Haddaway. "What Is Love" and "Rock My Heart" had at least
some charm. And they were also proper songs with verse, chorus and all, and hardly any annoying rap parts.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 13 November 2003 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)
HADDAWAY p0\/\/nz this thread any day of yr lifetime.
― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Thursday, 13 November 2003 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)
five years pass...
Real McCoy is my favorite.
― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Monday, 20 July 2009 19:09 (sixteen years ago)
Real McCoy had two or three songs, didn't they? But Haddaway's one song towers over pretty much the whole nineties, so he wins.
― challop matters (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 11:58 (sixteen years ago)
Those two sluts in Real McCoy couldn't rap their way out of a paper bag. Haddawaya represents jeep beats for the peeps in the streets.
jeep beats for the peeps in the streets
― De Mysteriis Dom Passantino (jim), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 12:02 (sixteen years ago)
Back here The Real McCoy was known as MC Sar & The Real McCoy. However, MC Sar was not the name of their rapper, according to Discogs.com...
"M.C. Sar." is a pun based around the 'M.C.' appelation (Master of Ceremony) and Caesar (the Roman emperor). There was no person called M.C. Sar. O-Jay added in "& The Real McCoy" as kind of a gimmick, since the recorded vocals (by O-Jay) were mimed in the videos by "Shampro".
...so there was neither an MC Sar nor a Real McCoy in the group! In Finland they had at least five hits: "It's on You", "Another Night", "Automatic Lover (Call for Love)", "Run Away", and "Love & Devotion". I thought they were somewhat better than Haddaway, their choruses were pretty sweet, and the rap parts were quite nice too, at least for an Euro-rapper. I even bought their album, it had a couple of cool instrumental rave tunes, and one regular hip-hop (not Eurodance) tune where the dude raps in French!
I'm not sure why Haddaway is known just for his "one song" these days, because back then "Life" was just as big a hit as "What Is Love", if not bigger. Have people completely forgotten about that one?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 13:00 (sixteen years ago)