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Length
3:43
Produced by David "Mr. DJ" Sheats
A hypnotizing sample sends 'Kast spinning yarns - as wildly divergent as their own tastes - about Suzie Screw (Big's juicy, oversexed groupie) and Sasha Thumper (Dre's tragic childhood crush)
Andre 3000: Every story that I've ever told is either triggered by something that I've been through or something that someone I know has experienced. So a lot of times, it's based on something real.
When me and Erykah were still together, one of Erykah's friends in Dallas had a young daughter who was real intelligent. She was in school one day and the teacher asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, and the answer she gave was, "alive." I always thought that was so cool so I wove it into the story I was telling.
Mr. DJ: The song started out with a sample of a lady just saying 'No, no, no, no.' And I put it on a 16-bar thing and changed the tone of it, and it just had this weird feeling to it. Everybody who walked in the that day was like 'Man, what is that?' It just made you feel a certain kind of way.
Preston Crump: I remember when Sheats started doing beats. He was the DJ for OutKast at first, then he decided he wanted to start making beats. were laughing at him at first because of the beats he used to bring back. He had a different swing to his beats; they were a little more stiff but they still hit.
I can't remember how that bass line came about but I just played it like a chord. After that whenever we'd do a song, Mr. DJ would be like, 'Yeah put some of them chords in there. I'd say, you know them chords ain't gonna work on everything.
Mr. DJ I think Sleepy Brown came up with the hook for it first and then I did another beat, Da Art of Storytellin' (Part 2).' And those two beats are the difference in day and night.
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