Hit It from the Back

"Hit It from the Back"
Single by Mobb Deep
from the album Juvenile Hell
B-side	"Hold Down The Fort"
Released	March 9, 1993
Recorded	1992
Genre	Hip hop, dirty rap
Length	4:15
Label	4th & Broadway
Songwriter(s)	Kejuan Muchita Albert Johnson
Producer(s)	Mobb Deep
Mobb Deep singles chronology
"Peer Pressure" (1992) "Hit It from the Back" (1993) "Shook Ones, Part II" (1995)
Music video
"Hit It from the Back" on YouTube

"Hit It from the Back" is the second and final single from Mobb Deep's Juvenile Hell album. It was released under 4th & Broadway, from which the duo was dropped due to poor record sales, barely selling 20,000 at the time. The single reached number 18 on the Billboard Rap chart.

Track listing

12", 33 ⅓ RPM

Side A

1. "Hit It from the Back" [Clean version]

Side B

1. "Hit It from the Back" [LP version]
2. "Hit It from the Back" [Instrumental]

Cassette, Maxi-Single^[1]

Side One

1. "Hit It from the Back" [LP version]
2. "Hit It from the Back" [Instrumental]

Side Two

1. "Hold Down The Fort" [LP version]
2. Skit

References

• Hit It from the Back at AllMusic. Retrieved 22:35, 4 December 2020 (UTC).

1. Mobb Deep - Hit It From The Back, 1993, retrieved 2025-08-03