And I don’t suppose that The Chipmunks wrote there own songs, either.
Okay, I’ll go now. I think it’s hilarious, though.
snigger
And I don’t suppose that The Chipmunks wrote there own songs, either.
Okay, I’ll go now. I think it’s hilarious, though.
snigger
Clarence Carter in "Strokin’ " (or whatever the name of that song is).
"Clarence Carter, Clarence Carter, Clarence Carter … "
THEIR own songs.
Pookah’s cracking up, Pookah needs a holiday.
Maybe I should work that into a song so I could submit it.
Also, “Girls, Girls, Girls” by Motley Crue:
Hey Tommy – look over there! /
Where, Vince, where?
How do you do? I don’t think that we’ve met.
My name is Ian and I’m from Minor Threat.
“Cashing In” - Minor Threat
[QUOTE=Trunk]
You probably couldn’t find Hip Hop acts that DON’T do it.
QUOTE]
Agreed.
Victor Wooten:
“Yo Victor, Whatever you do I want you to remember this here thing: You can’t hold no groove if you ain’t got no pocket.”
The O.C. Supertones:
“Supertones strike back!”
Also “Jim Dandy” by Black Oak Arkansas is referential to lead singer Jim Dandy Mangrum.
These are coming to me fast and furious now:
My first name ain’t baby /
It’s Janet /
It’s Jackson /
If you’re nasty
“Nasty Boys”, Janet Jackson
"Strange" by R.E.M. : “Michael’s nervous and the lights are bright”
"Broken Whiskey Glass by Jason and the Scorchers : “Here lies Jason, strangled by a love that wouldn’t breathe”
And stretching way back into the mists of time, there’s the classic folk song “Jesse James”, written by minstrel Billy Gashade upon hearing the news of James’s death:
*This song was made by Billy Gashade,
As soon as the news did arrive;
He said there was no man with the law in his hand
Who could take Jesse James when alive. *
Oh, and if band names count, there’s **“Radio Clash” by, well, The Clash.
I thought it was “Miss Jackson if you’re nasty.”?
Anyway, another R.E.M. song, “Little America” - “Jefferson, I think we’re lost” He was their road manager, IIRC.
Beastie Boys, “Girls”
I heard she moved real far away
That was two years ago this May
I seen her just the other day
Jockin’ Mike D. to my dismay
*
Don’t forget “Caress Me Down”:
“Mucho gusto, me llamo Bradley, I am much hornier than Ron Jeremy!”
Again, if working their own band name in counts, Blur lead singer/songwriter **Damon Albarn ** purposely stuck in the line: “now life’s a blur”, in the Great Escape song “It Could Be You”.
He did work his own name into an actual song on the same album, however, it is an anagram: Dan Abnormal.
Bart Simpson’s early hit Do The Bartman, co-written by Michael Jackson, features the line “If you can do the Bart, then you’re bad like Michael Jackson.”
Speaking of anagrams, there’s "Mr. Mojo Risin’ " (Jim Morrison) in “L.A. Woman” by The Doors.
I told you about the walrus and me-man
You know that we’re close as can be-man
Well here’s another clue for you all
The walrus was Paul
-Glass Onion, The Beatles
Enya’s Orinoco Flow, the final verse has the following (which completely ruins the song in my opinion):
We can steer, we can near
with Rob Dickins at the wheel.
We can sigh, say goodbye
Ross and his dependencies.
Of course, technically that’s not namechecking the writer, but it does mention people she works with.
After reading the threads here I got so caught up in ‘Boy, I really hate that Enya did this in *Orinoco Flow’ * that I went off-topic a wee bit. Sorry folks.
And in a direct reference, Veruca Salt’s Volcano Girls
I told you about the seether before
You know, the one that’s neither or nor
Well here’s another clue if you please
The seether’s Louise
Let’s see…Not exactly hiphop, but The Bloodhound Gang’s lead singer, Jimmy Pop mentions himself in a bunch of songs, Why’s Everybody Always Picking On Me, Shut Up, Mama Say, One Way, Convoy, Legend In My Spare Time, and probably many more.