Let Me Roll Explained

Let Me Roll
Cover:Scarface - Let Me Roll.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Scarface featuring J. Prince
Album:The World Is Yours
Released:August 17, 1993
Genre:Hip hop
Length:4:53
Label:
Producer:Scarface
Chronology:Scarface
Prev Title:A Minute to Pray and a Second to Die
Prev Year:1992
Next Title:Now I Feel Ya
Next Year:1993

"Let Me Roll" is a song by American rapper Scarface and the lead single from his second studio album The World Is Yours (1993). It features vocals from J. Prince.

Background

In an interview with Complex, Scarface said about the song:

That was my dope smoking song. That's when Swisher Sweets started getting popular in the neighborhood. My buddy, his name was Toast, and he died in 1992 but he was the first guy to smoke Swisher Sweets. He was like 17-years-old and he would cut the Swisher Sweets open and put the weed in it. Now everybody was smoking Philly Blunts and White Owls, but Toast was smoking Sweets. So I wrote that song.[1]

Composition and critical reception

The production of the song contains "slaphappy bass, tinkling keyboards and relaxed drums", over which Scarface recounts an afternoon of hanging out in the neighborhood and activities including smoking cannabis cigars, seeing women drive by, drinking 40 oz bottles of St. Ides,[2] and "Jammin' to a tape to my partner had made / 'Growin' up in the Hood' bein mixed with Face". According to Scarface, he was referring to DJ Screw in that line.

Havelock Nelson of Rolling Stone wrote a favorable response to the song, commenting that Scarface "proves more engaging" in his performance.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ahmed . Insanul . Scarface Breaks Down His 25 Most Essential Songs . . 26 October 2023 . January 31, 2013.
  2. Web site: Scarface . Scarface: The World Is Yours : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone . December 9, 1993 . October 26, 2023 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071001201407/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/scarface/albums/album/238737/review/5941094/the_world_is_yours . October 1, 2007 .