Back to Ballin

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album| | name = Back to Ballin | type = Album | artist = Lil' Troy | cover = Lil' Troy - Back to Ballin.jpg | alt = | released = September 11, 2001 | recorded = 2001 | venue = | studio = | genre = Southern hip hop, Gangsta Rap, Chopped & Screwed effect | length = | label = Short Stop Records<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1449704/lil-troy-free-from-prison-is-back-to-ballin/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226154728/http://www.mtv.com/news/1449704/lil-troy-free-from-prison-is-back-to-ballin/|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 26, 2015|title=Lil' Troy, Free From Prison, Is Back To Ballin'|website=MTV News}}</ref><br>Koch Records<ref name=CL/> | producer = | prev_title = Sittin' Fat Down South | prev_year = 1998 | next_title = Paperwork | next_year = 2006 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|2.5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r549979}}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=5 |page=238}}</ref> |rev3 = ''RapReviews'' |rev3score = 6/10<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rapreviews.com/2001/11/lil-troy-back-to-ballin/|title=Lil Troy :: Back to Ballin – RapReviews|first=Steve 'Flash'|last=Juon}}</ref> |rev4 = ''Vibe'' |rev4score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vSUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA190|title=Revolutions|work=Vibe|date=December 29, 2001|publisher=Vibe Media Group|via=Google Books}}</ref> }}

'''''Back to Ballin''''' is the second studio album by the southern rapper Lil' Troy, released in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lil-troy-mn0000282071/biography|title=Lil' Troy | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Sarig |first1=Roni |title=Third Coast: Outkast, Timbaland, and How Hip-hop Became a Southern Thing |date=2007 |publisher=Da Capo Press |page=321}}</ref>

The album peaked at No. 95 on the ''Billboard'' 200.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/lil-troy-2/chart-history/tlp/|title=Lil Troy|website=Billboard}}</ref>

==Critical reception== ''The Village Voice'' wrote that Lil' Troy's "squeaky voice [is] multi-multi-tracked to sound like at least a half a dozen small woodland creatures cold representin.'"<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mariani |first1=Anthony |title=Never Surrender |journal=The Village Voice |date=Oct 23, 2001 |volume=46 |issue=42 |page=150}}</ref>

==Track listing== # "Pimp Is Back" :39 # "For Years" (featuring D-Man & R-Dis) 3:48 # "Mo Money, Mo Problems" 4:50 # "Pop Ya Collar" 3:58 # "We Gon Lean" (featuring Lil' Flip & R-Dis) 4:23 # "Back to Ballin" (featuring T-2) 3:45 # "There He Go" 3:43 # "Lesbian Nights" 4:10 # "Long Time" 3:30 # "Let's Smoke" 4:19 # "Buckle" 3:40 # "Wired Up" 3:58 # "Touch Ya Toes" 3:29 # "Keep My Name Out Your Mouth" 3:49 # "Dead Wrong" 1:01 # "We Gon Lean" (Remix by Dirk) 4:06 # " Steady Shinin'" 5:22 # " Baby Girl Wanna Ride On Me" 3:21 # "Wanna Be a Baller" (Chopped & Screwed Version) 7:57

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Category:2001 albums Category:Lil' Troy albums Category:E1 Music albums Category:Albums produced by Mr. Mixx Category:MNRK Music Group albums