How we made Luniz's I Got 5 on It
‘Everybody was rapping about getting high but our slang camouflaged it. We got a weed anthem on mainstream radio’
by Interviews by Al Horner
Jun 04, 2019
3 minutes
Yukmouth, Luniz rapper
The record we sampled, by Club Nouveau, was always the dopest. A million rappers were rapping over another record of theirs, , but I was always about this beat. It just grabbed you. It was the late 80s when I first heard it – my sister used to play it and I was mesmerised by that “boop boop”, those keys at the beginning. That shit was hypnotising.
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