Song ID please: Gatorade commercial

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Okay, so there's a basketball-themed Gatorade commercial that starts with a visual of a needle dropping on a turntable, followed by a pretty heavy hip hop beat and a bunch of lyrics so generic they could literally be from anything: "Throw your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care" and "one two three FREEZE", as well as "somebody say OH uh OH OH uh" (or something like that). Any ideas?

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 30 August 2002 01:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Sounds kinda like "Let Me Clear My Throat" by DJ Kool:


At the count of three
I want everybody in the place to be
To make some noise if ya down with me
One, two, three

Hit me with the horns Tony
Keep makin' noise, keep makin' noise, yeah, oh...
Here we go now, here we go now, here we go now...
Here we go, here we go, now listen

Some of y'all might know this
And some of y'all don't (jam jam)
Some of y'all might be with this, and some of y'all won't
But listen, let me clear my throat
Oh, have mercy babe, Ha!
I hope ya don't mind, let me clear my throat

Special dedication going out to everybody here
In Bahama Bay in Philadelphia here we go now
Check it out, ah huh, ah huh, ah (God Damn)

Yeah, rock to the rhythm of the funky rhyme
So I can get this in just one more time
To the beat and ya don't quit
It's that ol' skool rap with that new skool hit
Peter Piper picked a pepper but Kool got the Run
And I can still rip up the house
Every God damn time I get on the mic, I go crazy
Peace out to Celo, Flex, and Doug Lazy
I bet 'cha never knew but now ya know
I'm the undisputed king of this disco
And I never let the mic, might not tire me no more
Cuz DJ Kool rip up the whole damn floor

Now I'ma rap a rhyme with the greatest of ease
And swing it like the man on the flying trapeze
And if you don't like it you grab on these
And now I need some help from the maestro please

Jam, Ha! So look it here check the flavor of the rhythm
I wrote and while I got a chance here
Let me clear my throat oh, have mercy babe, ha!
I hope ya don't mind, let me clear my throat
I need these monitors right here
Music and the monitors, and it goes a little something
Like this here ah huh ah huh ah

Now if y'all wanna party like we do
If y'all wanna party like us, lemme hear ya say
Ah ah ah ah ah, if y'all wanna party like we do
If y'all wanna party like us lemme hear ya say
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
Now when I say uh, you say ah
Uh (crowd) Uh (crowd)
And now when I say hey, you say ha
Hey (crowd) hey (crowd)
Now when I say uh, you say ah
Uh (crowd) Uh (crowd)
Now when I say hey you say ha, hey (crowd)
Now when I say freeze you just freeze one time
When I say freeze y'all stop on a dime
When I say freeze you just freeze one time
When I say freeze y'all stop on a dime freeze

Now all the ladies in the place
If you got real hair, real fingernails
If you got a job, you going to school
And y'all need nobody to help you handle
Your business make some noise

One, two, three, come on now
When I say freeze you just freeze one time
When I say freeze y'all stop on a dime
When I say freeze you just freeze one time
When I say freeze y'all stop on a dime freeze

Now to all the brotha's in the place
That don't give a damn about what the ladies talking about
'Cuz you just trying to get chummy make some noise

Now, now, now, let me clear my throat
Oh, have mercy babe, ha!
I hope you don't mind, let me clear my throat
Special dedication going out to all the ladies
And all the brothers in here
Like to love y'all to death here

Ah huh ah huh ah (God damn)
Oh, lemme send my little shout outs here
Special dedication once again going out to everybody here
Bahama Bay in Philadelphia, we love y'all madly
Special dedication going out to Mellow T
Walt Reeder da' joiner, Don Mack, Charlie Mack, DJ Ran
Cosmic Kev, special dedication going out to Frank Steed
Al Orrizo Ice T, and if you're with me, if you're with me
I need some help from the music, from the maestro
Check it out somebody make some noise in this joint man

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 30 August 2002 05:55 (twenty-three years ago)

The lyrics there are familiar, but I have a feeling that's still not the one. Someone mentioned that Bootsy is doing a series of new basketball-related commercials, and that might be it, but something's still bugging me: the lyrical fragments in that commercial are so damn generic that it's quite possible that it's a piece knocked off in a few minutes just for the commercial. (I mean really, how long does it take to steal the phrase "throw your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care" these days, when everyone else has done just the same thing?) Maybe I should just MP3 the commercial. Heh.

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 30 August 2002 12:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I've heard that, and it's not Bootsy. To be honest, I thought it was just some song put together by some music house for a commercial, but maybe it's real.

dleone (dleone), Friday, 30 August 2002 13:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, google says it's "Play" by Doug E. Fresh.

dleone (dleone), Friday, 30 August 2002 13:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Dom, you seem to have an ear for lyrics, or maybe you just know where to go for them...have you come across lyrics for Minus 5's LET THE WAR AGAINST MUSIC BEGIN, or for the New Pornographers' album?

I've been trying to track down these words so I can sing along with confidence, and so I can cover "The Rifleman".

I know it's off topic, but here you are....thanks!

matt riedl (veal), Friday, 30 August 2002 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Apparently a lot of people are saying it's "Keep It Going" by Doug E Fresh, and it's showing up on WinMX with titles like GATORADE_COMMERCIAL-Doug_E_etc, but that's not it. It's very very similar, I'll grant that. Maybe I'm getting a wacky Canadian version, but the one I'm hearing is much more straightforward, production-wise, and the vocal is very deep and loud, definitely not like the Doug E Fresh version I'm hearing, which is less in yr face. Hm.

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 23:50 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...
Does anyone know what songs are used in the new Lexus ads for the IS? There's that one commercial that uses a split screen, and the other one with some kind of trailing effect with a guy and a girl?

Leeeeeeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)


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