"Breaker 1/9"
Single by Common Sense
from the album Can I Borrow a Dollar?
Released	January 12, 1993
Recorded	1992
Genre	Hip hop
Length	4:01
Label	Relativity Records
Songwriter(s)	Lonnie Lynn, Dion Wilson, Anthony Craig
Producer(s)	Immenslope, The Twilite Tone
Common singles chronology
" Take It EZ" (1992) "Breaker 1/9" (1993) " Soul by the Pound" (1993)

"Breaker 1/9" is a song by Common, released in 1993 as the second single from his debut album Can I Borrow a Dollar?. Produced by Immenslope and The Twilite Tone, it samples both " Between the Sheets" by The Isley Brothers and also contains a lyric from the theme to Three’s Company. Its beat also contains "booming" drums sampled from " Get Out of My Life, Woman" by Lee Dorsey and made for the " jeep beat collective." ^[1] Its lyrics recount romantic adventures humorously. It holds the worst chart position of any single from that album, yet still reached #10 on the Hot Rap Singles chart.

"Breaker 1/9" is originally a Citizens' Band radio slang term telling other CB users that you'd like to start a transmission on channel 19, and is the phrase that starts C. W. McCall's 1975 novelty hit " Convoy".

Track listing

A-side

1. "Breaker 1/9 (LP Radio Edit)" (4:02)
2. "Breaker 1/9 (Slope Remix)" (4:18)
3. "Breaker 1/9 (LP Instrumental)" (4:02)

B-side

1. "Breaker 1/9 (Beat Nuts Remix)" (4:32)
2. "Breaker 1/9 (Beat Nuts Instrumental)" (4:32)
3. "Breaker 1/9 (Slope Instrumental)" (4:18)

See also

• List of Common songs

References

Chart positions