DJ Mark Ronson ft. Ghostface, Nate Dogg and Obie Trice -- Ooh Wee

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I haven't heard much hype about the Ronson album -- it's gotten mixed reviews, and probably deservedly so -- but the fact that one of my favorite MCs, one of my growing-favorite chorus sing-rappers and Obie "decent enough" Trice are tearing shit up over a Philly-esque disco-soul bongo fury beat put together by the son of the Spiders From Mars guitarist makes me giddy.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Heard "Ooh" for the first time a month ago on XFM (UK radio station) and I actually paid attention! (First stopped listening years ago when rap began to be repetitive) Actually was tempted to dance, but the librarians would have tossed me out for corrupting the kids' minds.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

none of these threads say very much, but here they are:

Mark Ronson feat Ghostface & Nate Dogg - 'Ohh Wee'
Mark Ronson - OOh Wee
Mark Ronson?

not to say that we can't talk about 'ooh wee' here, we didn't get very far last time. haven't heard the one with obie.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I keep finding different versions of this song, and the most satisfactory one is cut off at the end. what gives.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

you should look into the one with the freeway verse, nate. (btw, whoever mentioned on ilm that they can't listen to freeway after they realized that he sounded just like piglet - you ruined freeway for me)(okay not really)

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 2 December 2003 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

the album is not bad, as long as you don't mind hearing some over-familiar beats (which are nevertheless great and would rock the average party) in amidst a nice sprinkling of pretty great new stuff. there is one particularly sweet classic soul-sampling joint by someone obscure whose name escapes me right now...

― bugged out, Tuesday, 2 December 2003 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The album isn't solid, but it has some corkers on it too. Very very listenable. And a terrific guest list; Ghostface, Nate Dogg, Sean Paul, Mos Def, Rivers Cuomo (! - his song is pretty good actually, sort of Pinkerton-mocking), Freeway, Q-Tip. The Sean Paul track is on Dutty Rock too ("International Affair") but with a different singer.

"Ooh Wee" is the best song though. The album copy says "feat GFK, ND and Trife", not Obie Trice. Not sure if it's S Trife....

― Nick H (Nick H), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a great song for dancing in clubs - up there with "Pump It Up" and "Got Some Teeth", if not *quite* as brill as those (Ghostface is a great party MC though and should do singles like these more often).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Obie wasn't on this track originally when it started getting spins a few months ago, was he? is it possible they added him *after* his album flopped? huh?

also, I believe Mark Ronson is the step-son of Foreignor guitarist Mick Jones, not the son of Bowie guitarist Mick Ronson.

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Er? Everything I've read about the guy sez he's Mick Ronson's kid.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

He's both! Fucked-up lineage, innit?

And yeah, maybe is Trife. I didn't recognize it because (a) the mp3 was mislabeled and (b) there weren't any lines about how bad the Flaming Lips sucked.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

woah, that's really confusing. my bad.

― Al (sitcom), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Tim otm about Ghostface, he's got great party lyrics but that harder edge to his voice makes the song a kind of banger aswell. See also the Streets remix of Thrilla by Cassius and Ghostface.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a track on The Streets' Les Rocks mix from last year with Skinner doing a kind of duet with Redman. I'd love it if he actually got in the studio with these guys.

― Nick H (Nick H), Thursday, 4 December 2003 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

haha! they'd probably eat him. he just sounds so weedy and frail compared to ghost or redman.

― rgeary (rgeary), Thursday, 4 December 2003 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

did people actually like "pump it up?" i never really got what the deal was with it. nothing bad but it didn't compel me to turn up the volume or anything, plus the whole 'pump it up' thing was played out in like '91, wasn't it? or am i just not recognizing the first waves of late 80s/early 90s nostalgia?

― rgeary (rgeary), Thursday, 4 December 2003 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

def want to hear this ("ooh wee") though. love ghostface, obie trice is totally "good enough" as nate p. put it, and nate dogg is great. nate dogg is like tabasco. you wouldn't want to eat a whole dish of nothing but tabasco, but a little tabasco takes lots of dishes to the next level.

― rgeary (rgeary), Thursday, 4 December 2003 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

playing songs loud went out in 91?? whatever, "pump it up" is fantastic. caverous bass growls! underrated, if anything. and "drop drop" should get a lil love too i think.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 4 December 2003 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Rob, I just think it would be interesting, what they'd make of him and his style. I agree they're better MCs. Two of my faves in fact.

― Nick H (Nick H), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"Pump It Up" is one of those great tension-build/release-payoff dancefloor tracks, with the groove and each section of the rap just building and building until the horns come in and you feel like you're gonna explode.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 4 December 2003 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

it's definitely trife and NOT obie trice.
one of nate dogg's best hooks in ages too...

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 4 December 2003 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

whoops, d'oh, etc. filesharing misnomerism strikes again!

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Thursday, 4 December 2003 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Ghostface pronounces Mark Ronson's name as "Mark Bronson" on this.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 2 April 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

It's been two years since the album was released; has anyone heard anything of anymore stuff from Ronson? I found a remix of an Air track on slsk but nothing else under his name that wasn't on the album.

― Nick H (Nick H), Saturday, 20 August 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

I think he did a remix of the single off the latest Jamiroquai album.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 20 August 2005 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

He did the "official" mixtape to promote Jay-Z's Fade to Black tour film. Not bad.

― telephonething etc, Sunday, 21 August 2005 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

there's the 99 Problems remix with his sister on the hook

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 21 August 2005 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

charles ronson
xp like 4 months to dom

― nervous (cochere), Sunday, 21 August 2005 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

this was a great song.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 21 August 2005 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

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