Songoftheday 2/15/20 - Who gotcha open scopin' out the track, it's no other than the sounds of the Daddy Mack...
from the album Young, Rich & Dangerous (1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #12 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 15
Today's song of the day comes from the hip-hop duo Kris Kross, who had scored a third top-40 pop hit with the lead single from their sophomore effort Da Bomb, "Alright" in the summer of 1993. Chris Kelly and Chris Smith returned at the start of 1996 with their third record Young, Rich & Dangerous, preceded by the single "Tonite's Tha Night". By then, the pair were just turning 18, and were trying to update their sound, including Mariah Carey backup singer (and one-hit wonder in his own right) Trey Lorenz singing backup on the track written and produced again by their mentor Jermaine Dupri, who very slyly interpolated a bit of Shalamar's "Night To Remember" into the song...
"Tonite's Tha Night" became Kris Kross' fourth and final top-40 pop hit in February of 1996. The song also climbed to #6 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart, but did its best on their Rap Singles chart, spending five weeks at #1 there. Internationally, the single just missed the top ten in New Zealand at #11, while peaking at #48 in Switzerland. A second release from the album, "Live and Die For Hip-Hop", featured some heavy hitter cameos with Aaliyah and Da Brat, but stopped at #72 on the pop Hot 100 in America, though it reached the top-40 on the R&B chart at #36. (It made the top-40 in New Zealand at #30.) Although the album was their third to reach the top-20 on the Top 200 Albums sales chart, it didn't do as well as the last two, and the pair never returned with another new album. In 2013, Chris Kelly succumbed to a drug overdose.
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There was a remix done that featured rapper Redman, which helped the sales of the singles...
And here's the Chris' on Soul Train to promote the single...
Up tomorrow: "Gangsta" rapper is overwarmed.
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