“O.P.P.” is a song by American hip hop group Naughty by Nature, released in August 1991 by Tommy Boy as the lead single from the group’s self-titled second album, Naughty by Nature(1991). It was one of the first rap songs to become a pop hit when it reached No. 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and No. 35 on the UK Singles Chart. Rodd Houston and Marcus Raboydirected the music video for the song. Its declaration, “Down wit’ O.P.P.” was a popular catchphrase in the US in the early 1990s.
| “O.P.P.” | ||||
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| Single by Naughty by Nature | ||||
| from the album Naughty by Nature | ||||
| B-side | “The Wickedest Man Alive” | |||
| Released | August 24, 1991 | |||
| Recorded | 1991 | |||
| Studio | Unique Recording Studios (New York, New York, US) |
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| Genre | Golden age hip hop | |||
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| Label | Tommy Boy | |||
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| Producer(s) | Naughty by Nature | |||
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| “O.P.P.” on YouTube | ||||
The song was a hugely successful single; Spin magazine named it one of the greatest singles of the 1990s, offering a brief verdict with the rhetorical question, “Ever wonder where Puffy came from?”[1] It also made some media outlets’ lists of one of the best rap songs of all time: including The Source,[2][better source needed] VH1 (No. 22),[3]and Rolling Stone (No. 80).[4] The song was also ranked No. 20 in VH1’s “40 Greatest Hip Hop Songs of the ’90s” in 2012[5] and No. 96 in Billboard magazine’s “500 Best Pop Songs of All Time” in 2023
