"It's Funky Enough" is the debut

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, featured as the first track on his 1989 debut album ''

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''. It spent 18 weeks on the US Top Rap Songs chart, including four at #1. A video shot in black and white was made to promote the song.

Background

The song was produced by

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. It samples "Misdemeanor" by

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. The song has appeared on many video games such as '' Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'', '' True Crime: Streets of LA'', and '' Madden 2005''. Its line "Y'all ready for this?" has been sampled on many rap tracks.

Samples and covers

Most notably, "Y'all ready for this?" has been made globally famous as a sample in the song "

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. That song is arguably the most played opening song for arena-based

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s. The quote "stop him in his tracks, show him that I am Ruthless" was sampled by Eazy-E for the chorus of his

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against Dr. Dre, " Real Muthaphuckkin' G's" in 1993. "It's Funky Enough" was sampled again by Eazy-E in his song "Creep N Crawl", which appears on his 1995 posthumous album ''

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''. The line "when I am flowing" is sampled by

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in the song "Flowin'", which appears on the 1990 album Rollin' With Number One.

Track listing

;''US 12" Vinyl Single'' A side #"It's Funky Enough" (LP version) - 4:29 #"It's Funky Enough" (instrumental) - 4:22 #"It's Funky Enough" (a cappella) - 0:44 B side #"No One Can Do It Better" (LP version)- 4:50 #"No One Can Do It Better" (instrumental) - 4:50 #"No One Can Do It Better" (a cappella) - 1:12

Charts

References

1989 singles American hip hop songs G-funk songs Song recordings produced by Dr. Dre Songs written by The D.O.C. Music videos directed by Tamra Davis 1989 songs Ruthless Records singles Atlantic Records singles {{1980s-single-stub