[1] In addition to Dre's verse, "Bitches Ain't Shit" also features Dat Nigga Daz, Kurupt and singer Jewell.
[3][4] "Bitches Ain't Shit" was originally a hidden track, but was added to the cover art from the 2001 reissue onwards.
[5] It was a last-minute replacement for "Deep Cover", which the label felt was too risky to release on The Chronic in the wake of the "Cop Killer" controversy.
"[12] The song opens with the lines: Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricksLick on these nuts and suck the dickGets the fuck out after you're done And I hops in my ride to make a quick run.These lyrics have become well-known in pop culture and hip-hop history as an example of misogyny.
[18] The song, and The Chronic in general, was released in the context of a moral panic about rap music in which the Parents Music Resource Center's "Parental Advisory" labels became prominent, a court case which deemed 2 Live Crew's As Nasty as They Wanna Be album obscene, the Rodney King riots, a backlash against gangster rap from Harlem preacher Reverend Calvin Butts[19] and a number of high-profile legal proceedings against rappers, including Tupac Shakur and Dre himself for his assault of Dee Barnes.
In Harlem, T-shirts reading "Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks" were sold on the street as a response to Butts' attacks.
"[22] Ice-T later compared it to the words "nigga" and "ho", arguing that the context was important and adding that he had often heard women say "All men are dogs".
[23] In September 1993, C. Delores Tucker, chair and 1984 founder of the National Political Congress of Black Women, a lobbying group in Washington, DC, was critical of "Bitches Ain't Shit" and demanded Congressional hearings into the genre of gangster rap.
In 2011, YG's mixtape Just Re Up'd featured a new version of "Bitches Ain't Shit" with Tyga and Nipsey Hussle that samples the original and reached #90 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Outside of these notable versions, "Bitches Ain't Shit" has been sampled many times over the years and has become a pop culture staple.
He originally wanted to cover Public Enemy's 1990 song "Can't Do Nuttin' for Ya, Man" but found it "too symmetrical for a good melody".
He then settled on "Bitches Ain't Shit", feeling it had similarities with a country song by Johnny Cash or a scene from a film by Quentin Tarantino.
When it came out, I remember bouncers - big black dudes with bald heads standing right in front of me while I’m playing - they'd hear the lyrics to Dr Dre and they’re like, yeah!
[34] In 2020, in the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd, Folds decided to also remove the song from streaming services: