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Sir Mix-A-Lot with Special Guest JC
Doors 9 pm, Show 10 pm
$25 in advance/$30 at door
Sir Mix-A-Lot parlayed a gonzo tribute to women with large buttocks into hip-hop immortality. But even before he struck crossover gold, Sir Mix-A-Lot was one of raps great D.I.Y. success stories. Coming from a city Seattle with barely any hip-hop scene to speak of, Mix-A-Lot co-founded his own record label, promoted his music himself, produced all his own tracks, and essentially pulled himself up by the proverbial American bootstraps. Even before Baby Got
Back, Mix-A-Lot was a platinum-selling album artist with a strong following in the hip-hop community, known for bouncy, danceable, bass-heavy tracks indebted to old-school electro.
However, it took signing with Rick Rubins Def American label coupled with an exaggerated,parodic pimp image to carry him into the mainstream. Perceived as a one-hit novelty, he
found it difficult to follow his breakout success, but kept on recording, and even toured as part of a rap-rock supergroup called Subset, a collaboration with the Presidents of the United States of America. Sir Mix-A-Lot was born Anthony Ray in Seattle on August 12, 1963. An eclectic music
fan but a rabid hip-hop devotee, he was already actively rapping in the early 80s, and cofounded the Nastymix record label in 1983 with his DJ, Nasty Nes, who also hosted Seattles first hip-hop radio show. His first single was 1987s Posse on Broadway, which referred to a street in Seattle, not New York; it became a local hit, and paved the way for his first LP, 1988s Swass,which also featured the popular novelty Square Dance Rap, and a Run-D.M.C.-style cover of Black Sabbaths Iron Man, with backing by Seattle thrashers Metal Church. The video for Posse on Broadway landed some airplay on MTV, and became Sir Mix-A-Lots first national chart single in late 1988; that in turn pushed Swass into the Top 20 of the R&B album chart, and by 1989, it had sold over a million copies. Also in 1989, Mix-A-Lot released his follow up album Seminar, which produced three charting singles in Beepers, My Hooptie, and I Got Game; while none were significant crossover hits with pop or R&B audiences, all performed well on the rap singles chart, and helped Seminar become Mix-A-Lots second straight platinum album. Financial disputes with Nastymix resulted in a fierce court battle and ended Mix-A-Lots association with the label. Fortunately, Def American head Rick Rubin stepped in to offer him a major-label contract. Mix-A-Lot had long had a knack for mimicking (and mocking) the pimps hed watched while growing up in Seattle, and adopted their visual style with Rubins encouragement. He debuted for Def American with 1992s Mack Daddy, whose first single, One Times Got No Case, was a critique of racial profiling by police. It went
virtually unheard, but the follow-up, Baby Got Back, became a pop phenomenon virtually from the moment MTV aired its provocative video (which was eventually consigned to eveninghoursnonly). Seldom does a comic novelty song spark such a fierce cultural debate: no matter how ridiculous
it sounded, Baby Got Back touched on highly sensitive, hot-button issues of race and sex with a cheerful, good-natured crudeness that was guaranteed to offend more than a few. Was it a token of appreciation for women whose body types were rarely given positive cultural attention, or just
another sexist objectification? Was it an indictment of narrow, white-dictated beauty standards that left many typical black women (and the black men who loved them) out in the cold, or did it simply build up one type of woman by denigrating another? Feminists picketed Sir Mix-A-Lot
concerts all across the country that summer, but despite their efforts, record buyers sided with the rapper: Baby Got Back spent five weeks atop the pop charts, selling over two million copies; it also pushed Mack Daddy into the Top Ten, and went on to win a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance. Billboard magazine ranked it as the second biggest single of the year, behind only Boyz II Mens juggernaut End of the Road.
Quick Facts:
*Won Grammy Award and American Music Award for Best Rap Solo Performance
*Best known for his worldwide hit Baby Got Back
-75+ million YouTube views
-10+ million copies sold to date
-#1 on Billboard Hot 100 Chart for 5 straight weeks
-Won Grammy Award and American Music Award for Best Rap Solo Performance
*Three Platinum Albums- Swass / Seminar / Mack Daddy
*Nicki Minajs latest single Anaconda samples Baby Got Back
-375+ million YouTube views (broke 24-hour record w/ 19.6 million views in one day)
-#2 Billboard Hot 100 Chart / #1 Billboard Hot Rap Songs Chart
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LocationGreat Northern Bar and Grill (View)
27 Central Ave.
Whitefish, MT 59937
United States
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| Minimum Age: 21 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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