Posdnous: "Im gonna mess your head up: The original title for Ghetto Thang was Soft Rosetta Stone Outlet Violins, because we were playing with the violin sound on the keyboard. It was just once again, one of the routines we were trying to come up with in the house. By the time we were with Tommy Boy we were able to give it a better beat, give it a better keyboard, and it wound up becoming a song that talked about things that happen in the ghettos of America. We said, Lets make sure we have something like "The Message" from Grandmaster Flash, like, wow, thats a whole other level of looking at things. I think it was important for us, already being known from our Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 singles as being funny and witty, to have something like that added as well.""Transmitting Live From Mars"[This song was the subject of a lawsuit presented by the Turtles over copyright infringement]Posdnous: "Trouble, basically. My pops had this 45 — I dont know why he had this record — it was this French instructional record. I thought it would sound cool with this Wilson Pickett cover of Hey Jude, and then Paul had the Turtles record [You Showed Me], so he said lets put that with it, so we just added it all together. Its just amazing how big that skit became, even beyond legal matters. When we played Paris they would go crazy over that. It wound up introducing us to Serge Gainsbourg, who we wound up sampling on later records."Trugoy: "We didnt think any sample on the album would be a problem Rosetta Stone German, because we gave all the information to Tommy Boy, but to hear that a skit was actually the problem was crazy.""Eye Know"Posdnous: "When me and Dave worked in the mall, we would just hear songs playing in the loudspeakers. They would always play [Steely Dans] Peg and we were, even then, aspiring to be a group, and we were like, Yo, that could be a dope song to use. So, when it came about time to use it, we took that part I know Ill love you better, we took the Lee Dorsey beat, we used the horns from another Mad Lads record, and that was it. It was fun. It was kinda my first time programming a beat.""Take It Off"Trugoy: "That was another one of those moments where there were 25 people in the studio. There was a song out there at the time called Kick the Ball and it used the same Headhunters beat Cheap Rosetta Stone V3, so we basically mimicked the sound of their single and, instead of saying kick the ball, we said take it off and thought about all the cliché hip-hop stuff that people should just change and find some individualism or some of their own personality, as opposed to falling in line with what hip-hop was supposed to be.



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