| "Baby Got Back" | ||||
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| Single by Sir Mix-a-Lot | ||||
| from the album Mack Daddy | ||||
| B-side | "Cake Boy"/"You Can't Slip" | |||
| Released | May 7, 1992 | |||
| Recorded | 1991 | |||
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| Length | 4:21 | |||
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| Songwriter(s) | Sir Mix-a-Lot | |||
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| "Baby Got Back" on YouTube | ||||
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"Baby Got Back" is a song written, co-produced and recorded by American rapper and songwriter Sir Mix-a-Lot. Released in May 1992 by Def American and Reprise as the second single from his third album, Mack Daddy (1992), the song samples the 1986 Detroit techno single "Technicolor" by Channel One. At the time of its original release, the song caused controversy because of its outspoken and blatantly sexual lyrics objectifying women, as well as specific references to the buttocks, which some people found objectionable. The song's accompanying music video was briefly banned by MTV.[1] Mix-a-Lot defended the song as being empowering to curvaceous women who were being shown skinny models as an ideal for beauty.
"Baby Got Back" topped the US Billboard Hot 100, and spent five weeks atop the chart. It was the second best-selling song in the US in 1992. The song was ranked number 17 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop" in 2008.[2] In October 2023, Billboard ranked it among the "500 Best Pop Songs of All Time".[3]
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- ^ "Baby Got Back Songfacts". Songfacts. Archived from the original on 19 April 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-05.
- ^ Winistorfer, Andrew (2008-09-29). "VH1's 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs". Prefixmag. Retrieved 2011-10-16.
- ^ "The 500 Best Pop Songs: Staff List". Billboard. 19 October 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2023.