Album: Blackout 2 (2009)
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Songfacts®:

  • This cruising anthem was the first single released from Blackout 2, Method Man & Redman's second studio album.
  • The song was produced by Pete Rock, one of the pioneers of jazz rap, who is widely recognized as one of the greatest hip hop producers of all time.
  • The song features the Toronto-based MC Saukrates.
  • This samples soul singer Phyllis Hyman's "Magic Mona" from the 1979 Fish That Saved Brooklyn Soundtrack.

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