Stress: The Extinction Agenda is the second full-length album by Queens

Queens

Queens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The largest borough in area and the second-largest in population, it is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States....

 hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 duo Organized Konfusion

Organized Konfusion

Organized Konfusion is an alternative hip hop duo from Queens, New York. Though not commercially popular, the duo was one of the most respected and acclaimed underground hip hop acts of the 1990s, largely due to the groundbreaking lyrics of Pharoahe Monch and Prince Poetry.-Recording career:Group...

, released on August 16, 1994, on Hollywood BASIC

Hollywood Records

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. The group went outside its past self-production and got help from future star producers Buckwild

Buckwild

Buckwild is a Hip hop producer hailing from The Bronx, New York. Originally a DJ, Buck began producing after meeting MC/Producer Lord Finesse. He later joined Finesse's super-crew D.I.T.C., along with Showbiz and A.G., Diamond D, Fat Joe, and the late Big L and brought O.C. with him...

 and Rockwilder

Rockwilder

Rockwilder is an American hip hop and R&B record producer, rapper, and R&B Singer. A long term friend of Def Jam rapper Redman, Rockwilder got his start producing for East Coast Hip Hop artists in the mid 1990s. In 1999 Rockwilder produced Method Man & Redman's hit single "Da Rockwilder"...

. The album features O.C.

O.C. (rapper)

Omar Credle , known by his stage name, O.C., is an American rapper who has been involved with several renowned underground hip-hop groups and also released many solo albums.-Recording career:...

 and A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest is an American hip hop group, formed in 1985, and is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip , rapper Phife Dawg , and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad. A fourth member, rapper Jarobi White, left the group after their first album but rejoined in 2006...

's Q-Tip. The album's tone is generally darker than that of its predecessor, with subject matter falling under the album's title.

The cover was painted by the late Matt Reid aka Matt Doo, who later committed suicide. Prince Po later would later write "Be Easy", a song dedicated to him from his album The Slickness.

In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums.

Track listing

#	Title	Songwriters	Producer(s)	Performer (s)
1	"Intro"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson	Organized Konfusion	*Interlude*
2	"Stress"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson, C. Mingus, A. Best	Buckwild Buckwild Buckwild is a Hip hop producer hailing from The Bronx, New York. Originally a DJ, Buck began producing after meeting MC/Producer Lord Finesse. He later joined Finesse's super-crew D.I.T.C., along with Showbiz and A.G., Diamond D, Fat Joe, and the late Big L and brought O.C. with him...	Prince Po, Pharoahe Monch
3	"The Extinction Agenda"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson, H. Hancock	Organized Konfusion	Prince Po, Pharoahe Monch
4	"Thirteen"	T. Jamerson, A. Best	Buckwild Buckwild Buckwild is a Hip hop producer hailing from The Bronx, New York. Originally a DJ, Buck began producing after meeting MC/Producer Lord Finesse. He later joined Finesse's super-crew D.I.T.C., along with Showbiz and A.G., Diamond D, Fat Joe, and the late Big L and brought O.C. with him...	Pharoahe Monch
5	"Black Sunday"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson	Organized Konfusion	Pharoahe Monch, Prince Po
6	"Drop Bombs"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson	Organized Konfusion	Prince Po, Pharoahe Monch
7	"Bring it On"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson	Organized Konfusion	Pharoahe Monch, Prince Po
8	"Why"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson, A. Best	Buckwild Buckwild Buckwild is a Hip hop producer hailing from The Bronx, New York. Originally a DJ, Buck began producing after meeting MC/Producer Lord Finesse. He later joined Finesse's super-crew D.I.T.C., along with Showbiz and A.G., Diamond D, Fat Joe, and the late Big L and brought O.C. with him... , Organized Konfusion	Pharoahe Monch, Prince Po
9	"Let's Organize"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson, P. Rushen, J. Davis, O. Credle	Organized Konfusion	Q-Tip Q-Tip (rapper) Kamaal Ibn John Fareed , better known by his stage name Q-Tip, is an American hip hop artist, producer, singer, and actor from St. Albans, Queens, New York, part of the critically acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest... , Prince Po, Pharoahe Monch, O.C. O.C. (rapper) Omar Credle , known by his stage name, O.C., is an American rapper who has been involved with several renowned underground hip-hop groups and also released many solo albums.-Recording career:...
10	"3-2-1"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson	Organized Konfusion	Prince Po, Pharoahe Monch
11	"Keep it Koming"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson, J. Adderly	Organized Konfusion	Prince Po, Pharoahe Monch
12	"Stray Bullet"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson	Organized Konfusion	Pharoahe Monch, Prince Po
13	"Maintain"	L. Baskerville, T. Jamerson, D. Stinson	Rockwilder Rockwilder Rockwilder is an American hip hop and R&B record producer, rapper, and R&B Singer. A long term friend of Def Jam rapper Redman, Rockwilder got his start producing for East Coast Hip Hop artists in the mid 1990s. In 1999 Rockwilder produced Method Man & Redman's hit single "Da Rockwilder"...	Prince Po, Pharoahe Monch

Samples

• "Intro"
  • "Give It Up" by Kool & The Gang
    Kool & the Gang
    Kool & the Gang are an American jazz, R&B, soul, and funk group, originally formed as the Jazziacs in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964.They went through several musical phases during the course of their recording career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, then becoming practitioners of R&B and...
    
    
  • "California Dreaming" 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....
    
    
• "Stress"
  • "Last Hope's Gone" by Butterfield Blues Band
  • "Mingus Fingus No. 2" by Charles Mingus
    Charles Mingus
    Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
    
    
• "The Extinction Agenda"
  • "Rain Dance" by Herbie Hancock
    Herbie Hancock
    Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
    
    
  • "Moon Germs" by Joe Farrell
    Joe Farrell
    Joseph Carl Firrantello , known as Joe Farrell, was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist. He is best known for a series of albums under his own name on the CTI record label and for playing in the initial incarnation of Chick Corea's Return to Forever.-Biography:Farrell was born in Chicago...
    
    
• "Thirteen"
  • "UFO" by ESG
    ESG
    ESG may refer to:* Engineering Seismology Group, a microseismic monitoring and data analysis company from Canada.* Environmental Social and Corporate Governance, the commonly accepted factors involved in Responsible Investment assessments...
    
    
• "Black Sunday"
  • "Jagger The Dagger" by Eugene McDaniels
• "Why"
  • "Light My Fire" by Brian Auger's Oblivion Express
• "Let's Organize"
  • "Kickin' Back" by Patrice Rushen
    Patrice Rushen
    Patrice Rushen is a Grammy Award-winning African American R&B and jazz vocalist, composer and pianist.-Biography:...
    
    
• "3-2-1"
  • "Melody 4 Thelma" by Blue Mitchell
    Blue Mitchell
    Richard Allen Mitchell was an American jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, rock, and funk trumpeter, known for many albums recorded as leader and sideman for Riverside, Blue Note and then Mainstream Records.-Biography:...
    
    
• "Keep It Koming"
  • "Sack o' Woe" by Cannonball Adderley
• "Stray Bullet"
  • "Nautilus" by Bob James
    Bob James
    Bob James is the name of:*Bob James , jazz keyboardist, arranger and producer of music*Bob James , former baseball player for the Expos, Tigers, and White Sox...
    
    
  • "Who Sey Me Dun" by Cutty Ranks
    Cutty Ranks
    Philip Thomas, , better known as Cutty Ranks is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist.-Biography:Thomas was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1965. He began his career as a reggae artist at the age of 14 with the Gemini sound system, before moving on to work with Tony Rebel's Rebel Tone and Papa Roots,...
    
    
  • "Wind Parade" by Donald Byrd
    Donald Byrd
    Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II, is an American jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd is best known as one of the only bebop jazz musicians who successfully pioneered the funk and soul genres while simultaneously remaining a...
    
    
  • "Death Wish" by Kool G Rap & DJ Polo
    Kool G Rap
    Nathaniel Thomas Wilson , better known by his stage names Kool G Rap , Kool G. Rap, and Giancana , is an American rapper, from the Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York. He began his career in the mid-1980s as one half of the group Kool G Rap & DJ Polo and as a member of the Juice Crew...
    
    
• "Maintain"
  • "Don't Change Your Love" by Five Stairsteps
  • "Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved" by James Brown
    James Brown
    James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of Funk and is recognized as a major figure in the 20th century popular music for both his vocals and dancing. He has been referred to as "The Godfather of Soul," "Mr...
    
    

Album chart positions

Year	Album	Chart positions
		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...	Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums	Top Heatseekers
1994	Stress: The Extinction Agenda	187	28	10

Singles

Year	Song	Hot Rap Singles
1994	"Stress"	50