MIA

haha it was annoying me too

I had completely missed the rump shaker reference until some earlier ilm thread. Man, that song is nowhere near as ubiquitous as it was in 199x.

Although I bet more people glommed onto that ref than the Clash sample.

http://www.amazon.com/Xxxo/dp/B003K3YRY4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1273548665&sr=8-1

This is out there in high quality.

'rump shaker' was never ubiq where mia grew up

why is it a big deal that mia uses samples btw? especially when 'rump shaker' is based on two massive effing well-known hooks already for god's sake

I bet Joe Strummer would have been totally cool with MIA using Clash samples, considering how the Clash basically sampled the original New York punk rock of the Ramones to come up with their style.

er no

i mean yeah he would have been cool with her sampling him but otherwise nuh-uh

He would have been all like "Go ahead, it's yours, innit? After all, we nicked our sound from those long-haired yanks..."

"we nicked our sound from those long-haired yanks"

nah

its not a big deal that MIA samples, its just stupid that a bunch of ppl give her credit for something (still not really sure what - 'personality'??) when imo the only reason she had a hit was because of a one-track jack of an obscure song. the idea that her referencing rump shaker so obscurely that half the ppl didnt realize it was rump shaker in this thread suggests that nah it wasnt that big a deal

ive made this point already tho not sure whats so complicated about it. its a catchy-ass beat because of the music it rips from the clash

you're conflating two different things here: people 'give her credit' for having two albums that are critical favorites. That her sole pop hit happens to have a prominent sampled hook doesn't make her much different from a LOT of rappers.

i don't get why people are always talking about run-dmc when their only top ten hit was all about fucking aerosmith

Every US poster who was actively listening to the radio in 1992-1993 who didn't immediately catch the "Rump Shaker" reference needs to pay more attention to, like, EVERYTHING.

Um, as it was pointed out, it was BARELY A REFERENCE. Glancing, at best.

^^ really hope that's just a deej parody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l3A3ALppN8

you're right, barely a reference

indeed. in fact, i've scrubbed the wrecks n effect line from my memory entirely.

now all i hear is the clash. clash, clash, clash.

Realllllly don't get the "abrasive" line on "xxxo." I'm not sure it's hit material, just hooks-wise or whatever (I also don't think she really gives a shit) but sonically it's not more jarring or irritating than half the stuff on the radio right now.

also the Rump Shaker thing is way more than "all I wanna do is," it's "all I wanna do is VERB VERB VERB and a VERB VERB! blah VERB your VERB!"

you want a NOUN at the end there

what would "to rump" even mean

"Have you rumped today?"

M.I.A. Names LP, Rumps Release Date

So the album's called /\/\/\Y/\ then.

|_ /\/\ /-\ ()

|_ /\/\ |3 () morelike

haha dude christ. Daniel already typed both choruses out, it's not like the words "all i wanna do" are the only thing they share in common, it's practically the same chorus with a couple words/sounds swapped out.

I dunno I guess its cuz the phrase is stretched over the beat differently (and the song is also a much slower bpm, no?) than the Wreckx-n-Effects track that it just never popped out at me. Rump Shaker blurs together with like half a dozen other 90s pop rap hits for me (like N 2 Deep and shit like that)

"Have you rumped today?"

Quoting Scooby-Doo?

XXXRuhRoh

I dunno I guess its cuz the phrase is stretched over the beat differently

uh no it isn't

Some of the words are replaced by gun- and cash register- noises. That's where she tricked me.

I was always too busy thinking of the "take your monaaaaaaaay" line from this degrassi high classic "everybody wants something" by the zit remedys to think about "rump shaker".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nU2zvWsmMk

Every US poster who was actively listening to the radio in 1992-1993 who didn't immediately catch the "Rump Shaker" reference needs to pay more attention to, like, EVERYTHING.

My thoughts exactly.

uh no it isn't

Shake your rump = 3 syllables
Take your money = 4 syllables

you do the math

Don't think I'd have recognised XXXO as an M.I.A. song if I hadn't been told. On first impression I'm not that keen but it's prob catchy enough that I'll love it in a week or so.

That her sole pop hit happens to have a prominent sampled hook doesn't make her much different from a LOT of rappers.

― da croupier, Tuesday, May 11, 2010 2:43 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

otm

would 1992 internet have said omg sampling 'blind alley', s0 done already?

probably yes, but the point stands

Shake your rump = 3 syllables
Take your money = 4 syllables

you do the math

hahahahahahahahaha wait, so you are basically saying that having a different ending somehow makes the exact match of rhythmic cadence of the phrases leading up to the point irrelevant?

i think a lot of people are ignoring the REAL issue here (re. zooma-zoom-zoom-zooming in the poom-poom)

I mean, I get it now.

how on earth is the rump shaker reference 'obscure'? that song was fairly big, wasn't it? i don't know nearly as much about music as most of you and certainly did not listen to the radio at that time but i could tell where the chorus was from on first listen -- maybe i didn't remember the name of the artist, but it's clearly recognizable.

lol @ all of u "surely everyone know this ref to 15 year old mega smash rump shaker"

... Pretty much! It's almost as bad as being like "I had no idea that 'My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns, hon!' was a quote."

'My BLAOW BLAOW don't want BLAOW you got CLICK, CHA-CHING!'

maybe it's a sheryl crow reference???

LOL

XXXO is better than that piece of shit that was the first leak. But not much better?

how on earth is the rump shaker reference 'obscure'? that song was fairly big, wasn't it? i don't know nearly as much about music as most of you and certainly did not listen to the radio at that time but i could tell where the chorus was from on first listen -- maybe i didn't remember the name of the artist, but it's clearly recognizable.

― teledyldonix, Tuesday, May 11, 2010 8:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

it didn't even chart in the UK. not that big a thing.

"hit that" prompted tom br3ihan to make the specific claim in 2007 that "'Rump Shaker' seems to have stuck around in the mass-culture worldmind way more than just about any other random hit I can think of from that era"

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/statusainthood/archives/2007/05/on_the_continui.php

but if u look his evidence is extremely scant and the article seems a face-saving exercise following an incident where he, dude writing about rap for the village voice, appeared to demonstrate that he had not heard Nations of Millions and caught flack around the rap internetz.