WP's R-A-M Tournament Round 2 Match 17

[Gentleman Jake]

Paty Up - DMX
[QUOTEThe song appears on the soundtrack of the movie Gone In 60 Seconds (2000); it plays on the car radio of a stolen Humvee trying to evade the police.
The song is also featured in How High, a film starring Redman and Method Man, as well as the movies King's Ransom, Coyote Ugly, Hardball, First Sunday, Broken City and Zack and Miri Make a Porno
The song also appeared in episodes of the television shows Malcolm in the Middle, Eastbound and Down, King of Queens and Daria.
After the Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA championship in 2000, in the locker room, they were singing the song.
The song takes shots at rapper Kurupt, not Eminem, for dissing him on "Callin Out Names" over DMX having an affair with Foxy Brown, Kurupt's former fiancée.
The song is featured in the beginning of Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly, a Dave Chappelle comedy special.
Professional wrestler Elix Skipper came out to a knock-off/interpretation of the song (with his own lyrics) as his entrance music while in WCW, following in the footsteps of pro wrestlers such as Diamond Dallas Page & Chris Jericho, who also used knock-offs of popular songs as entrance themes.
In one scene from the 2002 film Like Mike, Bow Wow's and Morris Chestnut's characters sing the song in the car.
The censored version is also used in the video games, Def Jam Vendetta and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004.
In GB's book Skool Daze, one of the characters from Croydon sings the song down the street after he passed his theory test..[/QUOTE]
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I Wish by Stevie Wonder

This song finds Stevie chronicling his younger days from the 1950s onto the early '60s when he was a "nappy-headed boy" growing up in difficult circumstances. Despite living in poverty, he looks fondly on those days and wishes they could come back once more. It was a simple time when his only worry was "for Christmas what would be my toy."

Wonder wrote the song after attending a Motown company picnic in 1976 where he participated in contests and games; an afternoon in which he felt that he rekindled his childhood. "I had such a good time at the picnic that I went to Crystal Recording Studio right afterward and the vibe came right to my mind," he said.
The song was Stevie's fifth #1 number on the Hot 100, staying at the summit for one week. (He's topped the chart on nine different occasions throughout his career).
The song won a Grammy for best R&B vocal.
Nathan Watts' infectious 8-note bassline is one reason why "I Wish" is one of Stevie Wonder's most sampled songs. The best example is Will Smith's 1999 chart-topper "Wild Wild West," which was the theme song to the film by the same name starring Smith and Kevin Kline.
Along with "Sir Duke," this was one of two #1 US hits from Songs in the Key of Life, a landmark double album that Wonder produced himself.

Taking two years to complete, the album was a salute to Wonder's perfectionist ethos ("If it takes two years or seven years, I must be satisfied when it's done"), with the largest and most diverse collection of songs out of all his releases. It was the first album Wonder produced after signing a seven year contract with Motown Records, reputed to be worth $13 million. The Motown representative that bartered the contract said that the success of this album, which won the Album of the Year Grammy Award, convinced him that he had not been cheated in the deal. Clearly it was worth it, earning not just commercial success but praise from other artists who cite its influence. Elton John said of the album in 2003, "Let me put it this way: wherever I go in the world, I always take a copy of Songs in the Key of Life. For me, it's the best album ever made, and I'm always left in awe after I listen to it."
An interesting cover version of this song was an entirely instrumental rendition by the saxophonist Najee, appearing on his Stevie Wonder tribute album Songs From the Key of Life (1995), in which he substitutes his sax for Wonder's voice in the first half of the song, then breaks into a bearable solo (although he's no Charlie Parker), without entirely crossing the boundary between Pop and Jazz.
The Australian Idol first season winner, Guy Sebastian, covered this on his second album Beautiful Life (2004).
Listening to the house band at Motown Records gave wonder a great respect for the anonymous musicians who play on the hits, so he listed song-by-song credits on his albums starting in 1972 with Music of My Mind. The credits on "I Wish" read:
Nathan Watts – bass
Hank Redd – alto saxophone
Raymond Maldonado – trumpet
Trevor Laurence – tenor saxophone
Steve Madaio – trumpet
Stevie Wonder – vocals, Fender Rhodes, ARP 2600 Synthesizer, drums

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[Fuji Vice]

It's gotta' be Stevie.

 

[Jimmy King]

Yeah, gotta go with Stevie Wonder here, classic song right there.

 

[Gentleman Jake]

[MENTION=121]Wang Chung[/MENTION] [MENTION=60]The Linebacker[/MENTION] [MENTION=1]DJ Punk[/MENTION] [MENTION=75]Champagne Charlie[/MENTION] [MENTION=79]Sabretooth[/MENTION] and everyone else vote in this thread

 

[Kross Rhodes]

I think I'm going to be the lone gunman to party up with DMX.

 

[Gentleman Jake]

[MENTION=121]Wang Chung[/MENTION] [MENTION=75]Champagne Charlie[/MENTION] [MENTION=79]Sabretooth[/MENTION] can you guys please vote in this and the other 3 remaining contests