Big B
| Big B | |
|---|---|
| Seeed feat. Black Kappa | |
| publication | April 2, 2001 |
| length | 4:45 |
| Genre (s) | Dancehall , reggae , ska |
| album | New Dubby Conquerors |
Dickes B is a song by the Berlin dancehall reggae formation Seeed in collaboration with the Jamaican dancehall deejay Black Kappa . The group released the song in 2001 as the third single from their album New Dubby Conquerors .
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Seeed sings about the city of Berlin in this piece , so the refrain reads:
"Thick B, up on the Spree
in summer you are doing well and in winter it hurts
Mama Berlin, brick and gasoline,
we love your scent when we move around the houses"
Most of the song is written in German, except for the English rap part by Black Kappa.
Effect and reception
In the 2001 annual charts of the Intro magazine, Dickes B was ranked 32nd. In the 2001 Spex critic annual charts, Dickes B was ranked 14th. Readers of Tip magazine voted Dickes B second in the choice of the Berlin anthem. A talk show on rbb television that premiered in 2008 is named after the song.
At Seeed's live concerts, the song was almost always used as a conclusion.
The underlying Frogass riddim was used by, among others, Benjie (Don't Follow You) and Black Kappa (Uman) .
In the song Fieber , included on the album Stadtaffe , Pierre Baigorry, alias Peter Fox, takes up the chorus of Dickes B again, but changes its content:
"Big B on the Spree, the winter is good, the summer hurts, the
sun is beating, the garbage cans are smoking
'Unter den Linden' means 'Under the Palms'"
Chart placement
- DE: April 27 - April 16, 2001 - 17 weeks.
- AT: 68 - May 13, 2001 - 3 weeks
- CH: 91 - June 17, 2001 - 1 week
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lyrics Seeed - Dickes B. (No longer available online.) In: Genius . Archived from the original on April 4, 2017 ; accessed on March 4, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Intro Pop Poll 2001 Singles , accessed January 4, 2010.
- ^ Spex 2001 Critics Annual Chart Singles , accessed May 26, 2011.
- ↑ tip-berlin.de: survey results , accessed on January 4, 2010.
- ↑ Press release about Dickes B. (PDF; 349 kB), accessed on January 4, 2010.
- ↑ riddimguide.com , accessed January 4, 2010.
- ↑ Peter Fox: Fever in the Wikia Lyrics Wiki.
