Well, use me, use me [Intro: Girls] I ain't talkin' 'bout Playboy Then turn around! (Yeah!) There’s nothing wrong with that, but I was so sick of that shit. Got it goin' like a turbo 'Vette [Verse 2: Sir Mix-a-Lot] The song also found varied levels of chart success in seven other countries around the world. Oh, baby, I wanna get wit'cha Dial 1-900-MIX-A-LOT 'Cause I'm long, and I'm strong She was an actress, and she started admitting that she felt like she lost a lot of parts because of her hourglass figure. Shutterstock. You say you wanna get in my Benz? “Baby Got Back” was largely inspired by experiences Mix-A-Lot’s then-girlfriend Amylia Dorsey went through. So the dancers would come in for the audition, and I had to snap a polaroid of their butts. 'Til the break of dawn But please don't lose that butt (Shake it! It was released on February 4, 1992, on Def American Recordings . Your waist is 23 inches. 'Cause them punks like to hit it and quit it Some brothers wanna play that hard role The director of the song’s music video shared a humorous anecdote about auditioning girls to be in it: For the casting of all the dancers, Mix and his friends wanted to have butt approval. Now, Amy never said anything about all this until she realized I was so in favor of her physique. So they toss it and leave it Note: A typo across many digital providers has "Seattle" written as "Seatlle" for the title of Seattle Ain't Bullshittin'.[6]. And a round thing in your face, you get sprung Little in the middle but she got much back! But I do not agree with that: If you look at Dolly Parton at her peak, a lot of white guys were like “daammn!”. And tell you that the butt ain't gold [Outro] 36-24-36? I wanna get you home And when I'm throwin' a gig Baby got back! [Chorus: Sir Mix-a-Lot] That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist Where I grew up, in the suburbs of Seattle, if you weren’t built like Paris Hilton you weren’t appreciated. I won't cuss or hit ya Sir Digs-A-Lot? You can do side bends or sit-ups Baby got back! And I said, "Too fat? Its controversial music video featured buttocks-shaped props and a heavy focus on the backsides of several full-figured dancers, leading MTV to briefly ban it due to “a recently instituted rule against showing female body parts with no reference to a face.” Eventually the video was re-edited and then re-added into rotation – but only after 9pm. If you wanna roll in my Mercedes (Yeah!) He had game but he chose to hit 'em [Chorus: Sir Mix-a-Lot] You other brothers can't deny He was also frustrated watching his full-figured girlfriend at the time Amylia Dorsey struggle to get work as an actress and model. She's wet, wet And I pull up quick to get wit 'em The track is built on a sample from “Technicolor” by Channel One. At the time of this writing, her response: "two in human years, 14 in dog years, and 25 in cat years." Give me a sista, I can't resist her Apr 14. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. I'll keep my women like Flo Jo How old are you? Clearly a Sir Mix a Lot fan, Alexa replies, "You cannot lie. He’d say ‘I don’t understand why you can’t get modeling work,’ and I’d say ‘Look behind me.’ This was my experience that he was writing about. Mack Daddy is the third album by Sir Mix-a-Lot. Playin' workout tapes by Fonda She looks like one of those rap guys' girlfriends. He explains, “A lot of the girls at the video were telling me they couldn’t get parts because they were too fat. I like 'em round, and big My anaconda don't want none (Hell yeah!) An in-depth interview with Mix-A-Lot by DJ Vlad about the song is included below: Knowledge Drop: The Time Sir Mix-A-Lot Claimed He Made Over $100 Million From “Baby Got Back”, That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist, Tell 'em to shake it! It is so big. I was mortified: “Okay, now I have to take a close-up picture of your buttocks.” But a lot of the women auditioning thought it was hilarious. And I pull up quick to retrieve it We took all the Polaroids, and made a giant grid of the buttocks, which we Fed-Exed to Seattle so that Mix and his friends could approve the butts. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/one-times-got-no-case/id2906335?i=2906151&ign-mpt=uo%3D4, "Sir Mix-A-Lot Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)", "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1992", "American album certifications – Sir Mix-A-Lot – Mack Daddy", Recording Industry Association of America, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mack_Daddy&oldid=1013001193, American Recordings (record label) albums, Short description is different from Wikidata, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Album chart usages for BillboardRandBHipHop, Certification Table Entry usages for United States, Certification Table Entry usages of salesamount without salesref, Pages using certification Table Entry with shipments figures, Pages using certification Table Entry with shipments footnote, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz release group identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Good. (Yeah) I just can't help myself, I'm actin' like an animal What are you talking about?” “Yeah, but my ass is 38 inches.” Admitting he’s attracted to curvy women and not the “straight up and down 10-year-old boy look”, the rapper said he still tried to make the song as nonsexist as possible. Who understands those rap guys? Hosted by Sir Mix-A-Lot andRachel Flotard, mark your calendar for Thursday, March … 'Cause you ain't that average groupie I want 'em real thick and juicy The album is particularly notable for the hit single "Baby Got Back.". You could have the highest cheekbones in the world, but if you were a little more broad at the beam, forget it. But that butt you got makes (me so horny!) Despite record label owner Rick Rubin feeling “Baby Got Back” would be a better first single, Mix-A-Lot insisted on releasing “One Time’s Got No Case” instead. (Shake it!) But I gotta be straight when I say I wanna *moan* His intention was to share these views in a “tongue-in-cheek” and “funny way”. You’d see these girls in the ad: Each one was shaped like a stop sign, with big hair [and] straight up-and-down bird legs. So fuck him and fuck you, too.” — Eminem, “The Real Slim Shady” “I love you like a fat kid love cake.” — 50 Cent, “21 Questions” WATCH NOW: Your Favorite … So I'm lookin' at rock videos All songs written by Sir Mix-a-Lot, except where noted. In 2008, VH1 ranked it the #17 greatest song of hip hop. [Verse 1: Sir Mix-a-Lot] Red beans and rice didn't miss her Mix-A-Lot also wanted to call attention how females felt they had to “damn near kill themselves to try to look like these beanpole models that you see in Vogue magazine.” Also, he wanted to speak out against Hollywood’s general portrayal of African-American females mainly as “maids, servants and prostitutes”. 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