Bobby Konders feat. Mikey Jarrett, “Mack Daddy” (1992)
“Mack Daddy” was huge in Philly. Everybody from Philly will be like, “Yo, he did ‘Mack Daddy,’ that joint was bumping.” I knew Bobby Konders from working at WBLS, and we started doing a bunch of remixes [together]. Bobby got a deal at Mercury Records, and he had the idea: Ice Cube was saying “Mack Daddy,” fuck that we going to do the Jamaican version. Mikey Jarrett was a Brooklyn deejay and him and Bobby were doing some work. [I remember] Mikey said, “How you can make me ‘Mack Daddy,’ and I have 35 kids already.”
Biz had just used [the break] on “Toilet Stool Rap,” and I said let me find another way to flip it. I put some breaks together, sped it up and Mikey started doing his thing going “eh-eh-eh-eh, Mack Daddy.” There was a joke at the video shoot, like “yo Salaam,help me write down the lyrics to ‘Mack Daddy.’” Almost all he says is “Mack Daddy Mack Daddy Mack Daddy.” It was a more authentic hip-hop beat, with a more authentic reggae deejay, coming together in raw form. Most of what I do is I try to put the rawest elements together, and not water them down so that they melt together. That ended up being the main single on Bobby’s album. We actually had a record with Amel Larrieux before she came out. I used “Easin In” by Edwin Starr, so we made an R&B record off of that. Bobby had yard-style patience in the studio. He was like, “yo sing it, you took too much studio time, sing it again.”