Juicy (The Notorious B.I.G. song)
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| Single by The Notorious B.I.G. | ||||||||||
| from the album Ready to Die | ||||||||||
| Released | August 9, 1994 | |||||||||
| Format | CD | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1993–94 | |||||||||
| Genre | Conscious hip hop, gangsta rap | |||||||||
| Length | 5:03 | |||||||||
| Label | Bad Boy, Arista | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Christopher Wallace, Hunter McIntosh, Sean Combs, Pete Rock, Jean-Claude Olivier, Samuel Barnes | |||||||||
| Producer(s) | Poke of Trackmasters, Pete Rock | |||||||||
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"Juicy" is the debut single by American hip hop artist The Notorious B.I.G. and his first single from his 1994 debut album Ready to Die. It was produced by Poke of Trackmasters & Sean "Puffy" Combs. It contains a sample of Mtume's "Juicy Fruit", but is directly sampled from the song's "Fruity Instrumental" mix, and has an alternative chorus sung by girl group Total. The song is considered by Rolling Stone, The Source and About.com as one of the greatest hip hop songs of all time. The song has sold over 607,000 copies.
The song is a "rags-to-riches chronicle" detailing his early years in poverty, his initial dreams of becoming a rap artist and early influences, his time in drugs and crime, and his eventual success in the music business and current lavish lifestyle.
Producer Pete Rock alleged that Puffy stole the idea for the original song's beat after hearing it from him during a visit. Rock explained this in an interview with Wax Poetics:
I did the original version, didn't get credit for it. They came to my house, heard the beat going on the drum machine, it's the same story. You come downstairs at my crib, you hear music. He heard that shit and the next thing you know it comes out. They had me do a remix, but I tell people, and I will fight it to the end, that I did the original version of that. I'm not mad at anybody, I just want the correct credit.
Rock's remix for "Juicy" uses the same sample as the original.
On the Juan Epstein podcast, Pete Rock discussed this briefly as well, mentioning that it was he has no hard feelings about how "Juicy" came about, just that he had wished he'd gotten the proper credit, although he did harbor some ill feelings at one time.
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