April 12 street date. "Hip Hop Hooray" was the first single from Naughty By Nature's third album, "19 Naughty III". Released on December 10, 1992, the song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and number eight on the Billboard Hot 100. Their second highest charting song behind "O.P.P.", the hit crushed any "one-hit wonder" labels and saw the group show appreciation to the genre that gave them their livelihoods. The b-side, "Written On Ya Kitten", was the third and final single from the same album. 45 gram black vinyl in a custom printed jacket.
September 6 street date. There was not a bigger, more contagious crossover radio smash in the autumn of 1991 than Naughty by Nature's "O.P.P.", a song that somehow managed the trick of being both audaciously catchy and subversively coy at the same time. The lead single off their eponymous album, it was one of the first rap songs to become a pop hit when it reached No. 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 35 on the UK Singles Chart. It even named one of the 20 greatest singles of the 1990s by SPIN magazine. The third single off the album "Naughty By Nature", "Uptown Anthem", is the b-side on this 7". Originally made for the soundtrack for the movie "Juice", the song peaked at No. 27 on the Hot Rap Singles chart and No. 58 on the Hot R&B Singles chart.
October 4 street date. Blending a mix of street intellect into pop music, Naughty By Nature delivered raw-edge but accessible East Coast rap and created some of the biggest and most contagious hits of the 1990s. Naughty By Nature's greatest hits compilation "The Naughtiest", which has not been produced physically in over 20 years, contains the group's best known songs including "O.P.P" which hit #1 on the Billboard Rap Charts and #6 on the Hot 100, "Uptown Anthem", and "Pin The Tail On The Donkey" from their self-titled album, along with "Feel Me Flow" and "Craziest" from "Poverty's Paradise". And of course, select tracks from "19 Naughty III", including "Hip Hop Hooray" which hit #1 in several countries and has become a defining anthem for hip hop music.
October 4 street date. Blending a mix of street intellect into pop music, Naughty By Nature delivered raw-edge but accessible East Coast rap and created some of the biggest and most contagious hits of the 1990s. Naughty By Nature's greatest hits compilation "The Naughtiest", which has not been produced physically in over 20 years, contains the group's best known songs including "O.P.P" which hit #1 on the Billboard Rap Charts and #6 on the Hot 100, "Uptown Anthem", and "Pin The Tail On The Donkey" from their self-titled album, along with "Feel Me Flow" and "Craziest" from "Poverty's Paradise". And of course, select tracks from "19 Naughty III", including "Hip Hop Hooray" which hit #1 in several countries and has become a defining anthem for hip hop music.
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