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I Get Around (Tupac Shakur song)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = I Get Around
| cover = 2pacigetaround.jpg
| alt = 25
| type = single
| artist = 2Pac featuring Digital Underground
| album = Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z...
| A-side = Nothing but Love
| released = June 10, 1993
| recorded = 1992
| studio =
| venue =
| genre =
* Hip hop
| length = 4:19
| label =
* Interscope
* Jive
| writer =
* Tupac Shakur
* Gregory Jacobs
* Ronald Brooks
| producer = The D-Flow Production Squad
| chronology = 2Pac
| prev_title = Gotta Get Mine
| prev_year = 1993
| next_title = Keep Ya Head Up
| next_year = 1993
| misc =
}}
"'I Get Around'" is a song by American rapper 2Pac from his second studio album, 'Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z...' (1993). It was released on June 10, 1993 as the album's second single and features Shakur's mentor Shock G and Money-B of Digital Underground, Shakur's old group. It was produced by Shock G, who produced it under the alias, The D-Flow Production Squad. AllMusic notes that in the song Shakur "brags about his sexual conquests". Chart-wise, it was the album's most successful single reaching number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
Composition and writing
In the 2009 book 'How to Rap', Shock G recalled that Shakur wrote the lyrics to the beat after hearing it for a while (rather than with no beat),Edwards, Paul, 2009, 'How to Rap: The Art & Science of the Hip-Hop MC', Chicago Review Press, p. 169. and that Shakur also ghostwrote Shock G's verse.Edwards, Paul, 2009, 'How to Rap: The Art & Science of the Hip-Hop MC', Chicago Review Press, p. 230-231.
Commercial success
"I Get Around" peaked at number 11 on the US 'Billboard' Hot 100. It spent 25 weeks on the charts and peaked number 5 on the US R&B charts. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and sold 900,000 copies.
Track listing
*'12"'
# "I Get Around" (LP version) 4:19
# "I Get Around" (vocal version) 6:07
# "Nothing but Love" 5:04
# "I Get Around" (remix) 6:06
# "I Get Around" (remix instrumental) 6:04
# "I Get Around" (7" remix) 3:36
*'12"'
# "I Get Around" (remix) 6:06
# "I Get Around" (7" remix) 3:36
# "Holler If Ya Hear Me" (Broadway mix) 4:31
# "Flex" (featuring: Dramacydal) 4:19
*'12"'
# "I Get Around" (LP version) 4:19
# "Keep Ya Head Up" (radio version) 4:25
# "Keep Ya Head Up" (LP version) 4:25
# "I Get Around" (radio version) 4:19
*'CD'
# "I Get Around" (LP version) 4:19
# "I Get Around" (7" remix) 3:36
*'CD'
# "I Get Around" (extra clean version) 4:19
Charts
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References
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