Written and produced by Smash Money
Album: Thinkin' and Drinkin'
Smash Money on "21":
That started as a ghostwriting track for somebody else. Walt D. asked me to write him a song, he said "I wanna make a song about some young nigga hustlin', called 'By the Time I Turn 21'." So, I said ok, I'll call you back. And I called him back an hour later with the song and the track done. I said it to him... I played the beat and had the phone to my ear. I had an [Akai] S950 at the time, it didn't even have a sequencer. So, I got the drum loop and the two sample loops. I'm hitting it, and saying the rhyme with the phone at my ear, reading off the paper. And he was like, "You know what, I'll never say the song like that. You oughta keep that."
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