hip hop tracks that double as cell phone ringers

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Having heard 50 Cent's pretty awful "Wanksta" I can't help but think that he may have come up with the hook from listening to cell phone ringers. He's not the first; I believe Tah Murda a/k/a Cadillac Tah set a precedent by using an actual ringer tone as the foundation for his mega-cheap "Pov City Anthem". Sooooooo bad.

Just wondering if anybody else may have noticed this burgeoning trend, and if there are any ways to predict and combat its spread. Ring tones might be the most faulty representations of music ever, even worse than those compilations of music repurposed by some studio band.

― Douglas Mosurak (mosurock), Sunday, 12 January 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Having heard 50 Cent's pretty awful "Wanksta" I can't help but think that he may have come up with the hook from listening to cell phone ringers.

Ha! I thought the same thing.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 12 January 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i have 'the next episode' and 'get ur freak on' works pretty well too

― minna (minna), Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Mosurock! Now we got two of the FMU Dougs!

Isn't there a couple of ringtone's in "When's the Last Time"?

Anyhow, "Push It" is my ringtone

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"get ur freak on" is actually a dancehall cut from before the dawn of ringtones. its name and artist escape me right now.

― Douglas Mosurak (mosurock), Sunday, 12 January 2003 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

My friend's plays Baby Got Back, just the intro with the bass and hi-hat.

Generally speaking though, musical ringtones=Dud.

― Dave Beckhouse (Dave Beckhouse), Sunday, 12 January 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

six months pass...

i love this web site!!!!!

― lucy pearl, Saturday, 9 August 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

mine is 'big pimpin', which works kinda well

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Saturday, 9 August 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"Money, Cash, Hoes" by Jay-Z

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 9 August 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"get ur freak on" is actually a dancehall cut from before the dawn of ringtones. its name and artist escape me right now.

this is the fruitiest thing ever uttered on ilx

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 9 August 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

also, using ringtones as melodies wasn't exactly a "burgeoning trend" in hip-hop in late 2002, early 2003. maybe 1999.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 9 August 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

In Hawaii I saw some tarted-up junior high students waiting in line for Lilo and Stitch... one of their cell phones rang and it was the hook from "Bootylicious." I thought that was the best thing ever.

― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 9 August 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I've always dreamed of having a cell phone that would ring with the Watch Out Now / Jenny From The Block hook. that would be soooo cool.

― Dan I., Sunday, 10 August 2003 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, I have that ringtone. It's available from jipii.co.uk and is listed under beatnuts...

Also great as a ringtone is "taste just like candy"

― Jacob (Jacob), Sunday, 10 August 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

to be honest wangsta is my song and all but when you listen to it it does sound like he got it from to a cell phone ringer

― keonna mcelroy, Monday, 13 October 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

who got tah murdah

― wayne lord, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

watching john darnielle and peter hughes sing along to peter's 'ignition remix' ringtone at last week's mountain goats show here was one of the finer moments of the show.

― ted kolberg, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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