Period (mixtape)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Period
| type = mixtape
| cover = City Girls Period Mixtape Cover.png
| alt =
| artist = City Girls
| released = {{Start date|2018|05|11}}
| recorded =
| studio =
| genre =
| length = 43:38
| label =
| producer =
- Audio Jones
- Bigg D
- Castro
- DJ On da Beat
- Lamb
- LikOnTheBeat
- Major 9
- Mari Beats
- Nikki Hot Beats
- PB Large
- Quay Global
- The 90's
- Young Zoe Beats
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = Girl Code
| next_year = 2018
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Period
| type = mixtape
| single1 = Where the Bag At
| single1date = February 23, 2018
}}
}}
Period (stylized in all caps) is the only mixtape by American hip-hop duo City Girls. It was released on May 11, 2018, through Quality Control Music.{{cite news |last1=P. |first1=Milca |title=Quality Control's City Girls Debut With 'PERIOD' Mixtape |url=https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/quality-control-s-city-girls-debut-with-period-mixtape-new-mixtape.118050.html |accessdate=September 16, 2019 |work=HotNewHipHop |date=May 11, 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Mojica |first1=Nick |title=City Girls Release Debut Mixtape 'Period' and 'I'll Take Your Man' Video |url=https://www.xxlmag.com/rap-music/new-music/2018/05/city-girls-release-period-project-ill-take-your-man-video/ |accessdate=September 16, 2019 |work=XXL |date=May 11, 2018}}
Release and promotion
"Where the Bag At" served as the mixtape's lead and only single, and was released on February 23, 2018.{{cite web |title=Where the Bag At - Single by City Girls |url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/where-the-bag-at-single/1354328393 |via= Apple Music |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20190917011442/https://music.apple.com/us/album/where-the-bag-at-single/1354328393 |archivedate= September 17, 2019 |url-status=live |accessdate= September 16, 2019}} The mixtape's lead and only single was later released to US rhythmic contemporary radio on October 9, 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.allaccess.com/top40-rhythmic/future-releases|title=Top 40/R Future Releases|publisher=All Access Music Group|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009054541/https://www.allaccess.com/top40-rhythmic/future-releases|archivedate=October 9, 2018|accessdate=September 16, 2019}}
The mixtape was released alongside a WorldStarHipHop-exclusive music videos for "Take Yo Man", and "Tighten Up". Music videos for "Sweet Tooth", "Period (We Live)", "Millionaire Dick", "Not Ya Main" and "Careless" followed in August, September, and October, 2018, respectively.{{cite news |last1=Spanos |first1=Brittany |title=Watch City Girls Party at Miami Carnival in New ‘Period’ Video |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/watch-city-girls-party-at-miami-carnival-in-new-period-video-707104/ |accessdate=September 16, 2019 |work=Rolling Stone |date=August 6, 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Spanos |first1=Brittany |title=Watch City Girls’ Cheeky New ‘Millionaire Dick’ Video |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/watch-city-girls-cheeky-new-millionaire-dick-video-729313/ |accessdate=September 16, 2019 |work=Rolling Stone |date=September 26, 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Rosario |first1=Richy |title=City Girls Take Over The Beach In 'Not Your Main' Video |url=https://www.vibe.com/2018/10/city-girls-not-your-main-video |accessdate=September 16, 2019 |work=Vibe |date=October 26, 2018}} All the videos were shot before member JT was incarcerated on charges of credit card fraud.
Critical reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Pitchfork
}}
Upon its release, the album received positive reviews.{{cite web |last1=Spanos |first1=Brittany |title=City Girls, Separated by Prison, Want to be Icons |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/city-girls-separated-by-prison-want-to-be-icons-702646/ |website=Rolling Stone |accessdate=December 7, 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Daramola |first1=Israel |title=A$AP Ferg – "Wigs" (ft. City Girls & ANTHA) |url=https://www.spin.com/2019/06/aap-ferg-wigs-city-girls/ |website=Spin |publisher=Billboard |accessdate=December 7, 2019}}
Track listing
Track listing adapted from Tidal and XXL.{{cite web|url=https://listen.tidal.com/album/88487236|title=PERIOD / City Girls – TIDAL|website=Tidal|accessdate=September 12, 2019}}
{{Track listing
| extra_column = Producer(s)
| total_length = 43:38
| title1 = Tighten Up
| writer1 = {{hlist|Jatavia Johnson|Kinta Cox|Omar Wright|Tyronne Nelms}}
| extra1 = Audio Jones
| length1 = 1:59
| title2 = Take Yo Man
| writer2 = {{hlist|Bootsy Collins|Cainon Lamb|Derrick Baker|George Bernard Worrell, Jr.|George Clinton, Jr.|Hurby Azor|Johnson|Cox|Steven Kubie}}
| extra2 = {{hlist|Bigg D|Lamb}}
| length2 = 2:56
| title3 = Sweet Tooth
| writer3 = {{hlist|Esdras T. Thelusma|Ijah Cheatham-Stoute|Johnson|Marvin Beauville|Windell Durrant}}
| extra3 = The 90's
| length3 = 2:23
| title4 = One of Them Nights
| writer4 = {{hlist|Diego A. Iborra|Johnson|Cox}}
| extra4 = Castro
| length4 = 3:05
| title5 = Not Ya Main
| writer5 = {{hlist|Caresha Brownlee|Johnson|Teiron "Iceburg" Robinson|Zoe Michael Jay Clark}}
| extra5 = Young Zoe Beats
| length5 = 2:35
| title6 = Where the Bag At
| writer6 = {{hlist|Lamb|Baker|Johnson|Cox|Cubie}}
| extra6 = {{hlist|Bigg D|Lamb}}
| length6 = 3:20
| title7 = Millionaire Dick
| writer7 = {{hlist|Jamari Massey|Johnson|Cox}}
| extra7 = Mari Beats
| length7 = 2:55
| title8 = Careless
| writer8 = {{hlist|Christopher Fernandez|Johnson|Salvador Majail|Teleo Williams}}
| extra8 = PB Large
| length8 = 2:02
| title9 = Period (We Live)
| writer9 = {{hlist|Brownlee|Iborra|Johnson}}
| extra9 = Castro
| length9 = 2:34
| title10 = Runnin
| writer10 = {{hlist|Chad Thomas|Chris Rosser|Thelusma|Jamarii Massey|Johnson|Beauville}}
| extra10 = {{hlist|Major 9|Mari Beats|Quay Global}}
| length10 = 2:46
| title11 = Rap Shit
| writer11 = {{hlist|Brownlee|Darnell Matthew|Johnson|Robinson}}
| extra11 = DJ On da Beat
| length11 = 2:31
| title12 = No Time (Broke Nigga)
| writer12 = {{hlist|Rosser|Johnson|Cox}}
| extra12 = Quay Global
| length12 = 2:27
| title13 = How to Pimp a Nigga
| writer13 = {{hlist|Rosser|Johnson|Cox}}
| extra13 = Quay Global
| length13 = 2:50
| title14 = Movie
| writer14 = {{hlist|Johnson|Cox|Nicole Gordon}}
| note14 = featuring Ball Greezy
| extra14 = Nikki Hot Beats
| length14 = 3:35
| title15 = Fuck On U
| writer15 = Lasana Smith
| extra15 = LikOnTheBeat
| length15 = 2:51
| title16 = Clear the Air
| writer16 = {{hlist|Brownlee|Johnson|Wright|Nelms}}
| extra16 = Jones
| length16 = 2:46
}}
Charts
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| scope="col"| Chart (2018)
! scope="col"| Peak |
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| {{album chart|BillboardHeatseekers|16|M|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8487117/city-girls-debut-emerging-artist-chart|title=City Girls Debut on Emerging Artist Chart, Billie Eilish Spends Fifth Week at No. 1|work=Billboard|rowheader=true|accessdate=September 17, 2019}} |