I love thought on this song, before this album thought was only considered a braggadocio mc this was the album where he broke that cycle and this was the main song that did it. If you followed the roots up to this album water hit you hard. I could never get into the instrumental interpretation and the end it was cool maybe once or twice but it gets skipped nowadays as soon as the main song is over. The mtv $2bill version of under the bridge/water is epic.

Great
"They say a record ain't nothin' if it's not touchin', grippin'
Draw you in close and make you wanna listen to it
And if you real ill at makin' music
The listener feel like he living through it
That's how my nigga do it"