VH1 ranked “Gin & Juice” 8th on its list of the best 100 hip-hop songs of all time.The chorus borrows from the melody in Slave’s “ Watching You” (1980).
The song’s distinctive bass line is a sample from George McRae’s “ I Get Lifted” (1975).(It also appears in Justin Timberlake’s 2018 track “Filthy,” as mentioned.) The repeated phrase “six in the mornin’” from the song’s first verse echoes Ice-T’s 1986 gangsta rap classic of the same name.The lyric “My mind on my money and my money on my mind” was a staple of 1980s live hip hop shows Snoop Dogg was the first artist to record it.Classic gin and juice drinks like the Gimlet are standard again at cocktail bars, and the boom in juice bars has only lifted the combo even higher. As Snoop himself told LA Weekly last year, “Gin is upper echelon, it’s a step up.” His song brought the duo it’s named after back into the spotlight, and it hasn’t left since. In addition to its musical legacy, “Gin & Juice” single-handedly revived a classic cocktail from the Jerry Thomas era, a tasty, simple, and endlessly variable concoction. During a 2018 All-Star Weekend edition of Inside the NBA, basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal provided impromptu human beatbox of the song’s bass line for Snoop to rap over, which he did, unfurling the first verse live on the outdoor set for an amped up crowd.
#GIN AND JUICE CRACK#
Paul Simon took a crack at it once, live onstage next to Chris Rock and Tracy Morgan. There are country, metal, pop, ska, and reggae versions of “Gin & Juice.” Tongue-in-cheek lounge acts have covered the song.
“Gin & Juice” has been covered and sampled and referenced by artists from just about every genre in just about every year since its release-including 2018, when Justin Timberlake quoted it in his song “Filthy.” Snoop Dogg’s “Gin & Juice” was an instant classic when it came out in 1993, and this year, as it turns 25 (yes you might be old), the party anthem has lost none of its appeal or relevance. And it all flows on a lush bed of Dr Dre’s signature West Coast G-Funk. It’s got a flypaper-catchy chorus that sticks in your head (“Laid back-with my mind on my money and my money on my mind”). It’s got killer opening lines to hook you in (“With so much drama in the L-B-C/ It’s kinda hard being Snoop D-O-double-G”).
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