Still Fly

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"Still Fly"
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Single by Big Tymers
from the album Hood Rich and Music From and Inspired by the Motion Picture xXx: A New Breed of Special Agent
ReleasedMarch 4, 2002
Recorded2001–2002
Studio Circle House Studios (Miami, FL)
Genre Hip hop
Length5:35(album version)
4:44 (radio version)
Label
Songwriter(s) Alvin Nelson • Lac
Producer(s) Mannie Fresh
Big Tymers singles chronology
"Number One Stunna"
(2000)
"Still Fly"
(2002)

"Still Fly" is a single by American hip hop duo Big Tymers, released as the lead single from their 2002 album Hood Rich . It reached number 3 on the Hot Rap Tracks chart, number 4 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it their highest-charting and most successful song ever, and was also ranked #50 on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2002 chart. The song's chorus interpolates "The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle", the theme song from the sitcom Gilligan's Island . [1] [2]

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In 2003, the song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards, but lost to Outkast's "The Whole World".

The song was covered by metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada in 2008 for the compilation album Punk Goes Crunk , and was also sampled by Canadian rapper Drake, who later would sign to Cash Money Records under Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment imprint. Additionally, the song was heavily sampled in the single "Fast Lane" by Don Toliver, Lil Durk,and Latto, [3] which appears on the soundtrack to the 2021 film F9 and in the film's ending credits.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2002)Peak
position
US Billboard Hot 100 [4] 11
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ( Billboard ) [5] 4
US Hot Rap Songs ( Billboard ) [6] 3
US Rhythmic ( Billboard ) [7] 4

Year-end charts

Chart (2002)Position
US Billboard Hot 100 [8] 50
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard) [9] 21

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United StatesMarch 4, 2002 Rhythmic contemporary radio Cash Money, Universal [10]

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