Songoftheday 11/10/19 - You 'bout to feel the chronicles of a bionical lyric lyrically splitting dismissing, I'm on a mission of just hitting...
from the album Poverty's Paradise (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #17 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11
Today's song of the day comes from the New Jersey-based rap trio Naughty By Nature, whose second album had scored them their second top ten pop hit with "Hip Hop Hooray" in the spring of 1993. Two years later, Treach, Kay Gee, and Vin Rock returned with their fourth studio album Poverty's Paradise. The lead single from the record, "Craziest", climbed to #27 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart, and got to #5 on their Rap Singles chart, but the jarring production and city name-calling may have turned off mainstream stations, making it stop just under the halfway mark on the pop chart (#51). The second release from the record, though, was much more smooth, and "Feel Me Flow", with only Treach rapping on the base of the Meters' "Find Yourself", got the trio back on pop radio...
"Feel Me Flow" became Naughty By Nature's third top-40 pop hit in July of 1995. The single also climbed to #17 on Billboard's R&B chart, and went up to #3 on their Rap Singles chart. Internationally, the single reached the top-40 in the UK (#23), and almost got into the top ten in New Zealand at #11. Poverty's Paradise won the first Grammy Awards for Best Rap Album, while the "Feel Me Flow" single was up for an award for Duo/Group Rap Performance, which went to Method Man and Mary J. Blige's "I'll Be There For You/You're All I Need To Get By".
The third and final single from the record would be "Clap Yo Hands", which went to #70 on the R&B chart, but only "bubbled under" the pop list at #105.
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Here's the trio at MTV's Spring Break in 1994...
And on Wendy Williams..
Up tomorrow: Eurodance act recreates a hit from the 70s from a Native American rock band.
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