War - Low Rider
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- War - "Low Rider" Low Rider is a song written by the band War and appearing on their album Why Can't We Be Friends?, released in 1975. It reached number one on the Billboard R&B charts and peaked at number 7 on the Pop Singles chart. According to the Allmusic review of the song, "the lyric takes the cool image of the low rider — the Chicano culture practice of hydraulically hot-rodding classic cars — and using innuendo, extends the image to a lifestyle." The music video for the song consists of various pimpmobiles on a typical traffic suburban style street, showing two men each driving a pimpmobile. At one point, an animated version of the face of the album Why Can't We Be Friends is lip-synching as well as a man wearing a mask of the album's face. There are also scenes consisting of a driver showing off the album holding it out the window or on the windshield. The song has been covered by the following artists: Blues Traveler Peter Cetera The Fantômas Melvins Big Band George Clinton Cypress Hill Earth Eatz Dog - on their album Sniff This! Epsilon Minus Exodus Gary Hoey JFA Terry Kath Korn Latin Alliance Phish Popa Chubby featuring Galea Quando Quango Son Of Dave Cedar Walton Widespread Panic Barry White Yukon Kornelius "Low Rider" was sampled by The Offspring in the remix version of "Pretty Fly For A White Guy". War's "Low Rider" was also significantly sampled by The Beastie Boys for their track "Slow Ride" on the 1986 album Licensed to Ill. The song "Jorge Regula" by The Moldy Peaches borrowed the main riff from "Low Rider." Sublime sampled the song in the bassline of Forman Freestyle on disc 2 of their posthumous release Everything Under the Sun. The song was featured on the first compilation in the Lowrider Soundtrack series. Movies: The song has been featured in fourteen movies, including the Cheech and Chong series, A Gnome Named Gnorm, Robots, 21 Grams, Dazed and Confused, Paulie, Beverly Hills Ninja, A Knight's Tale, the 2000 remake of Gone in Sixty Seconds, The Young Poisoner's Handbook, Friday and Beve
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