Me So Horny
"Me So Horny" | ||||
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Single by 2 Live Crew | ||||
from the album As Nasty as They Wanna Be | ||||
Released | January 20, 1989 | |||
Recorded | 1988 | |||
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Label | Luke Records | |||
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Producer(s) | 2 Live Crew | |||
2 Live Crew singles chronology | ||||
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"Me So Horny" is a song by the rap group
It reached number one on the U.S. Billboard
The song samples music from the 1979 hit song "Firecracker" by Mass Production and dialogue from the Richard Pryor film Which Way Is Up? and the Stanley Kubrick film Full Metal Jacket.
Samples
The song heavily samples the 1979 funk hit single "Firecracker" by Mass Production. It also features lines from two different films:
Which Way Is Up? (1977) – The "Gonna do that thing. What we gonna do? Oh sock it to me. [moaning]" sample heard at the beginning of the song (and occasionally sampled throughout) is from the scene in which Leroy (Richard Pryor) listens in on his father Rufus (also played by Pryor) having sex in another room.[3]
- Da Nang prostitute: Well, baby, me so horny. Me so horny. Me love you long time. Me sucky sucky.
- [later in the same dialogue exchange]
- Private Joker: What'll we get for ten dollars?
- Da Nang prostitute: Every t'ing you want.
- Private Joker: Everything?
- Da Nang prostitute: Every t'ing.
The "Me So Horny" sample was also featured three years later, when Sir Mix-a-Lot included the sample in "Baby Got Back".
Success and controversy
The song became a major hit for 2 Live Crew, topping the rap charts and going to No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1989. As Nasty as They Wanna Be reached No. 3 on the rap album charts and No. 29 on the album chart. The album eventually sold millions of copies.[5] Because of the controversy, the song's title was never mentioned by Shadoe Stevens when he played the song on the radio show American Top 40, though it did get mentioned on a Summer 1990 episode when the group's second top 40 hit, Banned in the U.S.A. was on the chart.
The success of the single and the album led to concern over the explicit nature of rap lyrics both by 2 Live Crew and by gangsta rappers such as Geto Boys, Ice-T and N.W.A.[6]
Then–
In 1999, the group, minus former bandleader
In 2008, it was ranked number 83 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.
Chart performance
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Music video
The music video mainly features the members of the band rapping while scantily clad women are shown dancing on a stage.
Two versions of the video were ultimately released. The original "uncut" version featured the dancing women in
Covers and re-mixes
- American Got Cock?. The album also included a remixof the track.
- Andy LaPlegua of Combichrist made an EBM version of the song for his solo album "13 Ways to Masturbate" released under the moniker of Dj Scandy.
- An interpolation of the song can be heard on the track Kitty Kat from the mixtape Something for Thee Hotties by American rap artist Megan Thee Stallion.
- The M.I.A. song "10 Dollar" (from Arular) features an interpolation of the refrain: "What can I get for ten dollar? Every/any-ting you want"
Parodies
- A comedy hip-hop duo known as 2 Live Jews (whose name is an obvious parody of 2 Live Crew) released a spoof of the song, called "Oy! It's So Humid". This spoof replaces the line, "Me love you long time" with "It's like a sauna in here." This is one of the tracks of their first album, titled As Kosher As They Wanna Be.
- Aperitif for Destruction.
- A parody group known as "MC Pillsberry & the 4 Large Crew (aka Too Large Crew)" made a spoof of the song called, "Me So Hungry". This title was also used for a similar spoof by 3 Local Boyz.
- The parody music video "Me Want Maury" on the January 19, 1992 third-season episode of In Living Color mocked Maury Povich (Jim Carrey) and Connie Chung's (Steve Park) attempts to conceive a child.
- The South Park episode "Cow Days" contains Eric Cartman saying the lines "Me love you long time. Me sucky sucky."
See also
References
- ^ "Opinion | IN THE NATION; Lyrics and the Law (Published 1990)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2018-07-19.
- ^ "In Rap Group's Album, Graphic Sexual Lyrics (Published 1990)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2018-07-19.
- ^ "Clip from Which Way Is Up? featuring the sampled audio". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12.
- ^ "Clip from Full Metal Jacket featuring the sampled audio". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12.
- ^ a b "Recording Ruled Obscene Brings Arrest (Published 1990)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2022-05-16.
- ^ "Distributor Withdraws Rap Album Over Lyrics (Published 1990)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07.
- ^ "Response from ARIA re: chart inquiry, received July 15, 2015". Imgur. Archived from the original on July 16, 2015. Retrieved October 4, 2015.
- ^ "The 2 Live Crew – Me So Horny" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
- ^ Pennanen, Timo (2021). "2 Live Crew". Sisältää hitin - 2. laitos Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla 1.1.1960–30.6.2021 (PDF). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p. 6. Retrieved June 12, 2022.
- ^ "De Nederlandse Top 40, week 5, 1990". Retrieved October 28, 2008.
- ^ "The 2 Live Crew – Me So Horny" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
- ^ "The 2 Live Crew – Me So Horny". Top 40 Singles.
- ^ a b c d "Billboard.com artist chart history". Retrieved October 28, 2008.
- ^ "Jaaroverzichten 1990". Ultratop. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
- ^ "Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 1990". Dutch Top 40. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
- ^ "Jaaroverzichten – Single 1990". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved April 22, 2020.