Code of the Streets (song)
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| "Code of the Streets" | ||||
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| Single by Gang Starr | ||||
| from the album Hard to Earn | ||||
| B-side | "Speak Ya Clout" | |||
| Released | May 17, 1994 | |||
| Recorded | 1992 | |||
| Genre | Hip hop | |||
| Length | 3:29 | |||
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| Producer | DJ Premier | |||
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| "Code of the Streets" on YouTube | ||||
"Code of the Streets" is a song by American hip hop duo Gang Starr from their fourth studio album Hard to Earn (1994). It was released as the third single from the album in 1994. It samples "Little Green Apples" by Monk Higgins, "Synthetic Substitution" by Melvin Bliss and "Word From Our Sponsor" by Boogie Down Productions.
"Code of the Streets" evolved from a 1992 song titled "Wrongs of the World", which was produced by Guru and featured in an investigative report on WWOR-TV called Crime Chronicles. When Gang Starr was working on Hard to Earn, DJ Premier asked Guru if they owned the rights to the song as he believed it would be a suitable addition for the album. The original version contained horns and a slightly different drum pattern, but still used the same lyrics. Guru changed the title to "Code of The Streets". For this reason, Premier remade the production of the song to create a "morse code type scratch"; he has stated, "I reprogrammed the drums with just a little bit more of a skip, the way I do it, and you can tell a difference when you hear the Gang Starr version."[1]