This article is about the hip hop song "Pop Goes the Weasel" by 3rd Bass. For the nursery rhyme, see "Pop Goes the Weasel

Pop Goes the Weasel

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"Pop Goes the Weasel" is the best-selling single from hip hop

Hip hop music

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 trio 3rd Bass

3rd Bass

3rd Bass was an American hip-hop group that rose to fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and was notable for being one of the first successful interracial hip-hop groups.-Career:...

; it appears on their third album, Derelicts of Dialect

Derelicts of Dialect

Derelicts of Dialect was Queens-based emcees 3rd Bass' second LP and final studio album, released on Def Jam Recordings...

(1991

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).

Released a year after the ill-fated Cactus Revisited E.P., "Pop Goes the Weasel" instantly became a hit and soon went gold. The song helped the album reach gold status a month later. The song's message was similar to "Gas Face", voicing criticism towards the many mainstream

Mainstream

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 commercial rap artists that had been gaining attention in the early 1990s (such as Vanilla Ice

Vanilla Ice

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 and MC Hammer

MC Hammer

Stanley Kirk Burrell , better known by his stage name MC Hammer , is an American rapper, entertainer, business entrepreneur, dancer and actor. He had his greatest commercial success and popularity from the late 1980s until the mid-1990s...

).

The song features funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 samples

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 from the J.B.'s and Stevie Wonder

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 as well as rock samples of The Who

The Who

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's "Eminence Front

Eminence Front

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", and the foundation sample was from Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel

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's #1 hit, "Sledgehammer

Sledgehammer (song)

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". Production

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 came from John Gamble, Geeby Dajani, and Dante Ross (noted for their groundbreaking work on Brand Nubian

Brand Nubian

Brand Nubian is an American hip hop group from New Rochelle, New York, consisting of three MC's: Grand Puba , Sadat X and Lord Jamar , and two DJs: DJ Alamo and DJ Sincere...

 and Grand Puba

Grand Puba

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's debut albums).

The music video

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 featured Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins

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 as Vanilla Ice.

The song was listed as #70 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.

Vanilla Ice answered back

Answer song

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 with a song called "The Wrath" in 1992.

The song was referenced in the movie The Nutty Professor

The Nutty Professor (1996 film)

The Nutty Professor is a 1996 science fiction-romantic comedy film starring Eddie Murphy. It is a remake of the 1963 film of the same name, starring Jerry Lewis. The original music score was composed by David Newman. The film won an Academy Award for Makeup.Murphy plays benevolent university...

while Sherman Klump

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's family sat around eating dinner.

Charts

Chart (1991)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	29
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Hot Dance Club Play The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...	28
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B Singles Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...	26
U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Tracks Hot Rap Tracks Rap Songs is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States. It lists the 25 most popular hip-hop/rap songs, calculated weekly by airplay on rhythmic and urban radio stations and sales in hip hop-focused or exclusive markets. From 1989 through 2001, it was based on how much the single...	1