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De La Soul feat. Common

The Bizness

1996 · via Mos Def

De La Soul feat. Common’s 1996 recording of “The Bizness” is the earliest release on file. Common shares the writing credit with Dave Jolicoeur, Maseo and Posdnuos. Also recorded by Common feat. De La Soul (released 2002), among 14 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. Mos Def’s “She Wants to Move (Native Tongue remix)” (2004) carries this song’s writers on its credit.

De La Soul feat. Common – The Bizness
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The remix you know carries the credit of The Bizness, so you are really hearing De La Soul and Common in the walls. Follow Common out of here and the thread keeps going.

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Credited writers: Common, Dave Jolicoeur, Maseo and Posdnuos.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1996.

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Mos Def’s “She Wants to Move (Native Tongue remix)” (2004) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.

Other recordings on file · first release year

14 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Mos Def's Native Tongue remix of She Wants to Move runs on the writing credit of an earlier track, The Bizness. Who first recorded The Bizness?De La Soul feat. Common
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