Trivia

• The beat interpolates “Pick It Up” by Redman, produced by Erick Sermon. In 1999, while performing live in Las Vegas, Eminem freestyled over the “Pick It Up” beat and later released the recording as a free download on his website, under the title “Pick It Up Live”.

Words from Denaun Porter

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That was a Brigade song originally, a group I was in with Kuniva [of D12]. I played it for Em, and I think he was just like, “Yo, we should save this for the album. This shit is dope.” And it became the first song on the album. I was really big on that song, because it was the first song on the album, and I produced it. I was like, “Oh wow. That’s huge.”

It had this guitar sound, and I built the beat around that. That was the first time I noticed I had a talent for hearing a melody in a sound effect. I didn’t know anything about notes or keys or anything, I would just play sounds into the MPC and chop them up and make a beat out of it. It was a crazy process. I was still listening to Dilla, but Dr. Dre was influencing me around that time too, and this was before I met him. Dre was using all live sounds then.