Prodigy: “Right after we did the ‘G.O.D. Pt. III’ beat with the Scarface sample, there was another part of Scarface that we sampled for ‘It’s Mine.’ I’m sitting in the crib watching the movie again and I hear that part in the beginning where the boats are coming in from Cuba to Florida and I’m like, ‘Holy shyt! Why nobody ever took this part right here? These nikkas is stupid out here.’
”I ran to the studio again and said, ‘Hurry up son.’ [Havoc] sampled it and nikkas was like, ‘Oh my God, these nikkas did it again. They took something else out of Scarface that nikkas could’ve used.’ We sampled Scarface a third time too when we did ‘When You Hear That,’ which Alchemist produced. We took three joints from Scarface that nobody was thinking about using.
“We had made the beat first and I was like, ‘Yo man, Nas gotta get on this shyt because the shyt is too ill. This is one for Nas.’ We called him up and the nikka said, ‘Hell yeah.’ nikka heard the beat and went crazy. He was like, ‘Yo, this shyt is ill right here.’ He just killed that talking about Barbara Streisand and Halle Berry and all this other shyt on the song. The nikka went in on that shyt. [Laughs.]
“He did that hook because we didn’t have a chorus for it. We just wrote our verses and then Nas came in and was like, ‘Yo, I’ve got an idea for the chorus.’ That Brandy and Monica song just came out, it was the brand new hot shyt, and Nas was like, ‘Yo, we taking that chorus and we gonna flip it.’”
And of course they sampled the movie for G.O.D Pt3 and When You Hear The.