They Reminisce over You (Remastered)

Recorded in 1991 during the Mecca and the Soul Brother sessions at Greene St. Recording in New York. C.L. Smooth wrote and performed the tribute to Trouble T Roy, while Pete Rock produced the track and built its arrangement around Tom Scott's Today. Released by Untouchables and Elektra in 1992 as the lead single from Mecca and the Soul Brother, it reached number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on Billboard's Hot Rap Singles chart. The record became a defining early-1990s rap elegy and one of Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth's signature releases. It remains one of the most celebrated hip-hop singles of the 1990s and a landmark in sample-based memorial writing. Its Tom Scott saxophone loop, emotional narrative, and later reuse by artists including Lupe Fiasco have kept it central to hip-hop history.