10 Artists That Disowned Their Own Songs

From the start of A Tribe Called Quest’s career, this was not the same kind of gangsta hip hop that you had seen from Run-DMC. Though they may have all fit under one umbrella, the laid back nature of Phife Dwag and Q-Tip made them a decent middle ground for people who weren’t as down with the gangsta style that was to come from acts like Nas and NWA. Tribe could punch down when they wanted to, and it’s a miracle that Georgie Porgie never made the final cut on their record.

When recording began on their monumental record the Low End Theory, Georgie Porgie was the first sketch for what would become Show Business, which has a much more cynical tone behind it. Throughout this entire song, the entire joke is about how Tribe is homophobic and how they think that anyone who is in a same sex relationship is going to go to Hell for it.

Though it would be easy to call something like this sarcastic, the dedication that they have to this kind of joke really falls on the wrong side of tastelessness these days. And it seems like someone at least caught it at the time as well, with some of the producers begging them to come up with something else. They ended up flipping the whole thing around, and out of the deal we got one of the single greatest hip hop records ever made.