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Versatile producer and long-time Nas collaborator Salaam Remi shares his thoughts on will.i.am using the very same “Apache” (Iron Butterfly’s “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” yokels) sample for the title track of Hip Hip Is Dead that Remi had used to create “Thief’s Theme” for Nas merely two years earlier. – SC