show the harder Harlem narrative side.

The album went Platinum. Later business turmoil clouded Rob’s story, but for a lot of listeners Whoa! is still the first Black Rob sentence they can finish.

Track list

Production Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie 5 Harve Pierre 5 Black Rob 4 Nashiem Myrick 3 Jay "Waxx" Garfield 2 Mario Winans 2 Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence 2 Yogi 2 Buckwild 1 Carlos "6 July" Broady 1 Petey Pablo 1 Richard "Younglord" Frierson 1 Sean Combs 1 Shak Bak 1

The Hitmen produced 19 of 21 credited tracks

Singles

  1. Whoa! 2000 · No.43 Hot 100