Criminology (song)

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"Criminology"
Single by Raekwon feat. Ghostface Killah
from the album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
B-side	"Glaciers of Ice"
Released	June 27, 1995
Recorded	1994 (Criminology) 1995 (Glaciers of Ice)
Genre	East Coast hip hop, Mafioso rap
Length	3:47
Label	Loud
Songwriter(s)	C. Woods R. Diggs D. Coles
Producer(s)	RZA
Raekwon singles chronology
"Heaven & Hell" (1994) "Criminology" (1995) "Ice Cream" (1995)
Ghostface Killah singles chronology
"Heaven & Hell" (1994) "Criminology" (1995) "Ice Cream" (1995)

"Criminology" is the second solo single by Wu-Tang Clan rapper Raekwon, from his debut album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx..., featuring Ghostface Killah (who appears on twelve tracks of the album). The song starts with dialogue from the film Scarface, where Alex Sosa is angry with Tony Montana and insults him during a phone call, calling him a "fucking little monkey", because he failed to blow up the activist's car, then the first verse is performed by Ghostface Killah, and the second by Raekwon, without a chorus. The B-side of the single is "Glaciers of Ice". The song peaked at #43 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Ghostface Killah wrote his verse in San Francisco, and requested that RZA make a beat for the song.

The song was sampled later by DJ Premier for Mos Def's song "Mathematics".