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featuring Michel'le. The song is the second single released from their debut album '' Dogg Food''.

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and Michel'le make appearances in both the song and the video. The song begins with a spoken intro from Dr. Dre. The keyboards were done by Priest "Soopafly" Brooks and the song was mixed by Dr. Dre.

Music video

There are black and white clips of Michel'le and the Dogg Pound members playing cards, drinking, and smoking inside a club. Other scenes are in colour and show them at an outdoor party relaxing. The video was directed by Michael Martin and was filmed in July 1995. The music video was released for the week ending on October 27, 1995. It features a cameo by DJ Pooh.

Original track

The song originally featured a very different intro, with different

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whistles, various drums in the background, different and more explicit lyrics, a brief verse from

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, different pitch in vocals, and an outro verse from Big Pimpin' Delemond that nearly doubled the runtime of the original track versus the final release. The original also does not feature Dr. Dre in the intro. The new track replaced

's verse with one by Daz and Kurupt, and ditched the drums in the original for guitars. This original track never debuted for unknown reasons, but was resurfaced and made public in 2012 with the release of

's compilation album ''Doggy Bag''.

Live performances

Tha Dogg Pound and Michel'le performed the song live on January 4, 1996 at the Gund Arena in

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during the Tribute to

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tour.

Charts

References

1995 singles Tha Dogg Pound songs G-funk songs Dirty rap songs 1995 songs Songs written by Daz Dillinger Songs written by Kurupt Songs written by Nate Dogg Death Row Records singles Michel'le songs {{1990s-hiphop-song-stub