Gang Starr ft. Nice & Smooth performing "DWYCK", from the B-side off the "Take it Personal" LP, released in 1992.

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8th track off Xzibit's debut album "At the Speed of Life". Released in 1996.

Xzibit dedicated this song to his two year old son.

In the music video which is directed by Michael Lucero, it shows some footage from Xzibit and his son.

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2nd track off CD #2 of the long-awaited follow-up to the Wu-Tang Clan's first album "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)" "Wu-Tang Forever". Released in 1997.

Unusually for a single, the song does not have a chorus. Instead, it solely consists of verses from eight of the nine Wu-Tang members and Cappadonna, as well as an intro by Ol' Dirty Bastard. It is considered one of hip-hop's most famous posse cuts.

When RZA spoke in an 2005 interview about having the whole clan work together, he mentioned:

"...I did "Triumph" ....radio and video stations was telling me it was too long... ..I had to edit it.. ..I told them... ...take it as is... ..or they wont get nothing, feel me? ...Next thing you know, we did the impossible: We got a 6 minute song on the radio... 6 minutes man, that's serious, its unheard of.. ...a 6 minute video..."

Intro: Ol' Dirty Bastard
First verse: Inspectah Deck
Second verse: Method Man
Third verse: Cappadonna
(ODB appears again for a small intro to U-God's verse)
Fourth verse: U-God
Fifth verse: RZA
Sixth verse: GZA
Seventh verse: Masta Killa
Eighth verse: Ghostface Killah
Ninth verse: Raekwon

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2nd track off California-based underground Hip-Hop collective Hieroglyphics' debut album "3rd Eye Vision". Released in 1998.

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4th track off Swedish rapper, and member off the Swedish Hip-Hop group Looptroop, Promoe's second album "Long Distance Runner". Released in 2004.

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3rd track off Queensbridge Hip-Hop duo Mobb Deep's second album "The Infamous". Released in 1995.

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2nd track off rappers B.G. Knocc Out and Dresta's debut album "Real Brothas". Released in 1995.

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"Passin' Me By" is the 12th track off California alternative Hip-Hop group The Pharcyde's influential 1992 debut album "Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde".

The song, produced by J-Swift, utilizes samples from "Summer in the City" by Quincy Jones, "125th Street Congress" by Weather Report and "Are You Experienced?" by Jimi Hendrix. The group's four emcees, Bootie Brown, Slimkid3, Imani and Fatlip, all use the track to recount schoolboy crushes, which all eventually lead to heartbreak.

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3rd track off Nas' fifth studio album "Stillmatic". Released in 2001.

The video features Nas in a church confessional and the video also pays respect to The Notorious B.I.G. & 2Pac, by re-enacting the moment 2Pac and Biggie got shot, with photos turning real, and Nas acting as them, which are mostly about himself and his history since his first album was released, and says that he is crowned the best lyricist.

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2nd track off Spice One's first studio album (second album) "Spice 1". Released in 1992.

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5th track off Rap group South Central Cartel's self-titled third album "All Day Everyday". Released in 1997.

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13th track off Nas' third studio album "I Am". Released in 1999.

The song is the sixth collaboration between Nas and producer DJ Premier. It was critically well received as it was a change from the more commercial and pop-oriented singles from It Was Written and The Firm. The song contains a combination of braggadocios and introspective lyrics over a choppy string sample. The song's beat samples Don Robertson's "Why". The main sample is still unknown. In April 2008 an unnamed mp3 was revealed by Dusty Kid from Strictly Breaks to be the original sample, and right after that it was wrongly identified as John Rydgren's "Cantata of New Life". The song also contains scratched samples from Nas' 1994 song "It Ain't Hard to Tell". In the 14 Deadly Secrets by DJ Premier, Primo said:

This shit is crazy : the day I made this record, I was at my house in Long Island, and I found this old record that I was gonna throw away. It was a ten inch record from a Lutheran church. And it was pink with a black fish on it. And I was gonna throw it in the garbage, 'cuz it didn't look like it had anything hot on it. But somethin' told me "before you throw it away, put it on the turntable, see if you can find something on it".
And I found that sample of Nas is like, and I broke it into 3 parts, scratched it live to the drumbeat that I already had, with the little chirpin' birds and from there, nas is like was born, man...

The song's music video directed by Nick Quested shows Nas rapping in the Queensbridge projects and features a cameo by NBA player Ron Artest.

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