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Remembering A West Coast Classic: "Posse On Broadway" by Sir Mix-A-Lot
Posted on February 26, 2007 2:25 AM
Hopefully everyone had a good weeekend, and since that Vh1 special on Sierra Leone aired again yesterday, I hope that some more of you had the chance to watch it. But as we always do, we’re going to start the week off on a positive note with another West Coast Classic.
Now in hip hop when people mention the West Coast, 95% of the time, they’re talking about California. It’s not so much a generalization, as it is observation; most of the rap that’s come from this side of the map has come Cali, just as most of the hip hop albums to come from the East have been from the state of New York (and even more specifically, from New York City.)
But there was at least one rapper to make some big waves from a state other than California, and today we’re gonna give him some shine. His name was Sir Mix-A-Lot, and he came out reppin’ Seattle, Washington.
Although he became a household name when “Baby Got Back” dropped in 1991 (and I’m sure he’s still getting fat ass royalty checks from that song), Mix-A-Lot actually had quite a few decent songs before and after that, and a couple of those songs garnered some moderate success as singles. Just about anyone who’s ever been to a strip club has heard “Put ‘Em On the Glass,” and pretty much everybody over the age of 21 has heard “My Hooptie” at some point or another- even “Buttermilk Bisquits” blew up a little bit. But the runner-up to “Baby Got Back” in terms of radio play and general success has got to be 1988’s “Posse On Broadway.”
Unfortunately, Mix-A-Lot all but disappeared not long after he dropped , although it wasn’t for lack of trying to stay in the game. When all was said and done, he dropped six full lengths (with the most recent being Daddy’s Home in 2003), an EP and a best-of album. He also recently popped up on the awful West Coast remix of Nas’ “Where Are They Now.”
Comments
No matter how you feel about Mix-A-Lot he still put it out there for the big booty girls letting us know it was koo even back with everyone wanted a flat butt. And as for the My Posse On Broadway if you knew about Seattle in the 80's he's shouting out all the places that really where the sh*i. everyone went to Dick's they had the best milkshakes and fries there would be crowds of people just chillin. Broadways was always the place to roll. If he would have made the song in the 90's he would have shot out Seward Park, downtown 1st off of Pike, MLK and the car wash in the cd.
JUVENILE STOLE SIR MIX ALOT'S FLOW, ON HIS LAST CD REALITY CHECK AND RAN WITH IT. HE SHOULD CUT SIR MIX ALOT A CHECK FOR STEALING HIS FLOW
YEAH, POSSE ON BROADWAY WAS CLASSIC. THAT WAS THE YO! MTV RAPS ERA RIGHT THERE!
ONE OF THE BEST HIP HOP JOINTS OF ALL TIME. IT WAS VERY ORIGINAL. I STILL LISTEN TO THIS SONG.
Claasic s***!!!
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"Beepers" was a tight song too!
my posse on broadwaaaaaayyyyyy
da dope follow-up to the all you can see ass-fest of "Baby Got Back" well hol up might've been to "Put Em On The Glass" hold up damn my sequencin is off.
but props to him and Luke for giving me more than enough pre-teen ammo to formulate my heterosexuality to the fullest.
thanks bro.
his catalogue almost sounds like randon porno-flick titles by the way.
rofl!
FA SHO EIGHTY!! MIX A LOT DID PUT US ON THE MAP WITH THIS CLASSIC.. ME BEING FROM SEATTLE OFFA 23RD AND UNION- 26TH 2 BE EXACT.. THIS NIGGA AINT EVEN IN THE HOOD NOR DID HE PUT ON ANY HUNDRY NIGGAZ.. BUT THE CUT WAS STILL HARD.. RIGHT NOW SEATTLE IS STILL AN UNTAPPED MARKET READY TO BLOW- ALOTTA TALENT AND HUNGRY HOOD NIGGAZ THAT SPIT REAL HARD.. BUT WE DONT STICK 2GETHER.. GOOD LOOK ON THE SHINE EIGHTY.
Juve do be stealing Sir's style sometimes. Swap Meet Louie was my shit to. Sputter Sputter Rollin ova guttas. Check out his videos on youtube.com This is what hip-hop is to me.
Fuck yeah that track is a classic you know whats a fucken trip I was playing that track just yesterday and I picked up on some broad cuz she was bobbing her head to that track when I was cruising by so I stopped and got her number later on well I didnt get to fuck her but I still got my dick sucked
FA SHO EIGHTY!! MIX A LOT DID PUT US ON THE MAP WITH THIS CLASSIC.. ME BEING FROM SEATTLE OFFA 23RD AND UNION- 26TH 2 BE EXACT.. THIS NIGGA AINT EVEN IN THE HOOD NOR DID HE PUT ON ANY HUNDRY NIGGAZ.. BUT THE CUT WAS STILL HARD.. RIGHT NOW SEATTLE IS STILL AN UNTAPPED MARKET READY TO BLOW- ALOTTA TALENT AND HUNGRY HOOD NIGGAZ THAT SPIT REAL HARD.. BUT WE DONT STICK 2GETHER.. GOOD LOOK ON THE SHINE EIGHTY.
Posted by: M.FREEMZ.ILLA at February 26, 2007 12:33 PM
OH! SHIT SEATTLE HAS A HOOD/DIDNT EVEN KNOW!
My posse on broadway...
shout out to 80 for a good post fuck sohh NYC and that hatein ass dike bitch reckless
GOOD SHIT MAYNE I MEMBA BEIN IN LIKE 3RD OR 4TH GRADE KNOWIN ALL THA WORDS TO BABY GOT BACK. I GOT FAM UP DER IN WASHINGTON TACOMA, SEATLE THEY GOT HOODS AN SHIT TO BUT THEY GOT SOME GOOD ASS BOMB BEIN RIGHT NEXTA CANADA. CHECK OUT MY NEW SONG "LETS SMOKE"
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COME ON NOW! THE BAYAREA GOT'S BETTER WEED THAN CANADA////THEIR SO MANY TYPES OF CHRONIC OUT HERE,ITS LIKE BASKIN ROBBINS TO MANY TO CHOSE/////AND IF U GOT A WEED CARD ITS EVEN BETTER lol
Oh shit a Mexican wit a mullet!
hey dummy that west coast remix for where are they now is tight. what the hell did you expect from some old scholl rappers, dumb ass!
Talk about a song that just fuckin' bangin'in the truck? If you had 2 12's or 15's in the trunk that "Posse on Broadway" beat the fuckin' block down. Classic shit right there. I played that shit until the tape broke. That's right - TAPE!
Oh shit a Mexican wit a mullet!
Posted by: YoMTVRaps at February 26, 2007 5:03 PM
It's called a MexiMullet.
Not only was this a dope ass song but the video had us bugging with that Mercedes Limo, this nigga was ballin hard while everybody else wanted to go back to the motherland, good post
206 stand the fuck up! we're up next
Claaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassic.
Mix... a Don of the rap game, he brought pimp flo to the gangsta musix.
Sea Town fact, police trippin, mix told us about it, ran down the GAT to all that didnt know... and for sure put the ass back on tap,after FLA. tried and failed to destroy Luke Skywalker,
"PROPS TO THE MIX"
MIX COME BACK AND SING ABOUT THE TIMES IM TIRED OF HEARIN ABOUT THE PAPER FAKE CHASIN LOUIE TYPE RAPPER OF TODAY.
yea if you knew about dicks its the fucking best place to eat like ever fuck taco bell dicks is a hamburger joint with no inside u order all your food outside and alot of people still go there
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