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and Redman himself, and contains samples from many songs, including "All Night Long" by

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, "The Payback" by

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, "Tonight's the Night" by

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, and "A Few More Kisses to Go" by

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. The song starts off with Redman rapping about being "smooth to any groove", and he is then interrupted by Hurricane G who wants him to rap some "rough shit". Redman goes on to talk about guns and other illegal things. A remix can be found on Redman's second album, '' Dare Iz a Darkside''. It is a popular song within hip hop and was name-dropped on

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. The line "I'm after the gold and after that the platinum" was sampled in the hook for the song "What I'm After" by fellow New Jersey natives

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. It has been featured on many compilations including ''Hip Hop Forever'', ''Def Jam's Greatest Hits: Hardcore'' and ''Da Undaground Sound, Vol. 1: East Side''.

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's song "One Less Nigga" mentions this at one point when the line "Tonights the night, like Redman" is recited.

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rapper Party Arty in the song "Da Graveyard", on

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's first album ''

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'', says "so mess around you'll be a dead man/ I get hype, tonight's the night like Redman".

Track listing

;A-side # "Tonight's da Night" (LP version) –3:22 # "Tonight's da Night" (instrumental) –3:05 ;B-side # "I'm a Bad" –2:53 # "Rated 'R'" –3:22

Charts

References

1992 songs 1993 singles Redman (rapper) songs Def Jam Recordings singles Hardcore hip-hop songs Funk-rap songs Black-and-white music videos Music videos directed by Brett Ratner Song recordings produced by Erick Sermon Songs written by Redman (rapper) Songs written by Rick James {{1990s-US-single-stub