When was baby got back written

It was tongue in cheek. It was almost a movement for a while. Then it became the norm. If I were to write that song now — assuming what happened then would have taken place just the same; women know men love asses now!

Most hits are lucky. I wrote a song that was supposed to be for certain people and it ended up being for everybody. You have to remember, when you saw African American women on TV other than Clair Huxtable, they were either overweight maids, on syrup bottles or she was a prostitute.

That was it. I wanted to write a song. I wanted to make her that queen. Originally, it was going to be a slow song. I made it faster, it had more energy. Don't worry about them!

Baby, you are beautiful, you are gorgeous, you can do what you want to do. To hell with them. So it's kind of an empowering song by accident, and every line of song was written with that in mind. It bothered me a lot, but who am I?

What really bothered me was that the main girl sitting on the pedestal at the beginning of the song had on a blonde wig, tiger shorts, a bunch of gold chains, a cheap-ass satin gown, and ugly lipstick: She looked like a ho! I thought, What the hell is this? But the entire point of the song was the opposite. The lady who the white girls were looking at in the intro was supposed to be a queen that they saw as a ho, not an actual ho.

Hollister: Mix pulled a glock on me, because I challenged the way he was dressed for art direction purposes, and he freaked out on me. Pulling a gun on a guy is enough of a punk move, but a woman? A gun? Sir Mix-a-Lot: I was wearing a brown shirt and brown pants, and they were taking Polaroids, and I saw that I looked like dancing turd.

Well, now you really the shit. Hollister: The incident was all of two minutes. He realized that we had his best interests at heart. Sir Mix-a-Lot: [This video] meant a lot to me: Bernstein and the video people were taking something from me and fucking it up. Bernstein: We let each dancer freestyle, so I would edit in shots coordinated with the song wherever appropriate.

One dancer did that great flying kick, and it made sense to sync that shot with the kung-fu movie Whopp-pish! I think I may have come up with the Josephine Baker and Madonna references, and with the white guy nervously loosening his tie. Rubin: I loved the video and remember working closely with Adam on the nuances of the edit. Sir Mix-a-Lot: I was nervous because my music had previously been on an independent label, where the threshold for success was very low. We put the song out, and we go on this promo tour.

Halfway through it, the record went No. The first date was in Salt Lake City Utah: people [turned out]. The last was in Panama City, Florida, and there were so many people there that the balcony collapsed. The worst thing that could have happened with this song would be ambivalence. The only thing I can compare it to was working with the Sex Pistols. Sir Mix-a-Lot: And it worked!

Later MTV agreed to play it after 9 p. People like to use the word banned : You can be righteous, as if MTV is burning books. But banning is not the same as a programming decision with respect to a video that directly flouted a then-recently instituted rule against showing female body parts with no reference to a face.

I knew if we could get MTV onboard, word would spread. The first night I ate dinner in my hotel room by myself. The second night, Benny Medina —a Warner Bros. Lo — walked up to me and asked if I had dinner plans.