{{Refimprove|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Explosive Mode | type = Studio | artist = Messy Marv, San Quinn | cover = Explosive Mode.album.jpg | alt = | released = June 30, 1998 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = West Coast hip hop | length = 1:13:39 | label = Presidential Records | producer = Sean T, Mike Mosely, Tone Capone, Icey Mike Beats, D'wayne Wiggins, DJ Daryl | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Explosive Mode 2: Back In Business | next_year = 2006 }}
'''''Explosive Mode''''' is a studio album by San Quinn and Messy Marv. It is the first installment in the three-album series, which did well through independent sales and is considered a Bay Area–classic in the late 1990s.
==Reception== Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw described ''Explosive Mode'' as a "certified hood classic".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harshaw |first=Pendarvis |date=2025-12-09 |title=The Bay Showed Love to Messy Marv in 2025 |url=https://www.kqed.org/arts/13984638/messy-marv-san-francisco-rap-community-support |access-date=2026-04-19 |website=KQED |language=en}}</ref> Critic Steve Juon calls the album a "West coast classic", writing that "Messy Marv and San Quinn are unapologetically gangsterish, pimperish, misogynistic and straight twisted."<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 February 2005 |first=Steve |last=Juon |title=Messy Marv & San Quinn :: Explosive Mode |url=https://www.rapreviews.com/2005/02/messy-marv-san-quinn-explosive-mode/ |website=RapReviews |access-date=2026-04-19 |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Track listing== {| class="wikitable" |- ! # ! Track ! Featured Guest(s) ! Producer(s) ! Length |- | 01. | "Home" | Dee-Dee | Mike Mosely | 5:28 |- | 02. | "Pop Yo Colla" | E-40, Mixture | C-Funk | 5:31 |- | 03. | "Discourteous" | | DJ Daryl | 3:53 |- | 04. | "Ready 4 War" | | Tone Capone | 5:27 |- | 05. | "Golden State" | Rappin' 4-Tay, Sky Skers | Nick Peace | 3:51 |- | 06. | "Mobb Shit'" | Marvaless | Sean T, G-Man Stan | 4:08 |- | 07. | "Explosive Mode" | Bossman | Icey Mike Beats | 4:10 |- | 08. | "Stop It" | Bill Bathgate | DJ Daryl | 4:25 |- | 09. | "Bay Luv" | Black N Brown, Don P, Baldhead Rick | Reg & Race | 3:23 |- | 10. | "Presidential" | The Network | Mike Mosely, Femi | 4:38 |- | 11. | "Hoodlyfe" | Celly Cel | Mike Mosely, Femi | 4:54 |- | 12. | "Want Me to Stay" | D'wayne Wiggins | Dwayne Wiggins | 5:04 |- | 13. | "Watch Out" | D-Mozer, Willie Hen, Lyesha | DJ Darryl | 4:21 |- | 14. | "Money Now" | Sky Skers | Tone Capone | 4:45 |- | 15. | "Boss Hogs" | D-Fresh | DJ Daryl | 3:43 |- | 16. | "Takin' Inventory" | Rich the Factor, Young Fee | Rick The Factor | 4:02 |- |}
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Messy Marv}} {{San Quinn}}
{{Authority control}}
Category:1998 collaborative albums Category:Albums produced by Sean T Category:Messy Marv albums Category:San Quinn albums
{{1990s-hiphop-album-stub}}