Keep Their Heads Ringin'

Infobox Single
Name = Keep Their Heads Ringin'


Caption =
Artist = Dr. Dre featuring Nancy Fletcher & KRS-One
from Album = Friday (OST)
B-side = "Take a Hit" by Mack 10
Released = March 7, 1995
Format = 12" single
Recorded = 1995
Genre = West Coast Rap
Length = 5:06
Label = Priority
Writer = Angie Stone
G. Chisholm
C. Cooks
A. Young
James E. Anderson
S. Robinson
S. Sneed
Producer = Dr. Dre and Sam Sneed
Certification = Gold
Last single = "Natural Born Killaz"
(1995)
This single = "Keep Their Heads Ringin"'
(1995)
Next single = "California Love"
(1995)

"Keep Their Heads Ringin'" is the name of a single by Dr. Dre taken from the soundtrack of the movie "Friday". Although the album was released on Priority Records, Death Row Records still owns the masters to the song. The song peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified gold by the RIAA on May 10, 1995 for indivdual sales of over 500,000. It also reached number one on the Hot Rap Tracks in the United States. It interpolates "Funk You Up" by The Sequence from their 1980 single released under Sugar Hill. The song also appears on Death Row Greatest Hits released in 1996. The intro "Hey. Whatup?" is done by Dr. Dre while the intro continues with the music on with KRS-One saying his trademark shout "Buck, buck, buck".

Credits

*Co-producer - Sam Sneed
*Engineer - Tom Daugherty and Keston Wright
*Keyboards - Stu "Fingas" Bullard
*Producer - Dr. Dre
*Chorus Rap - KRS-One
*Lead vocals - Nancy Fletcher
*Vocals - Barbara Wilson , Dorothy Coleman
*Video director - F. Gary Gray
*Actors - Ice Cube & Chris Tucker
*Angie Stone is credited for writing the song due to her writing to "Funk You Up". She is credited as A. Brown in the credits of the song since she did not go by Angie Stone at the time Dr. Dre made this song.

Trivia

There is an alternate version of the song that can be found on "Death Row Greatest Hits", where Dr. Dre uses the line:

Just chill, listen to the beats I spill I use Crest, so ain't no cavity creeps in my grill

Instead of the more mainstream version of:

Just chill, listen to the beats I spill Keepin' it real, enables me to make another mill' (mill' is short for million)

*This video was used in an episode of Beavis and Butthead.

Music video

The music video was directed by F. Gary Gray and takes place in a plane hangar, in a Convair 880, with Dr. Dre, and his crew taking over air control. It features cast members from "Friday" including Chris Tucker, Faizon Love, and Nia Long, to name a few. It ends with Chris Tucker and Faizon Love taking the plane and flying away from the police. Chris Tucker says "I'm on probation, I can't go back to jail" referring to the character "Smokey" who was having trouble with the law in "Friday".

Charts

External links

*youtube|6wlnRDYmcTY|Music video for "Keep Their Heads Ringin'"