Versatile producer and long-time Nas collaborator Salaam Remi shares his thoughts on will.i.am using the very same Apache sample for the title track of Hip Hip Is Dead that Remi had used to create Thiefs Theme for Nas merely two years earlier. Thief’s Theme was so hard when it dropped. Shit made me want to aimlessly walk the streets with my hoodie on at 3 am. It’s a shame it never got the props it deserved.