The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified it Double Platinum for sales over 2 million copies. ‘Anaconda’ topped the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts and reached number 4 on the US Rhythmic charts. In the US, it peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at number 21 on the Mainstream Top 40. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) certified it Silver for sales over 200,000 copies. In the UK, the song reached number 3 on the Official Charts Company and topped the R&B Charts. Label: Young Money – Cash Money – Republic Songwriter/s: Onika Maraj – Jamal Jones – Jonathan Solone-Myett – Ernest Clark – Marcos Palacios – Sir Mix-a-lot She’d call you back after a couple more hours.”

She would hit us up, she’d be in the studio vibing, coming up with different ideas, making sure those ideas were cool. I don’t really know Nicki Minaj, but I can tell you this: Lazy, she is not. Sir Mix-a-Lot explained to MTV News how Nicki was in touch with him the whole time she was recording the song, he said: “She called while she was in the studio. I thought, if we’re doing this, then everybody is going to have fun with it.” If they don’t like a song, they’ll be like, ‘No.’ As soon as they walked in the studio, we were laughing and having fun. My biggest thing was seeing how my girlfriends Sherika and Thembi were going to react. I started laughing when I said, ‘Boy toy named Troy. The song was a simple one to write, I just created the melody and then I let the words happen. I wanted to be sexual but be playful with it and I wanted it to be so melodic that even if you don’t understand English you could still go along with the melody and you would have no idea about all the raunchy shit I’m saying, I get a kick out of that. In an interview with Complex Magazine Nicki said: “I wanted to create a song that embraced curvy women. The song is a sample of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back: hit back in 1992. A fun singalong song as described by Nicki.

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