 instrumental section, itself now historic in rap, was produced by Puffy and one of his staff record producers.Puffy had first used it for a brief, rap interlude on Uptown Records singer Mary J. Blige's R&B album "My Life", released in late November 1994.The shared basis is a looping sample, a portion of David Porter's song "The Masquerade is Over" on his 1971 album "Victim of the Joke".