Let Me Ride
The third single from The Chronic, built on Parliament's "Mothership Connection (Star Child)".
Dr. Dre, from The Chronic (1993)
Dre, RBX and Snoop Dogg are credited, along with George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell for the Parliament-derived material. The chorus samples and interpolates Parliament's "Mothership Connection (Star Child)" (1976). Rock & Roll Globe calls it blatantly P-Funkalicious, with Dre on lead vocal and Snoop on the asides. Songfacts reads it as a lowrider tribute, bringing Parliament's chariot-to-Mothership idea of transcendence back to earth, with Snoop referencing a 1964 Chevy Impala in the break; that is Songfacts' interpretation. It runs 4:21 on the album. The single came out on August 28, 1993 per its Wikipedia article, though the album article says September 13. Setlist.fm shows one performance of it, with no date. We could not tell what the 1993 and 1994 live appearances listed on Wikipedia were of this song; they are of "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang".
Sources
- Let Me Ride (Dr. Dre song), Wikipedia
- Let Me Ride: Dr. Dre's The Chronic at 30, Rock & Roll Globe
- Dr. Dre, Wikipedia