Trivia
- Unlike the original version, the remix is credited as a solo track rather than a Terror Squad release.
- The song was released as a single on March 15, 2024, nearly 19 years after its initial release as an album track.
- An alternate version of the track appears onLil Jon & the East Side Boyz’s fifth studio album Crunk Juice, featuring vocals from throughout and omitting ’s verse.
Words from Fat Joe
“Lil Jon was like the hardest producer at the time, so I got him to flip it. The Dirty South shit was popping, and Lil Jon was the hottest in the game. I said, “My nigga, I want it to sound just like ‘Lean Back,’ but with that bounce… throw that crunk shit to it.”
Me and Eminem were cool before he even had a record deal. I wouldn’t dare ask him for a favor, but Khaled was gassing me — this is when he was a little nigga in the crew. He kept telling me, “Get the white boy!” I was like, “Nah, I ain’t gonna bother him.” And he was like, “I’m telling you, that’s your man. He’ll do it!” So I went and asked him. And he hit me back like, “Yo Joe, you know you got one favor. Is this it?”
That was Eminem. He never stepped out of the box if it wasn’t Dre to do a feature. So when he came out on my shit, niggas lost their mind. He sent me mad verses. He did like 10 verses. He’s a perfectionist. It was incredible already. I didn’t understand why he would keep sending more.
I had three verses to fill, and Remy forced me to let her get on one. She was like, “Yo Joe, man. Come on, I gotta be on it.” And she killed it. I brought Mase back too. Not only did I get Mase after he retired, I told him he had to spit gangster shit — and he had just come out of church!
After we did that, we started praying to God. We lost our minds. Everybody we played it for lost their minds. I was walking around studios playing it, and the whole session was jumping off the walls. It was that shit.
When I played it for the first time on the radio with Angie Martinez, the city stopped. The whole earth stopped. She was like, “I heard you got this remix, and I heard it’s crazy, but I don’t know who’s on it.” And I was like, “Yo, I got the white boy.” And the whole place got quiet.