Songoftheday 9/24/19 - Welcome to the world of Mack, or Mackman Leave you small guys sayin' I eat MC's like Pac-Man...
from the album Project: Funk Da World (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #38 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 2
Today's song of the day comes from rapper Craig Mack, who had provided Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Records with one of their first successes with the top-10 pop/R&B hit "Flava In Ya Ear" in the fall of 1994. Mack's follow-up to his breakthrough hit would be "Get Down". Built on a twisted sample of Blood Sweat and Tears' "I Can't Quit Her", it was pretty hardcore for a pop offering...
Craig Mack - Get Down from Cena do Louco on Vimeo.
"Get Down" became Craig's second and final pop hit on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching the top-40 in March of 1995. The song also climbed to #17 on their R&B chart, while peaking at #2 on their Rap Singles chart.
Mack would return to the music scene in 1997, first with a guest spot on dance/R&B singer Veronica's "No One But You" from the Hallee Berry movie BAPS, which got to #33 on the Dance Club Play list, just missing the R&B top-40 at #43, while peaking at #66 on the pop chart. A week later, his collaboration with gospel/dance group Sounds Of Blackness, "Spirit", entered the R&B chart, climbing to #29, while "Bubbling under" the pop Hot 100 at #102. Right after that, Mack promoted a new song of his own to radio; "Jockin' My Style" wasn't released as a single, but went to #50 on Billboard's R&B/HipHop Airplay chart. The song appeared on his second album Operation: Get Down, which got to #17 on the R&B albums chart (#46 on the Billboard 200). An attempt to release a second single to revive it, "What I Need", only got to #55 R&B/"bubbling under" at #103.
Perhaps inspired by his work with Sounds Of Blackness or labelmate MA$E, Craig Mack left the regular music business to work on Christian music, but sadly his life was cut short from a heart attack in 2018.
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A second remix of the song featuring A Tribe Called Quest rapper Q-Tip certainly helped the sales of the singles (with a separate release). This mix carried a sample of jazz-electronica group Soft Machine's
and lastly, here's Craig appearing live in the UK...
Up tomorrow: Lite-metal rockers profess their big love.
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