Pleasure & Pain (112 album)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	[2]
Stylus Magazine	C+[3]
USA Today	[4]

Andy Kellman of Allmusic reviewed, "What's more surprising? That Pleasure and Pain, 112's fifth album, is not a greatest-hits compilation named after a song off their 1996 debut, or that it comes with a parental advisory label? In nearly a decade of existence, the group has amassed enough charting singles to warrant a concise best-of, and not many artists coming up with them during the mid-'90s are still active. In the wake of parting with P. Diddy and Bad Boy, they've taken the opportunity to work with a mostly new pool of collaborators, including Mario Winans, Jermaine Dupri, and Bryan-Michael Cox, who each pitch in once or twice. They remain self-sufficient otherwise, with member Daron Jones handling a good portion of the production duties. The result isn't much different from the previous albums, with a few standout singles and album tracks surrounded by a generous amount of forgettable moments, and a similar ratio of upbeat numbers and ballads to match. The parental advisory label (a first for the once squeaky-clean group) can actually be pinned on previously unlikely collaborators Three 6 Mafia. (Who could've ever predicted that a line as forthright as "Is she gonna chew me up or she gon' swallow up my nads" would ever appear in one of their songs? Nobody.)"

Pleasure & Pain debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200 chart, with sales of 118,000 copies its first week of release. This is the group's second top-ten album. On July 15, 2005, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of over 500,000 copies in the United States.[5]

• (*) Denotes co-producer.

• "U Already Know" contains a sample of "Can We Fall in Love Again", as performed by Phyllis Hyman
• "The Way" contains an interpolation of "Change the Game", as performed by Jay-Z featuring Memphis Bleek and Beanie Sigel
• "That's How Close We Are" contains a sample of "That Sweet Woman of Mine", as performed by Leon Haywood

• 112 — Vocals (background), Executive Producer
• L.A. Reid — Executive Producer
• Shakir Stewart — Executive Producer, A&R
• Marcus T. Grant — Executive Producer, Management
• Tara Podolsky — A&R
• Everett "LA" Quarles — A&R
• Leesa Brunson — A&R
• Daron Jones — Producer
• Bryan-Michael Cox — Producer
• The Track Boyz — Producer
• Jermaine Dupri — Producer, Mixing
• Kevin Wales — Producer
• Mario Winans — Producer
• Ken Fambro — Producer
• Sean Garrett — Producer, Vocal Producer
• Focus... — Producer
• Michael Keith — Vocal Producer
• Quinnes Parker — Vocal Producer
• Clifford Henson — Vocal Engineer
• Paul Osborn — Vocal Engineer
• Roxanne Estrada — Vocals (background)
• Jeanne Allamby — Production Coordination
• Darrell "Delite" Allamby — Producer, Engineer, Editing, Mixing, Tracking, Vocal Engineer, Instrumentation
• Bam — Producer, Instrumentation
• Butch Bonner — Guitar
• Floyd "Tag" Merriweather — Guitar
• Vernon Mungo — Engineer, Mixing
• Alvin Speights — Mixing
• Bruce Buechner — Engineer
• Eric Hunter — Engineer
• Tommy Jamin — Engineer
• Brian Frye — Engineer
• Manny Marroquin — Mixing
• Phil Tan — Mixing
• Ben Arrindell — Mixing
• Jim Beeman — Mixing
• Jean-Marie Horvat — Mixing
• Ryan Evans — Assistant Engineer, Assistant
• James M. Wisner — Assistant Engineer
• Josh Monroy — Assistant Engineer
• John Horesco IV — Assistant
• Khary Menelik — Assistant
• James Mungo — Assistant
• Rob Skipworth — Assistant
• Amber Noble — Marketing
• Erica Bowen — Recording Director
• Sandra Campbell — Project Coordinator
• Warryn Campbell — Programming, Producer, Instrumentation
• Sean Cooper — Sound Design
• Tom Coyne — Mastering
• Nichell Delvaille — Art Producer
• Roger Erickson — Photography
• Sybil Pennix — Wardrobe
• Robert Sims — Design, Creative Director
• Eric Weissman — Sample Clearance
• Matthew Betmalik — Prop Stylist