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"Right Thurr" - Chingy

from the album Jackpot (2003)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #2 (five weeks)

Weeks in the Top-40: 28

 

Today's song comes from rapper Howard Bailey Jr., who records under the stage name Chingy.  Chingy grew up in the St. Louis area, and after garnering a local following toured with fellow Missourian Nelly. However, it was Atlanta hip-hop star Ludacris who signed the rapper to his Disturbing Tha Peace label, where he released his debut album Jackpot in 2003. The lead single from the record was "Right Thurr", written by Chingy with the Trak Starz production team of Shamar Dougherty and Alonzo Lee.  The party record's lyrics are straight up about macking on a prospective woman he wants. This involves throwing some cringe lines like "I know your grown a 'lil bit, twenty years old, you legal" and "Like to be seen, she got it honest, in real life girl remind me of Pocahontas". At least it's not reliant on a rote sample and has a bouncy backing track from Trak Starz to support him. It does lean too heavily to the "thurr" regional tag, and his nasal tone is very much like Eminem. With that and a remix featuring Jermaine Dupri and up and coming rapper Trina, the single filled the gap between Nelly hits in that St. Louis sound...

"Right Thurr" climbed all the way to the runner-up spot on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 in August of 2003, while spending a week at #2 on their R&B Singles chart. On the radio, the song peaked at #5 on the Mainstream Top-40 chart, took two weeks on top of the Mainstream R&B airplay list, went to #16 on the Dance Airplay chart, and spent seven weeks at #1 on the dance/R&B-oriented Rhythmic format. Internationally, the single went to #1 in New Zealand, peaked at #6 in Australia, and made the top-40 in Canada (#11 Sales), Denmark (#12), Norway (#15), the United Kingdom (#17), Switzerland (#25), Italy (#29), the Netherlands (#29), and Belgium (#30 Flanders). The Jackpot album, released in July of that year, spent a week at #2 on the Billboard 200 sales tally, and got to #2 on the R&B Albums list, spending over a year on the lists and selling over two million copies.

Both Chingy and the Jackpot album will be back to the series.

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The remix with Jermaine Dupri and Trina (who eventually will be in this series) sported its own music video...

Here's Chingy and Dupri performing before an awards show in 2004...

and lastly in concert...

Up tomorrow: Singer/songwriter asks about satisfaction.