Sample Breakdown
It Was a Good Day
Ice Cube · 1992
Where did It Was a Good Day's groove come from?
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DJ Pooh chopped the bittersweet Footsteps in the Dark intro. Cube wrote one of the most peaceful gangster rap records ever made. It still gets played at backyard barbecues.
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