Peaked at #23 on the Billboard 200 and #6 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

If Can-I-Bus was an experimental, radio-leaning misstep, 2000 B.C. was a deliberate return to the trenches. Canibus parted ways with Wyclef Jean and sought out producers who understood the grim, competitive nature of late-90s New York underground rap.