Thief's Theme

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"Thief's Theme"
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Single by Nas
from the album Street's Disciple
ReleasedJune 29, 2004
Genre Hip hop
Length2:59
Label
Songwriter(s) Nasir Jones
Producer(s) Salaam Remi
Nas singles chronology
"Get Down"
(2003)
"Thief's Theme"
(2004)
"Bridging the Gap"
(2004)

"Thief's Theme" is a single from Nas' double album Street's Disciple , released through Columbia Records, Sony Urban Music, and Nas' Ill Will Records. The single contains vocals from Nas' song "The World Is Yours" from his first album Illmatic :

Contents

The song featured an interpolation of the famous riff from Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" performed by Incredible Bongo Band. Nas would again use the same sample on the 2006 single "Hip Hop is Dead".

Nas sponsored a contest in the United Kingdom in 2004, encouraging entrants to record a verse using the instrumental version of the song. The winner would perform a verse on the song, which appears on the UK version of Street's Disciple. Rising Son won the competition.

The song was featured in Martin Scorsese's Academy Award-winning film The Departed but was not featured on the soundtrack.

Track listing

A-side

  1. "Thief's Theme" (Clean Album Version) (3:00)
  2. "Thief's Theme" (Explicit Album Version) (3:10)
  3. "Thief's Theme" (Instrumental) (2:59)

B-side

  1. "You Know My Style" (Clean Album Version) (2:54)
  2. "You Know My Style" (Explicit Album Version) (2:54)
  3. "You Know My Style" (Instrumental) (2:49)

Charts

Chart (2004)Peak
position
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 ( Billboard ) [1] 19[ failed verification ]
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 60

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