"Fantastic Voyage" is a hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 song by rapper Coolio

Coolio

Artis Leon Ivey Jr. , better known by the stage name Coolio, is an American musician, rapper, actor and record producer.-Late 80s:He recorded two singles in the late 80s, titled "Watcha Gonna Do" and "You're Gonna Miss Me"...

 from his debut album It Takes a Thief

It Takes a Thief (album)

It Takes a Thief is American rapper Coolio's first album, released in 1994 on Warner Bros. Records."Fantastic Voyage", a hit from the early 1980s, returned to the charts after Coolio released a song of the same name from this album...

. The song later featured on the album Fantastic Voyage: The Greatest Hits

Fantastic Voyage: The Greatest Hits

Fantastic Voyage: The Greatest Hits is a compilation album by rapper Coolio, released in 2001.-Track listing:# "Fantastic Voyage"# "Gangsta's Paradise"# "C U When You Get There"# "Too Hot"# "Aw Here it Goes "# "Ooh la La"...

. The song samples "Fantastic Voyage

Fantastic Voyage (Lakeside song)

"Fantastic Voyage" is a 1980 funk single by Dayton, Ohio-based group, Lakeside. The song hit number one on the R&B chart and was the group's only entry on the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at number fifty-five....

" by Lakeside

Lakeside (band)

Lakeside is a funk band, best known for their 1980 number one R&B hit, "Fantastic Voyage."-Formation and early years:In early 1969, The Nomads, a singing quartet consisting of lead singer Mark Wood; Tiemeyer McCain; Tony White; and Brian Marbury, met the Montereys, a band that featured Stephen...

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Video games

The song was featured in the PlayStation 2

PlayStation 2

The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...

 version of Backyard Football '08.

Lyrics and music

According to Allmusic's Jason Lymangrover, "With its infectious "Slide, slide, slippity slide" chorus, it went unnoticed that his breakthrough single, "Fantastic Voyage," was actually a song about escapism

Escapism

Escapism is mental diversion by means of entertainment or recreation, as an "escape" from the perceived unpleasant or banal aspects of daily life...

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Music video

The music video features Coolio napping on his front porch, when he gets a phone call from his friend Spoon that wakes him. Spoon asks about taking a trip to the beach, to which an annoyed Coolio responds "we ain't got no car" and hangs up on him. Suddenly a mysterious man with a 70's style suit, afro, and cane appears and turns the bicycle sitting upside down on his Coolio's driveway into a convertible car. Now with a means of transportation, Coolio and his crew head to the beach. The rest of the video features Coolio at the beach helping the crowd of passengers out of the trunk of the car for a beach party, which includes people of all races and a mariachi band. At the end of the video, the car is transformed back into a bicycle on Coolio's driveway, and Coolio is woken again by a phone call from Spoon, showing that the trip was all a dream. Coolio reminds him that they don't have a car, tells him to quit calling, and hangs up. Then Coolio looks at the bike to see the car's license plate hanging off of the bike. Leaving him wondering if the events were really a dream and setting the events for the video "I Remember".

Chart performances

The song peaked at number twelve on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, two on Hot Rap Singles and three on The Billboard Hot 100. The song eventually was certified 2x platinum by RIAA

Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States...

on July 20, 1994.

End of year charts

End of year chart (1994)	Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	20

External links

• "Fantastic Voyage" lyrics