Английская Википедия:Ego Trippin' (song)
Шаблон:Other uses Шаблон:Infobox song "Ego Trippin′" is a 1986 song by Ultramagnetic MCs. The group made a stylistic breakthrough with it; the song boasted dense, minimalist production, featuring erratic lyricism by Ced-Gee and Kool Keith, synthesizer riffs[1] and was the first song to sample Melvin Bliss's "Synthetic Substitution",[2] now one of the most sampled songs of all time.[3]
Lyricism
The Anthology of Rap, published by Yale University Press, makes note of such pseudoscientific terminology in Ced-Gee's lyricism on "Ego Trippin'", particularly the lines "Usin' frequencies and data, I am approximate / Leaving revolutions turning, emerging chemistry / With the precise implications, achieved adversively".[4] Kool Keith's rhymes are manic and expressed in a staccato pace.[4] His lyrics on "Ego Trippin'" also criticize the musical aesthetic of old school hip hop artists at the time: "They use the simple back and forth, the same old rhythm / That a baby can pick up and join right with them / But their rhymes are pathetic, they think they copasetic / Using nursery terms, at least not poetic".[4] It was meant as a Diss to Run-DMC's style and specifically aimed at their song Peter Piper.
Use in popular culture
- In 1994, De La Soul paid tribute to it by calling their single Ego Trippin' (Part Two), which charted at #47 on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales,[5] #74 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs[5] chart and #39 on the Hot Rap Singles.[5]
- Ego Trippin' was also paid tribute to by Sway & King Tech on their album This or That, as there was a song on it called "Ego Trippin' '99" which featured Kool Keith and Motion Man.[6]
- "Why R U" by Amerie from the album In Love & War samples this song.[7]
- Was featured in the soundtrack for the Video game Tony Hawk's Underground 2.
References
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- ↑ Shapiro, Peter (2005), p. 374.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Перейти обратно: 4,0 4,1 4,2 The Anthology of Rap (2010), p. 497.
- ↑ Перейти обратно: 5,0 5,1 5,2 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Ultramagnetic MC's Music Sampled by Others. WhoSampled. Retrieved on July 10, 2011.
