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"Money in the Ghetto" is a song by American rapper Too Short from his eighth studio album Get in Where You Fit In (1993). It was released as the album's second single on January 17, 1994. [ 1 ] Produced by the Dangerous Crew , it contains a sample of " Hollywood Swinging " by Kool & the Gang .
The song's lyrics discuss the narrator, a young man, who meets a woman named Renee while coming back from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The narrator promptly attempts to initiate a relationship. The song describes that Renee is studying to be a lawyer, while the narrator is a writer.
The music video was filmed in Rock's hometown of Watts, Los Angeles.The music video features Jay Rock walking around his old neighborhood or on a billboard, rapping alongside Lil Wayne. will.i.am does not appear in the video, however, despite this, the video features cameo appearances from Rock's TDE label-mates and then-unknown fellow West Coast rappers, Ab-Soul and Kendrick Lamar.
Boyz N the Hood: Music From the Motion Picture is the soundtrack to John Singleton's 1991 film Boyz n the Hood. It was released on July 9, 1991, through Qwest Records with distribution via Warner Bros. Records, and contains mostly hip hop music.
It was released on January 9, 1996 via Island Records, and consisted of hip hop and R&B music. The album peaked at number 18 on the Billboard 200 , number 3 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums , and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on March 14, 1996 for selling 500,000 copies in the United States.
The video for the song was filmed between July 17–19, 2006, in New York, Baltimore and Los Angeles and was directed by Chris Robinson of HSI Productions. Pre-production and casting by Robin Frank Management, Snoop Dogg, MC Eiht, Westurn Union, Daz Dillinger, Warren G, Spliff Star, Rah Digga, DJ Green Lantern, Papoose and Ty James, the daughter of Rick James, made video cameo appearances.
The Hood Dictionary is the fourth mixtape by American rapper NoCap. It was released on November 19, 2019, by Atlantic Records and Never Broke Again . [ 1 ] The mixtape features guest appearances from Quando Rondo , Lil Durk , and Jagged Edge .
A music video for the song was not released until 1994, when the Hughes brothers co-directed a video of the song for the reissue of What's Going On. The video was shot in Harlem over the course of five days, featuring visuals of poverty and inner-city depression. The brothers also filmed firefighters putting out a fire, claiming to police to ...