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1992 single by Sir Mix-A-Lot

"Baby Got Back"
BabyGotBack.jpg
Single by Sir Mix-a-Lot
from the anthology Mack Daddy
B-side "Block Boy"/"Yous Tin can't Slip"
Released May 7, 1992 (1992-05-07)
Recorded 1991
Genre
  • Hip hop
  • dirty rap
  • Miami bass
Length 4:21
Label
  • Def American
  • Reprise
Songwriter(s) Sir Mix-a-Lot
Producer(s)
  • Rick Rubin
  • Sir Mix-a-Lot
Sir Mix-a-Lot singles chronology
"1 Time's Got No Case"
(1991) 		"Baby Got Back"
(1992) 		"Swap Encounter Louie"
(1992)
Music video
"Baby Got Back" on YouTube
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"Baby Got Back" is a 1992 hip hop vocal written and recorded by American rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot, which appeared on his third album, Mack Daddy. The song samples the 1986 Detroit techno single "Technicolor" by Channel One.

At the time of its original release, the vocal acquired controversy with its outspoken and blatantly sexual lyrics about women, also every bit specific references to the female buttocks which some people found objectionable. The song'due south music video was briefly banned by MTV.[1]

It was the second best-selling song in the United states of america in 1992, behind Boyz II Men's "End of the Route". In 2008, it was ranked number 17 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.[2]

The song debuted at number 75 on the Billboard Hot 100 nautical chart dated Apr 11, 1992 and hit number 1 twelve weeks later. The single spent 5 weeks at the top of the nautical chart.

Synopsis [edit]

The commencement verse begins with "I like large butts and I cannot prevarication" and most of the vocal is about the rapper's attraction to women with large buttocks. The second and third poesy claiming mainstream norms of beauty: "I ain't talkin' 'bout Playboy. Cause silicone parts are fabricated for toys." and "Then Cosmo says y'all're fatty. Well I ain't down with that!"

The song came from a meeting betwixt Sir Mix-a-Lot and Amylia Dorsey, who saw little representation of full-figured women in media. The idea came from a 1980s-era Budweiser commercial[3] featuring very thin, Valley girl-esque models with different skin colors. They decided to dedicate a song to the opposite extreme, featuring curvy women of colour. Mix and Dorsey sought to "broaden the definition of beauty."[4]

Sir Mix-a-Lot commented in a 1992 interview: "The vocal doesn't just say I like big butts, you know? The song is talking about women who damn well-nigh kill themselves to try to look like these beanpole models that y'all see in Vogue magazine." He explains that most women respond positively to the song'south message, peculiarly black women: "They all say, 'About time.'"[5]

In the vocal's prelude at that place is a conversation between ii (presumably) sparse, white Valley girls, similar to girl talk in Frank Zappa's "Valley Girl". One daughter (dubbed Linda past Amylia Dorsey)[6] remarks to her friend, "Oh, my, God Becky, look at her butt! It is so big... She's merely so black!", at which point Sir Mix-a-Lot begins rapping.

The dialogue of actress Papillon Soo Soo saying "Me so horny" is sampled from the 1987 picture Full Metal Jacket to complete Sir Mix-a-Lot'due south lyric, "That butt y'all got makes..."

In 2014, according to TMZ, Sir Mix-a-Lot says it was Jennifer Lopez's moves as a Wing Girl on the 90s show In Living Color that first inspired him to write "Baby Got Dorsum".[7]

Critical reception [edit]

Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "First offer from rapper'southward major-label debut, Mack Daddy, cheekily rhapsodizes about the joys of women with prominent backsides. Beautiful rhymes and slammin' beats add together up to a potential nail at several formats."[eight] In 2020, Cleveland.com ranked "Baby Got Back" number 24 in their list of the best Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 vocal of the 1990s. They described information technology as "the novelty song that never went away", adding, "You could put this on at a hymeneals today and women volition recite the opening give-and-take for word before the rap breaks in and everyone (and I mean anybody) joins in. Sir Mix-a-Lot was never shy about playing up the songs "playful" nature, rapping on height of a giant barrel in the video."[ix] James Bernard from Entertainment Weekly noted that the vocal "alternates deftly between a critique of the Cosmo/Playboy narrow-minded — and narrow-hipped — standard of female beauty and a bawdy appreciation of, er, generous rear ends."[x]

Track listing [edit]

No. Championship Length
1. "Infant Got Back" (anthology version) iv:21
two. "Cake Boy" four:12
iii. "You Can't Slip" v:05
4. "Baby Got Back" (Tekno-Metal Edit) 4:20
5. "Baby Got Dorsum" (Hard B.W.B. Hip Hop Mix) 4:35
6. "Baby Got Back" (Hurricane Mix) 5:04

Nautical chart functioning and awards [edit]

Sir Mix-a-Lot's best known song, "Baby Got Dorsum" reached number 1 on the U.s. Billboard Hot 100 chart for five weeks in the summer of 1992, and won a 1993 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Functioning. In the years following the song'south release on the album Mack Daddy, it has continued to appear in many movies, television shows, and commercials, as detailed below. It was number 6 on VH1's Greatest Songs of the '90s, and number i on VH1's Greatest I Hit Wonders of the '90s.

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

In popular culture [edit]

In the third-flavour episode "Chirlaxx" of the terminate-motion animated sketch comedy series Robot Chicken, Sir Mix-a-Lot guest starred equally himself in a sketch titled "Table Be Round", which sees him performing the titular vocal - a parody of "Baby Got Dorsum" - for King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, as response to their difficulty of advice with i another when seated at their elongated table, also replacing it with the Round Tabular array.

In the one-act motion-picture show American Pie Presents: Ring Camp, this song is function of its soundtrack.

In the 1993 Joel Schumacher film Falling Down, a behemothic inflatable barrel promoting the unmarried is visible in a scene where D-Fens (Michael Douglas) destroys a pay telephone booth with a submachine gun.

In the 1999 Futurama episode A Fishful of Dollars, Fry plays the song on an 'antiquarian' stereo until Leela shuts it off, referring to information technology every bit 'classical music'.

The song briefly plays in the 2004 animated pic Shark Tale when Don Lino'due south octopus banana Luca adjusts the needle on the phonograph, leading to the aforementioned song being played.

The song plays during the credit sequence of the 2009 video game Fatty Princess while the player is attacking the staff with a scythe.

In 2020, former governor of Alaska and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin performed the song on Pull a fast one on[32]'s The Masked Vocalizer while dressed as a bear.[33]

Jonathan Coulton cover/Glee encompass [edit]

Jonathan Coulton released a encompass of "Baby Got Dorsum" during his Matter a Week project in October 2005, with the song being released as function of the first Thing A Week compilation anthology the next year.[34]

In belatedly January 2013, a preview of the television prove Glee included a comprehend of "Baby Got Back" that would be role of an upcoming episode. Coulton and others noted that the backing music was at least extremely like to his recorded version—and maybe used his original musical limerick or even the audio track. Coulton reported that the Flim-flam Broadcasting Network had not asked him virtually using the recording, nor responded to his inquiries before the episode aired.[35] The episode, "Sadie Hawkins", aired unchanged on January 24, 2013; further analysis of the aired version showed the Glee embrace appeared to use Coulton's original musical arrangement; it included Coulton's original melody and a changed line in Coulton's version ("Johnny C's in problem" instead of the original "Mix-a-Lot's in trouble").[36] Play tricks officials later contacted agents for Coulton, claiming, in his words, "they're within their legal rights to do this, and that [Coulton] should be happy for the exposure", even though Coulton is not credited within the episode.[36] Coulton has been exploring legal options; while musical covers do non take copyright legal protection in the United States, Coulton may have legal rights if the Glee version is found to have used his sound track or original limerick straight.[37] Coulton has since released his cover of "Baby Got Back" to iTunes, what he calls "a comprehend of Glee's cover of my cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot'southward song", with gain going to charity.[38] Coulton's experience led other artists who believe that Glee used their embrace arrangements equally backing within the show to step frontward with like claims.[39]

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In a 2000 interview, Sir Mix-a-Lot reflected, "There's ever butt songs. Hell, I got the idea sitting upwards here listening to one-time Parliament records: Motor Booty Affair. Black men like butts. That's the bottom line."[40] The song is role of a tradition of 1970s–90s African-American music celebrating the female person posterior, including "Da Butt", "Rump Shaker", and "Shake Your Groove Thing".[41]

In 2014, Trinidadian-American rapper Nicki Minaj sampled the ground and some verses of "Baby Got Back" for her hit "Anaconda", from the album The Pinkprint.[42] The song has been viewed by some as a diss rail, in answer to "Baby Got Dorsum". Whereas Sir Mix-a-Lot focuses on a adult female's trunk and the pleasance it gives him, Minaj raps from the perspective of the unnamed woman, and shows how she uses her callipygian physique to turn a profit and empower herself.[43]

See also [edit]

  • 1992 in music
  • Hot 100 number-one hits of 1992 (Usa)
  • Cultural history of the buttocks

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  43. ^ Nigel, Lezama (March 2019). "Status, Votive Luxury, and Labour: The Female person Rapper'south Delight". Fashion Studies. 2 (one): 1–23. Retrieved 18 August 2020.

Further reading [edit]

  • Kemp, Rob (2013-12-19). "'And I Cannot Prevarication': The Oral History of Sir Mix-a-Lot's 'Infant Got Back' Video". Vulture. New York Media.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Got_Back

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