In the opener for Gang Starr’s fourth album, Guru discusses etiquette for aspiring rappers who approach him for help getting in the rap game. DJ Premier spoke about the inspiration for this intro in 2019 during a 25th anniversary retrospective for Hard To Earn:

We were both just goin’ through that. Like anywhere we’d go, people would always [push themselves].

With all of that, it just became so monotonous with people ringin’ our bell, unannounced, doin’, ‘Yo, my man raps, can you listen to him real quick?’ It’s like, aight. It’d be horrible, then another guy would ring the bell. They’d want you to hear it right now.

But we were all tired of that sh*t. It comes with what we were doing. But when we’d see artists [in our early days], we’d just be like, ‘Yo man, love your shit’—wanted to say more, but I felt like I’d be sweatin’ ’em and dick-riding. So I’d always be like, ‘I’m comin’ out one day; you gonna see me.’ I’d keep it that simple. Whether they believed me or not, that’s it. I didn’t want them to be like, ‘This guy’s annoying.’

The beat samples Weather Report’s 1974 track “Scarlet Woman” between the 59 second mark and the 1:03 mark: