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1992 single by Sir Mix-A-Lot

1992 single by Sir Mix-a-Lot

"Baby Got Dorsum"
BabyGotBack.jpg
Single by Sir Mix-a-Lot
from the album Mack Daddy
B-side "Block Boy"/"You lot Can't Slip"
Released May vii, 1992 (1992-05-07)
Recorded 1991
Genre
  • Hip hop
  • dirty rap
  • Miami bass
Length 4:21
Characterization
  • Def American
  • Reprise
Songwriter(s) Sir Mix-a-Lot
Producer(south)
  • Rick Rubin
  • Sir Mix-a-Lot
Sir Mix-a-Lot singles chronology
"I Fourth dimension's Got No Example"
(1991) 		"Baby Got Back"
(1992) 		"Bandy Meet Louie"
(1992)
Music video
"Baby Got Back" on YouTube
Audio sample
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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" past Channel 1.

At the fourth dimension of its original release, the song caused controversy with its outspoken and blatantly sexual lyrics most women, equally well as specific references to the female buttocks which some people institute objectionable. The song's music video was briefly banned by MTV.[i]

It was the second best-selling vocal in the US in 1992, behind Boyz II Men's "Cease of the Road". In 2008, information technology was ranked number 17 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.[2]

The vocal debuted at number 75 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated Apr 11, 1992 and hit number 1 twelve weeks later. The single spent five weeks at the height of the chart.

Synopsis [edit]

The first verse begins with "I similar big butts and I cannot lie" and about of the song is about the rapper'southward attraction to women with big buttocks. The 2d and tertiary verse challenge mainstream norms of beauty: "I ain't talkin' 'bout Playboy. Crusade silicone parts are made for toys." and "And then Cosmo says you're fat. Well I ain't down with that!"

The vocal 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 the 1980s Budweiser commercial[3] featuring very thin, valley daughter-esque models with unlike skin colors. They decided to dedicate a song to the very opposite, featuring curvy women of color. Mix and Dorsey sought to "Augment the definition of dazzler."[4]

Sir Mix-a-Lot commented in a 1992 interview: "The vocal doesn't merely say I like large butts, you lot know? The song is talking about women who damn near kill themselves to try to look similar these beanpole models that you see in Vogue mag." He explains that most women respond positively to the song's message, especially black women: "They all say, 'Nigh fourth dimension.'"[five]

In the song's prelude in that location is a conversation betwixt two (presumably) thin, white Valley girls, similar to girl talk in Frank Zappa's "Valley Girl". I daughter (dubbed Linda past Amylia Dorsey)[vi] remarks to her friend, "Oh, my, God Becky, look at her barrel! It is and so large... She'southward just so black!", at which point Sir Mix-a-Lot begins rapping of his love for big-bottomed girls.

The dialogue of extra Papillon Soo Soo saying "Me and so horny" is sampled from the 1987 picture Full Metal Jacket to complete Sir Mix-a-Lot'southward lyric, "That barrel you got makes..."

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

Critical reception [edit]

Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "Start offering from rapper's major-label debut, "Mack Daddy", cheekily rhapsodizes about the joys of women with prominent backsides. Cute rhymes and slammin' beats add up to a potential smash at several formats."[8] In 2020, Cleveland.com ranked "Baby Got Back" number 24 in their list of the best Billboard Hot 100 No. one vocal of the 1990s. They described it equally "the novelty song that never went away", adding, "You could put this on at a wedding today and women will recite the opening word for word before the rap breaks in and everyone (and I mean anybody) joins in. Sir Mix-a-Lot was never shy nigh playing up the songs "playful" nature, rapping on tiptop of a giant barrel in the video."[ix] James Bernard from Entertainment Weekly noted that the song "alternates deftly betwixt a critique of the Cosmo/Playboy narrow-minded — and narrow-hipped — standard of female dazzler and a bawdy appreciation of, er, generous rear ends."[10]

Track listing [edit]

No. Championship Length
i. "Baby Got Back" (anthology version) 4:21
2. "Cake Boy" four:12
3. "You Can't Sideslip" 5:05
4. "Baby Got Back" (Tekno-Metal Edit) 4:20
5. "Baby Got Back" (Hard B.W.B. Hip Hop Mix) iv:35
half-dozen. "Babe Got Dorsum" (Hurricane Mix) five:04

Chart performance and awards [edit]

Sir Mix-a-Lot'due south best known song, "Baby Got Back" reached number ane on the United States Billboard Hot 100 nautical chart for v weeks in the summer of 1992, and won a 1993 Grammy Award for All-time Rap Solo Performance. In the years post-obit the song's release on the anthology Mack Daddy, information technology has continued to appear in many movies, goggle box shows, and commercials, every bit detailed beneath. It was number six on VH1's Greatest Songs of the '90s, and number ane on VH1's Greatest 1 Hit Wonders of the '90s.

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

In pop civilisation [edit]

In the third-season episode "Chirlaxx" of the stop-motion animated sketch one-act 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 Back" - for Rex Arthur and the Knights of the Circular Table, every bit response to their difficulty of communication with i another when seated at their elongated table, likewise replacing information technology with the Round Table.

In the comedy film American Pie Presents: Band Military camp, this song is role of its soundtrack.

In the 1993 Joel Schumacher film Falling Down, a giant inflatable barrel promoting the single 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 'antique' stereo until Leela shuts it off, referring to it equally 'classical music'.

The song plays during the credit sequence of the 2009 video game Fatty Princess while the role 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 Singer while dressed every bit a bear.[33]

Jonathan Coulton cover/Glee cover [edit]

Jonathan Coulton released a cover of "Baby Got Back" during his Thing a Week project in October 2005, with the song being released as part of the outset Thing A Calendar week compilation anthology the next year.[34]

In late January 2013, a preview of the television evidence Glee included a encompass of "Infant Got Back" that would be part of an upcoming episode. Coulton and others noted that the backing music was at to the lowest degree extremely like to his recorded version—and perhaps used his original musical composition or even the audio rails. Coulton reported that the Play a trick on Broadcasting Network had not asked him about using the recording, nor responded to his inquiries before the episode aired.[35] The episode, "Sadie Hawkins", aired unchanged on January 24, 2013; farther analysis of the aired version showed the Glee cover appeared to utilize Coulton's original musical arrangement; it included Coulton's original melody and a inverse line in Coulton'south version ("Johnny C'due south in trouble" instead of the original "Mix-a-Lot'south in problem").[36] Flim-flam officials subsequently contacted agents for Coulton, claiming, in his words, "they're within their legal rights to practice this, and that [Coulton] should exist happy for the exposure", fifty-fifty though Coulton is non credited inside the episode.[36] Coulton has been exploring legal options; while musical covers do not have copyright legal protection in the United states, Coulton may have legal rights if the Glee version is found to have used his audio runway or original composition directly.[37] Coulton has since released his cover of "Baby Got Dorsum" to iTunes, what he calls "a cover of Glee's cover of my cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot's song", with proceeds going to charity.[38] Coulton's experience led other artists who believe that Glee used their comprehend arrangements equally backing within the bear witness to stride forward with similar 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 up hither listening to old Parliament records: Motor Booty Affair. Black men like butts. That's the bottom line."[40] The vocal is part of a tradition of 1970s–90s African-American music celebrating the female posterior, including "Da Butt", "Rump Shaker", and "Shake Your Groove Matter".[41]

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

See also [edit]

  • 1992 in music
  • Hot 100 number-i 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 Rapper's Delight". Fashion Studies. two (i): 1–23. Retrieved xviii August 2020.

Further reading [edit]

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

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