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Ira Brooker lives in Saint Paul and writes anything for which people will pay him, plus a lot of things for which they will not. Tip: If a middle-aged man ever starts rapping about "doing it" in your vicinity, immediately leave his backyard barbecue. As cheap cash-in songs performed by cartoon characters go, it's fairly catchy, and it had some serious pop cred: Simpsons superfan Michael Jackson provided background vocals. "Do The Bartman" consists mostly of Bart (sung by voice actor Nancy Cartwright) rattling off a list of mild misdeeds, like putting mothballs in his mom's beef stew. Fox's flagship family was so hot that they spawned not only The Simpsons Sing The Blues, a best-selling album of terrible songs only vaguely related to the show, but also a hit single to go along with it.

Related: The Article That Mainstreamed (And Whitened) Disco Was Made Up 1 The Simpsons Wanted To Follow "Do The Bartman" With A Hip-Hop Beach Boys Collaborationīack in 1990, everybody wanted a piece of The Simpsons. That's a shame - "Dis-Gorilla" was a solid pun, and dare we suggest an even more compelling. or, y'know, continue hosting a nationally broadcast Top 40 radio show for three decades and counting.

After the sequel flopped, Dees was forced to retreat into obscurity. Unfortunately, the public's appetite for songs about disco animals topped out at exactly one. Where "Baby Got Back" disavowed women built on the small side, the coyly titled "Big Johnson" does the opposite. We won't speculate on the man's sexual proclivities, as what he does in the backseat of his Benz is his own business, but it's fair to say that his fondness for juice does not extend to the fellas. Nowadays, Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back" wouldn't feel out of place as supermarket background music, but it was a shock to the system back in the day of Parental Advisory hearings. And doing all the wrong things, none of them "mashing." Related: Universal Is Doing A 'Monster Mash' Movie, Hoping It Will Be A Graveyard Smash 4 Sir Mix-A-Lot Penned "Baby Got Back," Then Stood Up For Small Penises Pickett's heart was undoubtedly in the right place, but zingers like We couldn't tell the mindless zombies / From the elected ones were not.

While Pickett had revisited his monster themes many times, up to that point, his most controversial take was 1984's "The Monster Rap," which posited that Frankenstein's Monster might be good at hip-hop.
