How High (soundtrack)

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = How High The Soundtrack | type = Soundtrack | artist = Various artists | cover = How High soundtrack album.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|2001|12|11}} | recorded = 2000–2001 | studio = {{hlist|Mirror Image Recorders ([[New York City|New York]], [[New York (state)|NY]])|The Enterprise ([[Los Angeles]], [[California|CA]])|[[Electric Lady Studios]] (New York, NY)|36 Chambers ([[Staten Island]], NY)|Teklab ([[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio|OH]])|Studio 306 ([[Toronto]], [[Ontario|ON]])|[[Chung King Studios]] (New York, NY)|Encore Studios (Los Angeles, CA)|Rockin' Reel Recordings ([[Long Island]], NY)}} | genre = [[Hip hop music|Hip hop]] | length = {{Duration|h=1|m=2|s=52}} | label = {{hlist|[[Def Jam Recordings|Def Jam]]|[[Universal Music Group|UMG Soundtracks]]}} | producer = {{hlist|James Ellis ([[Executive producer|exec.]])|[[Kevin Liles]] (exec.)|[[Lyor Cohen]] (exec.)|[[Method Man]] (exec.)|[[Redman (rapper)|Redman]] (also exec.)|[[Erick Sermon]]|[[Rockwilder]]|[[RZA]]|[[Mathematics (producer)|Allah Mathematics]]|Bangladesh|[[DJ Premier]]|DJ Twinz|[[Hi-Tek]]|[[Saukrates]]|[[Scott Storch]]|[[Swizz Beatz]]|[[Pete Rock]] ({{abbr|co.|co-producer}})|[[Terry Date]] (co.)}} | prev_title = [[Blackout! (Method Man & Redman album)|Blackout!]] | prev_year = 1999 | next_title = [[Blackout! 2]] | next_year = 2009 | chronology = [[Method Man & Redman]] | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = [[Method Man]] | type = soundtrack | prev_title = [[Blackout! (Method Man & Redman album)|Blackout!]] | prev_year = 1999 | title = How High The Soundtrack | year = 2001 | next_title = [[Tical 0: The Prequel]] | next_year = 2004 }} {{Extra chronology | artist = [[Redman (rapper)|Redman]] | type = soundtrack | prev_title = [[Malpractice (Redman album)|Malpractice]] | prev_year = 2001 | title = How High The Soundtrack | year = 2001 | next_title = [[Red Gone Wild: Thee Album]] | next_year = 2007 }} {{Singles | name = How High | type = soundtrack | single1 = Part II | single1date = December 4, 2001 | single2 = | single2date = }} }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/how-high-original-soundtrack-mw0000210819|title=How High [Original Soundtrack] - Original Soundtrack {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits|last=Birchmeier|first=Jason|website=[[AllMusic]]|language=en-us|access-date=December 18, 2018}}</ref> | rev2 = [[HipHopDX]] | rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hiphopdx.com/reviews/id.135/title.various-artists-how-high-ost|title=Various Artists - How High OST|last=Q|first=Wise|date=January 15, 2002|website=[[HipHopDX]]|access-date=December 18, 2018}}</ref> | rev3 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]'' | rev3score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Cross">{{cite book|last=Cross|first=Charles R.|author-link=Charles R. Cross|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]]|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|chapter=Method Man|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/540 540]}}</ref> }} '''''How High The Soundtrack''''' is a soundtrack to [[Jesse Dylan]]'s 2001 [[stoner film]] ''[[How High]]''. It was released on December 11, 2001 through [[Def Jam Recordings]] and consists of [[hip hop music]]. The album contains twenty tracks featuring interpolations taken from the movie and songs performed by film stars [[Method Man & Redman]], along with [[Cypress Hill]], [[DMX (rapper)|DMX]], [[Jonell]], [[Limp Bizkit]], [[Ludacris]], [[Mary J. Blige]], [[Saukrates]], [[Shawnna]], [[Streetlife (rapper)|Streetlife]], and [[War (U.S. band)|War]].

The album peaked at number 38 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] and at number 6 on the [[Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums]] in the United States.

Several songs heard both in the movie and in the closing credits, such as "[[Hits from the Bong]]" and "I Wanna Get High" by [[Cypress Hill]], "Wu Wear" by [[RZA]], "[[Fire (Ohio Players song)|Fire]]" by [[Ohio Players]], "[[Jamming (song)|Jammin]]" by [[Bob Marley]], "[[Du hast]]" by [[Rammstein]], "[[Chin Check]]" by [[N.W.A]], "Would You Mind" by [[Janet Jackson]], "[[Sexy Ida]]" by [[Ike & Tina Turner]], "Good Girls" by [[DMX (rapper)|DMX]], "Sweet Thing" by [[Mary J. Blige]], "One Draw" by [[Rita Marley]], "[[Flash Light (song)|Flash Light]]" by [[Parliament (band)|Parliament]], <nowiki>''</nowiki>[[Click Click Boom]]" by [[Saliva (band)|Saliva]], "[[The Payback (song)|The Payback]]" by [[James Brown]], "[[B.O.B (song)|B.O.B (Bombs Over Baghdad)]]" by [[Outkast]], and "[[Slam (Onyx song)|Slam]]" by [[Onyx (hip hop group)|Onyx]], were not included in the soundtrack album.

==Track listing== Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.<ref name="liner notes">{{cite AV media notes|title= How High The Soundtrack |year= 2001 |type= booklet |publisher= [[Def Jam Recordings|Def Jam]], [[Universal Music Group|UMG Soundtracks]]}}</ref>

{{Track listing | all_writing = | extra_column = Producer(s)

| title1 = Intro | note1 = performed by [[Method Man & Redman]] | length1 = 0:16 | extra1 =

| title2 = Part II | note2 = performed by Method Man & Redman | writer2 = {{hlist|[[Redman (rapper)|Reggie Noble]]|[[Erick Sermon]]|[[Method Man|Clifford Smith]]|[[Toni Braxton]]|[[Babyface (musician)|Kenneth Edmonds]]|[[Bryce Wilson]]}} | length2 = 4:04 | extra2 = [[Erick Sermon]]

| title3 = Round and Round (Remix) | note3 = performed by [[Jonell]] & Method Man | writer3 = {{hlist|[[Jonell|Shannon Showes]]|[[Hi-Tek|Tony Cottrell]]|I. Mills|Smith}} | length3 = 3:50 | extra3 = [[Hi-Tek]]

| title4 = Cisco Kid | note4 = performed by Method Man, Redman, [[Cypress Hill]] & [[War (U.S. band)|WAR]] | writer4 = {{hlist|[[War (U.S. band)|Thomas Allen]]|[[Harold Ray Brown]]|[[War (U.S. band)|Morris Dickerson]]|[[Lonnie Jordan|Leroy Jordan]]|[[Charles Miller (musician)|Charles Miller]]|[[Lee Oskar]]|[[Howard E. Scott]]}} | length4 = 4:00 | extra4 = [[Rockwilder]]

| title5 = America's Most | note5 = performed by Method Man & Redman | writer5 = {{hlist|Noble|Smith|Raymond Grant|Richard Grant}} | length5 = 3:35 | extra5 = DJ Twinz

| title6 = Yes Sir, Dean Cain, Sir (Skit) | note6 = performed by [[Obba Babatundé]], Method Man & Redman | length6 = 0:23 | extra6 =

| title7 = Let's Do It | note7 = performed by Method Man & Redman | writer7 = {{hlist|Noble|Smith|[[Scott Storch]]}} | length7 = 4:35 | extra7 = [[Scott Storch]]

| title9 = Who Wanna Rap | note9 = performed by [[Streetlife (rapper)|Streetlife]] | writer9 = {{hlist|[[Streetlife (rapper)|Patrick Charles]]|[[Allah Mathematics|Ronald Bean]]}} | length9 = 2:54 | extra9 = [[Allah Mathematics]]

| title11 = [[N 2 Gether Now]] | note11 = performed by [[Limp Bizkit]] & Method Man | writer11 = {{hlist|[[Fred Durst]]|Smith|[[DJ Premier|Christopher Martin]]}} | length11 = 3:56 | extra11 = {{hlist|[[DJ Premier]]|[[Terry Date]] ({{abbr|co.|co-producer}})}}

| title12 = [[Party Up (Up in Here)]] | note12 = performed by [[DMX (rapper)|DMX]] | writer12 = {{hlist|[[DMX (rapper)|Earl Simmons]]|[[Swizz Beatz|Kasseem Dean]]}} | length12 = 4:37 | extra12 = [[Swizz Beatz]]

| title13 = [[What's Your Fantasy]] | note13 = performed by [[Ludacris]] & [[Shawnna]] | writer13 = {{hlist|[[Ludacris|Christopher Bridges]]|Shondrae Santiago}} | length13 = 4:36 | extra13 = Shondrae

| title14 = Da Rockwilder | note14 = performed by Method Man & Redman | writer14 = {{hlist|Noble|Smith|[[Rockwilder|Dana Stinson]]}} | length14 = 2:17 | extra14 = Rockwilder

| title15 = I Love NWA (Skit) | note15 = performed by Redman, Justin Urich & Method Man | length15 = 0:13 | extra15 =

| title16 = [[Bring the Pain]] | note16 = performed by Method Man | writer16 = {{hlist|Smith|[[RZA|Robert Diggs]]}} | length16 = 3:06 | extra16 = [[RZA]]

| title17 = How to Roll a Blunt | note17 = performed by Redman | writer17 = {{hlist|Noble|[[Keni Burke|Kenneth M. Burke]]|Allan W. Felder|[[Norma Jean Wright]]}} | length17 = 3:21 | extra17 = {{hlist|Redman|[[Pete Rock]] ({{abbr|co.|co-producer}})}}

| title18 = [[I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By|All I Need]] (Razor Sharp Mix) | note18 = performed by Method Man & [[Mary J. Blige]] | writer18 = {{hlist|Smith|Diggs|[[Ashford & Simpson|Nickolas Ashford]]|[[Ashford & Simpson|Valerie Simpson]]}} | length18 = 3:42 | extra18 = RZA

| title19 = Big Dogs | note19 = performed by Method Man & Redman | writer19 = {{hlist|Noble|Sermon|Smith}} | length19 = 3:28 | extra19 = {{hlist|Erick Sermon|Redman ({{abbr|co.|co-producer}})}}

| title20 = [[How High (song)|How High]] (Remix) | note20 = performed by Method Man & Redman | writer20 = {{hlist|Noble|Sermon|Smith|[[Sylvester Levay]]|[[Michael Kunze|Stephan Prager]]}} | length20 = 3:59 | extra20 = Erick Sermon

| total_length = 1:02:52 }}

'''Sample credits'''<ref name="liner notes"/> * "Part II" contains excerpts from "You're Making Me High", written by [[Toni Braxton]], [[Babyface (musician)|Kenneth Edmonds]], and [[Bryce Wilson]], and performed by Toni Braxton. * "Cisco Kid" contains a sample from "[[The Cisco Kid (song)|The Cisco Kid]]", performed by [[War (U.S. band)|War]]. * "How to Roll a Blunt" contains a sample from "[[Risin' to the Top|Keep Rising to the Top]]" by [[Keni Burke|Kenneth Burke]]. * "All I Need (Razor Sharp Remix)" contains an interpolation of "[[You're All I Need to Get By]]", written by [[Ashford & Simpson|Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson]]. * "Big Dogs" contains a sample from "Tell 'Em", written by [[Erick Sermon]]. * "How High Remix" contains a sample from "I Am Woman", performed by [[The Cover Girls]]. It also contains an interpolation of "Fly Robin Fly", written by [[Sylvester Levay]] and [[Michael Kunze|Stephan Prager]].

==Charts== {{col-begin}} {{col-2}}

===Weekly charts=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |- ! scope="col"| Chart (2001) ! scope="col"| Peak position |- ! scope="row"| US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/soundtrack/chart-history/tlp/|title=Soundtrack How High Chart History|work=[[Billboard 200]]|access-date=December 18, 2018}}</ref> | 38 |- ! scope="row"| US [[Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums]] (''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'')<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/soundtrack/chart-history/blp/|title=Soundtrack How High Chart History|work=[[Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums]]|access-date=December 18, 2018}}</ref> | 6 |- ! scope="row"| US [[Top Soundtracks]] (''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'')<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/soundtrack/chart-history/stx/|title=Soundtrack How High Chart History|work=[[Top Soundtracks]]|access-date=December 18, 2018}}</ref> | 2 |} {{col-2}}

===Year-end charts=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |- ! scope="col"| Chart (2002) ! scope="col"| Position |- ! scope="row"|Canadian R&B Albums ([[Nielsen SoundScan]])<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20031012032620/http://www.jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/2002_r&b.html|archivedate=October 12, 2003|url=http://www.jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/2002_r&b.html|title=Canada's Top 200 R&B; albums of 2002|website=[[Jam!]]|accessdate=March 27, 2022}}</ref> | 49 |- ! scope="row"|Canadian Rap Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20031012032336/http://www.jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/2002_rap.html|archivedate=October 12, 2003|url=http://www.jamshowbiz.com/JamMusicCharts/2002_rap.html|title=Top 100 rap albums of 2002 in Canada|website=[[Jam!]]|accessdate=March 27, 2022}}</ref> | 25 |- ! scope="row"| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2002/top-r-and-b-hip-hop-albums|title=Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums – Year-End 2002|magazine=Billboard|access-date=August 30, 2020}}</ref> | 71 |} {{col-end}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{Discogs master|116941|How High (The Soundtrack)}}

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