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1992 single by Sir Mix-A-Lot

1992 single by Sir Mix-a-Lot

"Infant Got Back"
BabyGotBack.jpg
Single by Sir Mix-a-Lot
from the album Mack Daddy
B-side "Block Male child"/"You Can't Skid"
Released May 7, 1992 (1992-05-07)
Recorded 1991
Genre
  • Hip hop
  • muddy rap
  • Miami bass
Length four:21
Label
  • Def American
  • Reprise
Songwriter(s) Sir Mix-a-Lot
Producer(southward)
  • Rick Rubin
  • Sir Mix-a-Lot
Sir Mix-a-Lot singles chronology
"One Fourth dimension's Got No Case"
(1991) 		"Baby Got Back"
(1992) 		"Bandy Run across 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 past American rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot, which appeared on his tertiary anthology, Mack Daddy. The song samples the 1986 Detroit techno single "Technicolor" past Aqueduct One.

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

It was the second acknowledged vocal in the US in 1992, backside Boyz Two 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 hitting number 1 twelve weeks later. The single spent 5 weeks at the top of the chart.

Synopsis [edit]

The first verse begins with "I like big butts and I cannot lie" and nigh of the song is nigh the rapper's attraction to women with large buttocks. The second and third poetry challenge mainstream norms of beauty: "I ain't talkin' 'tour Playboy. Cause silicone parts are fabricated for toys." and "And so Cosmo says you're fat. Well I own't down with that!"

The song came from a coming together 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 girl-esque models with unlike skin colors. They decided to dedicate a song to the very opposite, featuring curvy women of colour. Mix and Dorsey sought to "Broaden the definition of beauty."[four]

Sir Mix-a-Lot commented in a 1992 interview: "The vocal doesn't just say I like large butts, you know? The song is talking most women who damn virtually impale themselves to try to wait like these beanpole models that you lot see in Faddy magazine." He explains that most women respond positively to the vocal's message, peculiarly black women: "They all say, 'About fourth dimension.'"[5]

In the song's prelude there is a chat between two (presumably) thin, white Valley girls, similar to girl talk in Frank Zappa's "Valley Girl". One daughter (dubbed Linda by Amylia Dorsey)[6] remarks to her friend, "Oh, my, God Becky, await at her butt! It is then big... She's only so black!", at which point Sir Mix-a-Lot begins rapping of his dear for large-bottomed girls.

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

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

Critical reception [edit]

Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "Kickoff offer from rapper's major-characterization 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 Dorsum" number 24 in their list of the best Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 vocal of the 1990s. They described it as "the novelty song that never went away", adding, "You could put this on at a wedding today and women volition recite the opening word for word before the rap breaks in and anybody (and I mean anybody) joins in. Sir Mix-a-Lot was never shy about playing upwards the songs "playful" nature, rapping on top of a giant butt in the video."[nine] James Bernard from Entertainment Weekly noted that the song "alternates deftly between a critique of the Cosmo/Playboy narrow-minded — and narrow-hipped — standard of female person dazzler and a bawdy appreciation of, er, generous rear ends."[10]

Track listing [edit]

No. Title Length
1. "Infant Got Back" (album version) iv:21
2. "Block Boy" four:12
3. "You Can't Slip" 5:05
4. "Baby Got Back" (Tekno-Metal Edit) 4:20
5. "Babe Got Back" (Hard B.W.B. Hip Hop Mix) four:35
6. "Infant Got Back" (Hurricane Mix) v:04

Chart operation and awards [edit]

Sir Mix-a-Lot'due south best known song, "Baby Got Back" reached number 1 on the United States Billboard Hot 100 chart for v weeks in the summertime of 1992, and won a 1993 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance. In the years following the song'due south release on the album Mack Daddy, information technology has continued to appear in many movies, television shows, and commercials, every bit detailed beneath. It was number half dozen on VH1's Greatest Songs of the '90s, and number i on VH1's Greatest Ane Hit Wonders of the '90s.

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

In popular civilisation [edit]

In the third-flavor episode "Chirlaxx" of the stop-motion animated sketch comedy series Robot Craven, Sir Mix-a-Lot guest starred as himself in a sketch titled "Table Be Round", which sees him performing the titular vocal - a parody of "Infant Got Back" - for Rex Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, every bit response to their difficulty of advice with 1 some other when seated at their elongated tabular array, besides replacing it with the Round Table.

In the comedy motion picture American Pie Presents: Band Camp, this song is function of its soundtrack.

In the 1993 Joel Schumacher picture show Falling Downward, a giant inflatable butt promoting the single is visible in a scene where D-Fens (Michael Douglas) destroys a pay phone berth 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 it every bit 'classical music'.

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

In 2020, one-time governor of Alaska and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin performed the song on Fox[32]'due south The Masked Singer while dressed as a bear.[33]

Jonathan Coulton cover/Glee cover [edit]

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

In late January 2013, a preview of the television show Glee included a encompass of "Infant Got Back" that would exist part of an upcoming episode. Coulton and others noted that the backing music was at to the lowest degree extremely similar to his recorded version—and possibly used his original musical limerick or even the sound track. Coulton reported that the Fox 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 Jan 24, 2013; further analysis of the aired version showed the Glee cover appeared to use Coulton's original musical arrangement; it included Coulton'south original melody and a changed line in Coulton's version ("Johnny C'south in trouble" instead of the original "Mix-a-Lot'due south in trouble").[36] Play tricks officials later contacted agents for Coulton, claiming, in his words, "they're inside their legal rights to do this, and that [Coulton] should be happy for the exposure", fifty-fifty though Coulton is not credited within the episode.[36] Coulton has been exploring legal options; while musical covers exercise not take copyright legal protection in the U.s.a., Coulton may take legal rights if the Glee version is plant to accept used his audio track or original composition straight.[37] Coulton has since released his cover of "Babe Got Dorsum" to iTunes, what he calls "a cover of Glee's encompass of my cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot's song", with proceeds going to charity.[38] Coulton'due south feel led other artists who believe that Glee used their encompass arrangements as bankroll inside the prove to step forward with similar claims.[39]

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

In 2014, Trinidadian-American rapper Nicki Minaj sampled the basis and some verses of "Infant Got Dorsum" for her hit "Anaconda", from the album The Pinkprint.[42] The vocal has been viewed past some as a diss runway, in reply to "Baby Got Back". Whereas Sir Mix-a-Lot focuses on a adult female'due south body 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]

Meet likewise [edit]

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

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Farther reading [edit]

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

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