Background
Although the album was released on Priority Records, Death Row Records still owns the masters to the song. The song peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified gold by the RIAA on May 10, 1995 for individual sales of over 500,000. It also reached number one on the Hot Rap Tracks in the United States. It interpolates "Funk You Up" by The Sequence from their 1980 single released under Sugar Hill. The song also appears on Death Row Greatest Hits released in 1996. The intro "Hey. Whatup?" is done by Dr. Dre while the intro continues with the music on with KRS-One saying his trademark shout "Buck, buck, buck". There is an alternate version of the song that can be found on Death Row Greatest Hits and the compilation album Death Row Dayz, where Dr. Dre uses the line: "Just chill, listen to the beats I spill, I use Crest, so ain't no cavity creeps in my grill", instead of the more mainstream version of: "Just chill, listen to the beats I spill, keepin' it real, enables me to make another mill'".
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