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Produced by David "Mr. DJ" Sheats
A distorted track, apocalyptic visions, and IFOs "landing in Decatur" compel Big and Dre to make haste to the Dungeon in a last-ditch attempt to make "Mama Earth" one last love song.
Mr. DJ: The Dungeon was Rico's house, and that was kinda like our headquarters. That was where we all met and where we would hang out and stuff. So Dre was thinking, 'What if it was the end of the world and we all needed to meet at the Dungeon?' Like we were all taking our families and going to the Dungeon and meeting up to fight off this New World Order thing. Goodie Mob's albums were talking about New World Order and that type thing, so it was kinda touching on that.
Andre 3000: I do remember thinking, "What if it was the end of the world and we had to get to the Dungeon on some X-Men superhero shit. I think I was vibing on some end-of-the-world, last-recorded-song shit. Like I always wonder what's the last song recorded in the world going to sound like?
Mr. DJ If you listen to the verses, that's mostly what it's talking about. And the reason we even started talking about that was because that track sounded so combative. It just gave you that whole vibe. When we did music and came up with songs, the titles of songs and the subject matter came from whatever feeling the beat gave you.
Nowadays people just do music to catch somebody's ear. To me that's part of the reason why music today is not as heartfelt and not as deep, because it's starting with a beat that your heart hasn't been put into. So therefore that beat is not gonna pull out that meaningful stuff and those different subjects. You almost can't fault the artists these days for what they write and what they say, because the music that they are influenced by and that they write to is not medidative music. It's not music that will make you feel that kind of way. That's how our music was made, and that's why its as timeless as it is.
Andre 3000: The new generation, they talk about being from outer space. But we were for real. I wasn't talking about myself. We knew somebody had to be out here in the universe other than just us. So when I talked about IFOs "landing in Decatur," I knew some folks had already seen that shit: identified flying objects.
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