U.S.A.

About U.S.A.

Overview

U.S.A. (United State of Atlanta) (stylized on the cover as U.nited S.tate of A.tlanta) is the fourth studio album by Atlanta-based rap duo Ying Yang Twins. The album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, with approximately 201,000 copies sold in the first week released, marking the duo's highest-charting album to date. The album was eventually certified platinum by the RIAA with an excess of 1 million copies sold . It was also released in a chopped and screwed version. The Collipark remix of "(I Got That) Boom Boom" with Britney Spears was initially going to appear on the album but did not make the final cut. Track listing Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. Sample Credits "Long Time" contains an interpolation of "Belle", written by Reuben Fairfax, Al Green, and Fred Jordan. "Ghetto Classics" contains a sample of "Beat Box", written by Anne Dudley, Trevor Horn, J. J. Jeczalik, Gary Langan, and Paul Morley, and performed by Art of Noise. "Bedroom Boom" contains an interpolation of "I Will Always Be There For You", written by Michael Sterling. "Hoes" contains an interpolation of "I Hate Hoes", written by Jeffrey Thompkins. "Put That Thang Down" contains a sample of "When I Hear Music", written by Tony Butler, and performed by Debbie Deb. "Shake" contains a sample of "Din Daa Daa", written and performed by George Kranz.

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Notable quotes

“Without Jefferson, the new nation might have lost its soul. Without Hamilton it would assuredly have been killed in body.”
— , as quoted in Jeffersonian Principles and Hamiltonian Principles (1932), p. xvii
“God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet. I believe in you. I believe in the power of millions... Reignite the promise of America... It is a time for truth. It is a time for liberty. It is a time to reclaim the Constitution of the United States.”
— Ted Cruz, presidential declaration speech, Ted Cruz declaration speech: Full transcript, as quoted in Independent.co.uk (23 March 2015).
“The United States is the worldwide beacon of free elections and the republican form of government... We've been holding elections in the U.S. for the past 223 years.”
— Mike Hubbard, as quoted in "Hubbard Moves to Block United Nations Poll Watchers from Operating in Alabama" (22 October 2012), by Cliff Sims, Yellow Hammer News, Alabama
“The American public thinks someone is watching over them. Generally they think someone’s in charge and going to make sure bad things don’t happen. Our oversight system in our country is so broken and so untrustworthy”
— Lisa McGiffert, co-founder of the Patient Safety Action Network according to federal inspectors As patients fell ill with COVID inside hospitals, government oversight fell short (DECEMBER 23, 2021)
“Sell a country! why not sell the air, the clouds, and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?”
— Tecumseh, Speech to Governor William Henry Harrison, at Vincennes, Indiana Territory (August 14, 1810); according to John Bartlett (ed.) Familiar Quotations, 15th ed. (1980), p. 419
“Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.”
— Woodrow Wilson, address, Unveiling of the Statue to the Memory of Commodore John Barry, Washington (May 16, 1914).

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