Songoftheday 1/17/24 - So fresh, so fly, so sweet, so polite, so much, too many, but we ridin' tonight...
"Hell Yeah" - Ginuwine featuring Baby
from the album The Senior (2003)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #17 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 12
Today's song comes from R&B singer Ginuwine, who returned to the Billboard magazine Hot 100 top-40 in the autumn of 2002 with a song he contributed to the soundtrack to the movie Barbershop, "Stingy". "Stingy" would also appear on Ginuwine's fourth studio album The Senior the following spring. His next single from that record would be "Hell Yeah", which featured rapper/Cash Money label head Baby, who had reached the top-40 himself with the single "Do That...". Written and produced by R. Kelly, it sports a groove much funkier than I expected from him, with a bassline that's mind-grabbing. The lyrics are the usually going out to party and find some women to spend their "time" with, with only a passing and unnecessary gun reference. Baby actually sounds better on this than his own material, probably the result of making a deal with the felonious producer devil. In total I think this is what Christina Aguilera's "Dirrty" was trying to be, but instead of forced sexual aggression, they're just riding the bass to its destination....
"Hell Yeah" became Ginuwine's fifth top-40 hit on Billboard's Hot 100 and Baby's second as a solo rapper in April of 2003, while peaking at #16 on their R&B Singles chart. On the radio, the song made it to #12 on the Mainstream Top-40 chart, #13 on the Mainstream R&B airplay list, and #5 on the dance/R&B-oriented Rhythmic format. Internationally, the single reached the top-40 in the United Kingdom (#27) and the Netherlands (#38).
Both Ginuwine, Baby, and the Senior album will return to the series.
(6/10)
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Up tomorrow, this rapper and diva are intuitive.
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