Against the Grain (Kurupt album)

Kurupt was signed with Death Row Records as one-half of Tha Dogg Pound together with Daz Dillinger. The duo released the only studio album for the label, Dogg Food in 1995, before Kurupt left the label in late 1997. In early 2002 he re-aligned with Death Row, which sparked the feud with his former labelmates, such as Daz, Snoop Dogg and Soopafly. The album was delay from its planned 2004 release and was released in August 2005, when Kurupt left Death Row for the second time. It was Death Row's first freshly recorded album in over four years. It was the final original album released by the label during its original run, before being revived with BODR by Snoop Dogg 17 years later.

{{Track listing

| all_writing =

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title1 = Intro

| note1 =

| writer1 =

| extra1 =

| length1 = 0:54

| title2 = Speak on It

| note2 = featuring Val C

| writer2 = {{hlist|David Williams|Johnathan Marc Blount}}

| extra2 = Mark Sparks

| length2 = 4:04

| title3 = Anarchy '87

| note3 =

| writer3 = D. Williams

| extra3 = Mark Sparks

| length3 = 4:15

| title4 = Throw Back Muzic '86

| note4 =

| writer4 = D. Williams

| extra4 = Mark Sparks

| length4 = 4:11

| title5 = Deep Dishes

| note5 =

| writer5 = {{hlist|D. Williams|Ricky Lewis}}

| extra5 = Ric Rude

| length5 = 4:52

| title6 = Stalkin'

| note6 =

| writer6 = {{hlist|D. Williams|Kenji Suzuki|Holger Schüring|Irmin Schmidt|Hans Heinrich Liebezeit|Michael Karoli}}

| extra6 = Sir Jinx

| length6 = 3:59

| title7 = Can U Feel It

| note7 = featuring Potion

| writer7 = {{hlist|D. Williams|Kenton Nix}}

| extra7 = Doug Mayhem

| length7 = 4:48

| title8 = Slide n Slide Out

| note8 = featuring Eastwood, Tri Star and Young Tone

| writer8 = {{hlist|D. Williams|Deshaun Woodard|Eric McKinney|T. McKinney|Anthony Ransom}}

| extra8 = Blaqthoven

| length8 = 3:42

| title9 = I'm Back

| note9 =

| writer9 = {{hlist|Ricardo Brown|Darren Hubbard}}

| extra9 = Tha Row Hitters

| length9 = 4:49

| title10 = Jealousy

| note10 = featuring Roscoe and M.O.P.

| writer10 = {{hlist|D. Williams|Eric Murray|Jamal Grinnage}}

| extra10 = Mark Sparks

| length10 = 4:41

| title11 = Tha Past

| note11 = featuring Dave Hollister

| writer11 = {{hlist|D. Williams|Albert Vernon Hudson|Albert Lewis Perkins|Cuba Gregory}}

| extra11 = Doug Mayhem

| length11 = 4:46

| title12 = My Homeboys (Back to Back)

| note12 = featuring 2Pac and Eastwood

| writer12 = {{hlist|D. Williams|Tupac Shakur|Woodard|Nathaniel Hale|W. Stewart}}

| extra12 = {{hlist|Mark Sparks|Diverse}}

| length12 = 4:16

| title13 = Bullshit & Nonsense

| note13 = featuring Spider Loc and Eastwood

| writer13 = {{hlist|D. Williams|Curtis Williams|Woodard|Joshua Andrews}}

| extra13 = Joshua Andrews

| length13 = 3:20

| title14 = Calico

| note14 = featuring The Dayton Family

| writer14 = {{hlist|Ira Dorsey|Jon Henderson|Raheen Peterson|D. Sellers|E. Austin}}

| extra14 = Screwface Music

| length14 = 4:52

| title15 = Hustlin'

| note15 = featuring Tri Star and Young Tone

| writer15 = {{hlist|D. Williams|E. McKinney|T. McKinney|Anthony Wheaton|Norman Whitfield}}

| extra15 = Sir Jinx

| length15 = 3:45

| title16 = It's a Wrap

| note16 =

| writer16 =

| extra16 = Mark Sparks

| length16 = 2:58

| title17 = You Fuckin' with the Best

| note17 = featuring Domination

| writer17 =

| extra17 = Baby-C-Style

| length17 = 4:08

| title18 = Outro

| note18 =

| writer18 =

| extra18 =

| length18 = 0:21

| total_length = 1:08:41

}}

;Notes

• Nearly all of Kurupt's songwriting for this album is credited to his brother, David "Roscoe" Williams.

;Sample credits

• Track 6 contains a sample of "Vitamin C" as performed by Can
• Track 12 contains replayed elements of "Me and My Homies" as performed by Nate Dogg

{{Reflist}}

• {{Discogs master|436933|Kurupt – Against Tha Grain}}

{{Kurupt}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Against Tha Grain}}

Category:2005 albums

Category:Kurupt albums

Category:Death Row Records albums