Monumental (album)

Monumental is a collaborative studio album by American rapper and record producer Pete Rock and hip hop duo Smif-N-Wessun. It was released on June 28, 2011, through Duck Down Music. The recording sessions took place at DaMan Studios in New York. The album was produced by Pete Rock, who also served as executive producer together with Steele and Tek. It features guest appearances from Black Rob, Buckshot, Bun B, Freeway, Heltah Skeltah, Hurricane G, Jahdan Blakkamoore, Memphis Bleek, Raekwon, Styles P, Top Dog, and Tyler Woods. The album peaked at number 110 on the Billboard 200 and number 24 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

Monumental
Studio album by Pete Rock & Smif-N-Wessun
Released	June 28, 2011 (2011-06-28)
Recorded	2010–11
Studio	DaMan Studios (New York, NY)
Genre	Hip hop
Length	57:43
Label	Duck Down
Producer	Pete Rock (also exec.)
Pete Rock chronology
NY's Finest (2008) Monumental (2011) PeteStrumentals 2 (2015)
Smif-N-Wessun chronology
Smif-n-Wessun: The Album (2007) Monumental (2011) The All (2019)
Singles from Monumental
"Prevail" Released: September 14, 2010 "That's Hard" Released: May 17, 2011 "Monumental" Released: June 15, 2011

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
The A.V. Club	B[1]
Beats Per Minute	79%[2]
HipHopDX	4/5[3]
laut.de	[4]
RapReviews	5.5/10[5]
XXL	3/5 (L)[6]

Monumental was met with generally favorable reviews. At Album of the Year, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 74, based on four reviews.^[7]

The cover photography by Daruis Vick was featured on Pitchfork's "The Worst Album Covers of 2011" list.^[8]

Track listing

All music is composed by Pete Rock.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Intro"	Peter Phillips	1:18
2.	"Monumental" (featuring Tyler Woods)	Phillips Darrell Yates, Jr. Tekomin Williams Tyler Woods	4:31
3.	"Prevail" (featuring Raekwon)	Yates, Jr. Williams Corey Woods Phillips	2:40
4.	"That's Hard" (featuring Sean Price and Styles P)	Yates, Jr. Williams Sean Price David Styles Phillips	4:13
5.	"Top of the World" (featuring Memphis Bleek)	Yates, Jr. Williams Malik Cox Phillips	4:58
6.	"Feel Me" (featuring Rock and Bun B)	Yates, Jr. Williams Jahmal Bush Bernard Freeman Phillips	5:09
7.	"Roses" (featuring Freeway)	Yates, Jr. Williams Leslie Pridgen Phillips	4:25
8.	"Fire"	Yates, Jr. Williams Phillips	4:22
9.	"This One" (featuring Top Dog and Jahdan Blakkamoore)	Yates, Jr. Williams Dashawn Yates Phillips	4:05
10.	"Do It" (featuring Hurricane G)	Yates, Jr. Williams Gloria Rodríguez Phillips	5:16
11.	"Night Time" (featuring Buckshot)	Phillips Yates, Jr. Williams Kenyatta Blake	5:05
12.	"(I'm A) Stand Up Guy" (featuring Black Rob)	Yates, Jr. Williams Robert Ross Phillips	3:45
13.	"Go Off"	Yates, Jr. Williams Phillips	2:41
14.	"Time to Say"	Yates, Jr. Williams Phillips	5:15
Total length:			57:43

Personnel

• Peter "Pete Rock" Phillips – producer, mixing, executive producer
• "Dan The Man" Humiston – mixing
• Michael Sarsfield – mastering
• C/4 – engineering
• Killa Ben – engineering
• M Nasty – engineering
• Rob "Giambi" Garcia – engineering
• Darrell "Steele" Yates, Jr. – executive producer
• Tekomin "Tek" Williams – executive producer
• Kenyatta "Buckshot" Blake – associate executive producer
• Drew "Dru-Ha" Friedman – associate executive producer
• Darius Vick – photography (front cover)
• Skrilla – additional artwork

Charts

Chart (2011)	Peak position
US Billboard 200[9]	110
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[10]	24
US Top Rap Albums (Billboard)[11]	15
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[12]	18