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. The song managed to peak at #21 on Billboard’s Black Singles chart, staying on the chart for 14 weeks. Their follow up single "The Key" did not chart at all.

Greaseman

Wuf Ticket’s “Ya Mama” achieved its greatest notoriety, and airplay, as a music bed for bits by

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The

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on WWDC-FM in

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and later his nationally syndicated radio show where Greaseman would argue with a surly service industry worker.

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