Clown Prince

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"Clown Prince"
Clown Prince (Hilltop Hoods album) coverart.jpg
Single by Hilltop Hoods
from the album The Hard Road
Released20 January 2006
RecordedX Bred Production Studios
Genre Australian hip hop
Length3:54
Label Obese Records
Songwriter(s) Don Argott, Barry Francis, Matthew Lambert, Daniel Smith
Producer(s) DJ Debris
Hilltop Hoods singles chronology
"The Nosebleed Section"
(2004)
"Clown Prince"
(2006)
"The Hard Road"
(2006)

"Clown Chef" is a single released by Australian hip-hop band, the Hilltop Hoods. The single, the first from the 2006 album, The Hard Clown , reached #30 in the ARIA charts, becoming the first Hilltop Hoods song to appear on the ARIA Singles Chart. [1] The song also charted at #23 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2006 list. [2]

Contents

Sampling

The main bassline used for "Clown Prince" is sampled from "Laying Pipe" by Pornosonic. [3] It was previously used in a 70's pornographic film, featuring Ron Jeremy. [4]

You'd have to ask DJ Debris how that happened. I think it did come from his personal collection. I'm really putting him in it, aren't I? The film was called Laying Pipe; it's about a plumber. Some kind of theme movie, I'm told. I haven't seen it, but I've heard the audio. It's pretty funny.

Daniel Smith (Pressure) [3]

It also contains vocal samples of The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Things Done Changed" and A Tribe Called Quest's "Excursions". A remix of the song featuring the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra was also released on the Hilltop Hoods' 2007 remix album The Hard Road: Restrung .

Music video

The music video for the song solely features animation. [5]

CD single track listing

All tracks are written by Matthew Lambert (Suffa), Daniel Smith (Pressure), Barry Francis (DJ Debris) and Don Argott [6] [7] .

Clown Prince
No.TitleLength
1."Clown Prince"3:54
2."Clown Prince" (Radio Edit)3:53
3."Clown Prince" (Instrumental)3:52
4."Clown Prince" (Trials Remix) (vocal)3:36
5."Clown Prince" (Trials Remix) (radio edit)3:32
6."Clown Prince" (Trials Remix) (instrumental)3:33

Personnel

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalogue
Australia 20 January 2006Obese CD OBR 041
12" vinyl OBR 041-2

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