![]() ![]() You also pointed out two other more obscure “Ninja Turtles Movie Rap Songs,” like “Awesome (You Are My Hero)” by Ya Kid K, which is also from Secret of the Ooze and “Turtle Jam” by Psychedelic Dust and Loose Bruce from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III.Īnd then I came across one other, “Shellshock” by Gym Class Heroes from the 2007 film TMNT. ![]() Although this has had less kitschy ‘90s nostalgia staying power than “Ninja Rap,” it was actually much more popular – it even peaked at #1 on the UK singles charts, and in the US #2 on the hot rap singles chart and #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 (“Ninja Rap” didn’t chart and “Shell Shocked” peaked at 84). ![]() So I initially took “Shell Shocked” as just a nod to “Ninja Rap” as a way to reproduce a similar piece of kitsch 13 years later.īut once I talked to you about it, I realized that these are just two nodes of a much larger phenomenon of “Ninja Turtles Movie Rap Songs.” The most famous incarnation that I had forgotten about was “Turtle Power” by Partners in Kryme, which was the credits music for the 1990 TMNT film. I laughed because it immediately made me think of Vanilla Ice’s “Ninja Rap” from 1991’s Secret of the Ooze, which stands up as such a amazing piece of early 1990s kitch, in part because it achieves the seemingly impossible task of making Vanilla Ice seem even more ridiculous by having him chant “Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go!” ![]() I was listening to a Spotify playlist and it just came on, so I didn’t know that it was a Ninja Turtles song until Juicy J says “We all want our cut like the Shredder” which made me take out my phone and look at it, and then caused me to laugh when I saw the TMNT cover art. Ryan Sheely: I’m fascinated by the phenomenon of “Ninja Turtles Movie Rap Songs,” and I want to do a bit of analysis about what these are and what is interesting about them.įor me, this started to become a point of interest when I first heard “Shell Shocked,” the song by Juicy J, Wiz Khalifa, and Ty Dolla $ign that is from the 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In honor of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, Out of the Shadows, Ryan Sheely and Richard Rosenbaum delved deeply into the cultural history, lyrics, and musical influences of “Ninja Turtles Movie Rap Songs.” Read on to learn what they discovered, and buy the Ninja Turtles Overview Box Set for more analysis of the classic 1990s TMNT movies. ![]()
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