"Me So Horny" is a song by the rap group

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on their

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'' As Nasty As They Wanna Be''. The explicit nature of the lyrics of this song and the album led to the initially successful prosecution of the group on obscenity charges and the album being banned from sale in

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. This ban was overturned on appeal. It reached number one on the U.S. ''Billboard''

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chart and number 26 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1989, staying on the Hot 100 for thirty weeks, despite lack of

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due to the controversial nature of the

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(and/or possibly because of the associated controversy). The song also reached number one in the Netherlands. The song samples music from the

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hit song "Firecracker" by Mass Production and dialogue from the

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film ''

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'' and the Stanley Kubrick film '' Full Metal Jacket''.

Samples

The song heavily samples the 1979 funk hit single "Firecracker" by Mass Production. It also feature lines from two different films are used in the song. ''

'' (1977) – The "''Gonna do that thing. What we gonna do? Oh sock it to me. oaning'" sample heard at the beginning of the song (and occasionally sampled throughout) is from the scene in which Leroy (

) listens in on his father Rufus (also played by Pryor) having sex in another room. '' Full Metal Jacket'' (1987) – The lines listed below were sampled from the scene in which Private Joker (

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) and Private Rafterman ( Kevyn Major Howard) are approached by a Da Nang prostitute (Papillon Soo Soo). The exchange between Joker and the prostitute is used at the beginning, while the "Me so horny. Me love you long time. Me sucky sucky" sample is used in the chorus and throughout the song. Nancy Sinatra's "

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" can be heard underneath the samples at the beginning and end; that song appeared in the original scene in the movie. :Da Nang prostitute: ''Well, baby, me so horny. Me so horny. Me love you long time. Me sucky sucky.'' : ater in the same dialogue exchange:Private Joker: ''What'll we get for ten dollars?'' :Da Nang prostitute: ''Every t'ing you want.'' :Private Joker: ''Everything?'' :Da Nang prostitute: ''Every t'ing.'' The "Me So Horny" sample was also featured three years later, when

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Success and controversy

The song became a major hit for 2 Live Crew, topping the rap charts and going to No. 26 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1989. ''As Nasty As They Wanna Be'' reached No. 3 on the rap album charts and No. 29 on the album chart. The album eventually sold millions of copies.New York Times
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when he played the song on the radio show '' American Top 40'', though it did get mentioned on a Summer 1990 episode when the group's second top 40 hit, '' Banned in the U.S.A.'' was on the chart. The success of the single and the album led to concern over the explicit nature of rap lyrics both by 2 Live Crew and by gangsta rappers such as Geto Boys, Ice-T and

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prosecutor

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prosecuted 2 Live Crew on obscenity charges and persuaded a Federal District judge to declare the album obscene in June 1990. 2 Live Crew performed songs from the album including "Me So Horny" and were prosecuted for obscenity. Record store clerks who sold copies of the album were also arrested. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. testified on behalf of the group during the trial. The decision was later overturned on appeal and the ruling was upheld by the US Supreme Court. The publicity from the trials led to further sales of the album. In 1999, the group, minus former bandleader

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, rerecorded the song as "Bill So Horny" during the impeachment of

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for perjury under oath about his relationship with

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. However, the remix failed to chart. In 2008, it was ranked number 83 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Music video

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bottoms (with

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d black squares placed over the women's

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) and sport

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s. The MTV version featured alternative lyrics for the song (to comply with MTV's standards and practices) and alternative footage of the dancers in

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instead of bikinis.

Covers and re-mixes

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covered the song on their 2010 longplayer '' Got Cock?''. The album also included a remix of the track. *

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of Combichrist made an EBM version of the song for his solo album "13 Ways to Masturbate" released under the moniker of Dj Scandy. *An interpolation of the song can be heard on the track Kitty Kat from the mixtape

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Parodies

* A comedy hip-hop duo known as 2 Live Jews (whose name is an obvious parody of 2 Live Crew) released a spoof of the song, called "Oy! It's So Humid". This spoof replaces the line, "Me love you long time" with "It's like a

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cover on the 2005 album, '' Aperitif for Destruction''. * A parody group known as "MC Pillsberry & the 4 Large Crew (aka Too Large Crew)" made a spoof of the song called, "Me So Hungry". This title was also used for a similar spoof by 3 Local Boyz. * The

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video "Me Want Maury" on the January 19, 1992 third-season episode of ''

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's ( Steve Park) attempts to conceive a child. * The '' South Park'' episode " Cow Days" contains Eric Cartman saying the lines "Me love you long time. Me sucky sucky."

References

External links

Music video for the song
on MTV.com
Allmusic article

MTV Article on release of "Bill So Horny"

Anecdotage article on trial
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