I Get Around (Tupac Shakur song)
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| Single by 2Pac featuring Shock-G and Money-B | ||||||||||
| from the album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. | ||||||||||
| A-side | Nothing but Love | |||||||||
| Released | June 10, 1993 | |||||||||
| Format | 12" single, CD | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1992 | |||||||||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||||||||
| Length | 4:19 | |||||||||
| Label | Interscope | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | 2Pac Shock G Larry Troutman Shirley Murdock Money-B |
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| Producer | Shock G | |||||||||
| Certification | Gold (RIAA) | |||||||||
| 2Pac singles chronology | ||||||||||
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"I Get Around" is the second single from 2Pac's second album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z., and features Shock G and Money-B of Digital Underground, the group that introduced him. It was produced by Shock G[1] and Allmusic notes that in the song 2Pac "brags about his sexual conquests".[2]
Some vocals of "I Get Around" are sampled from the 1985 Zapp song Computer Love and the instrumental samples "Step in the Arena" by Gang Starr.
Shock G recalls how the track was written, in the book How to Rap, mentioning that 2Pac wrote the lyrics to the beat after hearing it for a while (rather than with no beat),[3] and that 2Pac also ghostwrote Shock G's verse.[4]
Brian McKnight sampled the song "Hold Me" on Anytime (1997). Nicole Wray sampled the song on her single, "I Like It".
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[edit] Commercial success
The song sold well and became 2Pac's first Top 20 single. It peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and acquired certified gold status. The song was re-released on 2Pac's Greatest Hits album in 1998. The music video reached #16 on XXL's and MTV2's "25 Greatest West Coast Videos". The song is ranked #14 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop. It was also selected as one of many songs you must hear & download in the musical reference book, 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die: And 10,001 You Must Download.
[edit] Tracklisting
- 12"
- «I Get Around» (LP version) - 4:19
- «I Get Around» (vocal version) - 6:07
- «Nothing but Love» - 5:04
- «I Get Around» (remix) - 6:06
- «I Get Around» (remix instrumental) - 6:04
- «I Get Around» (7" remix) - 3:36
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[edit] Charts
| End of year chart (1993) | Position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[5] | 56 |
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r168663
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r168663
- ^ Edwards, Paul, 2009, How to Rap: The Art & Science of the Hip-Hop MC, Chicago Review Press, p. 169.
- ^ Edwards, Paul, 2009, How to Rap: The Art & Science of the Hip-Hop MC, Chicago Review Press, p. 230-231.
- ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1993". http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1993. Retrieved 2010-08-27.
