Songtekst
Hey, this is radio station W-S-K-E-E
We're takin' calls off the wish line
Making all your wacky wishes come true
Hello
[Chorus]:
I wish I was little bit taller,
I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good
I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a '64 impala
I wish I was like six-foot-nine
So I could get with Leoshi
Cause she don't know me but yo she's really fine
You know I see her all the time
Everywhere I go, and even in my dreams
I can scheme of ways to make her mine
Cause I know she's livin phat
Her boyfriend's tall and he plays ball
So how am I gonna compete with that
'Cause when it comes to playing basketball
I'm always last to be picked
And in some cases never picked at all
So I just lean upon the wall
Or sit up in the bleachers with the rest of the girls
Who came to watch their men ball
Dag y'all! I never understood
Why the jocks get the fly girls
And me I get the hood rats
I tell 'em scat, skittle, skibobble
Got hit with a bottle
And put in the hospital, for talkin' that mess
I confess it's a shame when you livin' in a city
That's the size of a box and nobody knows yo' name
Glad I came to my senses
Like quick-quick got sick-sick to my stomach
Overcome with my thoughts of me and her together
Right?
So when I asked her out she said I wasn't her type
[Chorus]
I wish I had a brand-new car
So far, I got this hatchback
And everywhere I go, yo I gets laughed at
And when I'm in my car I'm laid back
I got an 8-track and a spare tire in the backseat
But that's flat
And do you really wanna know what's really wack, What
See I can't even get a date
So, what do you think of that?
I heard that prom night is the bomb night
With a hood rat you can hold tight
But really tho' on figuero
When I'm in my car I can't even get a hello
Well so many people wanna cruise Crenshaw on Sunday
Well then I'm gonna have to get in my car and go
You know I take the 110 to the 105
Get off on Crenshaw tell my homies look alive
Cause it's hard to survive
Livin' in a concrete jungle and
These girls just keep passin' me by
She looks fly, she looks fly
Makes me say my, my, my
[Chorus]
I wish I was a little bit taller...
I wish I was a baller...
I wish I was a little bit taller y'all
I wish I was a baller
Hey, I wish I had my way
'Cause everyday would be a Friday
You could even speed on the highway
I would play ghetto games
Name my kids ghetto names
Little Mookie, big Al, Lorraine
Yo you know that's on the real
So if you're down on your luck
Then you should know just how I feel
Cause if you don't want me around
See I go simple, I go easy, I go greyhound
Hey, you, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down
Ahhhh, yes, ain't that fresh?
Everybody wants to get down like that
[Chorus]
I wish, I wish, I wish...
Songinformatie
Dit hiphopnummer wordt gerapt door Skee-Lo. Het nummer is afkomstig van het gelijknamige album I Wish. In dit nummer verlangt hij naar de liefde van een meisje, maar zij zegt dat hij niet haar type is. Ze wil een langere jongen. Hij wenst dan dat hij meer zoals haar vriendje zou willen zijn, langer dan een basketbalspeler. De inspiratie haalt hij uit zijn eigen verleden waarin hij altijd al wensen had.
Trivia
In de Verenigde Staten haalde het nummer een 13e plek in de Billboard Hot 100 en kreeg een gouden status met meer dan 600.000 verkochte exemplaren in eigen land. In Europa deed het nummer het ook goed. In de Nederlandse Top 40 is de hoogste notering een 10e plaats. Het nummer heeft meerdere nominaties mogen ontvangen, maar daar kon er helaas niet één van worden verzilverd.
| Artiest | Skee-Lo |
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| Titel |
Radio Edit |
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| Lengte |
4:08
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| Componist(en) |
Skee-Lo
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| Producer(s) |
Walter "Kandor" Kahn, Skee-Lo
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| Mixage |
Walter "Kandor" Kahn, Skee-Lo
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| Platenlabel |
Jive
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| Catalogusnr |
74321 332832 [cdm] // 74321 343272 [cds]
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| Album |
I Wish
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