Dunkie Butt (Please Please Please) – 12 Gauge | Top 40 Chart Performance, Story and Song Meaning
Chart Performance: Pop (#28) & R&B (#28); 1994
Story Behind The Song By Ed Osborne
Booty and Bass, specifically the genre known as Miami Bass, go together like, well, hand and glove. While we’re all familiar with “booty,” perhaps a very brief look at the emergence of Miami Bass might be welcome.
MB’s driving force – electro-bass – moved from New York to Florida in the groove of Afrika Bambaataa’s Planet Rock, which rode on a sample from Kraftwerk’s Trans-Europe Express.
The year was 1982. In 1986 former Californian’s 2 Live Crew jumped into the scene and three years later broke Bass nationally with Me So Horny, the theme of which set the template for the booty bass trax to follow.
Luke and the Crew continued to work that thing into the nineties when the biggest bass booms hit the charts, such as Tag Team’s Whoomp! (There It Is). Among the new wave of bass and booty lovers was Isiah Pinkney, a rapper from Augusta, GA known as 12 Gauge, who scored with his own ode to posterior power.
This content and all Song Meaning articles were created and written by Top 40 Contributing Editor Ed Osborne. © 2024 Ed Osborne. All Rights Reserved. In addition to these song meaning articles, Ed has written our “Year in Music 1960s-1990s” articles.
Produced by:
- Doug Grigsby
- David Michery
Lyrics Written by:
- Isiah Pinkney
- Robert “Flash” Gordon
Ed Osborne
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