Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” is the second single from his third album, Mack Daddy. The rapper and his friend, voice actress Amylia Dorsey, were inspired to make a song celebrating curvy women after watching a Budweiser commercial with very skinny women. Sir Mix-a-Lot thought about how hard so manyContinue Reading
[youtube id=”w59e20ijOpE”] Sir Mix-A-Lot and a group of eager women from the audience join the Seattle Symphony Orchestra for a performance of his “Baby Got Back.” Long before Miley Cyrus made twerking popular in the mainstream hip-hop was celebrating curvy Black women. Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” was the biggestContinue Reading
[youtube]EP9aKd_M4lg[/youtube] Sir Mix-A-Lot’s first single was the 1987 track “Posse On Broadway.” The Seattle native had founded the Nastymix record label with DJ Nasty Nes in 1983 and “Posse On Broadway” lead to the completion of his first album Swass. By the end of 1989 the album went platinum andContinue Reading