Insomnia is a hip-hop compilation album presented by American rapper and record producer Erick Sermon.
It was released on April 23, 1996, via Interscope Records.
The recording sessions took place at Mirror Image, at the Music Palace, and at Rockin' Reel Recording Studios in New York, and at Chuck Simone Studio.
The album was produced by Sermon, who also served as executive producer, Redman, Rockwilder, and Ty Fyffe.
Beside Sermon, it features contributions from fellow artists affiliated with or discovered by him, such as Calif, Domo, Duo, Jamal, Keith Murray, L.O.D., Passion, Redman, the Wixtons, Xross-Breed, and Thomas "Tommy Gunn" Blincoe, who was murdered shortly before the album's release,[3] and to whom the album is dedicated.