Redman’s debut undertaking, Whut? Thee Album, launched in 1992, was punctuated by the hilarious story of a working class superhero, “A Day of Sooperman Lover,” impressed by his mentors EPMD’s “Jane” sequence and Slick Rick’s “Kids’s Story.”
The libidinous story a couple of native hero making an attempt to carry down his job rescuing cats and the like was constructed round a silky pattern of soul singer and multi instrumentalist Johnny Guitar Watson’s “Superman Lover,” from his 1976 album Ain’t That A Bitch.”
“He wasn’t actually a hero with powers,” Redman defined in a 2018 interview to commemorate Whut’s twenty fifth Anniversary. “He had some. He may fly and stuff however all his powers had been ghetto. I wished him to be a superhero that stepped in his pants one leg at a time like everyone else.
“I used to be a fan of Johnny Guitar Watson and I feel me and Erick Sermon got here throughout the report or I had it. Possibly it was my pops report as a result of I took a few his data once I moved. I simply thought doing a brand new Superman Lover can be an incredible concept. Large as much as the Watson household for supporting me since day one. They by no means gave me static or issues and I plan on utilizing him extra on my new album. His music may be very funky and he’s very gifted and that report specifically caught my eye.”
Redman would go on to report 5 extra installments of the Sooperman Lover saga throughout subsequent albums. With the lengthy awaited sequel to his 1996 album Muddy Waters due later this 12 months, Redman tells HipHopDX that the following installment of Sooperman Lover is effectively well worth the wait.
“‘Soopaman Luva 7’ is lit and it’s lengthy,” The Funk Doc shares. “And I already did the animated video to it two years in the past. I used to be forward of the sport. I’m dropping Muddy Waters 2 this fucking 12 months. Fingers down.”
The final Sooperman Lover, “Sooperman Lover 6,” appeared on his 2007 album Purple Gone Wild and featured the late Hurricane G. It was produced by Erick Sermon and sampled Curtis Mayfield’s “Give Me Your Love.”
In a twist for the sequence, “Sooperman Lover 6” attracts inspiration from the movie Pure Born Killers to interrupt his lady out of jail.
“That was magic. That one jogs my memory of ‘Tremendous Man Lover 3’ Melanie Rutherford was killin that on the singing. It was very musical and magical. The story behind that’s that I wished to include my sisters Hurricane G and Chia Rose. I wished to see SML break IN to avoid wasting somebody. This nigga so ghetto that he nonetheless gotta break IN the jail. His powers are restricted. I wrote it to be visualized as a cartoon. Actually all of them are like that, however I wrote this one like I wished to get a cartoon made to it. It’s additionally a fast chew of the Mickey and Malorie from Pure Born Killers with the inmates wilin’ and so they broke out the entrance door? That’s NBK. That’s how I wished to see SML stroll Hurricane G out the entrance door like them.”
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Sadly, Redman says that neither Hurricane G nor his cousin Tame One, who handed in November of 2022, will be capable to seem posthumously on Muddy Waters 2, as a result of time constraints.
“You already know what? No, I couldn’t actually,” Redman tells DX. “They’re getting their estates collectively for his or her household, so I’m certain I most likely may have requested for a verse from one in every of them someplace, however I let their household get their estates collectively first out of respect. However yeah, they’re my folks, they’re my household and I like them. RIP, relaxation in peace. And I’ll see them once more.”
Redman just lately contributed his voice to the theme track for Netflix’s new animated sequence, My Dad The Bounty Hunter, and it was the primary time he recited lyrics he didn’t write.
“So EL3VATORS, them some good dudes. I by no means in my life spit a verse that any person wrote. I at all times write my very own shit,” he advised DX. “ However the brothers who did it, they really are brothers in actual life, and so they acquired their very own manufacturing staff. And it wasn’t like they wrote it for me, they only had it written and so they wished me to spit it. So I added a few touches right here and there. However something to assist my brothers to achieve the music trade, or the movie trade, or any trade working with each other, I’m all for it.”
