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Listen to a Long-Lost Song Featuring Big Pun, Fat Joe, and Shaq

From the depths of rap history comes an unexpected gem.

Earlier today on his main site, frequent Noisey contributor Jeff Weiss mused, "Is it possible that the best song from 2014 is an unreleased Shaq song?" After listening to this unnamed song, rescued from the bowels of hip-hopstery (that's short for "hip-hop history," you unknowing baldheads) by the track's producer Domingo, the answer is, "Dude. Maybe." Big Pun is obviously one of the greatest to ever do it and hearing him stretch his ample haunches for a lyrical exercise is always a treat, and noted self-help seminar speaker Fat Joe was once one of the hardest roaming the ungentrified streets of New York. It's always kind of dope to hear a non-rapping hip-hop legend like Easy Mo Bee rap, and Shaq's contribution to the track is at least four times better than 19-year-old dripping in Supreme deadstock and Soundcloud links that might happen to hit Noisey's inbox on any given Tuesday. Which is to say: This is actually really fucking good. Probably not the best song of the year, but this is definitely the best song that's been released today, and it's fun to remember a time when Shaq was so popular that the world gifted him a rap career.

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