Someone explain "Hit Em Up" to me..

[SiGh]

What's the deal with the song? Two versions right?
The "OG" version, he really didn't call them out and stuff by name?

The released version, he shits on everyone by calling them out?

And the beat, where is it from originally? Biggie had a song using this beat, so he spat over it? Explain, in details plx.

All you 2pac hardcore fans, elaborate.
Thanks.

 

[Big Will]

Don't Look Any Further By Dennis Edwards

 

[Casey]

The song that Big Will sampled is the original soul track that Biggie sampled for "Get Money (Remix)".

'Pac used it because Biggie had used it, and also ripped Biggie's chorus from "Players Anthem" and flipped it around to diss Biggie.

Here, have a listen to these two tracks:

(Players Anthem - Pac took the chorus)

(Get Money remix - Pac took the beat)

The version labeled as "Hit Em Up 2" is the original demo version that Pac and the 'Lawz had done.

 

[EDouble]

get out the way yo get out the way yo

 

[Cooper]

OG was recorded.
New verses recorded over OG beat with Jay Z diss etc.
Beat changed
Clean version recorded.

 

[Kadafi Son]

Hit Em Up (part 2) is the one we all know.
Part 1 is the original one with Storm, Prince Ital, etc
Then the censored part 2 uses the same simplified beat as the OG uses

 

[Tha_Wood]

has anyone got a link to part 1? or is it a rare OG or something?

 

[Big Will]

4 more info Hit 'Em Up - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Preach]

this song was recorded in several takes. i don't remember the source for the information, it was an interview or candid comment made by someone involved in the recording process. maybe the outlawz. basically, he re-wrote the song several times. i don't think the final version is a song that was recorded in one session. i think several versions were recorded, then they pasted the best parts together and finalized it. that's more of a personal theory though.

the original version is not in fact an original version. imagine if you have a 3 hour studio session. at the end of the session you have a final track. if you could tap in at 1hrs 16minutes or 2hrs 28minutes and save the most current mixdown of the song at that point, you would get a "unique" mix. whether you want to call it an original version or not is up to anybody really, but per definition it's not an original version.

i think this is the case for a lot of the "alternate versions" of originals we have. one if a final product while the other was recorded before the studio session was finalized.

edit: just to be clear, i think the original version leak we have is indeed the original version of the song, but it's not the finalized version of the original version. it's a technicality but if you wanna be the big 2pac ogs collector and talk like you know shit you have to come correct ;p

 

[Kadafi Son]

^^^
I don't think Pac spent all his time on that one song. Less than an hour at best. He didn't do all those types of takes for any other song. Even with Pac writing his lyrics down and spittin them in the span of 15 minutes.

 

[Preach]

He didn't do all those types of takes for any other song.

I don't mean to come off the wrong way, but how do you figure? I can give you examples that suggest otherwise.

 

[Kadafi Son]

I don't mean to come off the wrong way, but how do you figure? I can give you examples that suggest otherwise.

Out of the hundreds of songs he did, which song did he record more than twice and spent hours on, and not counting radio version. The Outlawz and anybody else Pac worked with never said anything about spending an excessive amount of time on a track.