Harm Me With Harmony

Naughty By Nature: O.P.P. Sunny Days Remix
from O.P.P. Single (Tommy Boy 1991)

Naughty By Nature: O.P.P. Live
from Everything's Gonna Be Alright Single (Tommy Boy 1991)


As the dog days of summer kick into high gear I thought it would be appropriate to throw up the ubiquitous summer blog post that extols the virtue of the season of love and conception and what better song to set it off than Naughty By Nature's ode to infidelity.

The O.P.P. Sunny Days Remix takes a more laid back approach by using the beautiful Delegation sample from Oh Honey while still keeping the Melvin Bliss drum break and flipping the pre-Neverland Michael vocal sample and mixing all of this to perfection. This version works extremely well with the lyrics and is perfect for those lazy Sunday afternoons when you're getting you're whistle wet with other peoples property.

The second cut is a live version of O.P.P. that's memorable for two reasons. One is when Vinny, who plays the hype man throughout the song, inexplicably starts declaring his love for Treach, and does it rather loudly. Of course it's part of the song but still hearing it is a little humorous. The second highlight of this version is when Treach drops an extra verse and calls himself the "human pussy puncher". Lyrically, Treach was at the top of his game back then and could stand up to practically anyone so an extra verse is always a plus.

The most beautiful aspect of Naughty By Nature (around the time their first album dropped) is how they married street credibility, easily accessible commercial beats and dope lyrical content and delivery and made it work so that it pleased everyone, although it began to get passe and irritating by the time Hip Hop Hooray dropped.

On a side note, if you're viewing this blog using IE I would suggest using any other browser as I viewed it using Internet Explorer and it was not a pretty site.