Black Hand Side is a song by the American hip-hop artist, Queen Latifah, released as a single in 1994, from her album, Black Reign.
[1] The song was written by Queen Latifah and Sidney "S.I.D."
The music video was directed by the critically acclaimed F. Gary Gray, who also directed the music videos for Ice Cube's "It Was a Good Day" and TLC's "Waterfalls".
In the LP version of the song, Latifah says "Black Reign 1993, I'd like to welcome you to this album."
Black Hand Side was released as a single in 1994 so the lyric was changed to "Black Reign 1994, I'd like to welcome you to this album."