"All Eyez on Me" is a song by American singer Monica. It was written in collaboration with Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins and LaShawn Daniels for her original third studio album of the same name, while production was helmed by the former. The song incorporates excerpts of "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" (1983) by American singer Michael Jackson. Due to the inclusion of the sample, Quincy Jones and James Ingram are also credited as songwriters. A lighthearted party jam that is built on a danceable groove, "All Eyez on Me" talks about self-confidence. Picked as the album's leading single and Monica's first release on Clive Davis' then newly founded J Records label, "All Eyez on Me" was released to US radio on July 1, 2002. Its impact on the charts, however, was moderate in comparison with previous releases as it reached the top 20 in Belgium and the top 40 in Australia and New Zealand but failed to reach the upper half of the US Billboard Hot 100. The lukewarm response to the track and its follow-up "Too Hood" eventually resulted in the reconstruction of the same-titled album, which received a Japan-wide release only and was subsequently retooled into a new version, branded After the Storm (2003). Writing and recording "All Eyez on Me" was written by Monica along with songwriter LaShawn Daniels and producer Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins. Recorded at the latter's Patchwerk recording studios in Atlanta, Georgia, it is one out of nine songs the singer wrote or co-wrote for the album. She has described the track as a "party record" and "a feel-good song for the summer," stylistically comparing it with Michael Jackson's 1983 song "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" from his album Thriller (1982), which the song partially samples. Due to this, Quincy Jones and James Ingram are also credited as songwriters. "The same way that 'P.Y.T.' was, I was hoping 'All Eyez on Me' would be – more relaxing and you could have a good time," she later told MTV News. "It's not based on anything emotional or anything sad." Jackson hand-delivered the original masters of the song for the production. The song's title also is a nod to rapper Tupac Shakur, whose same titled song from 1996 served as "somewhat of an inspiration," Monica also remarked. "I always liked the idea of 'all eyes on me,' even from his perspective. Because sometimes that's what our life becomes. I thought