"No Equal" is the second single by East Coast

East Coast hip hop

East Coast hip hop is a regional subgenre of hip hop music that originated in New York City, USA during the 1970s. Hip hop is recognized to have originated and evolved first in the East Coast...

 hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 group The Beatnuts

The Beatnuts

The Beatnuts are a New York-based hip hop group and production duo from Queens, New York City. Its current members are JuJu and Psycho Les. JuJu is Dominican American from Corona and Psycho Les is a Colombian American from Jackson Heights...

. It was released by Relativity Records

Relativity Records

Relativity Records, often branded just Relativity, is an American record label founded by Barry Kobrin at the site of his company, Important Record Distribution in metro New York. Early on, as an indie label, Relativity released music in a variety of styles, including dance, jazz, punk, and...

 as a single before being placed on The Beatnuts' debut EP Intoxicated Demons: The EP

Intoxicated Demons: The EP

Intoxicated Demons: The EP is the debut album by the hip hop trio The Beatnuts. It was released on April 6, 1993 by Relativity Records. It is the first of two EP's released by the group. All of its songs are produced by The Beatnuts...

. The song is produced by The Beatnuts and features raps by Juju, Psycho Les and Fashion. It contains a spacy beat that features a prominent xylophone

Xylophone

The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets...

 and brass section

Brass instrument

A brass instrument is a musical instrument whose sound is produced by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips...

 sampled

Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a different sound recording of a song or piece. Sampling was originally developed by experimental musicians working with musique concrète and electroacoustic music, who physically...

 from "Ain't No Sunshine" by Willis Jackson, "The Confined Few" by Irvin Booker & Booker Little

Booker Little

Booker Little, Jr was an American jazz trumpeter and composer.-Biography:Despite his premature death from kidney failure at the age of 23, Little made an important contribution to jazz. Stylistically, his sound is rooted in the playing of Clifford Brown, featuring crisp articulation, a burnished...

 and "Ain't No Sunshine" by Harlem Underground Band. It additionally samples Q-Tip

Q-Tip (rapper)

Kamaal Ibn John Fareed , better known by his stage name Q-Tip, is an American hip hop artist, producer, singer, and actor from St. Albans, Queens, New York, part of the critically acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest...

's vocals from "Jazz (We've Got)" by A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest is an American hip hop group, formed in 1985, and is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip , rapper Phife Dawg , and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad. A fourth member, rapper Jarobi White, left the group after their first album but rejoined in 2006...

 and Rakim

Rakim

William Michael Griffin Jr. , known by his stage names Rakim , Rakim Allah, R.A.K.I.M., and The Master, is an American rapper. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential and most skilled emcees of all time. Eric B...

's vocals from "My Melody" by Eric B. & Rakim

Eric B. & Rakim

Eric B. & Rakim were a hip-hop duo composed of DJ Eric Barrier and MC Rakim .Hailing from Long Island, New York, the pair are generally considered by hip hop enthusiasts to be one of the most influential and innovative groups in the genre...

. The song's lyrics are explicit, braggadocios and humorous. DJ Fatboy of RapReviews.com explains that the song is carried by its "spanish(sic) tinged jazzy" beat, not its unjustifiably braggadocios lyrics.

Despite the release of a "No Equal" music video, the song failed to chart. It is nonetheless a popular song amongst Beatnuts fans. It can be found on two Beatnuts hits compilations, World Famous Classics

World Famous Classics

World Famous Classics: 1993-1998 is the first of three greatest hits albums by hip hop group The Beatnuts. It was released by Sony BMG in 1999 two weeks after the release of The Beatnuts' most commercially successful album, A Musical Massacre. It contains songs from The Beatnuts' first three...

and Beatnuts Forever

Beatnuts Forever

Beatnuts Forever is the second of three greatest hits albums by hip hop group The Beatnuts. It was released by Relativity Records in 2001 shortly after the release of Take It or Squeeze It. It contains songs from The Beatnuts' first four albums, as well as its two EP's. It most heavily borrows from...

, as well as the hip hop compilation Hip Hop Don't Stop (The Greatest). A remix can be found on The Spot

Remix EP: The Spot

Remix EP: The Spot is a 1998 EP by hip hop group The Beatnuts. It was released on February 10, 1998 by Relativity Records. As its full title suggests, The Spot is composed mainly of remixes: it also has three sequel songs and one new recording, "Treat$". The sequels features new vocals over the...

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A-Side

1. "No Equal (Clean Version)" (4:03)
2. "No Equal (LP Version)" (4:05)
3. "No Equal (Instrumental)" (4:11)

B-Side

1. "Psycho Dwarf (Clean Version)" (3:38)
2. "Psycho Dwarf (LP Version)" (3:40)
3. "Psycho Dwarf (Instrumental)" (3:46)