![]() Yes, “Havin’ a Roni” is beloved, if only just by me. Dig this lovely and bewildering Wired chart of just one track, “What It’s All About,” and the 35 beloved songs powering it, from Wu-Tang’s “C.R.E.A.M.” to Paula Cole’s “I Don’t Want to Wait” to the Jackson 5’s “ABC” to Vanilla Ice’s beatboxing goof “Havin’ a Roni.” First released via pay-what-you-want digital download on June 19, 2008, Feed the Animals jammed more than 300 samples, many of them instantly recognizable to even the most passive pop-music consumer, into its 14-track, 53-minute, continuous-mix runtime. In the mid-2000s, Girl Talk sought to own mashups as thoroughly, and as gleefully, as “Weird Al” Yankovic owns parody songs. But for a time, there was a goofy and infectious sort of joy in the act of even asking. (Or, as Missy would put it, noitazilivic nretseW fo yrotsih ehT.) Same deal with Nu Shooz’s ecstatic ’80s-synth-pop classic “I Can’t Wait.” The provocative question posed by Gregg Gillis, the Pittsburgh mashup artíste known professionally as Girl Talk, was whether one could double that ecstasy by cramming the two songs together, as he did with typical cheeseball aplomb on his fourth and best album, 2008’s Feed the Animals. We can agree, certainly, that Missy Elliott’s “Work It” stands among the single best pieces of music in the history of Western civilization.
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