Rump Shaker (song)
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Rump Shaker is a 1992 rap single by hip-hop group Wreckx-N-Effect, featuring Teddy Riley, from their 1992 album Hard or Smooth.
Rump Shaker would make it to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also made #1 on the Hot Rap Singles and #2 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, and 9 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play.[1]
Hard or Smooth turned out to be a huge success for the group thanks in large part to Rump Shaker, making it to 9 on the Billboard 200 and 6 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts.
The accompanying video received substantial criticism for its alleged exploitation of women in bikinis, despite its setting of a fun day at the beach, with the New York Daily News referring to Wreckx-N-Effect as "Horny Little Rap Kids". "Rump Shaker" is also notable for featuring a verse (performed by Teddy Riley) written by a young Pharrell Williams, who, along with fellow future-Neptune Chad Hugo, contributed additional production work as Teddy Riley's then-protégés.
In addition to Riley contributing the second verse of the song, his other notable contribution to the song is the repetitive chorus of "All I wanna do is zooma-zoom-zoom-zoom in the boom-boom". The other notable feature of the song is a saxophone riff in the background.