House Party 2 (soundtrack)
House Party 2: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 1991 American comedy film House Party 2. It was released on October 15, 1991, through MCA Records after Motown was sold to PolyGram. The soundtrack consisted of a blend of hip hop and contemporary R&B with audio excerpts from the film.
Production was handled by Teddy Riley, Tony! Toni! Toné!, Eric B. & Rakim, Eric "Quicksilver" Johnson, Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, Hank Shocklee, Keith Shocklee, Kevin Dorsey, Laney Stewart, London Jones, Marley Marl and Scratch & Source Productions, Inc. Louil Silas Jr. together with film directors Doug McHenry and George Jackson served as executive producers.
It features contributions from film stars Kid 'n Play, Bell Biv DeVoe, Bubba, Chanté Moore, Eric B. & Rakim, Keith Washington, London Jones, Ralph Tresvant, The Flex, Tony! Toni! Toné!, Wreckx-n-Effect, and the final recording from rapper MC Trouble, who died from an epileptic seizure several months before the soundtrack's release.
Serving as a sequel to 1990's House Party (soundtrack), the album is generally considered an improvement over the first, making it to No. 55 on the Billboard 200 and No. 23 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and featured the charting singles: Kid 'N Play's "Ain't Gonna Hurt Nobody", Tony! Toni! Toné!'s "House Party II (I Don't Know What You Come to Do)" and Ralph Tresvant's "Yo Baby Yo".
Personnel
- Christopher Reid – performer, engineering & executive producer, co-executive producer
- Christopher Martin – performer, co-executive producer
- Tony! Toni! Toné! – performers & producers
- John "Jubu" Smith – producer & arranger
- Maceo Parker – saxophone
- John "L.A. Jay" Barnes III – additional programming, drum overdubs
- Ken Kessie – recording & mixing
- Louil Silas Jr. – remixing, backing vocals, executive producer, A&R
- Victor Flores – remixing engineer
- Wreckx-n-Effect – performers & co-producers
- Lee "Bubba" Drakeford – lead and backing vocals
- Teddy Riley – backing vocals, producer & mixing
- Jean-Marie Horvat – mixing & engineering
- Martin Lawrence – performer
- Khadejia Bass – additional vocals
- Jeffrey Bynes – keyboards
- Stanley Brown – keyboards
- Alain Blake – guitar
- Eric "Quicksilver" Johnson – producer & engineering
- Yanni Papadopoulos – engineering
- Tammy Lucas – backing vocals
- Tisha Campbell – performer
- Chanté Moore – lead and backing vocals
- Keith Washington – performer
- Laney Stewart – backing vocals & producer
- Tony Haynes – associate producer
- Thaddis "Kuk" Harrell – vocal arranger & recording
- Eric G. Sproull – recording
- Marty Hornberg – engineering assistant & recording
- Alan Meyerson – mixing
- London Jones – performer & producer
- Kevin Dorsey – keyboards & producer
- Andrew Brown – recording
- Elliott Peters – mixing
- Bell Biv DeVoe – performers
- Hank Shocklee – producer & remixing
- Eric "Vietnam" Sadler – producer
- Keith Shocklee – producer
- Gary G-Wiz – remixing
- Kurt Yano – remixing engineer
- Ralph Tresvant – performer
- Charles Ray "Raphael Saadiq" Wiggins – backing vocals & producer
- Belma Johnson – backing vocals
- Rhonda Randall – backing vocals
- Timothy Christian Riley – producer
- Kimm James – remixing assistant
- Full Force – performers
- Helen Martin – performer
- William "Rakim" Griffin – performer & producer
- Eric Barrier – performer & producer
- Lee Anthony – engineering
- Mark Harder – engineering
- LaTasha "MC Trouble" Rogers – performer
- Kevin "K-Cut" McKenzie – producer
- Anton Pukshansky – engineering
- Charles Rogers – executive producer
- The Flex – performers & co-producers
- Darren Lighty – keyboard programming
- Marley Marl – producer
- George Karras – mixing
- Georg Stanford Brown – performer
- Eddy Schreyer – mastering
- Doug McHenry – executive producer
- George Jackson – executive producer
- Miriam Barnes – art direction, artwork
- Ilene Weingard – art direction