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This line was sampled from the third verse of Ice Cube’s track “Enemy” off his 1993 album Lethal Injection.

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This line was sampled from the first verse of Quik’s song “Mo Pussy” from his second album Way 2 Fonky.

  • “Fade that…” comes in at the 12 second mark
  • “Slangin' this…” comes in at the 18 second mark

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While Quik lets the girl know that he’ll “dig her out” until she climaxes, he’s also referencing the title of the 1974 B.T. Express hit song “Do It ‘Til You’re Satisfied.” Quik used the drums from the song’s intro on multiple songs, most notably on the 2002 hit “Addictive” by Truth Hurts and Rakim.

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This line was sampled from Jadakiss' opening verse on the Made Men’s 1998 track “Tommy’s Theme” from the Belly soundtrack.

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This line was sampled from the end of Styles P’s verse off the 1996 LOX and Biggie collaboration “You’ll See.”

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This sample was taken from Eve’s verse on the 1999 Ruff Ryders track “Ryde or Die”

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Despite mixing over half the album, DJ Quik officially only gets production credit for producing this song(as well as talkbox credits on “Thug Passion” and “California Love”). One issue was that he was in a label dispute with Profile records and could not work as DJ Quik so he chose to be credited as David Blake(his real name) and another was that he let Death Row do Death Row things when it came to being paid.

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At this time, Rick Rock was an up-and-coming Bay Area producer but he would later become a top producer during the Bay Area’s Hyphy Movement. He has produced for many big time artists such as E-40, Tupac, Richie Rich, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, MC Eiht, Xzibit, Fabolous, Beanie Sigel, Method Man, WC, and many more.

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The first 2/3 of this verse were originally written for a Dogg Pound track meant to be released for Dogg Food. Suge Knight prevented the release, leading to a re-recording with 2Pac replacing Nas.

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Too Short took the final lines of his song “Cusswords” and re-wrote it for the hook.

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