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The vocals for this song were recorded on my aluminum unibody 2008 MacBook in Fall 2009, just using its built-in microphone for audio input, as I did not yet have a separate physical audio recording interface at that time. Myself, Amber and Seth were in her convertible car with the top up in the parking lot outside the infamously disreputable Great Bay Motel in East Falmouth, MA, freestyling to Rasheeda's song "Boss Chick", which I had recently introduced Amber to, off of Rasheeda's fifth studio album Certified Hot Chick, released in 2009. Also, a recording interface wouldn't have worked there since I would've needed an electrical outlet to plug it in to. As was often the case when we would record, we were freestyling along to the regular version of the song and not the instrumental version, since I downloaded the song and not just the beat. Maybe I could've found it on YouTube but maybe not since it was so new at that time. Because of this, the content, attitude and/or swagger of whatever song we were rapping over tended to seep into our raps more than it would if it were just the instrumental. To compensate for this, I later added additional beat production, piano and synth bass to the song in Logic Pro after I got that DAW, so that it wouldn't just be the song in the background over Amber's car speakers from the recording of the vocals backing us up. You can hear this when the song in the background stops and you hear the car beeping and Amber says "Did I dare do that?" and you just hear the car keys turn in the ignition and the software instruments/drum kit backing her vocals. I think I may not have quantized my additional production elements due to the difficulty of matching the Logic Pro project tempo to the tempo of the audio recording of the vocals and the song in the background. Our vocals are pitch corrected, and both them and the bass in the background from Rasheeda’s song clip a lot. As primitive as this recording situation was, it was still a step up from previous times where I would use the audio recording feature on my Mom's old digital camera to record vocals and then try to fit it to an entirely different instrumental composed in GarageBand and also pitch correct it to fit that key. Also the vocals here do not sound as much like they’re over a telephone the way they did in the songs that utilize vocals from the digital camera recordings, not to mention my collaborations with Derek Piotr and others, where they literally were coming in over the phone and recorded by holding the phone up to my MacBook's built-in microphone. The method used on this song, of recording vocals to the beat of a non-instrumental song playing in the background on Amber’s car stereo, was also used for the rapped vocals of my song "Clash of the Grass (feat. Amber Scanlan, Seth Heart, Ben Raymond, Handsome Boy Modeling School and Cat Power)", which was recorded around the same time as this but released later on my 2012 album Cleaning Out My Closet. Rasheeda's song "Boss Chick" was released prior to the full Certified Hot Chick album being released, as part of the five-song Certified Hot Chick EP, which was released as a digital download on Tuesday 11/18/2008 to promote the forthcoming album. The lyrics in this song have moments of being incredibly salacious and dirty, particularly in Amber's first verse, and as such are not at all suitable for children.
lyrics
Amber Scanlan: —kin’ and Amber Scanlan on a fuckin’ bike and you can call me whatever you might like/but I don’t care if you call me a fuckin’ dyke/‘cause you know that I’ll dive, I’m a muff diver/carpet muncher/damn and Reuben likes it in the ass and now he’s newly versatile down, what’s that, damn?/I’ll tell you a lil’ bit about a bottom and a top/Top is when you give it to a fuckin’ boss/top is when you put your fuckin’ penis in the soft brown hole of your fuckin’ anus/damn! You better back up, ya better pop your hole in the fuckin’ air/Reuben Walton’s there and he’s feelin’ so fierce so scared ‘cause he got a big black cock, askin’ for more, drippin’ with the cum (laughs)/
Reuben Walton: (laughs)
AS: (laughs)
RW: Oh my god that’s so sexual/You can’t outdo me but I really wouldn’t talk/wait hold on oh my god, I can’t find my backyard/wait, I’m just in the backyard, I’m sittin’ there real swole/But how can I be swole there, why isn’t it mentionable?/I can’t mention a bowl, I can’t mention the crack, I can’t mention the hoes/but there ain’t even any to expose/so if the FCC come straight to my house/pop a little gloss in the south/pop a grill, pop a chain/get it rick real swole get it roll mane/and I got Rogane, ‘cause I’m rippin’ out my own hair, and I got my own brain/home bread/
AS: Own bread? Nigga, is that what you said? ‘Cause I’m a…fuckin’ boss lady, mad checks/backin’ it up like a fuckin’ ferret/you can walk on this shit/part water with this shit/be Moses in them jeans, oh shit!/you better back up when a fuckin’ bitch comes in the cut/and a fuckin’ slut/and a slut lookin’ for a leg/so predictable, oh Meg/
RW: Damn that’s cliché/wait, no it’s not cliché, it’s so original it’s better than Kanye, or Lady Gaga/But I love gehby Gaga, no it’s not even better than her, but I have re lie lie a little bit to make—
AS: Googoo gaga!
RW: It/Wait wait, what the fuck, I’m lookin’ like a gorilla/like the one that I imitated when I came to get the scrilla/but I came straight from the hill, not from the Village/
AS: Boppin’ off the chain and you know who to call when you feelin’ lame/when you feelin’ kinda down and in the drain/so you wanna call Chris Crocker ‘cause he’s so fuckin’ hot/and he’s been pussy poppin’ on the bridge like Lil Wayne said/and Ion give a fuck if Lil Wayne’s dead/
RW: Well you know, his voice is irritating/but then he started to vocode it and then it got (slight pause and slight “g”) a little more grating/(laughs) with the gore pating/I got a painting of Al Gore, you know he’s right about global wairming/—
AS: Lil Wayne! Wayne (imitating an echo)
RW: Daymn, lookin’ like dwee-Pain, T-Pain and T-Wayne, that fan be gay/—
AS: Lil wine!
RW: Lil wine drinkin’ Cabernet Sauvignon at the bar/with Nana and you know we’re havin’ a fuckin’ ball/
Rasheeda: I’m a boss chick, I’m a-I’m a boss chick…
AS: Damn! Did I dare? (turns keys in the car’s ignition) Did I dare do that?/What the fuck is goin’ on? There it is!/Where’s the beat hoe?/Bet I’ll eat yo/better call Lil Wayne I’ll beat yo/ass down—
Seth Heart: I’m a boss chick, I’m bossin’/and the real lisha come and boss it/Oooooh! Listen to me/(high-pitched gasp) rippin’ this shit from A to Z/
RW: Damn, everybody off the chain/
SH: Off the chain!
RW: Sippin’ drank/get it real fuckin’ mane/damn, straight from Maine but not really ‘cause I got swang/
SH: On Smirnoff!
RW: And I’m swaggin’ off the chain/
credits
from Diamonds and Plastic,
released March 30, 2011
Vocals by Reuben Walton, Amber Scanlan, Seth Heart and Rasheeda Buckner-Frost
Vocal production by Reuben Walton
Lyrics by Reuben Walton, Amber Scanlan and Seth Heart
Composed by Reuben Walton, Kirk L. Frost and Shiwen Shann
Programming by Reuben Walton
Produced by Reuben Walton
Recorded by Reuben Walton
Mixed by Reuben Walton
Edited by Reuben Walton
Reuben Walton is a singer/songwriter and music producer based in Falmouth, MA. He is a graduate of Musicians Institute in
Hollywood's Independent Artist program and their Electronic Music Production program, as well as UMass Lowell’s Music Business undergraduate program.
In 2019 he put out a self-titled EP working with producer AVLI Music and is now regularly releasing new music....more
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