I was dating this girl with a little tiny waist and a huge ass -- just a Coke bottle body. We were sitting in a hotel room in Los Angeles watching the Super Bowl, and we saw these beer ads with the Bud chicks -- like straight up and down beanpoles. I didn't agree with that. I wanted curves. We started writing "Baby Got Back" right there.

Sir Mix-A-Lot states his agenda right up front. He's a rock-solid conservative – everybody who fondly remembers the mid-Eighties breakthrough of rap say, "Ho!" With two crudely produced and derivative independent records under his belt, Mix-A-Lot has tapped the talents of onetime Def Jam mastermind and current metal maven Rick Rubin for his third – a shrewd and effective gambit. Mack...