Songoftheday 4/8/20 - I been looking for you're ass since a quarter past, hot peas and butter baby come and get your supper...
from the albums Sunset Park (Original Soundtrack) and Bad As I Wanna B (both 1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #10 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11
Today's song of the day comes from female rapper MC Lyte, who scored her first top-40 pop hit as a lead artist in the fall of 1993 with "Ruffneck". Three years later, Lana Moorer returned with a song that originally appeared on the soundtrack to the high school movie Sunset Park starring Rhea Pearlman (yes, that Rhea Pearlman) as a basketball coach. "Keep On Keepin' On", written by MC Lyte with producer Jermaine Dupri using a generous sample of Michael Jackson's Bad album track "Liberian Girl", the song would end up becoming her biggest hit, leading to the release of her next album Bad As I Wanna B. R&B group Xscape guests as singing the chorus and hook for the track...
"Keep On Keepin On" became MC Lyte's first and only top ten pop hit in June of 1996. The song spent a week at #3 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart (her biggest success there as well), while getting to #2 on their Rap Singles list. Internationally, the single went to #18 in New Zealand, and #27 in the UK. When the Bad As I Wanna B album came out in the summer, the set went to #59 in the US. As for the Sunset Park soundtrack, two more singles were released from the set - "Hoop N Yo Face" from the 69 Boyz featuring the Quad City DJ's slipped onto the pop chart at #95 while topping out at #62 R&B and #19 Rap, while "Are You Ready" from Aaliyah, her first showing since her debut album, was a radio hit the just missed the R&B Airplay top-40 at #42.
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An alternate music video was film which removed all the Sunset Park scenes and put MC Lyte and Xscape in a club...
And lastly, the rapper appeared on the TV show Moesha starring hitmaker Brandy...
Up tomorrow: Houston trio remakes a soul classic about drawing in the sand, perhaps...
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