Where I'm From (Jay-Z song)

"Where I'm From"
"Where I'm From"
Song by Jay-Z
from the album In My Lifetime, Vol. 1
Released	November 4, 1997
Studio	Daddy's House (New York);
Genre	Hip-hop music; East Coast hip-hop; Hardcore hip-hop;
Length	4:25
Label	Roc-A-Fella; Def Jam;
Songwriters	Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter; Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie; Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence; Norman Whitfield;
Producers	Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie; Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence;

"Where I'm From" is a song by American rapper Jay-Z from his second studio album, In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1997). Written by Jay-Z, Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie, and Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence, and produced by Angelettie and Lawrence, "Where I'm From" is a hardcore hip-hop track that serves as a vivid autobiographical portrait of Jay-Z's upbringing in the Marcy Projects of Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The song features extensive sampling from Yvonne Fair's 1975 song "Let Your Hair Down" and has itself been widely sampled by other artists.