Songoftheday 7/21/19 - What's the matter with your life? Why you gotta mess with mine? Don't keep sweatin' what I do 'cause I'm gonna be just fine check it out...
from the album Very Necessary (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #32 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 5
(Ed. Note: Thank you for waiting a week while I was on vacation. As much as I love doing this little corner of the interwebs, it was worth it to be able to take a break to relax. Now I'm back with a two-fer!)
Today's song(s) of the day come from the female rap group Salt-N-Pepa, who were enjoying the biggest pop success of their career with their Very Necessary album from 1993, which had already spun off a pair of top ten pop hits in America with "Shoop" and their collaboration with En Vogue, "Whatta Man". (In 1994, "Shoop" also had a second run on the British charts in its "Ghetto Lab" remix, climbing to #13). The third single release from the album in America actually combined two tracks from the record released separately as singles internationally, done as a "double A-side" CD/cassette/vinyl single. "None Of Your Business" was a rock-immersed tell-off to anyone questioning their lives and morals. Written by their producer Hurby "Love Bug" Azor, it was the song radio grasped mostly to, asserting equality over a sample of Margie Joseph's soul ballad from 1970, "Your Sweet Lovin'", which climbed to #46 on the R&B chart...
"None Of Your Business" became the third top-40 pop hit from Very Necessary in November of 1993. The song also climbed to #57 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart. Internationally, "None Of Your Business" reached the top-40 in the UK (#19), Ireland (#26), Switzerland (#29), and the Netherlands (#40). At the Grammy Awards in 1995, the song won the trophy for Best Rap Duo/Group Performance, their sole award.
The other track on the single, "Heaven & Hell", was originally intended to be the lead, but was overpassed by the reception to "None Of Your Business". Nevertheless, the song had enough pop radio airplay to be listed as a "double-A side" entry for a month out of the chart run for the single...
Released separately as a single internationally, "Heaven And Hell" made the top-40 in Australia (#21) and New Zealand (#27).
(Click below to see the rest of the post)
In the UK, the version promoted to radio included a hard rock production by Terrorvision...
Up tomorrow: A Danish rapper has a flip-top...
Comments