The song also mentions the serial killer of the Texarkana Moonlight Murders, which went, and still are, unsolved. The song also references drug dealer/crime boss Howard "Pappy" Mason. The song (including the title) and its accompanying video pay homage to the film Scarface. It contains a sample of Ahmad Jamal's 1970 song, "I Love Music". It reached #13 on the Hot Rap Singles chart in 1994. It is considered by music critics as one of the greatest hip-hop songs ever recorded ranked it seventh greatest rap song of all time.
It was the fourth single from his debut album Illmatic, released a month after the album. Like Dunaway in the photograph, And the World Is Yours is stylish, sexy- and still basking in the afterglow of last night's adventures."The World Is Yours" is a 1994 song by rapper Nas. And just like the shimmering sunsets of Los Angeles, it melts into a honeyed, musky, golden finish. Ropion’s signature vanilla musk plays its part with a powdery puff of heliotrope-apropos for the Hollywood sensuality. With a dramatic sigh, the neroli gives way to a warm, creamy orange blossom, enhanced with a flattering kick of spice. And who better to pay homage to this most Hollywood morning-after, but Dominique Ropion, master of the doe-eyed and disheveled A Lab On Fire classics What We Do In Paris Is Secret and Messy Sexy Just Rolled Out Of Bed?Īnd the World Is Yours kicks off with a blast of neroli that floods the senses, rich and fresh with the thrilling energy of a papparazzo's flashbulb. The starlet sits poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel at 6 a.m., hungover from winning an Oscar, sanguine in a pale silk robe, newspapers in a moat around her feet declaring her victor. Few photographs capture the sumptuousness of celebrity more than the iconic photograph of Faye Dunaway by famed English photographer Terry O’Neill.
0 kommentar(er)
