Relationship of Command

Relationship of Command was recorded over a seven-week period starting on January 17, 2000.  Iggy Pop appears on the album as producer Ross Robinson had been introduced Iggy to the band, after which Omar asked him to guest on a couple tracks which he agreed to.  It reached 116 on the US Billboard 200, 25 on the Australian Albums Chart, 33 on the UK Albums Chart (OCC), and 1 on the US Heatseekers Albums Chart.

Around 2010 Cedric alleged on social media that a rougher cut of the album existed that he wished would see the light of day eventually. 

Omar made a similar statement in 2010 stating “In a heartbeat I could tell you, one of my only regrets out of everything I’ve ever done is the way that record was mixed. People think that was a raw and energetic record, but what they’re hearing is nothing compared to what it truly was before it was glossed over and sent through the mixing mill that was Andy Wallace, who is a wonderful person and a very talented mixing engineer and has done great albums – I’m not trying to offend him….and I understand he had the pressure of the label and all the people who had dreams of it being this grandiose thing, and being played on the radio, which it was, (but) that record is ruined by the mix. I just find it the most passive, plastic….It’s the one record I still to this day cannot listen to.”