Songoftheday 6/26/20 - Now the feds want to throw the book at the crook, but I shook they worm and they hook...
from the album Bow Down (1996)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #21 (four weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 11
Today's song of the day comes from the Californian hip-hop supergroup Westside Connection. Rappers Mack 10 and WC were joined by former N.W.A. member Ice Cube, obviously the most successful of the trio at that time, having already scored four top-40 pop hits including two from his album Lethal Injection, "You Know How We Do It" and "Bop Gun", in 1994. The threesome had appears on each others' solo albums in the mid-1990s, and in 1996 they released their first collaborative album Bow Down. Lead single and title track "Bow Down" was a brag track that proclaimed them kings of the west, and the single rocketed into the pop top-40...
"Bow Down" entered the pop top 40 all the way at the halfway mark at #21, then proceeded to stay there for four weeks going no higher in October of 1996. The single topped Billboard magazine's Rap Singles chart, while peaking at #19 on their R&B list. The Bow Down album went to #1 on the R&B Albums chart, and #2 on the Billboard 200 sales list, going on to sell over a million copies.
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And here's the trio in concert performing "Bow Down" live...
Up tomorrow: New Jack Swing singer is absent.
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