It's Mine
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| "It's Mine" | ||
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| Single by Mobb Deep | ||
| from the album Murda Muzik | ||
| Released | August 31, 1999 | |
| Format | CD single | |
| Genre | Hip hop | |
| Length | 4:23 | |
| Label | Loud Records | |
| Writer(s) | Havoc Nas Prodigy |
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| Producer(s) | Havoc Prodigy |
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| Mobb Deep singles chronology | ||
| "Quiet Storm (Remix)" (1999) |
"It's Mine" (1999) |
"U.S.A." (2000) |
"It's Mine" is the third single from Mobb Deep's 1999 album Murda Muzik and features Nas.
The song's instrumental is based around a sample of the title theme (the Murda Muzik album credits the song as "Scarface Cues") of the 1983 film Scarface, which was composed by Giorgio Moroder. This would be the second time that Mobb Deep used music from the film for one of their singles, with the first being "G.O.D. Pt. III".
The chorus of the song is also both a lyrical and instrumental interpolation of the 1998 song by female R&B singers Brandy and Monica, "The Boy Is Mine". The original Brandy and Monica lyrics were "You need to give it up/Had about enough/It's not hard to see/The boy is mine". Where the chorus in "It's Mine" (sung by Nas) goes "Y'all need to give it up/We don't give a fuck/What y'all niggas want/Thug life is mine".
[edit] Track listing
Side A
- "It's Mine" [Dirty Version]
- "It's Mine" [Instrumental]
Side B
- "It's Mine" [Clean Version]
- "It's Mine" [Acappella]
