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Hate Me Now

{{short description|1999 song by Nas ft. Puff Daddy}}

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{{Infobox song

| name = Hate Me Now

| cover = Hate me now.jpg

| caption = US cover

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Nas featuring Puff Daddy

| album = I Am...

| B-side = *"If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)"

| released = {{Start date|1999|04|06}}

| recorded = 1998

| studio =

| genre = Hip hop

| length = {{Duration|m=4|s=44}}

| label = Columbia

| writer = *Jones

  • Gavin Marchand

| producer = *D-Moet

| chronology = Nas

| prev_title = Nas Is Like

| prev_year = 1999

| next_title = Did You Ever Think

| next_year = 1999

| misc = {{Extra chronology

| artist = Puff Daddy

| type = single

| prev_title = Come with Me

| prev_year = 1998

| title = Hate Me Now

| year = 1999

| next_title = P.E. 2000

| next_year = 1999

}}

{{External music video|{{YouTube|dKSJN3WWR3E|"Hate Me Now"}}}}

}}

"Hate Me Now" is the second and final single by rapper Nas featuring Puff Daddy, from Nas' third studio album I Am.... The backbeat is inspired by, and contains some samples from, Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana". It was ranked 119 on XXL's 250 Best Songs of the 1990s.{{cite book|last=XXL Magazine|title=XXL Special Edition "250 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs 1990-1999: Rap's Best Decade Ever|publisher=Harris|year=2011|asin=B0054LSF0W}}

Production and release

In a 2007 interview with Rolling Stone, Nas recalled the making of the song: "It was a track D-Moet produced for Foxy Brown, and she didn't want the record, she didn't like it. It fit with my album, I Am..., so I did the D-Moet track and it sounded perfect for Puff to be on, so I gave it to him, went to the studio, and he rocked it, knocked it out."{{cite magazine |last1=Serpick |first1=Evan |title=Nas' "Greatest Hits": A Track-By-Track Journey |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nas-greatest-hits-a-track-by-track-journey-85627/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=April 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117120330/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17216041/nas_greatest_hits_a_trackbytrack_journey_with_the_pride_of_queens/print |archive-date=November 17, 2007|url-status=live}}

"Hate Me Now" was released as a single in the U.S. by Columbia Records on April 6, 1999.{{cite web | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/hate-me-now-mw0000725540/releases | title=Hate Me Now - Nas | Releases | AllMusic | website=AllMusic | access-date=2020-05-01 | archive-date=2023-07-30 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230730060105/https://www.allmusic.com/album/hate-me-now-mw0000725540/releases | url-status=live }}

Composition

Biographer Ronin Ro describes Combs's persona in "Hate Me Now" as "the angry young rapper battling jealous critics," a theme that would influence Combs's 1999 album Forever.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zo4J8m93ulcC&q=%22hate+me+now%22|title=Bad Boy: The Influence of Sean "Puffy" Combs on the Music Industry|last=Ro|first=Ronin|page=153|place=New York|publisher=Pocket Books|year=2001|isbn=0-7434-2823-4|via=Google Books}} The beat samples "Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/14/arts/not-medieval-but-eternal-in-its-sixth-decade-carmina-burana-still-echoes.html|title=Not Medieval but Eternal; In Its Sixth Decade, 'Carmina Burana' Still Echoes|last=Powers|first=Ann|work=The New York Times|date=June 14, 1999|page=E1|access-date=April 30, 2020|archive-date=October 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021071514/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/14/arts/not-medieval-but-eternal-in-its-sixth-decade-carmina-burana-still-echoes.html|url-status=live}}

Critical reception

For RapReviews.com, Steve Juon said that "Hate Me Now" was the "only truly overpowering song" from I Am...: "It may be yet another mad track about playa hating, but the rebuttal of the hate is crisp and well defined - owing little to cliche."{{cite web |last1=Juon |first1=Steve |title=Nas: I Am... |url=https://www.rapreviews.com/archive/1999_04_iamnas.html |website=RapReviews.com |access-date=April 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010110202600/https://www.rapreviews.com/archive/1999_04_iamnas.html |archive-date=January 10, 2001 |date=April 1999 |url-status=live}} In 2013, Complex ranked the "Hate Me Now" video no. 8 in its "50 Best Rap Videos of the '90s" list.{{cite web |last1=Baker |first1=Ernest|display-authors=etal |title=The 50 Best Rap Videos of the '90s |url=https://www.complex.com/music/2013/02/the-50-best-rap-videos-of-the-90s/nas-puff-daddy-hate-me-now |website=Complex |access-date=April 30, 2020 |date=February 24, 2013}}

Charts

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=Weekly charts=

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
scope="col"|Chart (1999)

!scope="col"|Peak
position

scope="row"|Australia (ARIA){{cite Ryan|page=199}}

|55

{{singlechart|Austria|32|artist=Nas|song=Hate Me Now|rowheader=true|access-date=May 17, 2020}}
{{singlechart|Flanders Tip|4|artist=Nas|song=Hate Me Now|rowheader=true|access-date=May 17, 2020}}
{{singlechart|Germany|11|songid=3964|artist=Nas|song=Hate Me Now|rowheader=true|access-date=May 17, 2020}}
{{singlechart|Dutch40|17|year=1999|week=30|rowheader=true|access-date=May 17, 2020}}
{{singlechart|Dutch100|11|artist=Nas|song=Hate Me Now|rowheader=true|access-date=May 17, 2020}}
{{singlechart|Scotland|35|date=19990529|rowheader=true|access-date=May 29, 2022}}
{{singlechart|Sweden|55|artist=Nas|song=Hate Me Now|rowheader=true|access-date=May 17, 2020}}
{{singlechart|Switzerland|30|artist=Nas|song=Hate Me Now|rowheader=true|access-date=May 17, 2020}}
{{singlechart|UKrandb|3|date=19990529|rowheader=true|access-date=May 29, 2022}}
{{singlechart|UK|14|date=19990529|rowheader=true|access-date=May 17, 2020}}
{{singlechart|Billboardhot100|62|artist=Nas|rowheader=true|access-date=May 17, 2020}}
{{singlechart|Billboardrandbhiphop|18|artist=Nas|rowheader=true|access-date=May 17, 2020}}
{{singlechart|Billboardrapsongs|8|artist=Nas|rowheader=true|access-date=May 17, 2020}}

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=Year-end charts=

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
scope="col"|Chart (1999)

!scope="col"|Position

scope="row"|Germany (Official German Charts){{cite web |url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/single-jahr/for-date-1999 |title=Top 100 Single-Jahrescharts |language=de |publisher=GfK Entertainment |access-date=April 21, 2018 |archive-date=July 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150719040412/https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/single-jahr/for-date-1999 |url-status=live }}

|99

scope="row"|Netherlands (Dutch Top 40){{cite web|url=http://www.top40web.nl/jaarlijsten/jr1999.html|title=Jaarlijsten 1999|language=nl|publisher=Dutch Top 40|access-date=May 12, 2022|archive-date=May 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527110147/http://www.top40web.nl/jaarlijsten/jr1999.html|url-status=live}}

|114

scope="row"|Netherlands (Single Top 100){{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/jaaroverzichten.asp?year=1999&cat=s|title=Jaaroverzichten – Single 1999|website=dutchcharts.nl|access-date=May 17, 2020|archive-date=July 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701014603/https://dutchcharts.nl/jaaroverzichten.asp?year=1999&cat=s|url-status=live}}

|93

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Music video and Sean Combs assault incident

The music video for the single, directed by Hype Williams and featuring Nas being crucified, was the subject of extreme controversy, as the original edit also featured Sean Combs, then known as Puff Daddy, on the cross.{{cite news |url=http://www.xxlmag.com/news/hip-hop-today/2014/04/nas-controversial-hate-now-video-trl/ |title=Today In Hip-Hop: Nas Premiered Controversial "Hate Me Now" Video On TRL |date=15 April 2014 |access-date=12 August 2014 |publisher=XXL |archive-date=11 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811170054/http://www.xxlmag.com/news/hip-hop-today/2014/04/nas-controversial-hate-now-video-trl/ |url-status=live }} Puffy, who was a Catholic, had demanded that his crucifixion scene be excluded from the broadcast edit of the video. However, the wrong edit was incorrectly sent to MTV, which aired that version on the April 15, 1999, edition of TRL.{{cite news |last=Kangas |first=Chaz |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2013/01/10/how-have-we-not-seen-diddy-crucified-in-hate-me-now/ |title=How Have We Not Seen Diddy Crucified in "Hate Me Now?" |date=January 10, 2013 |access-date=April 30, 2020|work=The Village Voice|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115024226/http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2013/01/diddy_crucifixion.php|archive-date=January 15, 2013|url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=Sean "Puffy" Combs Possibly Being Investigated Over Alleged Label Exec Beating |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1427346/sean-puffy-combs-possibly-being-investigated-over-alleged-label-exec-beating/ |publisher=MTV News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010810053106/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1427346/19990416/puff_daddy.jhtml |archive-date=August 10, 2001 |date=April 16, 1999 |url-status=dead}} Within minutes of the broadcast, Combs had barged into the offices of Nas' former manager, Steve Stoute, with several bodyguards, and struck Stoute over the head with a champagne bottle.{{cite web |last1=O'Connor |first1=Christopher |title=Puff Daddy Pleads Guilty To Reduced Charge In 'Hate Me Now' Case |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/517237/puff-daddy-pleads-guilty-to-reduced-charge-in-hate-me-now-case/ |publisher=Sonicnet |date=September 8, 1999 |access-date=April 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000115103917/http://www.sonicnet.com/news/archive/story.jhtml;$sessionid$F33N2EAAAGNZ1UID1AKCFEQ?id=517237 |archive-date=January 15, 2000 |url-status=dead }} In June 1999, Stoute sued Combs, resulting in a $500,000 out-of-court settlement from Combs.{{cite web |last1=Frankel |first1=Daniel |title=Puffy Settles with Battered Record Exec |url=https://www.eonline.com/news/38324/puffy-settles-with-battered-record-exec |publisher=E! Online |access-date=April 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991103165944/http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,4923,00.html |archive-date=November 3, 1999 |date=June 17, 1999 |url-status=dead}}

Combs released a statement afterwards where he said: “I’m glad to get this whole incident behind me. And it’s now time for me to do what I do best – concentrate on my album and give back to my fans.”{{Cite web |last=Italiano |first=Laura |date=1999-09-09 |title=PUFFY BEATS ASSAULT RAP IN BOTTLE-BASH INCIDENT |url=https://nypost.com/1999/09/09/puffy-beats-assault-rap-in-bottle-bash-incident/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-09-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240923191804/https://nypost.com/1999/09/09/puffy-beats-assault-rap-in-bottle-bash-incident/ |url-status=live }}

Use in media

  • The song was used as the entrance song for Nate Diaz at finale of the 5th season of The Ultimate Fighter{{cite web|title=Ultimate Finale V|date=2007-06-23|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1260467/?ref_=ttep_ep13|type=Action, Reality-TV, Sport|others=Allen Berube, Herb Dean, Nate Diaz, Robert Emerson|website=IMDb|access-date=2020-09-24|archive-date=2023-07-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230730060106/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1260467/?ref_=ttep_ep13|url-status=live}}
  • The song was used as the entrance song for former UFC Heavyweight Champion Frank Mir at UFC 81 and UFC 92.
  • The song was used as the entrance song for Marcus Aurelio at UFC 102.{{cite web|title=UFC 102: Couture vs. Nogueira|date=2009-08-29|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1512886/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0|type=Sport|others=Randy Couture, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Bruce Buffer, Herb Dean|website=IMDb |access-date=2020-09-24}}
  • The song is the entrance music for Colorado Rockies pitcher Huston Street.
  • Dave East, who has multiple collaborations with Nas, titled his 2015 mixtape 'Hate Me Now'. Nas is featured on the track "Forbes List".{{Cite web|date=November 12, 2015|title=Dave East on 'Hate Me Now' Mixtape + First Meeting Nas|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyBTGzcNQI8 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/oyBTGzcNQI8 |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|access-date=September 23, 2020|website=Youtube}}{{cbignore}}
  • Hate Me Now is also sampled by the mashup artist Girl Talk on his track "Hold Up" from his 2006 album Night Ripper.{{Cite web|title=Girl Talk's 'Hold Up' - Discover the Sample Source|url=https://www.whosampled.com/sample/16167/Girl-Talk-Hold-Up-Nas-Puff-Daddy-Hate-Me-Now/|access-date=2020-09-22|website=WhoSampled|language=en|archive-date=2023-07-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230730060106/https://www.whosampled.com/sample/16167/Girl-Talk-Hold-Up-Nas-Puff-Daddy-Hate-Me-Now/|url-status=live}}
  • This song is also a playable track in the rap karaoke video game "Def Jam Rapstar".
  • Song was used as the opening intro music alongside an orchestra for the 2009-2010 Toronto Raptors home opener.
  • Eminem freestyled to the song when on the Tim Westwood Show.
  • The song was used during a promo package for professional wrestler The Miz at WrestleMania XXVII.{{cite news |last=Ali |first=Reyan |url=https://www.wired.com/2014/04/pro-wrestling-video-king/ |title=The Real King of Pro Wrestling? The Ordinary Video Editor |date=4 April 2014 |access-date=12 August 2014 |publisher=Wired |archive-date=5 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140805135645/http://www.wired.com/2014/04/pro-wrestling-video-king/ |url-status=live }}
  • Ace Hood freestyled to the song on Hot 97's Funkmaster Flex Freestyle Pt. 2.{{Cite web|date=February 6, 2013|title=Ace Hood Freestyles on Funk Flex Pt. 2|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me0M_5gMj3Y |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/me0M_5gMj3Y |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|access-date=September 21, 2020|website=Youtube|publisher=HOT97}}{{cbignore}}
  • The song was used in Skam Season 3 Episode 6 "Escobar Season".{{cite web|last=Andem|first=Julie|title=Escobar Season|date=2016-11-18|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6123972/?ref_=ttep_ep6|type=Drama, Romance|others=Tarjei Sandvik Moe, Henrik Holm, Marlon Valdés Langeland, Ruby Dagnall|website=IMDb |access-date=2020-09-24}}
  • The song was used in the soundtrack for football video game Madden NFL 10
  • The song was used in the soundtrack for basketball video game NBA 2K14{{cite web|url=https://www.polygon.com/2013/7/26/4560812/nba-2k14-soundtrack-lebron-james|title=NBA 2K14 soundtrack curated by cover athlete LeBron James|work=Polygon|last=Sarkar|first=Samit|date=July 26, 2013|access-date=May 27, 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730223754/https://www.polygon.com/2013/7/26/4560812/nba-2k14-soundtrack-lebron-james|archive-date=July 30, 2013}}
  • The song was used in a musical production in Episode 9 of Dear White People (TV series){{cite web |last1=Bell |first1=BreAnna |title='Dear White People' Final Season Musical Moments, Ranked |url=https://variety.com/lists/dear-white-people-final-season-music-ranked/round-and-round/ |website=Variety |date=22 September 2021 |access-date=October 5, 2021 |archive-date=5 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211005175601/https://variety.com/lists/dear-white-people-final-season-music-ranked/round-and-round/ |url-status=live }}
  • A remix of the song is featured in the first official trailer for the 2023 film Gran Turismo, based on the racing simulation video game series of the same name.{{YouTube|9bZkp7q19f0|title=GRAN TURISMO - Official Trailer (HD)}}{{cite web|title='Orlando Bloom and David Harbour Train a Video Game Expert for Real-Life Racing in 'Gran Turismo' Trailer|url=https://news.yahoo.com/orlando-bloom-david-harbour-train-143700742.html|website=Yahoo News|date=2 May 2023|access-date=23 May 2023|last1=McArdle|first1=Tommy|archive-date=23 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523224718/https://news.yahoo.com/orlando-bloom-david-harbour-train-143700742.html|url-status=live}}

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • {{YouTube|dKSJN3WWR3E|Music video for "Hate Me Now"}}

{{Nas singles}}

{{Sean Combs}}

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