Released on 31/01/2000
Label: Rawkus

What's going on at Radio One? Two Rawkus Records hip-hop releases on the playlist in the last month! Maybe it's because Puff Daddy's so busy sorting out his legal problems that he hasn't been able to force his shoddy Bad Boy product on we poor British Radio listeners. Whatever, that crafty old independent dog Rawkus has crept through the backdoor and Mos Def's Mark & Lard fave, 'Ms Fat Booty', is followed by Pharoahe Monch's highly unlikely expletive-fest 'Simon Says'.

"Simon says - get the f**k up!" Quite how much of the song is going to be left after the censor's scissors have been all over that rather frank chorus, remains to be seen. Nonetheless, as unlikely as this track is as a radio hit, it's great to see hip-hop of this quality on the playlist. Now, "girls rub on your…."

    by James Poletti