"Gimme Some More" | ||||
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Single by Busta Rhymes | ||||
from the album Extinction Level Event: The Final World Front | ||||
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Released | October 26, 1998 | |||
Recorded | 1998 | |||
Studio | Soundtrack Studios, New York City | |||
Genre | Hardcore hip hop | |||
Length | 2:39 | |||
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Busta Rhymes singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Gimme Some More" on YouTube |
"Gimme Some More" is a song by American rapper Busta Rhymes. It was released as the second single from his third studio album Extinction Level Event: The Final World Front on October 26, 1998, by Flipmode Entertainment and Elektra Records. The song was written by Rhymes and its producer DJ Scratch. The violin riffs that accompany the main beat are sampled from the opening theme to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho, composed by Bernard Herrmann. It is often considered to be the very summit of Busta's complex, breathless, high-speed rhyming delivery most prominent in his early work. [1]
In 2000, it was nominated for Best Rap Solo Performance at the Grammy Awards, but it lost to Eminem's "My Name Is." Rhymes first performed the song live with The Roots on Saturday Night Live with "Tear da Roof Off" on February 13, 1999. He also performed the song live in 1999 at MTV Spring Break, the 1999 Soul Train Music Awards, at the Knitting Factory Brooklyn, New York in 2008, and at The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival in 2012.
"Gimme Some More" was composed in 4
4 time and the key of B minor, with a tempo of 137 beats per minute. It has a duration time of two minutes and thirty-nine seconds. [2]
The music video for "Gimme Some More" was directed by Hype Williams along with Busta Rhymes himself, credited there as Busta Remo. Like many of Busta's earlier music videos, it is shot through fisheye lens in fast motion and is largely absurdist in nature. Opening up with a Looney Tunes -like intro, the video begins with Busta Rhymes narrating in the background, recalling how he once bumped his head as a child. A little boy portraying Busta as a child acts this out. A woman runs out of house to the aid of him. Suddenly, the child turns into a hideous, little blue monster with big yellow eyes and sharp teeth, and chases the woman around and throughout the house. The story is intercut with scenes of Busta Rhymes and other members of Flip Mode Squad in various random costumes and situations. Busta is seen as a boxer, stock broker, police officer, miner, pistol-toting, Yosemite Sam-like Texan, body builder, pimp and a person tied up about to get run over by a train a la The Perils of Pauline. The video ends on an unresolved cliffhanger, with the woman trapped on top of a refrigerator and the monster climbing closer and closer towards her.
It was nominated for Breakthrough Video at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards. A VHS tape of the music video came free with a purchase of the album E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front . [3]
Chart (1999) | Peak Position |
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Germany (Official German Charts) [4] | 52 |
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [5] | 15 |
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [6] | 19 |
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [7] | 14 |
Scotland (OCC) [8] | 14 |
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [9] | 50 |
UK Singles (OCC) [10] | 5 |
UK Dance (OCC) [11] | 3 |
UK Hip Hop/R&B (OCC) [12] | 2 |
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ( Billboard ) [13] | 29 |
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles ( Billboard ) [14] | 5 |
US Rhythmic ( Billboard ) [15] | 36 |
Chart (1998) | Position |
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UK Urban ( Music Week ) [16] | 33 |
Chart (1999) | Position |
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Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [17] | 143 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United Kingdom (BPI) [18] | Silver | 200,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
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