| "Let Me Roll" | ||||
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| Single byScarface featuringJ. Prince | ||||
| from the albumThe World Is Yours | ||||
| Released | August 17, 1993 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 4:53 | |||
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| Producer(s) | Scarface | |||
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| "Let Me Roll" onYouTube | ||||
"Let Me Roll" is a song by American rapperScarface and the lead single from his second studio albumThe World Is Yours (1993). It features vocals fromJ. Prince.
In an interview withComplex, Scarface said about the song:
That was my dope smoking song. That's whenSwisher Sweets started getting popular in the neighborhood. My buddy, his name was Toast, and he died in 1992 but he was the first guy to smoke Swisher Sweets. He was like 17-years-old and he would cut the Swisher Sweets open and put the weed in it. Now everybody was smokingPhilly Blunts andWhite Owls, but Toast was smoking Sweets. So I wrote that song.[1]
The song is based on and samples heavily from Dukey Stick by George Duke.
The production of the song contains "slaphappy bass, tinkling keyboards and relaxed drums", over which Scarface recounts an afternoon of hanging out in the neighborhood and activities including smokingcannabis cigars, seeing women drive by, drinking 40 oz bottles ofSt. Ides,[2] and "Jammin' to a tape to my partner had made / 'Growin' up in the Hood' bein mixed with Face". According to Scarface, he was referring toDJ Screw in that line.[1]
Havelock Nelson ofRolling Stone wrote a favorable response to the song, commenting that Scarface "proves more engaging" in his performance.[2]
| Chart (1993) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| USBillboard Hot 100[3] | 87 |
| USHot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[4] | 50 |
| USHot Rap Songs (Billboard)[5] | 2 |