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"Baby Got Back"
#1 weeks: 5
weeks: 1992-07-04, 1992-07-11, 1992-07-18, 1992-07-25, 1992-08-01
genre: hip hop, rap
artist: Sir Mix-a-Lot
album: Mack Daddy
writers: Sir Mix-a-Lot
producers: Sir Mix-a-Lot
label:
formats: 7", 12", Cassette single, CD single
lengths: 4:22

"Baby Got Back" is a 1992 hip hop song by Sir Mix-a-Lot from his album Mack Daddy. The song memorably starts with a discussion between two thin, white valley girls, with one girl remarking to the other "Oh my God, Becky! Look at her butt! It is so big. She looks like one of those rap guys' girlfriends." At the time of its original release, the song caused controversy with its outspoken and blatantly sexual lyrics about the female anatomy, and the video was briefly banned by MTV. However, it has remained very popular over time. It samples Channel One's "Technicolor".

In 2008, it was ranked number 17 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.

Sir Mix-a-Lot's best known song, "Baby Got Back" reached number 1 on the United States' BillboardHot 100 chart for five weeks in the summer of 1992, and won a 1993 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance. It is known to be a fairly common song over a decade later in many movies, shows, music videos, even commercials. It was placed at number 6 on Vh1's Greatest Songs of the '90s.