Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill)
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| Single by Wyclef Jean featuring Akon, Lil Wayne and Niia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | August 14, 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Format | CD single, Digital download | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | R&B, hip hop, reggae | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:59 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Columbia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Aliaune Thiam, Dwayne Carter, Dennis Coles, Devon Golder, Gary Grice, Jason Hunter, Jerry Duplessis, K. Lancaster, Lamont Coleman, Robert Diggs, Wyclef Jean | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | J. Lack Remix - Big French of Mad Bull Productions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill)" is the lead single from Haitian American rapper Wyclef Jean's sixth studio album, Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant. The song features vocals from Niia and Akon, as well as rapper Lil Wayne. Verizon Wireless released the song on their V CAST service on August 7, 2007.
During the chorus, Akon sings, "See I'ma tell you, like Wu told me, Cash rules everything, around me." This is actually a two layered reference, the first to the Wu-Tang Clan, who produced a song called "C.R.E.A.M." for the 1993 album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). Akon also samples the "dolla', dolla' bill, y'all" chant from the chorus of "C.R.E.A.M.". The second reference is to "Notorious Thugs", a song performed by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and the Notorious B.I.G., in which B.I.G. raps, "I'ma tell you like a nigga told me, Cash rules everything around me," which itself was a reference to the original Wu Tang track. Additionally, in the second verse of the song, Akon raps "They got they mind on they money, money on they mind. They got their finger on a trigger, hand on their nine". This is a reference to a Tupac Shakur verse in the MC Breed song "Gotta Get Mine" in which Shakur raps "I keep my mind on my money, money on mind. Finger on the trigger, nigga hand on my nine."
The official remix features Akon, Lil Wayne, and Raekwon of the Wu-Tang Clan. The remix further samples more of Wu-Tang Clan's song "C.R.E.A.M." and switches between the original "C.R.E.A.M." instrumental and the intro instrumental of "C.R.E.A.M.". Akon's & Wyclef's verses are switched on the remix. Singer Niia is featured and credited on the remix, but doesn't sing anything on it. On the second line before the ending of the outro, Wyclef says Raekwon's name on the line, "Tonight Wyclef, ____, Weezy on the bill", replacing Akon's name from the original version's outro. Rapper Nicki Minaj recorded a remix which was featured on her 2008 mixtape Sucka Free. In this remix, Nicki removes Lil Wayne's verse, replacing it with a verse from herself.
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