Neef: And dude, you've been sleepwalkin' through this album. Young Chris: Kids is growin' up faster every generation. When he says, "I been laying the pipe in every lady, I liked up in the 80s/ My life is really crazy, I been like this since the 80s," it doesn't make any fucking sense! He's only 19! Does that mean he was a four-year-old pimp, with a gold-plated high seat and a three-wheeler with 24-inch rims? Neef: I don't care who this Juelz guy is. Young Chris: This'll truly be an adventure! I haven't worked in a musical in months!ĭissention comes between the group during a discussion about the record's progress around the midway point. Basically, just sound like someone a dad wouldn't want to see his little girl out with. Phil! Your motivation on this record is as follows: You want to fuck every girl that you see and you are murderous. Young Chris: So why exactly is the album called Tough Luv? I mean, first off, I'm a very non-violent individual and I feel as if love is something that is only experienced once. Even early on, the Philly duo thought the plan seemed a bit strange. Later, at Baseline Studios, Jay assists his boys in cutting their first record. Simmons: You've made me far too much money to say no to you. Jay-Z: Surely, it sells itself! I mean, come on, they sound like all of my proteges combined and- get this- they are young! Simmons: What's your marketing plan? How you gonna sell this? let's say they're the latest in Rocafella technology: We've combined the repetition of Beanie Sigel, the exaggerated cadence of Freeway, the incredibly boring street lyrics of Memphis Bleek, and the completely nonsensical constant-rhyme style of Cam'ron. Jay-Z: Naw, Russell, ain't nothin' like that.
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License additional terms may apply.Russell Simmons: So, you finally came to announce the signing of Common and Mos Def, right? It took you long enough but I'm glad you. Hip hop group Down With Webster sampled the song in their 2009 hit "Rich Girl$." Read more on Last.fm. Rap group Young Gunz also sampled the song on their debut album Tough Luv. "Rich Girl" has been covered by Nina Simone on her 1978 LP Baltimore, by Australian R&B singer Selwyn on his 2002 CD Meant To Be, by Everclear on their 2008 cover compilation The Vegas Years, and by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes on their 2008 album Have Another Ball!. Hall & Oates later reflected this disturbing fact in the lyrics of the song "Diddy Doo Wop (I Hear Voices)" on the album Voices. Several years later, Hall read an interview with David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam killer, in which Berkowitz claimed that "Rich Girl" had motivated him to murder (though interestingly, the song was not released until after the Son of Sam murders had already begun, casting doubts on that suggestion).
"But you can't write, 'You're a rich boy' in a song, so I changed it to a girl," Hall told Rolling Stone. In fact, the title character in the song is based on a spoiled heir to a fast-food chain who was an ex-boyfriend of Daryl Hall's girlfriend, Sara Allen. The song was rumored to be about the then-scandalous newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. The song's lyrics are about a spoiled girl who can rely on her parents' money to do whatever she wants. The single originally appeared on the 1976 album Bigger Than Both of Us.
On March 26, 1977, it became their first (of six) number one singles on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. "Rich Girl" is a song by Daryl Hall and John Oates. Although the production values may seem dated to some, the clarity of the vocals carries this song across three decades. As tight and right as 'blue eyed soul' gets.