“Me So Horny” is the first single from 2 Live Crew’s groundbreaking, law-breaking, highly controversial and successful third album As Nasty As They Wanna Be. It was the group’s first of two top 30 US pop hits and it held the top spot on the US Rap Chart for four weeks.

This song along with tracks like “Put Her In The Buck”, and “The Fuck Shop” led anti-pornography Florida lawyer Jack Thompson to take the group to court after engineering a campaign that led to the album, with its 87 descriptions of oral sex and 116 descriptions of male and female genitalia, being labelled obscene in Lee County, Florida, and therefore illegal to sell or perform live there.

In June of 1990, a Fort Lauderdale record store owner was arrested for selling the album to an undercover police officer, and members of the group were arrested in Miami for performing songs from it. Eventually a jury acquitted the group.

The main music sample used in “Me So Horny” is from Mass Production’s “Firecracker” off their 1979 album In the Purest Form. The line “Me So Horny” was taken from the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket.

“Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head” was featured in the 1969 film “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”

It was written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach. Singer Ray Stevens was first offered to record the song, but turned it down so he could record Kris Kristofferson’s song “Sunday Morning Coming Down.” Bob Dylan was also approached to record the song, but he also reportedly declined.

The song was recorded in seven takes after Burt Bacharach was dissatisfied with the first six takes.

In the film version of the song, B.J. Thomas was recovering from laryngitis at the time which made his voice sound hoarser than in the 7-inch single version. That version is included in the film’s soundtrack under the name “On a Bicycle Built for Joy”.

The song topped the charts in the United States, Canada, Norway, and South Africa. It was also moderately successful in other countries.

It won an Academy Award for “Best Original Song” and in 2004, it finished at #23 on AFI’s “100 Years…100 Songs” survey of top songs in American cinema.

This is the second single from Lupe’s debut album Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor. Lupe declares that he is here to cater to the needs of hip-hop fans and save the genre.

Kanye’s intro to his third album, Graduation, is a wake-up call to himself and the world. It also gives Kanye a chance to show off his polished lyrical abilities.

The song is part of a larger metaphor: The album Graduation is Kanye’s “graduation” in the rap game. “Good Morning” is told as if Kanye is waking up on his Graduation Day, reminiscing about his college days and finally receiving his “rapping degree” in the third verse. The school/college theme is very present throughout the song.

Kanye samples Jay-Z’s “The Ruler’s Back” and Elton John’s “Someone Saved My Life Tonight” (both artists have been featured on one of Kanye’s songs).

On a side note, as if writing and producing this track wasn’t enough, Ye also developed a creative storyline for a video – despite the song never being released as an actual single.

The music video for “Good Morning” is essentially the result of Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami bringing to life the various designs he had composed for Graduation’s album artwork through the use of cel-shaded animation.