Cradle 2 the Grave (soundtrack)

Cradle 2 the Grave
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released	February 18, 2003
Recorded	2002
Studio	Various Quad Recording Studios (Times Square, NY) Unique Recording Studios (Times Square, NY) Teamwork Music Studios (New York, NY) The Room Lab (Hackensack, NJ) The Studio (Philadelphia, PA) Chung King Studios (New York, NY) Soundcastle (California) Right Track Recording (Manhattan, NY) Sony Music Studios (New York, NY) Enterprise (Burbank, CA) Sound On Sound (New York, NY) The Hit Factory (New York, NY) Soul Clap Studios (New York, NY) Larrabee West (West Hollywood, CA) Battery Studios (Chicago, IL) Gold Mine Studios (Queens, NY)
Genre	East Coast hip hop hardcore hip hop gangsta rap
Label	Bloodline Def Jam
Producer	Jazz Young (exec.) DMX (exec.) Shatek King Antwan "Amadeus" Thompson Dame Grease DJ Envy Elite Eminem Flip Matrix Gavin Marchand Jay Funk Kato Konkrete Kaos Lost Spirit Mac G Mannie Fresh Mono Paperchase Inc Reemo The Arkitects Tony Pizarro White Boy Leroy Austin Sha Money XL
Singles from Cradle 2 the Grave
"X Gon' Give It to Ya" Released: December 10, 2002

Cradle 2 the Grave is the soundtrack to Andrzej Bartkowiak's 2003 action film Cradle 2 the Grave. It was released on February 18, 2003 through Bloodline Records and Def Jam Recordings. Recording sessions took place at Quad Recording Studios, at Teamwork Music Studios, at Chung King Studios, at Right Track Recording, at Sony Music Studios, at Sound On Sound, at The Hit Factory, at Soul Clap Studios, and at Gold Mine Studios in New York, at the Room Lab in Hackensack, at the Studio in Philadelphia, at Soundcastle in California, at Enterprise Studios in Burbank, at Larrabee West in West Hollywood, and at Battery Studios in Chicago.

Production was handled by several record producers, including Shatek King, DJ Envy, Dame Grease, Elite, Eminem, Mannie Fresh, Tony Pizarro and Sha Money XL. It features contributions from film star DMX, alongside Birdman, C-N-N, Drag-On, Fat Joe, Foxy Brown, G-Unit, Joe Budden, M.O.P., Obie Trice and the Clipse among others.

The soundtrack was very successful, peaking at number 6 on the Billboard 200, number 3 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and number 1 on the Top Soundtracks, also the soundtrack included DMX's single, "X Gon' Give It to Ya". The soundtrack was also certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on May 19, 2003, with over 500,000 copies sold.^[1]

The song "Go to Sleep" has been used as the entrance song to UFC fighters Sam Stout and Dan Cramer.