Beauty & the Streets Vol. 1 is the first of two mixtapes by American singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Mýa

Mya

-A person:* Bo Mya , Chief Commander of the Karen National Union* Mýa , American R&B singer-songwriter and actress** Mýa , a 1998 album by Mýa-A code:* Burmese language, ISO 639-3 code is mya* Moruya Airport's IATA code...

, released September 29, 2009 on her own independent label, Planet 9 and J. Prince's Young Empire Music Group

Rap-A-Lot Records

Rap-a-Lot Records is a Houston hip hop record label. Rap-a-Lot was created in 1986. Sublabels include Smoke-a-Lot Records. The label was founded by James Prince in the mid-1980s and, with its most famous act the Geto Boys, put the South on the hip hop map. Since then, it has maintained its success...

. Recording sessions for the mixtape took place from 2008 to 2009 at Music World Studios and Madd Studios in Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

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, Grindhouse Studios and The Cutting Room Recording Studio in New York, New York, D4L Studios in Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

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, and The Base Studio in Washington D.C. Production was primarily handled by in-house producers selected by Mýa and features collaboration with Slim Thug

Slim Thug

Stayve Jerome Thomas , better known as Slim Thug, Boss Hogg or Thug Boss, is an American rapper. He gained mainstream attention for his contribution to the popular single from rapper Mike Jones, "Still Tippin'"....

, Shawty Lo

Shawty Lo

Carlos Walker , better known by his stage name Shawty Lo, is an American rapper, founder of D4L Records, and member of hip hop group D4L. His first solo album, Units in the City, was released on February 26, 2008...

, Bun B

Bun B

Bernard Freeman better known by his stage name Bun B, is an American rapper and was one half of the southern hip hop duo UGK . He is also a guest lecturer at Rice University located in Houston, Texas...

, Z-Ro

Z-Ro

Joseph Wayne McVey , better known by his stage name Z-Ro, is an American rapper, singer and producer from Houston, Texas. He was named one of America's most underrated rappers by the New York Times.-Early life:...

, Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj

Onika Tanya Maraj , better known by her stage name Nicki Minaj; ), is a Trinidadian-born American recording artist...

, Chamillionaire

Chamillionaire

Hakeem Seriki , better known by his stage name Chamillionaire, is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Chamillitary Entertainment. Chamillionaire is also the founder and an original member of The Color Changin' Click...

, and Trae

Trae

Frazier Thompson III, better known by his stage name Trae, is an American rapper from Houston, Texas. He is a part of the underground rap collective Screwed Up Click. Trae and Z-RO, along with Dougie D, are the founding members of the group Guerilla Maab...

. The mixtape was created to serve the clubs, strip clubs, whips

Whips

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, and the bedroom

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 with a predominantly southern

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 sound.

Beauty & the Streets Vol. 1 spawned the single; the Bun B

Bun B

Bernard Freeman better known by his stage name Bun B, is an American rapper and was one half of the southern hip hop duo UGK . He is also a guest lecturer at Rice University located in Houston, Texas...

-assisted "Show Me Somethin and the promotional T-Minus-produced single "Black Out". Both singles were released to iTunes

ITunes

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 on August 31, 2009.

Beauty & the Streets Vol.1 debuted at number fifty-five on the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999...

 chart in October 2009.

Tracklisting

Chart

Chart (2009)	Peak position
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Production

• Mýa - Composer
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  , Engineer
  Engineer
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  , Producer
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  , Executive Producer
  Executive producer
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• The Bama Boyz - Producer, Engineer
• Brandon Bishop - Mixing
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• Cory Mo - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
• Mike Dean - Mixing
• B. Freeman
  Bun B
  Bernard Freeman better known by his stage name Bun B, is an American rapper and was one half of the southern hip hop duo UGK . He is also a guest lecturer at Rice University located in Houston, Texas...
  
   - Composer
• Tom Gardner - Engineer
• A. Harrison - Composer
• Aaron "Swamp" Holland - Engineer
• R. Lee - Producer
• J. McVey - Composer
• Mike Mo - Engineer, Mastering, Mixing
• C. Moore - Composer
• Reverend C.L. Moore - Vocal Arrangement
• T. Ramsey - Composer
• S. Thomas - Composer
• C. Nwasike - Producer
• E. Williams - Composer