Nas’ “Got Ur Self A Gun” Becomes Soundtrack For John Wick 4
The 2001 classic “Got Ur Self A Gun” by Nas has earned another Hollywood connection, serving as the backdrop to the trailer for the latest film in the the John Wick franchise.
The preview for JW4, which arrived on Thursday (February 16), opens with a DJ dedicating the song to Wick while introducing it as a “hit” — a play on his career as a hired assassin. The sampled portion of the chorus — which incorporates the song’s title — comes as an acapella in the first instance. As Nas joins in, viewers are treated to an alternate beat rather than the keyboard-driven original production from Megahertz.
Throughout the trailer, Keanu Reeves fights his way through Paris and other international settings as the titular character, while Nas’ lyrics and ad-libs, as well as the “got yourself a gun” part of the chorus, are interspersed into the action over a percussion-driven track mimicking the sound of gunshots.
The portions of the song used in the trailer seem quite deliberately selected to match the plot of the film, with Nas heard rapping: “Many try, many die, come at Nas if you want a war, get it bloody, uh.”