Maybe Mobb Deep’s most famous track next to “Shook Ones Pt. II,” “Survival of the Fittest” was released as the second single from The Infamous. It describes the challenges of the criminal life on the street and the Darwinist mindset that only the strong can pull through in such an environment. The single peaked at #69 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #10 on the Hot Rap Tracks chart.

Havoc produced “Survival of the Fittest” by sampling and filtering the piano stabs from the beginning of the 1976 track “Skylark” by Al Cohn and The Barry Harris Trio: