October 12, 2007
"It's true, it's true...we're so lame."
Posted by pete at October 12, 2007 12:31 AM
"See white guys, they drive like this."
You ready for another list demonstrating who unhip you are? If so, here's the 10 Rap Songs White People Love:
10. Positive K - I Got A Man
9. Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance
8. Biz Markie - Just A Friend
7. Young MC - Bust A Move
6. Rob Base and DJ Easy Rock - It Takes Two
5. Naughty By Nature - Hip Hop Hooray
4. Tag Team - Whoomp (There It Is)
3. Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
2. House of Pain - Jump Around
1. Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back
Vanilla Ice? You wound me, sir. I mean, at least throw Snow's "Informer" up there. And "Nuthin' But a G Thang" has to rate as well.
I can personally state that #s 10, 5, 4, and 3 are pretty much false. "I Got a Man" is largely forgotten, The Naughty By Nature song should be "OPP," and "Whoomp" is only popular if you count people sitting in the stands at football games as active Tag Team fans.
And "Ice Ice Baby" is easily as loathed by the teeming masses of honkies as anyone else.
As for the others: "The Humpty Dance" is admittedly still pretty catchy, my dad is an avowed fan of Young MC, I had to hunt far and wide for a CD copy of the Rob Base CD for The Wife, and I still occasionally listen to House of Pain's first one.
And "Baby Got Back" is unassailable. I say this because I've seen it in action, at a now-defunct C&W joint called (*sigh*) the Longhorn Saloon. I don't remember the circumstances that took us there, probably one of The Wife's work-related functions. I drank a few beers, made some feeble attempts to two-step, and watched in horror tinged with hysteria when the entire population of that bar flooded the dance floor for Sir Mix-A-Lot's magnum opus. I guess hip hop is safe when it sticks to asses and the like.
Your favorite line, if I recall, was “Don’t hang yourself with a celibate rope.”
I’m surprised that Will Smith didn’t make the list, and pleasantly surprised that Debbie Harry didn’t.
Sir Mix-A-Lot doesn’t get the credit he deserves.
Both his Chief Boot Knocka (featuring the “…Back” sequel, “Put ‘Em On The Glass,” an ode to other popular parts of female anatomy) and Daddy’s Home (which has a duet with Shock-G, aka Humpty Hump) albums are sublime.
I have “The Humpty Dance” as my incoming text message ringtone
and “Baby Got Back” as my (NO CALLER ID) ringtone
you recall incorrectly: I never heard that line, nor can I imagine repeating it to a horny teen-aged boy.
The Richard Cheese cover of “Baby Got Back” is, perversely, even better than the original.
No Run-DMC, Fat Boys, Melle Mel?
Am I wrong for wondering where Tone Loc is?
you recall incorrectly: I never heard that line, nor can I imagine repeating it to a horny teen-aged boy.
Dude, I was 21.
No Run-DMC, Fat Boys, Melle Mel?
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Am I wrong for wondering where Tone Loc is?
Freaks.
In the car the other day, I just got done lecturing my now 13 year old about when rap was good and dang it, most of the songs listed above were on my list. Even had Sir Mix Alot as #1. I have worn out 2 Millenium Hip Hop CD’s (check it out, it is an awesome collection for those of us who recall a better time in rap) When did I get to be so old?
Criminally missing, the greatest of the white rappers: The Beastie Boys. And how many frat brothers have ironically urged their fellows to “Fight the Power”?
…”my dad is an avowed fan of Young MC”.. huh?