![]() Sir Mix-A-Lot’s anthems weren’t just to his status or his gadgets though. Give the man his due, he wrote this ode to paging two years before Q-Tip and his fellow Tribesters penned “Skypagers” on the “Low End Theory” album. How does Mix-A-Lot communicate? With beepers, baby!” ![]() Turn it off, turn it on, so I won’t get busted Never afraid to be cutting edge, Mix-A-Lot followed up the first cut with an ode to “Beepers,” back when they were still so new (and in some cases expensive) rappers often wore them as a fashion statement:Ĭhillin like a champ with a girl in the limoĪn Oakland skeezo, how do I know? Cause 4-1-5 was the area code This song is also noteworthy for Mix-A-Lot’s explanation of what a “snack pack” is – a fine woman who is “little in the middle but she got much back.” Given Sir Mix-A-Lot’s penchant for sampling from his own songs, this phrase would in a few years be known from coast to coast on his smash hit about the glutteus maximus. This album is a demonstration of various styles of a hip-hop art It’s classic late 1980’s rap, hard and uncompromising, just like his “listen up close or you might get smoked” lyrical attitude: The song opens with heavy bass drops, blends with a reverberating church bell, then comes together with a strong drum track. On the title song and lead track “Seminar” though, Mix-A-Lot is all about business. Mix-A-Lot was best known at this point for his street anthem “Posse on Broadway” and comical hits like “Square Dance Rap” and “Buttermilk Biscuits,” which featured his voice sped up to Chipmunk octaves. If ever there was a rapper who believed in the DIY aesthetic, Sir Mix-A-Lot was quintessentially it. “All songs written, composed, programmed, performed, produced and engineered by Sir Mix-A-Lot.” Anything left out? Nada nada nada, not a damn thing. It’s a testament to Mix-A-Lot’s staying power and popularity that this 14-year-old album is still in print today, but it’s even more telling to read the back cover. Originally released on Nastymix Records, the Sir Mix-A-Lot catalogue and the budding rap star were both picked up by the Rick Rubin imprint Def American (now known as American Recordings). Sir Mix-A-Lot was the hardest rapper coming out of the Pacific Northwest, so no matter how absurd the cover lesser MC’s were still wishing to be in his position, carving out a name for himself nationally and globally. As odd as it looks, one thing makes perfect sense – Mix holds a heavy mallet in right hand as his left chisels out the album’s title on a stone tablet. The Seattle sensation was going for the look of ancient Greece, crossed with a black power rally. But if you look at the cover of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s 1989 album “Seminar,” you’ll find all three items represented. The result is a more expansive, inclusive vision of pop, music that keeps rewriting its history with every beat.Remember thick gold chains? Four finger rings? Rappers wearing togas? Okay, probably not the last part. More than half the songs here - 254 in all - weren’t present on the old list, including a third of the Top 100. Where the 2004 version of the list was dominated by early rock and soul, the new edition contains more hip-hop, modern country, indie rock, Latin pop, reggae, and R&B. ![]() They each sent in a ranked list of their top 50 songs, and we tabulated the results. Ward to Bill Ward - as well as figures from the music industry and leading critics and journalists. To create the new version of the RS 500 we convened a poll of more than 250 artists, musicians, and producers - from Angelique Kidjo to Zedd, Sam Smith to Megan Thee Stallion, M. So we’ve decided to give the list a total reboot. But a lot has changed since 2004 back then the iPod was relatively new, and Billie Eilish was three years old. It’s one of the most widely read stories in our history, viewed hundreds of millions of times on this site. In 2004, Rolling Stone published its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. ![]()
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