With the original version of “Lean Back” topping the Billboard Hot 100 and achieving gold status, Terror Squad’s Fat Joe and Remy Ma return with the crunk remix produced by Lil Jon and featuring verses from Eminem and Mase.

Fat Joe spoke about the remix in an interview with Complex:

[With the remix] Lil’ Jon was like the hardest producer at the time, so I got him to flip it. The dirty south shit was popping and Lil’ Jon was hottest in the game. I said, ‘My nigga, I want it to sound just like ‘Lean Back,’ but with that bounce. Because, how am I going to change the whole beat up when everyone was saying that was the beat of the year? But I said [to Lil’ Jon], ‘Throw that crunk shit to it, and let’s go from there.’

Me and Eminem were cool before he even had a record deal. I wouldn’t dare ask him for a favor. But [DJ] Khaled was gassing me and this is when he was a little nigga in the crew. He kept telling me, ‘Get the whiteboy!’ I was like, ‘Nah, I ain’t gonna bother him.’ And he was like, ‘I’m telling you, that’s your man. He’ll do it!’

So I went and I asked him. And he hit me back like, ‘Yo Joe, you know you got one favor. Is this it?’ Eminem [actually rapped at first] on the original. And he was asking me, ‘Yo, why did you change the beat?!?’ And he’s another nigga [like Nas on ‘John Blaze’] who sent me mad verses. He did like 10 ‘Lean Back’ verses. He’s a perfectionist. It was incredible already. I didn’t understand why he would keep sending other ones.

I brought Mase back [and put him on the remix too]. Not only did I get Mase after he retired, I told him he had to spit gangster shit. And he just came out of church!