“Gin And Juice” by Snoop Dogg

"Gin and Juice" rolled out on January 18, 1994, through Death Row and Interscope, the second single from Snoop Doggy Dogg's debut album Doggystyle, and it's G-funk at its most lazily lethal. Dr. Dre produced it, Tony Green laid down the bassline, the chorus borrows from Slave's "Watching You" and a sample of George McCrae's "I Get Lifted" floats underneath, with Jewell among the extra voices drifting around Snoop's unhurried drawl.

It climbed to number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, went gold and moved 700,000 copies, and the video played the whole thing for laughs with a Home Alone parody. It earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Solo Performance, and VH1 later put it at number eight on its list of the 100 greatest hip-hop songs.

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