"Natural Born Killaz" | ||||||||||||||||
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Single by Dr. Dre and Ice Cube | ||||||||||||||||
from the album Murder Was the Case | ||||||||||||||||
Released | 1994 | |||||||||||||||
Format | 12" single, CD single | |||||||||||||||
Recorded | 1994 | |||||||||||||||
Genre | Horrorcore, gangsta rap | |||||||||||||||
Length | 4:52 | |||||||||||||||
Label | Death Row/Interscope | |||||||||||||||
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"Natural Born Killaz" is a collaborative single released by Dr. Dre and Ice Cube for the soundtrack of the film Murder Was the Case. It was originally intended for the scrapped album 'Heltah Skeltah'. It would later be used by professional wrestling tag team The Gangstas during their Extreme Championship Wrestling stint before being used by New Jack for the following years.
It is the first time the duo had worked together since the split of N.W.A. The single was released in 1994 in the United States, but was not released until March 30, 1995 in the United Kingdom. The production credits features Soopafly on the keyboards and Jewell on vocals. The song was used by Extreme Championship Wrestling tag team, The Gangstas–and, after they split, the solo New Jack–used the song for entrance music.
The song covers such subjects as mass murder, Sarah Connor from the Terminator films, Al Cowlings' tight bond with O. J. Simpson, schizophrenia, Charles Manson, the attack on Reginald Denny during the Rodney King riots, strychnine poisoning, flagellation in Singapore, Jeffrey Dahmer, Kurt Cobain's suicide and psilocybin mushrooms.