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Sir Mix-A-Lot: Beepers (Nastymix video)

Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 23 November 1989

YOU GOTTA have guys like Sir Mix-a-Lot in the world of pop music, guys who jumped the trend-train so late, and imitated their predecessors so extensively yet so badly, that their own fifth-generation copy is funny and somehow interesting in its blurriness.

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