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    How we made Luniz's I Got 5 on It

    ‘Everybody was rapping about getting high but our slang camouflaged it. We got a weed anthem on mainstream radio’
    by Interviews by Al Horner Jun 04, 2019 3 minutes
    ‘We were struggling kids’ … Yukmouth and Numskull of Luniz in 1995

    Yukmouth, Luniz rapper

    The record we sampled, by Club Nouveau, was always the dopest. A million rappers were rapping over another record of theirs, , but I was always about this beat. It just grabbed you. It was the late 80s when I first heard it – my sister used to play it and I was mesmerised by that “boop boop”, those keys at the beginning. That shit was hypnotising.

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