Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders' First Lady

Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders' First Lady
Studio album by Eve
Released	September 14, 1999 (1999-09-14)
Recorded	1996–1999
Studio	Powerhouse Studio
Genre	East Coast hip hop gangsta rap
Length	57:09
Label	Ruff Ryders Interscope
Producer	Swizz Beatz P.K. DJ Shok Jay "Icepick" Jackson
Eve chronology
Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders' First Lady (1999) Scorpion (2001)
Singles from Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders' First Lady
"What Y'all Want" Released: June 1999 "Gotta Man" Released: August 31, 1999 "Love Is Blind" Released: December 9, 1999

Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders' First Lady is the debut studio album by American rapper Eve. It was released by Ruff Ryders Entertainment and Interscope Records on September 14, 1999. All of the songs on the album were written by Eve herself. It sold over 200,000 copies in the first week.^[1] The album has sold over 2 million copies and was certified Double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.^[2] The album features singles such as "Gotta Man", and "Love Is Blind" with Faith Evans. Eve became the third female hip-hop artist to have her album peak at number-one on the Billboard 200 (Lauryn Hill's debut album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, being the first to top the chart in 1998 and Foxy Brown's second album, Chyna Doll achieving the feat earlier in 1999).