Whoomp! There It Is

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*Black screen, then the episode plays*

*Todd plays "Whoomp! There It Is" on the piano.*

***TAG TEAM - WHOOMP! (THERE IT IS)***

***A one-hit retrospective***

**Todd:** Hey, everyone. So... my last episodes were the year-end lists, and it got kinda heavy. Because... 2020 was a heavy year. I think I'd like this episode to be more... upbeat.

*Video for... wait for it...*

**DC:** Party-People! Whoomp, there it is! Hit me!

**Tag-Team:** Whoomp, there it is!

*Todd dances to it.*

**Tag-Team:** Whoomp, there it is!

**Todd:** Welcome back, Party people to One-Hit Wonderland, where we take a look at bands and artists known for only one song.

**Todd:** And hoo boy, there are few acts who are know for only one song like this one was.

**DC:** Tag-Team, back again,

**Todd (VO):** The year, 1993 can be summed up in one word.

**Todd:** And that word, was "Whoomp".

**Tag-Team:** Whoomp, there it is!

**Todd:** Whoomp! I don't even know what sound that's supposed to be!

*Image of...*

**Todd (VO):** The sound of someone flopping onto a bean bag chair maybe?

**Todd:** You don't need to know what it was.

*Video for "Whoomp! (There It Is" plays*

**Todd (VO):** It was so powerful that "Whoomp! (There It Is)," the party anthem by the rap duo Tag Team, was the second biggest hit song of that year.

**Todd:** It was just *barely* kept off the top of the charts by

*Video of...*

**Todd (VO):** Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You." Which...

**Todd:** Actually, I think *that* song has a "whoomp" in it.

*Part of "I Will Always Love You" where the snare hits before the big chorus plays with a "Whoomp!" graphic popping in with the snare*

> **Whitney Houston:** And I...
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**Todd (VO):** See?

**Todd:** There it is.

*Video for "Whoomp! (There It Is) plays*

**Todd (VO):** But yeah, that song was *everywhere.* You remember how big "Old Town Road" was?

**Todd:** In my memory, "Whoomp! (There It Is)" is, like, 500 times bigger.

**Todd (VO):** I grew up in a household that was *not* open to rap music, or *any* popular music. But even in a childhood deprived of the hippity hop, I was *very* aware of "Whoomp! (There It Is)." It's probably the first hip hop song I could name or sing.

**Todd:** I-I guess I could've been *vaguely* aware of

*Video of...*

**Todd (VO):** "U Can't Touch This," "Insane in the Brain" or "Hip Hop Hooray,"

**Todd:** but they had *nowhere* close to the impact on me that Tag Team did.

*Video for "Whoomp! (There It Is)" plays*

> **Steve Rolln:** Whoomp! Shaka laka shaka laka shaka laka shaka
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**Todd (VO):** In 1993, hip hop was probably at its very most controversial, but "Whoomp! (There It Is)" was right there, clearing a path to the masses.

*Video of a baseball game plays*

**Todd (VO):** It gets played at stadiums every night, there was a rap song that sampled it just a couple months ago.

*Video for "Whole Lotta Choppas" plays*

> **Sada Baby:** They wanna see me do my dance in these thousand dollar pants
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*Video for Tag Team's Geico commercial plays*

**Todd (VO):** Oh, and of course now there's a god damn *Geico* commercial

> **Tag Team:** Scoop! There it is! Scoop! There it is!
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**Todd (VO):** Caaaan't wait to watch that a few hundred more times...

*Video for "Whoomp! (There It Is)" plays*

**Todd (VO):** But despite the ubiquity, Tag Team tagged out of the conversation pretty quickly.

**Todd:** To me, the little kid, they were bigger than The Beatles, but they never sniffed the charts again.

> **D.C. the Brain Supreme:** Party people, there's your party, Tag Team is through.
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**Todd (VO):** Whoomp! There they were. And then there they weren't. What happened?
**Todd:** Well why don't we check out how they turned "whoomp" into the vague, undefined sound effect that captured an era. CAN YOU DIG IT?!

> **Tag Team:** We can dig it! Can y'all dig it? We can dig it! Can you dig it! We can-
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***Before the hit***

**Todd:** Okay, so...Atlanta.

*Video for "Welcome to Atlanta" plays*

> **Ludacris:** Welcome to Atlanta
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**Todd (VO):** Atlanta owns hip hop now, but it was a backwater nowhere for a long time.

*Various clips of Atlanta rappers play in the background*

**Todd (VO):** Eventually Outkast and Goodie Mob established the Dirty South sound, but Atlanta's first notable acts were pop crossovers. Kris Kross, TLC, Arrested Development in '92, and then Tag Team in '93.

**Todd:** Which is funny, cause Tag Team were not from Atlanta.

*Video for "Whoomp! (There It Is) plays*

**Todd (VO):** Steve Rolln and D.C. the Brain Supreme met in high school in Denver. After that, Steve went to the Art Institute in Atlanta to study studio engineering; D.C. followed him out there shortly afterward and they started a rap duo: The Tag Team Crew.

*Image of...*

**Todd (VO):** Here is their first single from 1990 entitled "Strictly...

**Todd:** ...Political..."

*"Strictly Political" plays underneath the image of the single*

> **Tag Team:** We struggle poor, there's privilege, oh so long since our ancestors were contained by shackle bonds...Tactics they use to diss us are inevitable. I speak my mind and it's strictly political
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**Todd (VO):** I gather they started out in a much different place than they ended up.

**Todd:** Eh...It's-it's 1990.

*Video of...*

**Todd (VO):** Public Enemy's still big

*Video of...*

**Todd (VO):** They're definitely biting their flow from KRS-One.

*"Strictly Political" plays underneath the image of the single*

> **Tag Team:** One day, this will end and the conscience will rise to your eyes on the prize and the wise will advise. So stand up and fight!
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**Todd (VO):** Yeah, they must have figured out that they didn't have a future as political commentators, cause they don't sound like this ever again

**Todd:** Then again, maybe the apparatus just wasn't there to promote them yet.

*Various relevant clips play underneath while Todd is talking*

**Todd (VO):** A few years later, Atlanta is starting to hit, and D.C. the Brain Supreme was DJing at Atlanta's famous strip club Magic City. Magic City turned out to be, like, the *hotbed* of Dirty South hip hop.

**Todd:** But at the time, the Dirty South style was coming a little *further* south.

*Video for "Shake Whatcha Mama Gave Ya'" plays*

> **Poison Clan:** Shake whatcha mama gave ya! (Shake whatcha mama gave ya!)
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**Todd (VO):** One of the bigger trends in rap at the time was Miami Bass, a boomingly loud extremely butt-centric music that started in the late '80s. It was very horny and not super respectful to women.
**Todd:** It was good music for strip clubs, basically.

> *Video for "Move Somethin'" plays*
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> **2 Live Crew:** Bitch, bend over, let me ride your backside like dogs do each other
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**Todd (VO):** The group 2 Live Crew took it mainstream, but not *very* mainstream, they were very controversial and banned almost immediately.

**Todd:** But that kind of sound was obviously very popular at Magic City, and so D.C. and Steve were like "Maybe we could put something like *this* together."

***The big hit***

**Todd:** If you wanna know what hip hop was like in '93, here's

*Image of...*

**Todd (VO):** a Newsweek cover from that year. "Rap 2 violent."

*Video of...*

**Todd (VO):** The backlash to pop rap has driven away the likes of Hammer and Vanilla,

*Video of...*

**Todd (VO):** leaving the gangstas in firm control of music.

*Videos of...*

**Todd (VO):** There are a number of militant rappers like Ice Cube and Public Enemy who are criticized as anti-American and anti-Semitic.

Video of...

**Todd (VO):** In '92, Ice-T starts a political firestorm by rapping about killing cops.

**Todd:** And now it is '93.

*Video of...*

**Todd (VO):** The most popular new artist in music is Snoop Doggy Dogg.

*Image of Snoop's mugshot*

**Todd (VO):** He has just been charged with murder.

*Video of...*

**Todd (VO):** That's also the commercial breakthrough year of Tupac Shakur, who has

*Image of newspaper article stating...*

**Todd (VO):** *also* been charged for shooting at two off-duty cops,

*Video of...*

**Todd (VO):** and for Cypress Hill with their constant promotion of illegal drug use.

*Video of...*

**Todd (VO):** Meanwhile, 2 Live Crew is gone, but their descendants have littered the Hot 100 with a string of leering booty jams that are *definitely* not improving rap music's reputation for sexism.

**Todd:** So with all that noise going on, how was I, as a small suburban child, able to know and sing along with a rap song?!

*Video for "Whoomp! (There It Is)" plays*

> **D.C. the Brain Supreme:** Party people! Yeah!
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**Todd (VO):** Like, we'd dance to this in P.E.! I think our little 3rd grade choir sang it at assemblies!

**Todd:** It wasn't just children, obviously, it owned the entire world.

**Todd (VO):** It killed on dance floors, it got entire arenas of people on their feet, it was for everybody and everyone.

**Todd:** Where the hell did this come from?!

*Interview with...*

**Todd (VO):** D.C. says that "Whoomp! (There It Is)" was just one of many songs they threw together. He put it on one day at the strip club and got a huge reaction out of it, but didn't think anything about it until a little later when the strippers actually started requesting it.

**Todd:** And from there, they pressed a bunch of copies and shopped it around.

*Live footage of...*

**Todd (VO):** Miami Bass was still a little too hot for primetime at the time, so it was hard to get signed,

**Todd:** but they found one tiny label that took a chance on them and,

*Live footage of Tag Team*

**Todd (VO):** by that summer, the song was just *everywhere.*

**Todd:** And clearly, you could credit all to that one perfect hook with its one perfect line.

> **Tag Team:** Whoomp! There it is! Whoomp! There it is!
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**Todd (VO):** Whoomp. There it is. The motto of a generation.

**Todd:** It was such a *powerful* lyric. It was so powerful that "Whoomp! (There It Is)" was not even the only "Whoomp! (There It Is)" that year!

*Video for "Whoot, There It Is" plays*

> **95 South:** Whoot! There it is! (A little louder) Whoot! There it is! (Yeah, come on!) Whoot!
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**Todd (VO):** This is "*Whoot,* There It Is" by 95 South. It was also a big hit at the *exact* same time.

**Todd:** That could have been a big plagiarism controversy,

*Videos for...*

**Todd (VO):** considering the "Jump"/"Jump Around" debacle of '92,

**Todd:** but everyone's very clear that *this* was just a coincidence.

*Video for "Whoot, There It Is" plays*

> **95 South:** Whoot! There It Is!
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**Todd (VO):** "Whoomp, there it is" was a common local expression, so there were probably a dozen other no-name's with their own "Whoomp! (There It Is)."

*Video of...*

**Todd (VO):** 95 South and Tag Team did, like, a battle of the bands thing together on Arsenio that year for charity, you know, it was all very friendly. Tag Team *lost* that night, but they won the larger battle. *They're* the ones people remember.

**Todd:** I think it's because they spelled it "*Whoomp*."

*Video for "Whoomp! (There It Is)" plays*

**Todd (VO):** D.C. says that he was *very* clear that's how he wanted it spelled.

**Todd:** Like, you say "Whoomp, there it is" when you saw a hot girl. So...it's just more impactful that way,

*Image of...*

**Todd (VO):** "Whoomp!" sounds like a punch in the gut.

**Todd:** Whereas "Whoot" became the sound of

*The text "w00t!" appears on the screen*

**Todd (VO):** internet forum nerds in the 2000s.

**Todd:** *That's* why *they* lost.

*Video for "Whoot, There It Is" plays*

> **95 South:** Shake it just like a salt shaker, you gotta work that big money maker
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**Todd (VO):** Or it might be because "Whoot, There It Is" the song was just too focused on the booty.

> **95 South:** All my friends, where the booty at? Whoot! There it is! Come on!
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**Todd (VO):** See? There's only so mainstream that can go.

**Todd:** Meanwhile, "*Whoomp!* (There It Is)" went worldwide.

*Video for "Whoomp! (There It Is)" plays*

> **Tag Team:** Whoomp! There it is! Come on!
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**Todd (VO):** Crossing over was *not* easy in '93. If you were too street, you couldn't cross over, but if you were too pop, you'd be rejected immediately.

**Todd:** But Tag Team found a way.

**Todd (VO):** The commercial brilliance of "Whoomp! (There It Is)" is that it's a strict club anthem that's not a strip club anthem.

**Todd:** Like, there's almost nothing to this beat, it's just a shuffling hi-hat and a short bass riff.

**Todd (VO):** But it's grimy and bass-y and mega-hype like the other Miami songs. You can play it at the strip club,

**Todd:** but you could also play it anywhere!

*Images of an article/interview about the song*

**Todd (VO):** In fact, I found an interview where Tag Team talked up its crossover appeal. "A rap single with no shooting, maiming, cussing, politics or anything degrading to women: Sounds like a sure flop, doesn't it?"

**Todd:** Well, it didn't flop, but that *does* kinda point to a larger problem with the song.

> **D.C. the Brain Supreme:** Party on, party people, let me hear some noise. D.C.'s in the house, jump jump, rejoice.
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**Todd (VO):** Now I have fond memories of "Whoomp! (There It Is)." I get amped whenever I hear it. But I've also never once felt the need to listen to it on my own time. I've never played it on purpose,
**Todd:** I could rap maybe 1 line of it besides the title and..."Boom Shaka Laka"

> **Steve Rolln:** Whoomp! Shaka laka shaka laka shaka laka
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**Todd:** C-can you tell me any lyrics?!
**Todd (VO):** I looked up the lyrics and they're actually a tiny bit dirtier than I realized.

> **Steve Rolln:** Now it's time for a n\*\*\*\* to get on the mic and make this motherf\*\*\*\*\* party hype
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**Todd (VO):** There's one n-word, a marijuana reference

> **D.C. the Brain Supreme:** And then invent as I puff on dank
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**Todd (VO):** Nothing major, you just...bleep those out of the radio edit without a single person even noticing.

*Video for...*

**Todd (VO):** It's not like "Gin and Juice" where the clean version is just, like, the *entire song* rerecorded.

**Todd:** Even the booty reference

> **D.C. the Brain Supreme:** Flip it and ride, that B-double-O-T-Y, oh my
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**Todd (VO):** It-it's spelled out! Like when you spell out dirty words so your toddler doesn't understand you. That's why this song, which debuted in a strip club,

**Todd:** eventually became...like...children's music. It's a kids song.

*Video for the Kidz Bop version*

> **Kidz Bop Kids:** Kidz bop, back again, check kid's records, let's begin
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**Todd:** Heeehh...Whoomp there it is...

**Todd (VO):** Shouldn't be, but it is.

*Video for "Whoomp! (There It Is)" plays*

**Todd (VO):** It's not at all surprising to me that one of these guys was a DJ, because they both rap like party DJs.

> **Steve Rolln:** I'm takin' it back to the old school, cause I'm an old fool who's so cool
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**Todd (VO):** It's not...a very *lyrical* flow. It's just there to keep the hype up, keep the beat moving.

> **Tag Team:** Come on, come on, Whoomp! There it is! Louder!
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**Todd (VO):** Unsurprisingly, it

**Todd:** found its natural home *not* in strip clubs but sports arenas.

*Video for "The Jock Jam Megamix" plays*

**Todd (VO):** I'm pretty sure "boom shaka laka" was a sports thing already.

*Sports footage plays with "Whoomp! (There It Is)" underneath*

**Todd (VO):** It's basically the original jock jam. It gets entire stadiums on their feet.

**Todd:** That, I mean, that's really the only time you should be playing it.

*Video for "Whoomp! (There It Is)" plays*

**Todd (VO):** I was too young, so I can't tell you if "Whoomp! (There It Is)" ever had a backlash. Like if it ever became corny or lame like

*Video for...*

**Todd (VO):** What happened with "Jiggy" a few years later. In my memory, that didn't happen, it just...went away like everything does, but I wouldn't know.

**Todd:** The crossover success must have taken some kind of toll in their careers, cause...they did not see anymore action. Like, let me read that quote again:

*Same image of the quote*

**Todd (VO):** "A rap single with no shooting, maiming, complaining, cussing, politics or anything degrading to women."

**Todd:** That's great that it doesn't have those things, but...what does it have?

*Video for "Whoomp! (There It Is)" plays*

**Todd (VO):** What *is* it about? What are *you* about?

**Todd:** Who *are* you?!

***The failed follow-up***

**Todd:** After the big hit, Tag Team's story becomes a little obscure.

*Video for "U Go Girl" plays*

> **Tag Team:** You...go...girl, you...go...girl
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**Todd (VO):** Their videos are, predictably, hard to find. This is the best version I could dig up, I apologize for the quality.

**Todd:** Apparently, this is their

*Image for...*

**Todd (VO):** follow-up single. It's called "U Go Girl."

*Video for "U Go Girl" plays*

> **D.C. the Brain Supreme:** Looking out for the mother of pearl, sisters much love, you go girl! You...go...
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**Todd (VO):** I think they were hoping to build an entire career out of 90s catchphrases.
**Todd:** You know, like, maybe a song called "Booyah"..."Oh Snap"..."Talk to the Hand"...

> **D.C. the Brain Supreme:** Positive shouts to my Nubian women, gotta give her props, real black...
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**Todd (VO):** Unlike "Whoomp! There It Is," this one *does* have a topic. It's a tribute to all the wonderful black women of the world.

> **D.C. the Brain Supreme:** R-E-S-P-E-C-T's what I give
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> **Steve Rolln:** I got her back and she got mine
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**Todd (VO):** Yeah, you can see where they're going with this, right? Just like "Whoomp! There It Is," it's a more positive, uplifting version of the Miami Bass sound.
**Todd:** You can call it corny, but I think there's a place for that.

> **D.C. the Brain Supreme:** Nubian ham is what I want...Step to it, let me rock that coochie coo.
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*Song keeps going while Todd blankly stares*
**Todd:** ...Okay, I think we're starting to lose the thread a little in this third verse...

> **D.C. the Brain Supreme:** The E-X sex, girl flex. Tip on crip (?) make her scream "oh yes!"
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**Todd (VO):** Huh...yeah, the suburban teenagers who ate up "Whoomp! There It Is" will *not* be listening to this...
**Todd:** In fact, *no one* will be listening to this, cause...well, Tag Team are not the tightest of MCs.

> **Steve Rolln:** And she's the same, quick being down with each other's the name of the game
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**Todd:** *rapping* We're Tag Team and we're here to say "We support black women in a major way!"

*Video of a Tag Team live performance*

**Todd (VO):** At this point, they had two choices: they could try and capture lightning in a bottle again...*or* they could just milk "Whoomp! There It Is" forever.

**Todd:** They went with option 2. So!

**Todd (VO):** Let me introduce you to the 7 squillion other versions of their *one* song. How 'bout "Whoomp! There It Is"

**Todd:** in Spanish!

*Live performance of the above plays*

> **Tag Team:** Whoomp! Si lo es! Whoomp! Si lo es!
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**Todd (VO):** On that day, Reggaeton was born...

**Todd:** Or how about...

*Video for...*

**Todd (VO):** "Bulls! (There It Is)?" A pretty popular Chicago area remix for the Bulls Dynasty that year.

> **Tag Team:** Bulls! There it is! Bulls! There it is!
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**Todd (VO):** Did this inspire Michael Jordan to

*Image of...*

**Todd (VO):** quit basketball altogether for another sport? We can only speculate...

**Todd:** Oh, but now...Now we get to the good stuff...\*exhale\* Wednesday...would you like to set us off?

*Video for "Addams Family (Whoomp!)" plays*

> **Wednesday Addams:** Kick it...
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> **D.C. the Brain Supreme:** Aw yeah! Party time with the Addams Family!
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> **Tag Team:** Whoomp! Addams Family! Hey hey yes!
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**Todd (VO):** This is "Addams Family (Whoomp!)" It was the theme to the movie "Addams Family Values," which also came out that year.

> **Steve Rolln:** The Addams Family movie theme gon' mess Morticia
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**Todd (VO):** Again, these videos are kind of rare, so thank you very much to whatever weirdo had this on their computer and uploaded it to YouTube.
**Todd:** Anyway, have you ever wanted to hear a rap about the Addams Family by two subpar MCs who do not seem to know much about the Addams Family?

> **D.C. the Brain Supreme:** Wednesday, Pugsley, Lurch you ring. Fester, Grandmama and Thing. Wait! Can't forget Cousin Itt.
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**Todd (VO):** Even better! Would you like to see a preteen Christina Ricci be forced to do a hip hop dance and clearly not wanting to be there?...Pugsley seems to be into it, though...

> **Tag Team:** Whoomp! Addams Family!
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**Todd (VO):** What we have learned from all this is that the Addams Family are creepy and they're kooky and they're altogether

**Todd:** fatal to rap careers!

*Video of...*

**Todd (VO):** They killed Hammer in '91,

*Video of...*

**Todd (VO):** They killed Tag Team in '93

*Video of...*

**Todd (VO):** and they probably killed Migos in 2019.

> **Migos:** Family family family. I go to war with my family.
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**Todd (VO):** That was an actual thing that happened, you missed it.

*Video of Tag Team plays*

**Todd (VO):** But if you think we've reached the low point...

**Todd:** ...Oh no no no no...no no no, we've got one step lower to go...*smacks lips*...kick it...

*Video for "Whoomp! (There It Went)" plays*

> **Mickey Mouse:** Party people! Ha ha! Here's squeaky clean music with full effect. That's me, Mickey, the Mouse Supreme!
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*Music keeps playing while Todd just stares completely baffled*

**Todd:** ...How on Earth...have I managed to restrain myself for so long...that I've never spoken about the magical world...

*Video of...*

**Todd (VO):** ...of "Mickey Unrapped?" A 1994 CD featuring the lead single "Whoomp! (There It Went)"...by Tag Team, Mickey, Minnie and Goofy...

*Video for "Whoomp! (There It Went)" plays*

> **Tag Team:** Whoomp! There it went! Whoomp! There it went!
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**Todd (VO):** You may remember the '90s trend

*Images of...*

**Todd (VO):** of ironic gangsta versions of cartoon characters.

**Todd:** This is not that.

*Video for "Whoomp! (There It Went)" plays*

**Todd (VO):** This was not ironic, it was pitched *directly* to little kids, and I remember the commercials distinctly.

*Commercial plays*

> **Guy:** This is the Mickey of the '90s
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*Image of the album cover*

**Todd (VO):** \**sarcastically\** Mickey and his *gang signs* and his *sagging pants* over his *regular yellow button pants.*

*Commercial plays*

**Todd (VO):** Check it out! It features all your favorite rappers like Tag Team and...Whoopi Goldberg! And also a song called "Ducks in the Hood."

**Todd:** The entire CD is a cavalcade of horrors that is beyond the scope of this video.

*"Whatta Mouse" plays over image of the album cover*

> **Backing singers:** Whatta mouse, whatta mouse, whatta mouse, whatta mighty good mouse
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**Todd:** \*sigh\* Yeah, just...check that out on your own time...

*Video for "Whoomp! (There It Went)" plays*

**Todd (VO):** And that's the last time anyone heard of Tag Team...

**Todd:** Encouraging Goofy...

**Todd (VO):** ...to sing "Boom shacka lacka lacka"...

> **Tag Team and Disney characters:** Boom! Shacka lacka shacka lacka shacka lacka shacka
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**Todd:** Somewhere...

*Clip of A Goofy Movie plays with the song still playing underneath*

**Todd (VO):** poor Max is just dying

**Todd:** of embarrassment...

> **Tag Team with Goofy and Donald:** Boom! Shacka lacka shacka lacka shacka lacka shacka boom! Shacka lacka shacka lacka shacka ohh, this is
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> **Max:** This is pathetic...
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***Did they ever do anything else?***

**Todd:** No, 'fraid not...

*"Here It Is Bam!" plays underneath the single cover*

> **Tag Team:** Here it is, bam!
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**Todd (VO):** Their 1994 single "Here It Is Bam!" didn't go anywhere.

*Video of...*

**Todd (VO):** In 1995, they hit an incredible low point by recording a rap song for the

*Image of...*

**Todd (VO):** talking pig movie "Gordy."

> **Steve Rolln:** ...pig and I'm giving up love to my mama hog while she's chilling in the mud, and when it comes to chumps, I'm doing damage, cause Gordy ain't going out like a ham sammich.
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**Todd:** ...Mickey Mouse is at least a cultural icon...*Gordy*?!

*Video for "Funky Situation" plays*

**Todd (VO):** They released a couple more singles and a second album which all flopped. That might not be their fault, the record company collapsed and Tag Team was tied up in court for years with royalty disputes with the label and copyright disputes cause of the sample,

**Todd:** And when the label went under, no one was really dying to sign them and...

**Todd (VO):** Steve, unfortunately, got mixed up with dealing drugs and went to jail. D.C. went back to DJing and...they just kinda disappeared for awhile.

*Video of Tag Team performing at a Bulls game*

**Todd (VO):** After a few years, they reunited and...they pop up every now and then at corporate events and '90s nights.

*Various clips of different forms of media that have used "Whoomp! (There It Is)" play*

**Todd (VO):** And "Whoomp! (There It Is)" lives on, of course, in commercials, movies, stadiums

**Todd:** And if you can, go find

*Album cover of...*

**Todd (VO):** "The Best of Tag Team," a compilation record that the AV Club called

*Image of the article*

**Todd (VO):** one of the most pointless CDs ever made.

*Image of track listing*

**Todd (VO):** It has all their greatest hits like "Whoomp! (Si Lo Es)," "Whoomp! (There It Is) (House Mix)" and "Whoomp! (Re-Mix 2000),"

**Todd:** but...and this is the key point here...it does not have the original "Whoomp! (There It Is)."

***Did they deserve better?***

**Todd:** ...You only get one "Whoomp! (There It Is)" in life.

*Video for "Whoomp! (There It Is)" plays*

> **D.C. the Brain Supreme:** Yeah!
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**Todd (VO):** There are some pop rappers like The Black Eyed Peas or Flo Rida who manage to keep finding hooks no matter how little they offer as MCs.

**Todd:** Tag Team could not pull that off.

**Todd (VO):** They said that they were riding too high on Whoompmania to think very hard about their image or their career or any long term plans, which is...probably how they wound up rapping next to Pugsley and Donald Duck. But I don't think they had much future anyway.

**Todd:** This was always what was gonna happen, and they should be glad that they cashed in on whatever they could whenever they could.

**Todd (VO):** Sometimes people just catch magic by accident and they win the lottery. That's what happened to Tag Team. When you see them performing now, they seem pretty comfortable with all they've acheived.

> **Tag Team:** Whoomp! There it is!
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**Todd (VO):** Whoomp! There it is. And Whoomp! There it was. And Whoomp! There it will always be, now and forever.

> **Tag Team:** Whoomp! There it is! Whoomp! There it is! Whoomp! There it is!
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*Closing Tag Song: "Whoomp! (There It Is) - Triple S.*

***THE END***

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