NEWS
September 13, 2007 | Margaret Wappler, Times Staff Writer
Sir Mix-A-Lot, the Seattle rapper who slammed skinny models in his 1992 big-booty anthem "Baby Got Back," isn't one for vigorous exercise. "Have you seen me lately?" he said from the road outside Vegas. "I hit the treadmill this morning, but that was strictly walking. That's about as much as I can take." But that won't stop him from performing at this year's Nike Run Hit Remix: The Power Song Edition, a five-mile race set to live performances of the most incorrigibly popular tracks of the '90s.
ENTERTAINMENT
July 19, 1992 | DENNIS HUNT
"Me? A sexist? Are you kidding?" Seattle-based rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot seems genuinely indignant--which isn't quite the reaction you'd expect from someone who's been nicknamed "Sir Sexist" because of his hit single "Baby Got Back." The record, which has been No. 1 for three weeks and sold more than 1 million copies, is a rollicking homage to plump female behinds. Since the record focuses on black women, some have also labeled the Def American release racist. "A bad rap," says Mix-A-Lot, 28.
ENTERTAINMENT
July 17, 1994 | HEIDI SIEGMUND
Sir Mix-a-Lot is the rare rap artist whose style is so distinctive that even a hip-hop dabbler can name that rapper within a couple of notes. Whether it's his semi-singing rap delivery or his trademark lashing beats, he put Seattle on the rap map with his distinguished sound. Mix--who wrote, mixed, arranged, engineered and produced--has created an album that incorporates more '70s funk than his three earlier efforts.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 10, 1992 | MICHAEL CONNELLY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
During an unusual half-hour on Los Angeles' airwaves Wednesday, one of the officers facing federal civil rights charges in the beating of Rodney G. King squared off with rap-music star Sir Mix-A-Lot. The verbal sparring match on KABC's "Ken and Barkley Company" radio show occurred when the rap star joined an in-progress interview with suspended Los Angeles Police Officer Laurence M. Powell.
ENTERTAINMENT
August 7, 1994 | Chris Willman, Chris Willman writes regularly for Calendar. and
If there was a "Baby's Got Back," it was probably inevitable there'd be a "Baby's Got Front." Still, the breast-obsessed new video "Put 'Em on the Glass" marks an instant rift in rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot's unlikely alliance with those women who saw his paean to plump derrieres, "Baby's Got Back," as a liberating corrective to thin-is-better stereotypes.
ENTERTAINMENT
September 2, 2012 | By Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times Pop Music Critic
The season of Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" is winding down, her so-called "wish in a well" has long been thrown. The addictive ode to obsessive ambivalence, propelled into the heads of millions after a Justin Bieber tweet in the spring, can safely be called the proverbial "song of the summer. " At slumber parties and pool parties, during barbecues, while jogging or making out, in front of YouTube on repeat, remixed and covered thousands of times by amateurs, "Call Me Maybe" has been everywhere.