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The dialogue of actress Papillon Soo Soo saying 'Me so horny' is sampled from the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket to complete Sir Mix-a-Lot's lyric, 'That butt you got makes.' Sir Mix-a-Lot commented in a 1992 interview: 'The song doesn't just say I like large butts, you know? The song is talking about women who damn near kill themselves to try to look like these beanpole models that you see in Vogue magazine.' He explains that most women respond positively to the song's message, especially black women: 'They all say, 'About time.'' Mix and Dorsey sought to 'broaden the definition of beauty.' They decided to dedicate a song to the opposite, featuring curvy women of color.

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The idea came from a 1980s-era Budweiser commercial featuring very thin, Valley girl-esque models with different skin colors. The song came from a meeting between Sir Mix-a-Lot and Amylia Dorsey, who saw little representation of full-figured women in media. Cause silicone parts are made for toys.' and 'So Cosmo says you're fat. The second and third verse challenge mainstream norms of beauty: 'I ain't talkin' 'bout Playboy. The first verse begins with 'I like big butts and I cannot lie' and most of the song is about the rapper's attraction to women with large buttocks. She's just so black!', at which point Sir Mix-a-Lot begins rapping. One girl (dubbed Linda by Amylia Dorsey) remarks to her friend, 'Oh, my, God Becky, look at her butt! It is so big. In the song's prelude there is a conversation between two (presumably) thin, white Valley girls, similar to girl talk in Frank Zappa's ' Valley Girl'. In 2008, it was ranked number 17 on VH1's '100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop'. 'Baby Got Back' was the second best-selling song in the US in 1992. The single spent five weeks at the top of the chart. It debuted at number 75 on the US Billboard Hot 100 on April 11 and hit number one twelve weeks later. Mix-a-lot defended the song as being empowering to curvaceous women who were being shown skinny models as an ideal for beauty. The song's accompanying music video was briefly banned by MTV. At the time of its original release, the song caused controversy because of its outspoken and blatantly sexual lyrics objectifying women, as well as specific references to the buttocks, which some people found objectionable. Released in May 1992 as the second single from his third album, Mack Daddy, the song samples the 1986 Detroit techno single 'Technicolor' by Channel One. As of 27 November 2019, Anaconda surpassed 900 million views on YouTube, making it the first solo female rap song to do so.' Baby Got Back' is a song written, co-produced and recorded by American rapper and songwriter Sir Mix-a-Lot. The song was also nominated for two categories at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, Best Female Video and Best Hip-Hop Video, winning the latter. 'Anaconda' was nominated for Best Rap Song at the 2015 Grammy Awards.

To further promote the song, Minaj performed it live at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards and also performed it at Fashion Rocks and the iHeartRadio Music Festival. She broke it previously “Stupid Hoe” and “Beauty and a Beat”. This also made Nicki Minaj the first and only female artist, to break the VEVO 24 Hour record three times. Following the video's release, it broke the 24-hour streaming record on Vevo by accumulating 19.6 million views in its first day of release, being surpassed by Taylor Swift's 'Bad Blood' in 2015. An accompanying video for the song was directed by Colin Tilley and released on August 19, 2014. The song also peaked within the top ten in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. It went on to spend eight weeks in the top ten of the Hot 100 chart. The song peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, consequently becoming Minaj's highest charting single in the United States to date but remaining in the number two spot due to the popularity of Taylor Swift's 'Shake It Off'. The song prominently samples 'Baby Got Back' (1992) by Sir Mix-a-Lot. The song was produced by Polow da Don, DJ Spydr, and Da Internz. It was released on Augby Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records, and Republic Records as the second single from the album. 'Anaconda' is a song by Trinidadian-American rapper and singer Nicki Minaj, from her third studio album, The Pinkprint (2014).

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