Jazz (We've Got) by A Tribe Called Quest

Album: The Low End Theory (1991)

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A Tribe Called Quest really did have the jazz. They were the first major hip-hop act to incorporate samples from that genre into their songs.

On "Jazz (We've Got)," the main sample is from a 1972 jazz tune called "Green Dolphin Street" by Jimmy McGriff. There are also some drums from "Don't Change Your Love" by the Five Stairsteps (1968).
The song is part of the second A Tribe Called Quest album, The Low End Theory, released in 1991. By this time the group was comprised of rappers Q-Tip and Phife Dawg, along with their DJ, Ali Shaheed Muhammad (another rapper, Jarobi White, left after their first album).

It's Q-Tip who delivers the line, "The aim is to succeed and achieve at 21."

This is true-to-life: All three members were 21 when the album was released, and it did indeed succeed and achieve, going down as one of the great albums in hip-hop history.
In the music video, the song is paired with "Buggin' Out," another song on The Low End Theory that was the B-side of "Jazz (We've Got)." When it transitions to "Buggin' Out," the video goes from black-and-white to color, like in The Wizard Of Oz.
In an interview with Moovmnt Records, Q-Tip has acknowledged that the original beat for "Jazz (We've Got)" came from Pete Rock.

"We was at his crib in Mount Vernon and we were all just chilling," he said. "He was rockin' it and I was just like 'Are we gonna do it?!' and he was like 'I don't know... I don't know'. So I asked him again 'Yo what's up with that beat that s--t is hot... yo what's those records I wanna hook that beat up!'"

Q-Tip ended up recreating a similar beat, and gave Pete Rock credit at the end of the track by rapping "Pete Rock for the beat ya don't stop!"
When A Tribe Called Quest were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2024, Dave Chappelle gave their speech and explained The Low End Theory album title: "This album's title had one of the illest double entendres ever. The 'low end' refers to the bass and the drums, and it also refers to a Black man's status in America."