It Ain't My Fault (Silkk the Shocker song)
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| "It Ain't My Fault" | ||||
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| Single by Silkk the Shocker featuring Mystikal | ||||
| from the album Charge It 2 da Game | ||||
| Released | 1998 | |||
| Recorded | 1997 | |||
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| Length | 3:19 | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | Wardell Quezergue, Craig Bazile, Joseph "Smokey" Johnson, Vyshonne Miller | |||
| Producer(s) | Master P (exec.) Craig B. (exec.) | |||
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"It Ain't My Fault" is the second single released from rapper Silkk the Shocker's second album, Charge It 2 da Game. Produced by Craig B., the song features a verse and chorus from label-mate Mystikal and samples the New Orleans jazz standard "It Ain't My Fault" written by Smokey Johnson and Wardell Quezergue. "It Ain't My Fault" was one of Silkk the Shocker's successful singles, making it to 18 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The chorus of "It Ain't My Fault" samples the jazz song "It Ain't My Fault", which was written by Smokey Johnson and Wardell Quezergue in 1964. Introduced by Harold Dejan's Olympia Brass Band into the contemporary New Orleans brass band repertory, Johnson's and Quezergue's "It Ain't My Fault" has become a standard, recorded by the Treme Brass Band, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and many others.
Critical reception
Soren Baker of the Los Angeles Times said about the "Part 2" version: "...Mystikal easily outperforms Silkk, who tries in vain to keep pace with his hyperactive label-mate."[1]
