For the second single of his debut album, Game teams up (again) with at-the-time labelmate 50 Cent to spawn one of the most recognizable club banger songs in hip-hop history.

Produced by Mike Elizondo & Dr. Dre, the track earned Game his first Top 10 and a gold RIAA certification shortly after its release date.

Game provided the backstory of how the track came about in an interview with Complex:

I was in the studio going through like 30 Dre beats. I wasn’t supposed to go through them [unauthorized]. [Laughs]. I had to do it real quick because Dre stepped out to go to this little meeting. I lied to Dre’s engineer ‘Dre wants me to listen to some shit', because I didn’t like what he had up for me. I came across that beat and I loved it as soon as I heard it. It was called ‘Fresh ‘83,’ in Dre’s folder. I guess he thought it was some ‘83 breakdancing shit

Of course, Dre was like he didn’t like it at all. I was like, ‘Give me 30 minutes to write to it.’ So I started writing. Dre came back, heard the first verse, and was like, 'Oh, we’ve got to finish this’“ When I finished I didn’t have a hook—I just rapped straight through. Dre was like, ‘Nah, we’ve got to break up some of this shit and write a hook.’ So he called 50, and Fif came in and wrote the hook out.