Blackout is also considered a landmark for both rappers and for East Coast Hip Hop. The album has sold 1,575,000 copies to date. The album has also been certified platinum in Canada (100,000 copies). The album's three singles, "Y.O.U.", "Da Rockwilder" and "Tear It Off", spearheaded the highly hyped release to go platinum on January 6, 2000, more than three months after the album's release. The most popular of these previous collaborations was on the song "How High" from the soundtrack to The Show. The CD version of the album features three previously released bonus tracks "Well All Rite Cha" also appeared on Redman's solo album, Doc's Da Name 2000, "Big Dogz" from Method Man's Tical 2000: Judgement Day and 1995's critically acclaimed single "How High". Originally the name of the album was to be Amerikaz Most Blunted and was advertised as that for months before the release, but they changed it to the more commercially acceptable Blackout!.
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