Sir Mix-a-lot: Classic or Dud?

That's my boy K-Curl on the left (notice the tufts of hair behind the neck, hence K-Curl!), with Mix's personal trainer ("...takin' weight gainer" -- you know!) Critical Mass, on the right. The photo was taken just before Mix's hometown performance during the Put 'em on the Glass Tour. Critical Mass, where you at???

(and 'baby got back' is a gimmick track that lives up to repeated playings, which is classic.)

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-- Sterling Clover (s_clove...), July 10th, 2003.

Yay!

I also heard a rumor that one mix-a-lot song was based on a sample of a cybotron/model 500 track that mike grant? accidentally left at a radio station in seattle back in the day...

also his beats are icky. take that as you will

Channel One's Technicolor -- yeah. I believe Grant took a bunch of Metroplex releases into the station on purpose, to see if the DJ would play any of them.

And that duet with Humpty Hump! It's 1989 all over again!

No wait...

Most underappreciated Sir Mix-a-Lot track is Ride.

Most underappreciated Sir Mix-a-Lot track goes to "One Time's Got No Case: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EynIA_-_BYQ

First single on Mack Daddy and the only song on there with a sample (Stevie Wonder) instead of just drum machines and synths. His anger and righteousness make the Mix-a-Lot octameter build in intensity through repetition. The 12" extended version is better than the single:

I'm-a tell you little story 'bout one time
Cops always wanna try to take mine
'Cause I got me a Lamborghini
And the cops hate to see me on TV
But BOOM there I am rich rich
I take cops' girlfriends quick quick
I ain't gotta try to be slick
'Cause Mack Daddy takes no shhhhhhhhh

hhhhit's the man that you love to hate, etc.

quadrameter

the big man is droppin' his metal hammer on the northwest tip...and i'm readin' the mail

Is that sampling Superstition? Nice.

Butter. Milk. Biscuits.

― J Blount, Monday, May 13, 2002 5:00 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Totally. Fucking. Swass.

― kid sensation, Monday, May 13, 2002 5:00 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

really "buttermilk biscuits" is the greatest shit ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR7mRC85C3c

DON'T YOU WISH YOUR BOYFRIEND WAS SWASS LIKE ME?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkaJoMicA04

no bremelo yo

bumpin' bremelo right now

historical note:

ned = o.g. bremelo

― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, May 8, 2008 5:20 PM Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2cYAJvJpy0

I spent a lot of my childhood among the bremelos.

ha, I think I've only ever even been through Bremerton once

on a band trip to Sequim

Spent plenty of time there too.

i've done some research and "posse on broadway" is the only perfect song ever recorded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we2M8FVWmw8

I agree that "Posse On Broadway" is a perfect song but I strenuously disagree that it is the only one.

god ICP sucks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBq-H6pOHAE

http://ethicalwerewolf.blogspot.ca/2011/02/puzzle-about-your-butt.html

Classic of course:

sir mix-a-lot breaks details his baby got back production 🥁 🍑 pic.twitter.com/5xyqHI3JKV

— hotbox (@thehotboxsocial) April 8, 2021

I LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!

It's a totally obvious lift from It's More Fun To Compute which I never noticed before reading that.

It's More Fun to Compute has to be one of those songs, up there with "Amen, Brother", as a song whose sound was so singularly influential it pushed forward whole scenes and genres.

I have a Todd Terje edit/mix of it (It's More Fun to Compute) that just smokes when I drop it in a set as if it was released yesterday.