Sir Mix-A-Lot says society has changed the way it’s viewed women between 1992, the year in which the rapper released “Baby Got Back,” an ode to curvaceous women, and 2014, a year that has seen Nicki Minaj incorporate his 1992 hit into her new smash single, “Anaconda.”
“When I did ‘Baby Got Back,’ women with curves were not accepted,” Sir Mix-A-Lot says in an interview with Billboard. “But that’s a fact. They were not in the mainstream. We’ve come 180 degrees from that point. Not only is it accepted, but it’s also expected, which I thought was cool. To me, if nothing else proved it, that did. It was a sexy ass video.”
When asked why he believes that “booty has only recently gone mainstream,” Mix-A-Lot explains his perspective on the matter.
“A lot of people try to give me credit for it,” he says. “When I did ‘Baby Got Back,’ that was just a reflection of the African-American community. We’ve always liked curves, and a lot of people misunderstood it because let’s face it: 20 years prior to ‘Baby Got Back,’ the only images you saw of a black woman on television were she was probably 300 pounds and cleaning the house with a rag on her head. Or, they were comfortable with the African-American female image that was basically an assimilation to what White America wanted.
“There was always a desire in the community [for] the hourglass figure,” he continues. “We loved the curvaceous women, the little waist, the hips, the boobs… the equipment. ‘Baby Got Back’ was already a reflection of what was going on. I didn’t see it as this gigantic political statement. When I designed that song, it was to just be an out for women, to tell them to stop wrapping these big sweaters around their waist [and] quit being ashamed. It’s like Serena Williams — she’s not fat. She’s in shape, and she happens to have a butt. She’s not ashamed of it, and I love that. So I don’t know if I did it, but I may be part of the reason that the masses kind of took a liking to it because it was an uphill battle. Let’s face it: that Cosmo line [‘So Cosmo says you’re fat / Well, I ain’t down with that!’] didn’t go over well back then.”
Sir Mix-A-Lot says he has new music on the way, too. The rapper-engineer says he wants to do a record, but adds, “I want to release it in a way that doesn’t look like a desperate attempt at relevancy.”
Mix-A-Lot says he’s not a “train wreck” and that he still makes “good money.”
In the past, Sir Mix-A-Lot has called “Anaconda” a new and improved version of “Baby Got Back.”
“It was the new and improved version,” Sir Mix-a-Lot said in August. “Because when I did mine the girls that had the nice asses in my video I wasn’t allowed to use. Right? So, they bumped a lot of ‘em. And we ended up using girls that didn’t really have asses. But this is a new era. And Nicki’s in charge. How they gonna say ‘no’ to a woman talking about some asses? Beautiful. If I could’ve just been on the set that would have been cool with me.”
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booty runs rap
No your are wrong clown. Go back to your fake pimp image you forgotten 90 rapper
A forgotten 90s rapper with a well-known song that people still remember years later.
Every once in a blue moon this nigga crawls out of his rock to speak about his only known song
he had 2 songs also: one times got no case.
My Posse on Broadway got a lot of play back in the day, too, and I even heard it on the radio last week. Plus “Put En on the Glass” was a huge hit on the Box.
If you actually listened to rap music in 80s/90s, he had about 10 hit singles. A lot of stuff didn’t crossover then, but guys could still go Gold with only “black radio” play.
ayyy seattle represent
It’s amazing how this one hit wonder actually believes he changed society’s perception of women with one song.
some ppl eat tehir boogers. i put my hand in my shorts, press my middle finger against piss or cum soaked dick hole, then touch it against the tip of my tongue. in front of girls
u must be white person who really isn’t into rap music, thinking Sir Mix-A-Lot was a one hit wonder. I’m sorry, but I can’t put it no other way.