Somebody helped me figure out what fucking song this is!

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The lyrics, as I remember them, are:
"Everything is everything; it's all good. In my droptop Fleetwood, rollin' through th' hood. Everything is everything; it ain't nothin' but a chicken wing. Shorty do your thang."
This has been bothering me for a year straight.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 04:03 (nineteen years ago) link

outkast?

Symplistic (shmuel), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link

sting?

woly boly (woly boly), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 07:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Tom Jones?

JG, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 08:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Vanilla Ice?

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 08:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Closest I can find is "No Good" by Nappy Roots.

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 09:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Zion I "Prophecy" has the line "everything is everything
picking up a chicken wing" but none of the rest...

zappi (joni), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 09:09 (nineteen years ago) link

sultans of ping?

Jay Kid (Jay K), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 09:10 (nineteen years ago) link

You're Jay kid
j.j.j.j.j.jay kid
j.j.j.j.j.jay kid
j.j.j.j.j.jay!

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 09:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Is it The Cure?

flowersdie (flowersdie), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 09:16 (nineteen years ago) link

mark,
yeah, but where's me jumper?

Jay Kid (Jay K), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 09:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Do we still get a free Gmail account if we work this out?

Huey (Huey), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 09:20 (nineteen years ago) link

No, we get a ball and a yard of grass!

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link

obviously this is outkast

Jay Kid (Jay K), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 09:24 (nineteen years ago) link

.. because everything is.

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Warren G - 'Flow On'?

James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 12:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Alright, already we'll all flow on...

Neb Reyob (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Free Gmail account if you dropload and or mail me the mp3 of this.

Honestly, I thought this WAS outkast, but I own all the albums and it's not on there. I vaguely remember the video with the bassist from Pearl Jam hangin' with the band.

I'm gonna check on that nappy roots suggestion.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 23:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Gave the Roots track a listen and that's a no go.
Maybe this is old Dungeon Family shit?

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link

And no on the Warren G.
See, what bugs me about this song is that I have the tune in my head, but the lyrics are pretty much googleproof.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link

is the vocal male or female? if female, two versions:
a) Lauryn Hill
2) Floetry

joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 00:46 (nineteen years ago) link

However it is, to my chagrin this reminded me of that annoying Phoenix song that's impossible to banish from one's head after hearing it:
"(boop boop) "Everything is everything" etc etc
I wish I hadn't read this thread

Thea (Thea), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 00:51 (nineteen years ago) link

The vocals are male and the sound is sorta dirty south.
Sorry about that thea.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 July 2004 01:59 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...
It's been another year and I still can't fucking ID this song.
HELP HELP HELP.
I really need to know. I have some kind of fucked up memory of Stone Gossard (?) from Pearl Jam (???) onstage in a live perf. video and that chorus is still stuck in my head. Impossible to google.
HELP HELP HELP.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 23 July 2005 04:19 (eighteen years ago) link

help?

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 23 July 2005 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...
help?

forksclovetofu, Friday, 16 March 2007 06:34 (seventeen years ago) link

two years pass...

four years? Still? anyone? Google leads me nowhere.

pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 June 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link

you still offerin' that free gmail account?

hugging used to mean something (call all destroyer), Thursday, 4 June 2009 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link

ha, yeah, it's all yours if you can help.

pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 June 2009 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link

Not Nappy Roots then?

Mark G, Thursday, 4 June 2009 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link

Wouldn't the "google leads me nowhere" mean there's a lot of misheard words? So some of those lyrics aren't right. Let's see...

http://www.mp3lyrics.org/m/mack-10/do/ ("everything is everything" would have to be "do the damn thang" for this one, no Fleetwoods or chickens) ?

http://www.lyricsondemand.com/y/youngbloodzlyrics/downheyainthesouthlyrics.html ?

http://www.requestlyrics.com/read.php?1,692912,739255 ?

StanM, Thursday, 4 June 2009 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link

Not the Mack 10
Not Youngbloodz
Definitely not Trae and 3-6.
This would've come out between 90 and 94?

pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 June 2009 01:33 (fourteen years ago) link

Pretty sure those lyrics are right. Pretty sure stone gossard was in the video or at least on stage for a live version. I want to say it's Outkast. It's not outkast. This has been bothering me for five years.

pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 June 2009 01:34 (fourteen years ago) link

i do like that youngbloodz cut tho'.

pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 June 2009 01:37 (fourteen years ago) link

OK, next time someone interviews Stone Gossard, we all know what the first question is going to be.

Mark, Friday, 5 June 2009 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link

Is it Baby D, Slammin Cadillac Doors?

dad a, Friday, 5 June 2009 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link

Nope.
It really did sound like an Outkast track, not bassy at all.
I can actually sing the song in my head and it sounds like Sleepy Brown is singing. The cadence for the chorus is:

Everythang is Everythang
It's all good
In my drop top Fleetwood
Rollin' through the hood
Everythang is Everythang
(garbled garbled), it ain't
Nothin' but a chicken wang
Shawty do ya thang

pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 June 2009 05:32 (fourteen years ago) link

Seriously, this has been bothering me for about a decade now. It's my litmus test as "the thing I can't find out about on the internet".

pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 June 2009 05:32 (fourteen years ago) link

I mean, I couldn't very well have made that up can I? I remember googling five years ago to find out what the fuck a drop top fleetwood was, cuz I don't know car culture so I don't think I would guess my way to that. Maybe I dreamed it.

pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 June 2009 05:35 (fourteen years ago) link

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k3vin k., Friday, 5 June 2009 05:39 (fourteen years ago) link

Movies and Shows: alot enace to society=me cuz dats wat i am lol um bernie mac,this movie with too short in iit but all i remember from iit is tha song"aint a thang but a chicken wang shawty do ya thang"lol thats the shiit too??

i'm too hardcore to be bourgeois (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 5 June 2009 07:53 (fourteen years ago) link

http://knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/List_of_songs_covered_by_Pearl_Jam/ ?

StanM, Friday, 5 June 2009 09:31 (fourteen years ago) link

I mean, I couldn't very well have made that up can I?

― pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 June 2009 05:35 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Don't be too sure.

A while ago, I dimly remembered a Dylan style take off of "Ilkley Moore baht at", but all I could find was Bill Oddie's version which was a take on Joe Cocker's style. About a month later I remembered. It was me, one drunken evening...

Mark G, Friday, 5 June 2009 10:53 (fourteen years ago) link

Find Stone's email address (or info@pearljam dot com or something) and ask him? Promise to donate $50 to one of his charities if he answers?

StanM, Friday, 5 June 2009 11:03 (fourteen years ago) link

The too short connection sounds likely: left coasters both.
Just listened to complete MIIS sndtrk and it's not on there.

pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 June 2009 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link

Maybe it was a one-time live improv lyric :-(

StanM, Friday, 5 June 2009 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link

OK, live performance on TV with someone from Pearl Jam on or near the stage: does this 1992 Lollapalooza lineup help?

Main Stage: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pearl Jam, Lush

Side Stage: Jim Rose Circus, Sharkbait, Archie Bell, Porno for Pyros, Basehead, Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Sweaty Nipples, Arson Garden, Seaweed, Seam, Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., The Look People, Stone Temple Pilots, The Vulgar Boatmen, Truly, Skrew, Tribe, The Authority, Samba Hell, Café Tacuba, Rage Against the Machine

StanM, Friday, 5 June 2009 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link

no, it was on MTV in the early 90's; in-studio live show as i recall though I might be crazy. I guess Boo Yaa Tribe is a possibility?

pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 June 2009 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link

OH DUDE SO IMPORTANT TO ME

Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:31 (twelve years ago) link

dude thank you so much

Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link

oh i am going to listen to this all day

Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:33 (twelve years ago) link

zip11 i owe you a gmail account

Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:33 (twelve years ago) link

lol, 7 years yesterday. amazing.

Introducing the Hardline According to (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:34 (twelve years ago) link

so this is Jazzy Pha production?

Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:35 (twelve years ago) link

man this completely made my day in every way

Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:35 (twelve years ago) link

god i was off by like five years in when I thought i heard this! gonna be downloading a LOT of breed today
i will cop to not really knowing this guy at all except by name.

On September 5, 2008 the rapper was hospitalized and placed on life-support after he collapsed when his kidneys failed during a game of pickup basketball. On November 22, 2008, Breed reportedly died in his sleep while at a friend's home in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:38 (twelve years ago) link

oh that goddamn bassline
i gotta go into work but again thank you.

Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link

RIP

kkvgz, Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:41 (twelve years ago) link

he references g-mob on the track, this must've been an outkast thing on mtv where dungeon fam was performing and breed did a guest track.... is khujo on this song? i can't even tell
oh fuck so happy to hear this again it's like i finally scratched an itch that i've had for YEARS

Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link

And maybe Stone was hanging with them on the show? So weird that i only remember hearing this ONCE and it's stuck with me for over a decade.

Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link

zip11 if you are a sock you are my favorite sock of all time

Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link

The guy dying while you were seeking him/his song is kinda reminiscent of second/third-gen. Holocaust memoirs. Makes the discovery more poignant, maybe.

don't start nani, won't be nani (boxall), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link

Goddamn. That is funky. I am happy for Forks now. ILM comes through again.

undeɹrated ærosm?th b∞tlegs I have pwned (sic), Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link

do you think you were imagining/misremembering the part about Stone Gossard? I don't see any evidence that there was a video for this song or a Pearl Jam connection. what an awesome lost & found story though.

why delonge face? (unregistered), Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link

it could be in my head! I don't think there WAS a video; my hazy memory was watching this in high school (which is wrong, since this came out in 99 and i woulda been a college dropout by then so that's even weirder) on some sort of a live show with stone gossard sitting in with a rap group for a hotlanta style performance on MTV

Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 June 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link

Breed is great, had some play in the bay area even tho he was a Michigan dude.

Funkafied is the album I would suggest, the whole thing fits the vibe of that track you discovered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Qr7BbxT8o

Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link

A+ title edit!

this whole thing makes me happy

lemon kerrang! (jjjusten), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link

i pulled the mp3 of the youtube before i left the house and have listened to this 30+ times since
i was saying hello and smiling at total strangers on the streets of new york this morning i was so goddamn happy
it is playing now
it will not stop playing

Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 June 2011 21:15 (twelve years ago) link

ILX can change a life

hyman lee roth (Neanderthal), Thursday, 30 June 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link

haha, is this the biggest ILM success of all time, or the biggest failure? 7 years is just amazing!

Ktulu says, I've come to hate my body (wk), Thursday, 30 June 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link

wasn't there another long-running thread where someone was trying to ID a movie about a dude with a magician's hat or something? did that one ever get solved?

hyman lee roth (Neanderthal), Thursday, 30 June 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link

wow, really feelin this love

69, Thursday, 30 June 2011 22:53 (twelve years ago) link

Holy crap. Well done!

StanM, Thursday, 30 June 2011 23:00 (twelve years ago) link

wasn't there another long-running thread where someone was trying to ID a movie about a dude with a magician's hat or something? did that one ever get solved?

― hyman lee roth (Neanderthal), Thursday, June 30, 2011 10:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Need to identify this eighties/early nineties film.

Still haunts me to this day

Walter Galt, Friday, 1 July 2011 00:50 (twelve years ago) link

me too!

kinder, Friday, 1 July 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link

me too. last year, i spent hours into days trying to track it down on imdb.

And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Friday, 1 July 2011 01:13 (twelve years ago) link

forget it guys, it's tuomas

Ktulu says, I've come to hate my body (wk), Friday, 1 July 2011 01:32 (twelve years ago) link

AIN'T BUT TWO WAYS TO GET SHIT
RUN UP AND GO BALLISTIC
OR GET WHAT YOU WANT
THROUGH PERSISTENCE

ain't nuthin but a chicken waaaang (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 July 2011 22:51 (twelve years ago) link

Great new screen name, Forks! I remember selling a few Breed records in my retailing days, but I don't think I ever heard him. "It's All Good" is indeed all good.

Have not gotten over my dancing phase (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link

yeah
be like rocky and run up the stairs you know
put my hands up in the sky
b... big winner shit winner shit

ain't nuthin but a chicken waaaang (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link

nine months pass...

i was just weighing out the pros and cons of not posting to ilx anymore and the tipping point in favor of staying was this thread.
so thanks again.

boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link

The first time I ever heard Outkast was when Stone Gossard played "Ain't No Thang" on the radio when I was 14.

"Alright. That was - that was Weapon of Choice and they're out on Loosegroove records, which is a label I'm starting here in Seattle. And right now we're gonna listen to something else - we're gonna be playing some more Loosegroove stuff later in the night - but right now I really feel like we need to go to Atlanta and play some Outkast. This one goes out to Dirk and Lonnie. See ya."
http://www.monkeywrenchradio.org/spr/19950108.html

billstevejim, Friday, 20 April 2012 05:43 (eleven years ago) link

that radio show is def downloadable.. perhaps it holds the answer

billstevejim, Friday, 20 April 2012 05:46 (eleven years ago) link

oh wait i missed the part where someone found it

billstevejim, Friday, 20 April 2012 05:50 (eleven years ago) link

five months pass...

I know I might be late but I too have been trying to figure out who sings that song for almost the past 10 years. I first heard the song maybe my sophomore or junior year in high school. It went like "Anything you wanna do, it's all good ridin drop top fleetwood thru the hood, everything is everything....(something,something) nothing but a chicken wing,shorty do your thang". To me it sounded like Jazzy Phae was on the track singing that hook. So I too would like to know & I'm a big music head...been that way since birth. But um yeah the hook keeps playing very clear in my head & it does sound like a down south song similar to Tela's "Bring em out" song.

Ntash916, Friday, 5 October 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link

Ntash916, it was identified a little bit upthread as "It's All Good" by MC Breed. Happy listening!

Doctor Casino, Friday, 5 October 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link

Thanks!!!! This made my day guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ntash916, Friday, 5 October 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link

sock or no; i'm appreciative of any excuse to replay this

EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 October 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link

this is the best thread on ilm. it's like watching the birth of your first child.

alpine static, Friday, 5 October 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

AIN'T BUT TWO WAYS TO GET SHIT
RUN UP AND GO BALLISTIC
OR GET WHAT YOU WANT
THROUGH PERSISTENCE

― ain't nuthin but a chicken waaaang (forksclovetofu), Friday, July 1, 2011


i swear i think about this lyric about once a month when i hit a wall and it tends to help.

ill never click this homo erotic site again (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 November 2013 23:11 (ten years ago) link

and because this was solved before youtubes embedded, here's the track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnGXAUbqb2g

ill never click this homo erotic site again (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 November 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

Still need to track down the Stone Gossard performance though.

how's life, Friday, 27 February 2015 12:38 (nine years ago) link

If anybody ever interviews him, ask him if i'm insane?

the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 February 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link

five years pass...

a reminder that even when all looks lost, hope springs eternal

big winner shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnGXAUbqb2g

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link

was thinking about this thread listening to the Reply All "Case of the Missing Hit" podcast.

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 17 March 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link

heh, that's why i bumped this

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link

holy fuck there is a video. prominent jazzy pha!

this is not what i remember it from. still positive there was a live performance that i saw. video captures the energy nicely tho'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTN6A9zbvps

and of course there's a chopped and screwed version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdoiuI0F1j0

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 19 March 2020 00:03 (four years ago) link


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