RNovelty pop / dance
About This Sample
Right Said Fred's 1991 global novelty number one — a riff that lifts liberally from Rick James's 'Super Freak,' delivered with deadpan camp by Richard Fairbrass. For 'Way 2 Sexy' (2021, with Future and Young Thug), producers OZ and Tay Keith built the entire beat around an interpolated, slowed-down version of the song's central riff and chorus phrase. Right Said Fred received songwriting credit. The flip works because everyone already knows the source — Drake leveraged the meme-fluency of a 30-year-old earworm to land his ninth Billboard Hot 100 number one in 2021. It is the rare Drake hit whose joke is also the hook.
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1991
Right Said Fred
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Drake
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