Puff Daddy and the Family, â€å“all About the Benjamins
| "It's All Almost the Benjamins" | ||||
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| Single by Puff Daddy featuring Lil' Kim, The Lox and The Notorious B.I.Chiliad. | ||||
| from the album No Manner Out | ||||
| Released | August 12, 1997 | |||
| Recorded | 1996 | |||
| Length | four:38 | |||
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| Producer(south) | Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie for The Hitmen | |||
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| "It'south All Nearly the Benjamins" on YouTube | ||||
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| "It's All About the Benjamins" on YouTube | ||||
"It's All Most the Benjamins" is a song past American rapper and producer Puff Daddy. It was released as the third single from his debut studio album No Way Out. "Benjamins" is a slang word for money, referring to Benjamin Franklin'due south prototype on the US $100 bill. The Notorious B.I.G. also used the slang on his debut album Ready to Dice. The vocal featured an uncredited vocal arrangement by Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott,[i] and featured a signature guitar hook played by Marc Solomon.
Groundwork [edit]
The vocal debuted in 1996 on DJ Inkling'southward Vacation Holdup mixtape. The mixtape version of the song only featured Puff Daddy and the rap human action The LOX (excluding Styles P who yet appears in the video). The song was later added to Puffy'due south debut album, No Way Out, in a remix, "It's All About the Benjamins (Remix)", which added two new verses by Lil' Kim and Notorious B.I.Yard. Missy Elliot also provided the song with a chorus which the original version lacked. This version of the song also omitted the give-and-take "Hebrews" out of Jadakiss' verse; all the same, the word was left in on the get-go pressing. Subsequent pressings removed the discussion. Additionally, when information technology was released on the Bad Male child's Greatest Hits Vol. I album, it retained the word. The music video won a Viewer's Option laurels at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards show. Due to the rarity of the obscure mixtape version, the remix featured on No Mode Out is often considered the song's definitive version to avert confusion.
The song samples two pieces of music. The first sample heard up to the end of Lil' Kim'due south verse is taken from the vocal "I Did It for Love" performed by the Love Unlimited written by Linda Laurie and Terry Etlinger. The poesy performed past Notorious B.I.G. contains a sample from The Jackson v song "Information technology's Great to Exist Here." This latter sample is exclusive to the No Way Out remix. Afterward the last verse, the song reverts to the first sample and ends shortly afterwards.
In 2008, "It'due south All About the Benjamins" was ranked number 32 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip-Hop.[2]
Puffy as well released a rap rock[3] version of the song, "It'south All Almost the Benjamins (Rock Remix)". This collaboration, as well known equally "Shot-Caller Rock Remix" and "Rock Remix I", features Tommy Stinson, Fuzzbubble, Rob Zombie, and Dave Grohl on drums. This remix added guitar riffs and alive drums, also as a more than "in your face up" approach to the song's chorus. This version had its own music video, directed by Spike Jonze, which was nominated for Best Video of the Year on MTV Video Music Awards in 1998 which was won by Madonna with "Ray of Light".
In 1999, Puffy performed this remix with a alive ring at the Giants Stadium for the NetAid benefit concert. The performance featured Slash on guitar also as Lil' Stop and Lil' Kim on vocals.
There is as well a slightly unlike alternative to this remix called, "Information technology'south All Near the Benjamins (Rock Remix II)." This lesser known version adds Size 14 to the song'due south already long collaboration line-upwardly.
Both rock remixes of the vocal were released as edited versions; the explicit versions were only released on promo CDs.
Music videos [edit]
Three music videos were released for the vocal and two of its remixes. The beginning music video was directed by Paul Hunter. It featured Puff Daddy, the LOX, Lil' Kim, and Biggie (who appears on a television set screen, through annal footage of the Hypnotize music video) and took place in a dimly-lit concert venue and in a forest where the rappers are either running (except Biggie) or rapping.[iv]
The 2d music video (for the remix) is like to the first ane, except Biggie's verse and appearances are removed, replaced by a tap dancing battle betwixt Puff Daddy and Savion Glover, with the latter winning.[5]
The third music video (for the "Rock Remix I") is entirely different. Puff Daddy arrives at a high school prom to see a lackluster band (with the ring leader being played past Puff Daddy) performing for a bored audience. He goes to the stage and sings a stone version of his vocal to the pleasure of the audience. He is joined by Lil' Kim and the LOX. Biggie doesn't announced in the video. During his poetry, the rappers and the audience are seen running in the loftier school.[6] [vii]
Covers, samples, and in pop culture [edit]
In 1999, "Weird Al" Yankovic performed a parody of the stone remix of "It's All About the Benjamins". Yankovic's version, "It's All About the Pentiums", features himself boasting about the superiority of his computer hardware.
Diddy sampled the song in the remix to "Shot Caller" by French Montana.
Bob Dylan played the song on the "Money: Role 1" episode of his Theme Time Radio 60 minutes show in 2008.[8]
The song has also been covered past the Ballas Hough Ring who performed the song with rapper Lil' Kim in 2009.
U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (from CD MN-5) quoted the song title in a Feb 2019 tweet,[9] which was subsequently criticized equally antisemitic.[10]
Commercial functioning [edit]
"Information technology'due south All About The Benjamins" was sold as a maxi-single with the Mase and Notorious B.I.G. collaboration "Been Around The World". "It's All Nearly The Benjamins" reached its peak of number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 on January 3, 1998, behind the meg-selling single, "Candle in the Wind 1997" by Elton John, and its tiptop of number 1 on the Hot Rap charts on December three, 1997.
Formats and track listings [edit]
- Been Effectually the Globe (Single)
- Been Effectually the World (Radio Edit)
- It's All Most the Benjamins (Shot-Caller Rock Remix)
- Been Around the World (Maxi-unmarried)
- Been Around the Globe (Radio Edit)
- It's All Virtually the Benjamins (Rock Remix I)
- It's All About the Benjamins (Rock Remix II)
- Information technology's All About the Benjamins (Album Version)
- Single (U.K. and Canada simply)
- It's All Well-nigh the Benjamins (Rock Remix I)
- It'southward All About the Benjamins (Album Version)
- Information technology's All Nigh the Benjamins (Rock Remix Ii)
- It'due south All About the Benjamins (DJ Ming (DJ) & FS Drum N' Base Mix)
Charts [edit]
Weekly charts [edit]
| Chart (1997-1998) | Peak position |
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| UK Singles Nautical chart | 18 |
| U.Due south. Billboard Hot 100[11] | 2 |
| U.Due south. Hot 100 Singles Sales[12] | ii |
| U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Singles | 1 |
Year-cease charts [edit]
| Chart (1998) | Position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[xiii] | nineteen |
References [edit]
- ^ "Retentiveness Lane: Sheek recalls how Missy Elliot saved his verse on "It's All Near The Benjamins"". MissInfo.tv. 28 September 2010. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
- ^ "VH1's 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs". Stereogum. 2008-09-29. Retrieved 2021-08-30 .
- ^ "The Best Rap-Stone Songs". Complex.
- ^ Fitzgerald, Trent. "Diddy'south All-time Song Ever? A Breakdown of 'All About the Benjamins'". The Boombox . Retrieved 2019-01-x .
- ^ Bad Male child Amusement, Puff Daddy & The Family - Information technology'due south All About The Benjamins (Remix) (Official Music Video) , retrieved 2019-01-10
- ^ Puff Daddy: It'southward All About the Benjamins, Version 2 (Video 1997) , retrieved 2019-01-ten
- ^ Bad Boy Entertainment, Puff Daddy & The Family unit - It's All Most The Benjamins (Rock Remix I), archived from the original on 2021-12-21, retrieved 2019-01-10
- ^ "Episode 76: Coin part one". Theme Fourth dimension Radio Hour Archive . Retrieved 2021-04-22 .
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-02-eighteen. Retrieved 2019-02-eighteen .
{{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: archived re-create every bit title (link) - ^ Stolberg, Sheryl Gay (eleven February 2019). "Ilhan Omar Apologizes for Statements Condemned as Anti-Semitic". The New York Times . Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ^ Inc, Nielsen Business organization Media (1998-01-03). Billboard. Nielsen Business organisation Media, Inc.
- ^ Inc, Nielsen Business organization Media (1997-12-27). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
- ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1998". Archived from the original on 2009-03-09. Retrieved 2010-08-28 .
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_All_About_the_Benjamins
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