Songfacts®:

• This one is basically the "same song" as Digital Underground's big hit, "The Humpty Dance."
  
  Dan Aykroyd saw the group perform in Los Angeles and approached them about appearing in his movie Nothing But Trouble and doing a song for the film. When the group asked what kind of song he was looking for, Aykroyd said that he wanted something like "The Humpty Dance" - the "same song." When he said that, they went with it as the title and set to work on the song, essentially re-writing "Humpty."
  
  Digital Underground recorded the song and shot their parts for the film between tour stops (they were one of the opening acts for Public Enemy).
  
  Nothing But Trouble, starring Aykroyd, Chevy Chase and Demi Moore, was released in 1991. The band are seen in the film performing this song with Aykroyd's character joining in (the song also plays in the closing credits).
• Digital Underground released this party song in 1991 after touring for their first album, which took off thanks to the hit single "The Humpty Dance." Their label, Tommy Boy, was pushing for a new album right away to keep the momentum, but the group couldn't put a whole album together very quickly. The compromise was a 4-song EP, Same Song, released to radio stations as a promotional single. It slaked the thirst for Digital Underground material until they released their second album, Sons of the P, later in the year.
• Four voices take verses on this track, although two of them are the same person. Digital Underground leader Shock G also portrays Humpty Hump, and on this song they appear back-to-back. The group's rapper Money B also does a verse, and then it closes out with the new guy: Tupac Shakur.
  
  Tupac was a roadie with Digital Underground on their 1990 tour when they opened for Public Enemy (yes, Pac carried crates for Humpty Hump). At after-parties, Pac would show off his rap skills, so the group had him take a verse on "Same Song," which marked his first appearance on a major-label release.
• The video features footage from the movie, and also cameos by NWA members Dr. Dre and Eazy-E.
• The drums on this track are built from a sample of one of the most-lifted riffs in rock: "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith (a song so compatible with hip-hop that Run-D.MC. recorded it).
  
  Parts of Parliament's "Theme From the Black Hole" are also sampled on the track, including a processed vocal from their singer Robert "P-nut" Johnson.
• Around the same time they were working on this song, members of Digital Underground were helping Tupac put together his first album, 2Pacalypse Now. When "Same Song" was released, it got the attention of Interscope Records, which signed Tupac and released the album.
• His appearance performing this song in Nothing But Trouble marked the first time Tupac Shakur appeared in a film; the following year he had a more substantial role in Juice.
• This isn't the first time a group has acknowledged similarity to an earlier hit in the song title itself: In 1965 The Four Tops released "It's the Same Old Song," which was essentially a copy of their hit "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)."