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, released as the

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from his solo debut album ''

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''. The song features R&B singer Mary J. Blige and an outro which has

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giving teachings. It contains a sample of " Maybe Tomorrow" by

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as well as audio clips from the cult film '' The Education of Sonny Carson''. Ghostface wrote the song as a tribute to his mother, with lyrics that both depict the harsh life the two struggled through together during his childhood and praise her ability to raise him even in their downtrodden state.

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ranked it #87 on their list of the Top 100 Rap Songs. Ghostface added the song to his

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'' and on the

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'' The RZA Hits''.

Music video

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version, and is replaced by Wu-Tang Clan in-singer

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for the hook and second verse. The video illustrates the images described within the lyrics of the song, featuring a young boy who portrays Ghostface in his youth born into a family of fifteen, with his mother, grandmother, aunts, uncles and cousins; all living in a three-bedroom apartment. The boy experiences all the hardships depicted in the song: growing up in a poor family in the Stapleton

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s, watching his father leave their family at the age of six, sharing a small bed with three other siblings, picking roaches out of water-filled cereal and going next door to borrow leftover bread from neighbors. The scenes are intercut with present-day Ghostface playing a piano in the middle of a desolate street and a small choir.

Track listing

United States

#"All That I Got Is You" (radio edit) – 3:45 #"All That I Got Is You" (remix) – 3:59 #"Camay" (album version) – 5:22 #"Daytona 500" (album version) – 4:01

Europe

#"All That I Got Is You" (remix edit) – 3:59 #"All That I Got Is You" (remix) – 4:07 #"All That I Got Is You" (remix instrumental) – 4:06

Remix

#"All That I Got Is You" (single edit) – 3:52 #"All That I Got Is You" (remix edit) – 3:59 #"All That I Got Is You" (remix) – 4:07 #"All That I Got Is You" (remix Instrumental) – 4:06

Chart positions

References

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