Gin and Juice
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| "Gin and Juice" | ||
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| Single by Snoop Doggy Dogg featuring Dat Nigga Daz | ||
| from the album Doggystyle | ||
| Released | December,1993 | |
| Format | 12-inch single | |
| Recorded | 1993 | |
| Genre | Gangsta rap, G-Funk | |
| Length | 3:31 | |
| Label | Death Row 95951 |
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| Writer(s) | Harry Wayne "K.C." Casey Andre Young Richard Finch Calvin Broadus |
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| Producer(s) | Dr. Dre | |
| Certification | Gold | |
| Chart positions | ||
| Snoop Doggy Dogg featuring Dat Nigga Daz singles chronology | ||
| "Who Am I (What's My Name)?" 1993 |
"Gin and Juice" 1993 |
"Doggy Dogg World" 1994 |
"Gin and Juice" is a 1993 single by Snoop Doggy Dogg, from his debut solo album Doggystyle. A Top 10 hit single on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, "Gin and Juice" was nominated for the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance.
Produced by Dr. Dre, "Gin and Juice" contains an interpolation of Slave's "Watching You" (the chorus) and a sample of George McRae's "I Get Lifted" (baseline). Additional vocalists on the song include Dat Nigga Daz, Jewell, Heney Loc, and Sean "Barney" Thomas. Unusual for a hip-hop song, "Gin and Juice" has been covered by other groups, including alternative country group The Gourds in 2000 and a lounge singer Richard Cheese in 2004.
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[edit] Music Video
The song's music video, directed by Dr. Dre, Calvin Caday and Surafel also producers of 2pac's Dear Mama features a simple concept: teenager Snoop throws a wild house party after his parents leave the house. 6 year old Lil Bow Wow plays Snoop's little brother who's jumping on couch in the intro. In other supporting roles we can see Ricky Harris as Snoop's father and Dr. Dre, Warren G, Nate Dogg and Daz Dillinger appear as cameos. The small-budget idea was later repurposed in videos such as J-Kwon's "Tipsy" and Oowee's "Why Cry", which features Snoop and is a shot-by-shot remake of the "Gin and Juice" video.
The music video was parodied in the video for "DPGK", where Snoop carried in the front of a bicycle gets hit by a car driven by B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta, two of Eazy-E's protégés with whom Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre had conflicts at that time.
There was a scene at the beginning of the video, before cutting to the kids jumping on the couch, where Snoop's mother yells at him trying to get him out of bed. This scene was deleted (for unknown reasons) after only a few airings on MTV and, as of February 2007, has not been restored.
In April 2005 the video was fourth on MTV2 and XXL's list of the 25 Greatest West Coast Videos.
[edit] Trivia
- The most popular cover of the song, a country rendition (with a decidedly bluegrass sound) by The Gourds, was incorrectly labeled on Napster in 2000, and even today many people still mistakenly believe it was by Phish or other groups. A Ska Punk cover was done by The Berlin Project. An additional version is by Sissy Bar.
- The line " with my mind on my money and my money on my mind" was paraphrased in "Drinking in L.A." by Bran Van 3000 (replacing the last word with "beer") and referenced by comedian Jim Carrey in his movie 'Liar Liar'. This phrase has been used by several rappers in their songs. The original source of this line, interpolated in Gin & Juice, is Tupac Shakur, who rapped "I keep my mind on my money, money on my mind / Finger on the trigga nigga, hand on my nine" as a featured artist on rapper, and Flint native, MC Breed's nominal hip-hop hit, "Gotta Get Mine."
- The cover artwork designed by Joe Cool was in the meantime used for several St. Ides commercials with changed title letters.
- In Beavis and Butthead, a show that Snoop Dogg was a major fan of and spoke highly of in the additional DVD collection commentaries, one of the most notable "music videos with commentary" featured the dimwitted duo commenting on Gin and Juice. Beavis refers to himself as a "straight G from Compton" and says that he "used to kick it on the street with Dre" and "go to the Compton swap meet with Snoop," which leads to Butt-head insulting him. Both of them comment on how "it's a Doggy Dogg world."
- Lil' Mo sampled the song in her single "Gansta (Love 4 The Streets)". The B-side of the CD contains a remix with new verses done by Snoop Dogg.
- Fellow rapper 50 Cent has referenced this song on numerous occasions. In the single "Outta Control" he claims to have people "sippin' on that juice and gin". He quotes the line "We don't love them hoes" in the song "Patiently Waiting" and also mentions that "Snoop said this in '94"
- The rap group The Coup released an album titled Genocide & Juice, a titled which parodies "Gin and Juice".
[edit] Charts performance
| Chart | Position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | #8 |
| Hot Rap Singles | #1 |
| R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | #13 |
| Rhythmic Top 40 | #5 |
| Hot Dance Music/Club Play | #38 |
| Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales | #1 |
| UK singles chart | #39 |
| Billboard consolidated all-time Snoop singles | #2 |
[edit] Music sample
- Gin and Juice, by Snoop Doggy Dogg (file info) — play in browser (beta)
- Released on Snoop Doggy Dogg's 1993 Doggystyle album, this track is the epitome of G-funk.
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- Watching you, by Slave (file info) — play in browser (beta)
- Released in 1980, this Ohio funk song is the vocal as well as lyrical sample of "Gin and Juice".
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[edit] Sources
- Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2005). Doggystyle. All Media Guide. Retrieved on December 26, 2005.
- (April 2005). XXL Magazine No. 68. Boulder, Colorado: Harris Publications.
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