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Thief's Theme
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Wikipedia article
"'Thief's Theme'" is a single from Nas' double album 'Street's Disciple'. The single contains vocals from Nas' song "The World Is Yours" from his first album 'Illmatic':
The song featured an interpolation of the famous riff from Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" performed by Incredible Bongo Band. Nas would again use the same sample on the 2006 single "Hip Hop is Dead".
Nas sponsored a contest in the United Kingdom in 2004, encouraging entrants to record a verse using the instrumental version of the song. The winner would perform a verse on the song, which appears on the UK version of 'Street's Disciple'. Rising Son won the competition.
The song was featured in Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-winning film 'The Departed' but was not featured on the soundtrack.
Track listing
A-side
# "Thief's Theme" (Clean Album Version) (3:00)# "Thief's Theme" (Explicit Album Version) (3:10)
# "Thief's Theme" (Instrumental) (2:59)
B-side
# "You Know My Style" (Clean Album Version) (2:54)# "You Know My Style" (Explicit Album Version) (2:54)
# "You Know My Style" (Instrumental) (2:49)
Charts
References
Category:2004 singles
Category:Nas songs
Category:Columbia Records singles
Category:Song recordings produced by Salaam Remi
Category:Songs written by Nas
Category:2004 songs
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