Baby Got Back

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"Baby Got Back" is a 1992 hip hop song by Sir Mix-a-Lot. The song famously starts with a discussion between two valley girls, with one girl remarking to the other "Oh-My-God, Becky! Look at her butt! It's just so...big." At the time of its original release, the song caused some a minor controversy with its outspoken and blatantly sexual lyrics on the female anatomy.

1 Chart performance and awards
2 Appearances in pop culture
3 Alternate versions
4 Parodies and covers
5 In the media
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Chart performance and awards

Sir Mix-a-Lot's best known song, "Baby Got Back" reached number 1 on the United States' Billboard Hot 100 chart for five weeks in the summer of 1992, and won a 1993 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance. It is also known to be a very common song over two decades later in many movie and video performances, even such as cartoons.

[edit] Appearances in pop culture

It was subsequently featured in the movies American Pie: Band Camp, Charlie's Angels, Kung Pow! Enter the Fist, Jackass: The Movie, Scary Movie 4, Shrek, Shark Tale, Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, and Happy Feet, and continues to be a running joke. "Baby Got Back" also appears in a BuyMusic and an Apple Computer commercial, the television sitcom Friends, and the animated series Futurama, where in the year 3000 it is considered by the characters to be "classical music." It was also featured in the animated series American Dad in the episode titled "Camp Refoogee."

In a 2006 episode of The Simpsons (Treehouse of Horror XVII), the singer himself guest stars and performs a spoof of the song called "Baby Likes Fat". In an earlier episode, Midnight Rx, the normal version of the song is heard.

This song was also featured in an episode of "Yes Dear," where Kim sings the song while doing the laundry.

[edit] Alternate versions

Sir Mix-A-Lot has recorded at least two different commercial versions of the hit song, one a Target commercial aimed towards preteens that replaces "I like big butts and I cannot lie" with "I like backpacks and I cannot lie", the other a ringtone that begins "Pick up the phone! Pick up the phone! 'Cause you don't wanna miss this call and I cannot lie!".

[edit] Parodies and covers

A parody of this song was also created by members of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. There have been several notable covers, including a light folk-rock version by Jonathan Coulton, and a lounge version by Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine. There was also a metal version released by the band Throwdown. Agent Felix also created a pop punk version of the song. Finally, a Gilbert and Sullivan version appeared on YouTube in 2007, sung in musical comedy style to screen footage from the 1983 film Pirates of Penzance. It achieved great popularity.

The 90's sketch comedy show In Living Color aired a parody video called "Baby Got Snacks" with Jamie Foxx as Trail Mix-A-Lot rapping about his love for heavyset women.

An episode of Saturday Night Live featured a sketch in which Nat "King" Cole records the original version of "Baby Got Back" during his final recording session, though the studio refuses to press the song. Cole was portrayed by Tim Meadows.

There is also a Harry Potter parody titled "Sirius Black" by Tony Goldmark which covers the events in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

There is a song by the Wisconsin group Shad-Rapp called "I like Big Bucks", which talks about their love for shooting deer.

There is a cover of the song on Radio Redux (A Sonic the Hedgehog Podcast), with Charmy the Bee, Vector the Crocodile and Espio the Chameleon singing it about bees. The title of it is "Charmy Got Back". It is on Ep 6: 15 Years Of Sonic (Pt 1) - Sending Out An SoS (1991-1999) http://media.libsyn.com/media/sonicwrecks/RR006.mp3

The 90s children show Bill Nye: The Science Guy did an episode on buoyancy which shows a mock video of "Baby Got Back," and is called "Bill's Got A Boat."

[edit] In the media

Played in a commercial for the iPod
Played in an episode of Friends ("The One with Ross's Inappropriate Song")
Played in an episode of Futurama ("A Fishful of Dollars") as classical music

Preceded by "I'll Be There" by Mariah Carey	Billboard Hot 100 number one single July 4, 1992- August 1, 1992	Succeeded by "This Used to Be My Playground" by Madonna