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Bitches Ain't Shit

"Bitches Ain't Shit" is the final song of Dr. Dre's 1992 album The Chronic. Though never a single, it was an underground hit that contributed significantly to the album's sales. In addition to Dre's verse, "Bitches Ain't Shit" also features Dat Nigga Daz, Kurupt and singer Jewell. It proved controversial due to its prevalent themes of misogyny.

"Bitches Ain't Shit" was originally a hidden track, but was added to the cover art from the 2001 reissue onwards. 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.

The song is written in the G-funk style which Dre pioneered, including a bass riff interpolated from Funkadelic's "Adolescent Funk" and a whistle synthesiser riff in the "Funky Worm" style, plus samples from MC Shan's "The Bridge" and Trouble Funk's "Let's Get Small".

Bassist Colin Wolfe later recalled: "One day, I was alone in the control room and Dre and Daz were up in the back room, trying to mess around on the keyboard for the 'Bitches Ain't Shit' bass line. So I stepped in the doorway and I could hear what they were trying to do. I said, 'Man, look out, y'all trying to do this.' I straight did it, recorded it, and then I was like, 'Yo, I got another part,' and did the high Moog part right after that."

The song opens with the lines:

Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks
Lick on these nuts and suck the dick
Gets 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.

Dre's verse was ghostwritten by the D.O.C., a rapper whom Dre discovered in Dallas and who helped him form Death Row Records. It never directly comments on women, but is actually instead intended as a diss towards Eazy-E who is referred to as a "bitch" and by his legal name Eric Wright. The "white bitch" refers to manager Jerry Heller.

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