Souls of Mischief - 93 'til Infinity

"No time to do hair, the flicks at eight so get straight, you look great, let's grub now."

Album: 93 'til Infinity [debut album]
Recorded: San Francisco, California
Genre: Hip Hop, West Coast Hip Hop
Album Release: September 28th 1993
Single Release: September 7th 1993 [lead single]
Length: 4.46
Producer: A-Plus
Vocalist: Tajai, Opio, A-Plus, Phesto (all members of the crew)
Label: Jive Records

Music Video


Sampled from Billy Cobham - Heather (1974)

Charts, Streams & Sales

Spotify: Over 200 million
YouTube Music: Over 60 million
About.com's Top 100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs of All Time: #62

Credits

Sample: Billy Cobham - Heather (1973). Contains several samples from this record.

Details.

• An early version of the track, made while the members were still in high school, was called '91 til Infinity.
• Made with an SP-1200 sampler. 
• The track has 12 verses as well as hooks, an intro, and an outro. The emcees are bouncing off one another, trading bars in a way Phesto described as:

  "Compositionally, we wanted to include everybody. And it’s kinda hard to do that with everybody kicking a 16-bar verse. … So in order to keep the ear interested, we were just like, well what if we just trade off, like rapidfire in that sense? And that way everybody gets to have equal time on the track."

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