Lavel Mena – additional vocals (track 20) Thai Jones – additional vocals (track 20) Kevin Shannon – additional vocals (track 20) Tarey Torae – additional vocals (track 20) Rude Jude – additional vocals (track 22) Terence Hardy – "kids" vocals (track 2) Diamond Alabi-Isama – "kids" vocals (track 2) James "JT" Knight – "kids" vocals (track 2) Keyshia Cole – background vocals (track 2) Ervin "EP" Pope – keyboards (tracks 8, 12), piano (tracks 5, 11, 17, 21) Glenn Jefferey – guitars (tracks 8, 12, 21) Keenan "Kee-note" Holloway – bass (tracks 8, 12), additional bass (track 21) Frank Walker – percussion (tracks 3, 8, 12) Ken Lewis – acoustic guitar (track 4), sample recreation and performance (track 8), additional instrumentation (track 20), guitar, bass, keyboard, percussion, vocal (track 21) Eric "E-Bass" Johnson – guitars (tracks 4, 11) Bosko – talkbox (track 11) Keith Slattery – keyboards (track 18) Scott Ward – bass guitar (track 19) Josh Zandman – piano (track 20) Miri Ben-Ari – violins production, writing, arrangement and performance (tracks 2, 3, 7, 11, 13, 18, 22) Production Rabeka Tunei – recording (tracks 1, 4–6, 8, 10, 14–17, 20, 21) Eugene A. Toale – recording (tracks 2, 3, 7, 11, 13, 22) Andrew Dawson – recording (tracks 6, 7, 11, 15) Anthony Kilhoffer – recording (tracks 3, 8, 9) Tatsuya Sato – recording (tracks 4, 6, 7) Rich Balmer – recording (tracks 2, 22) Brent Kolatalo – recording (tracks 8, 21), assistant engineering (track 22) Keith Slattery – recording (tracks 11, 18) Jacob Andrew – recording (tracks 13, 20) Gimel "Guru" Keaton – recording (track 8) Jacelyn Parry – recording (track 8) Michael Eleopoulos – recording (track 9) Dave Dar – recording (track 9) Jason Rauhoff – recording (track 13) Marc Fuller – recording (track 18) Carlisle Young – recording (track 18) Francis Graham – recording (track 19) Manny Marroquin – mixing (tracks 1–10, 12–17, 19–21) Jared Lopez – mixing (track 11) Mike Dean – mixing (track 18) Ken Lewis – mixing (track 22) Eddy Schreyer – mastering Design Danny Clinch – photography Eric Duvauchelle – art direction and design Mike Godshall – art direction and design Jim Morris – art direction and design Stephanie Reynolds – art direction and design Lauri Rowe – art direction and design Bobby Naugle – Dropout Bear logo design Sam Hansen – Dropout Bear logo design Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Decade-end