“The kind of thing that Dice and I would always put together. A song very much like "The Lesson” or any of the other collaborative efforts between he and I. There’s that underlying competitive spirit between brothers. It was an ill beat that Quest came up with and we just kinda freaked. It was one of the very first records that you hear Eve’s voice on. She’s doing background vocals on ‘Ain’t Sayin’ Nothin' New,‘ and then she raps later on the album, on 'You Got Me.’ But “Nothin' New” was the first thing we put her voice on.

Black Thought (Complex Magazine)