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DOOM and Fantastik talk about how foolish it is to rap about crimes that you could be prosecuted for one day.
The song’s instrumental had previously been released in DOOM’s collection of beats, Special Herbs, under the name Coffin Nails.
Explained in an XXL Magazine interview:
DOOM: Yeah, yeah, that’s another good one. I grew up in New York so knishes were a part of life. At the time I wrote the song, I think I was with one of my boys and we stopped and got knishes that day. It’s just something that resonated with me. I had a knish the other day and it reminded me of…
XXL: You were saying you got a knish recently?
DOOM: Yeah, recently, like over five years ago, but to me, that’s kinda recent. I grew up in a multicultural town in Long Island where it was part of our experience of dealing with different cultures and different foods and different influences they brought to the country. It’s a funny-sounding word too. Knish. Words that rhyme with knish…any aspect of that, how it sounds, how it can match with something in society. So “rap snitch” and “knishes” kinda go together. So it was easy to find a title. The challenge was coming up with good enough references to make a song.
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