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"Me So Horny"
Single by 2 Live Crew
from the album As Nasty As They Wanna Be
Released	1989
Format	CD single, 7"
Genre	Funk Hip-Hop Dirty Rap
Length	4:36
Label	Life Records
Writer(s)	Luther Campbell, Mr. Mixx, Brother Marquis, Ricardo Williams & Fresh Kid Ice
Producer	2 Live Crew
2 Live Crew singles chronology
"Move Somethin'" (1988) "Me So Horny" (1989) "Yakety Yak" (1989)

"Me So Horny" is a song by rap group 2 Live Crew on their album As Nasty As They Wanna Be. It reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart and #26 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1989 despite lack of airplay due to the controversial nature of the lyrics.

The explicit nature of the lyrics of this song and the album led to the initially successful prosecution of the group on obscenity charges and the album being banned from sale in Florida. This ban was overturned on appeal. The song samples "Firecracker" by Mass Production and a supposed pornographic tape in the beginning for the constant moaning.

Contents 1 Origin of the phrase 2 Success and controversy 3 Chart performance 4 Music video 5 Popular culture 6 See also 7 External links 8 References

[edit] Origin of the phrase

The chorus of the song was sampled from the Stanley Kubrick film Full Metal Jacket. In the movie, UK actress Papillon Soo Soo, credited as "Da Nang Hooker" speaks the lines:

Hey baby, you got girlfriend Vietnam? Me so horny. Me love you long time.

[edit] Success and controversy

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The song became a major hit for 2 Live Crew, topping the rap charts and going to #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1989. As Nasty As They Wanna Be reached #3 on the rap album charts and #29 on the album chart. The album eventually sold over three million copies.^{[citation needed]}

The success of the single and the album led to concern over the explicit nature of rap lyrics both by 2 Live Crew and by gangsta rappers such as Ice-T and N.W.A..

Then-Broward County prosecutor Jack Thompson prosecuted 2 Live Crew on obscenity charges and persuaded a Federal District judge to declare the album obscene in June 1990. 2 Live Crew performed songs from the album including "Me So Horny" and were prosecuted for obscenity. Record store clerks who sold copies of the album were taken for questioning.^{[citation needed]}

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. testified on behalf of the group during the trial. Sinéad O'Connor was one of the celebrities who supported the group on the grounds of the right to free speech.^{[citation needed]} The decision was later overturned on appeal and the ruling was upheld by the US Supreme Court. The publicity from the trials led to further sales of the album.

In 1999, the group, minus former bandleader Luther Campbell, rerecorded the song as "Bill So Horny" during the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton for allegedly lying under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.^{[citation needed]} However, the remix failed to chart.

In 2008, it was ranked number 83 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.

[edit] Chart performance

Chart (1989)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[1]	26
U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Tracks[1]	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play[1]	5
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks[1]	34
Chart (1990)	Peak position
Dutch Top 40[2]	1

Preceded by "All Around the World" by Lisa Stansfield

Dutch Top 40 number-one single February 3, 1990 (1990-02-03) – February 10, 1990 (1990-02-10) (2 weeks)

Succeeded by "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinéad O'Connor

[edit] Music video

The music video mainly features the members of the band rapping while scantily clad women are shown dancing on a stage.

Two versions of the video were ultimately released. The original "uncut" version featured the dancing women in G-string bikini bottoms (with rotoscoped black squares placed over the women's buttocks) and sport brassieres. The MTV version featured alternate lyrics for the song (to comply with MTV's standards and practices) and alternate footage of the dancers in cycling shorts instead of bikinis.

[edit] Popular culture

• A comedy hip-hop duo known as 2 Live Jews (whose name is an obvious parody of 2 Live Crew) released a spoof of the song, called "Oy! It's So Humid". This spoof replaces the line, "Me love you long time" with "It's like a sauna in here." This is one of the tracks of their first album, titled As Kosher As They Wanna Be.
• Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine did a Lounge cover on the 2005 album, "Aperitif for Destruction".
• In the movie Disturbia Ashley (Sarah Roemer) changes Kale's (Shia LaBeouf) ringtone to "Me so Horny" whenever his best friend Ronnie (Aaron Yoo) calls.
• A parody group known as "MC Pillsberry & the 4 Large Crew (aka Too Large Crew)" made a spoof of the song called, "Me So Hungry". This title was also used for a similar spoof by 3 Local Boyz.
• Andy LaPlegua of Combichrist made an EBM of the song for his solo album "13 Ways to Masturbate" released under the moniker of Dj Scandy
• In the South Park episode, Cow Days, Cartman (while thinking he's a Vietnamese prostitute) says "Me so horny, me love you long time" to a soldier.
• The phrase "Me so horny" Is used in the Howard Stern show as a sound effect played by Fred Norris.
• In the Adult Swim series Frisky Dingo, Killface's plan to distract several chinese guards consists of a naked Xander Crews moaning "Oh, me so horny! You want teabag, Chinatown?"
• In the movie Bruce Almighty, the song is renamed "Bruce So Horny (He Love You Long Time)", as one of the many ways Jim Carrey attempts to win back his girlfriend
• In the movie Be Cool (2005), Vince Vaughn goes to a strip club and "Me So Horny" is playing.
• In the movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Steve Carell says "Me so horny, me love you long time" while he makes up his fake sexual experiences.
• In the movie How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, when Simon Pegg gets back to his apartment with Kirsten Dunst, she says she loves this song and it is playing in the background.
• In the video game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, the Orc Grunt unit - in Blizzard's tradition of adding humorous quotes when a unit is clicked several times - will say "Me so horned, me hurt you long time".
• It the American Dad Episode Stanny Slickers 2: The Legend of Ollie's Gold , Roger (Disguised as one of his alter egos, Lauren Vanderbooben) walks to her office desk to Me So Horny

[edit] See also

• Dirty rap and Pornocore
• Miami bass

[edit] External links

• Allmusic article
• Boston Review article on obscenity trial
• NME article on obscenity trial
• MTV Article on release of "Bill So Horny"
• Anecdotage article on trial

[edit] References