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"Da' Dip" - Freak Nasty

from the album Controversee...That's Life...And That's The Way It Is (1996)

Billboard Hot 100 peak; #15 (one week) 

Weeks in the Top-40: 25

 

Today's song of the day comes from rapper Freak Nasty, who grew up as Eriq Timmons in New Orleans, Louisiana. Originally a DJ and producer, he released his self-titled debut album in 1994, which was locally successful. But it was his sophomore release, Controversee, that would grant Freak Nasty his biggest success. The lead single, "Da' Dip", was another in a string of "Miami Bass" style records that touted a special dance to go along, just like in the days of Chubby Checker and Dee Dee Sharp. Written and produced by Timmons, it took a whole year from its release in the summer of 1996 to catch on, but when it did, the record was everywhere...

 

 

"Da' Dip" spent almost a half of a year in the American pop top-40, cresting in the top half of that list in May of 1997. The song also climbed to #16 on Billboard magazine's R&B chart, and peaked at #4 on their Rap Singles tally. The Controversee album climbed to #68 on the R&B Albums sales chart, and #132 on the all-genre Billboard 200 albums sales list. 

 

A year later, Freak Nasty followed up with his next single,  "Do What U Feel", which only was able to slip on to the R&B singles chart at #87 and #33 on the Rap Singles list. And with the album that song would show up on, Which Way Is Up?, not showing up until 2000, by then everyone had mostly left him behind. Freak Nasty has released two studio albums since, with his most recent, Freaknotic, that had landed an almost top-40 pop hit in 2007 with "Do It Like A Rockstar" featuring Crazy Mike, which questionably got a ton of sales from people believing it was another song "Party Like A Rockstar" from the Shop Boyz which had not been released commercially as yet. Because of this, it peaked at #45 on the Hot 100 but fell off three weeks later, with the Shop Boyz record going all the way to #2 on the Hot 100. 

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