Kool G Rap’s debut solo album. Released on September 12, 1995 (via Cold Chillin’ Records) 4,5,6 was the last album released on Cold Chillin' Features a post-Illmatic Nas and Underground MC’s MF Grimm & B1 Production from Buckwild, Dr. Butcher, Naughty Shorts and T-Ray. For the recording Kool G Rap retreated to the rural wilds of Bearsville, New York. * The song and album was based on a New York dice game called cee-lo. 4, 5, 6, was the equivalent to the Ace of Spades and Jack of Spades in Blackjack; it was an automatic winner. Then you could win with trips, a head crack [two dice of the same number and a third dice of six], and a few other ways. It’s just like if somebody titled something ‘Royal Flush.’ Nothing’s beating that. It was produced by Dr. Butcher and CJ Moore. Together, they did ‘It’s A Shame,’ ‘Money on My Brain,’ and ‘Executioner Style.’ Dr. Butcher had rolled with me for awhile, but production wasn’t something he was doing at first. He grew into it after just being a DJ. The album took awhile because it was a transition for the label. Plus, back then I wasn’t making an album every year. Music was lasting longer back then anyways. Today, you put an album out and it’s already old in two or three months. Back then you put out an album and dudes were rocking it that whole summer, that winter, and then the next summer.