Jewel of the Nile is the third album by rap duo, Nice & Smooth

Nice & Smooth

Nice & Smooth was an East Coast hip hop duo from New York that consists of Greg Nice and Smooth B . The duo released four albums from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s...

. The album was released on June 28, 1994, on Def Jam Recordings

Def Jam Recordings

Def Jam Recordings is an American record label, focused primarily on hip hop and urban music, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as a part of The Island Def Jam Motown Music Group...

 sub-label RAL Records, and was produced by Greg Nice, Smooth B., and Little Louie Vega

Little Louie Vega

Luis Fernando Vager , better known as "Little" Louie Vega, is an American musician and one half of the Masters At Work musical production team...

. The album was only mildly successful, making it as high as #66 on the Billboard 200

Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

 and #13 on the 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...

 charts. Two singles made it to the charts, "Old to New" and "Return of the Hip-Hop Freaks." This would be the duo's last album on RAL, as it would leave the label after the failure of this album.

Track listing

1. "Return of the Hip Hop Freaks"- 3:16
2. "The Sky's the Limit"- 3:32
3. "Let's All Get Down" (feat. Slick Rick
   Slick Rick
   Richard Walters , better known by his stage name Slick Rick is a Grammy-nominated English-American rapper...
   
   )- 3:41
4. "Doin' Our Own Thang"- 4:28
5. "Do Whatcha Gotta" (Producer Showbiz
   Showbiz and A.G.
   Showbiz and A.G. are an American hip hop duo from The Bronx, New York City. Showbiz is a producer and A.G. is a rapper. The two debuted on Lord Finesse's Funky Technician album in 1990. Show and A.G...
   
   )- 3:08
6. "Old to New"- 4:13
7. "Blunts"(Producer Showbiz
   Showbiz and A.G.
   Showbiz and A.G. are an American hip hop duo from The Bronx, New York City. Showbiz is a producer and A.G. is a rapper. The two debuted on Lord Finesse's Funky Technician album in 1990. Show and A.G...
   
   )- 2:28
8. "Get Fucked Up"- 2:31
9. "Save the Children"- 3:01 (feat. Everlast
   Everlast (musician)
   Erik Francis Schrody , better known by his stage name Everlast, is a Grammy Award-winning American rapper and songwriter, known for his solo hit "What It's Like" and as the front-man for rap group House of Pain. He is also part of the hip-hop supergroup La Coka Nostra, which consists of members of...
   
   )
10. "Cheri"- 5:58
11. "No Bones"- 2:58

Samples

• "Do Whatcha Gotta"
  • "White Rabbit" by George Benson
    George Benson
    George Benson is a ten Grammy Award winning American musician, whose production career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist....
    
    
  • "Paul Revere" by Beastie Boys
    Beastie Boys
    Beastie Boys are an American hip hop trio from New York City. The group consists of Mike D who plays the drums, MCA who plays the bass, and Ad-Rock who plays the guitar....
    
    
• "Blunts"
  • "Born to be Blue" by Jack Bruce
    Jack Bruce
    John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scottish musician and songwriter, respected as a founding member of the British psychedelic rock power trio, Cream, for a solo career that spans several decades, and for his participation in several well-known musical ensembles...
    
    
  • "Don't Change Your Love" by Five Stairsteps
• "Doin' Our Own Thang"
  • "Gimme Some More" by The J.B.'s
    The J.B.'s
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• "Old to the New"
  • "Ode to Billie Joe" by Lou Donaldson
    Lou Donaldson
    Lou Donaldson is a jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Badin, North Carolina. He is best known for his soulful, bluesy approach to playing the alto saxophone, although in his formative years he was, as many were of the bebop era, heavily influenced by Charlie Parker.His first recordings were...
    
    
  • "Easy to Be Hard" by Three Dog Night
    Three Dog Night
    Three Dog Night is an American rock band best known for their music from 1968 to 1975. During that time the band charted 21 Billboard top 40 hits in America, three of which reached Number One...
    
    
• "Sky's The Limit"
  • "I Wanna Be Your Lover" by Prince
    Prince
    Prince is a general term for a ruler, monarch or member of a monarch's or former monarch's family, and is a hereditary title in the nobility of some European states. The feminine equivalent is a princess...
    
    
• "Return of the Hip-Hop Freaks"
  • "P.S.K. - What Does It Mean?" by Schooly D
  • "On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) by O.C. Smith