Shook Ones, Part II: Difference between revisions

"Shook Ones part II" is the lead single from Mobb Deep's 1995 album The Infamous. The song was hailed as an instant classic and, in many ways, was the pinnacle of Mobb Deep's critical acclaim. In 2006 it was included on the album Life of the Infamous: The Best of Mobb Deep.

The song is a sequel to the group's 1994 promotional single "Shook Ones", with similar lyrics of verse 2, but less profanity. This song is featured on the b-side as "Shook Ones part I". Shook Ones part II was released censoring the parts where they say the word "nigga", most likely to promote radio play, and no uncensored version of the song exists. "Nigga" and other profanities are uncensored in "part 1" along with the other songs in the album. “Part I” was also included on the international version of the group’s album Hell on Earth.

The song is told from the perspective of inner-city youths engaged in territorial warfare and struggling for financial gains.

A music video was created for the song. A Saab 9000 is driven in the beginning of the video.

The song samples "Kitty With the Bent Frame", released in 1972 by Quincy Jones, "Dirty Feet," released in 1979 by Daly Wilson Big Band, and "Thackeray Meets Faculty" by Ron Grainer.^{[citation needed]}

• The song was sampled by Mariah Carey in her single "The Roof," Sublime in its song "April 29, 1992 (Miami)", the Canadian R&B singer Keshia Chanté in her 2003 single "Shook (The Answer)", and in Mims' debut single "This Is Why I'm Hot".
• The Fat Joe song "The Crack Attack," produced by DJ Premier, samples a line from the song to form the chorus.
• The beat of the song was used for "Wachuwannado", a song by Krayzie Bone and The Game.
• It was briefly used in the G-Unit diss song 300 Bars and Runnin by The Game.
• British Emcee Akala samples it in his track 'This Is London' on 2004's The War Mixtape.
• A sample from the end of Prodigy's verse, "take these words home and think it through", is used by East Coast Avengers in their song, "Dear Michelle", a response to Michelle Malkin's criticism of their single, "Kill Bill O'Reilly^[1].

• The song was covered by Everlast over a slightly modified version of the instrumental.

• "Shook Ones Pt. II" was also included in the beginning of the motion picture 8 Mile, in which the main character B. Rabbit (portrayed by rapper Eminem is warming up in front of a bathroom mirror for his next battle while listening to the song. The instrumental for the song is used at the end of the movie in the climactic freestyle battle based on Mobb Deep's influence on Detroit hip hop in 1995. At one point during the battle incorporating the song's instrumental, after chewing out both himself and his opponent, already rendering his opponent unable to respond, B. Rabbit references the song by paraphrasing the start of the chorus, "He don't wanna battle, he shook/’Cause ain't no such things as halfway crooks/Scared to death and scared to look…", to, "This guy don't wanna battle, he's shook/’Cause ain't no such things as halfway crooks/He's scared to death, he's scared to look…". He subsequently wins the battle when his opponent "chokes", completely unable to return the insult, looking visibly shaken ("shook") just as B. Rabbit implied.
• The song was also on the True Crime: New York City soundtrack.
• Also it was in Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure.
• It is featured on the Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories radio station The Liberty Jam.
• The starting lines of the song are also referenced in the start of Atmosphere's "Always Coming Back Home to You."
• Big L also references it in one of his more famous singles, "Ebonics."

1. "Shook Ones part II" (LP version) — 5:26
2. "Shook Ones part II" (instrumental) — 4:41
3. "Shook Ones part II" (a cappella) — 3:49
4. "Shook Ones part I" (original Version) — 4:13
5. "Shook Ones part I" (instrumental) — 4:13