Rump Shaker (song)

"Rump Shaker" is a 1992 rap single by hip-hop group Wreckx-N-Effect, featuring Teddy Riley, from their 1992 album "Hard or Smooth".

Due to the massive success of Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You", "Rump Shaker" would make it to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100,and #2 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks. Nevertheless it peaked at #1 on the Hot Rap Singles , and 9 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play.

"Hard or Smooth" turned out to be a huge success for the group thanks in large part to "Rump Shaker", making it to 9 on the Billboard 200 and 6 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts.

The accompanying video received substantial criticism for its alleged exploitation of women in bikinis, despite its setting of a fun day at the beach, with the "New York Daily News" referring to Wreckx-N-Effect as "Horny Little Rap Kids". "Rump Shaker" is also notable for featuring a verse (performed by Teddy Riley) written by a young Pharrell, who, along with fellow future-Neptune Chad Hugo, contributed additional production work as Teddy Riley's then-protégés.

In addition to Riley contributing the second verse of the song, his other notable contribution to the song is the repetitive chorus of "All I wanna do is zooma-zoom-zoom-zoom in a boom-boom". The other notable feature of the song is a saxophone riff in the background from "Darkest Light" by Lafayette Afro Rock Band. It also shares a bell sample with "Aint No Half Steppin," by Big Daddy Kane.

Rapper Nelly pays tribute to the song in Ride wit Me, where he says "I like the way you comb your hair, I like the styles the clothes you wear."

External links

* [http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/statusainthood/archives/2007/05/on_the_continui.php On the Continuing Resonance of "Rump Shaker" (Blog from "The Village Voice")]