Suga Buga

Sugar Bear only ever recorded two songs, but one's a club classic that always works best as an entrée to It Takes Two, while the other one's such a generic golden-era B side that even the sort of gormless random-rap obsessive Borks who think Years To Build is better than Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em couldn't care less about it; ergo Don't Scandalize Mine is an absolute shoo in for the remarkable songs by unremarkable rappers canon, innit?

Sugar Bear - Don't Scandalize Mine
(From Don't Scandalize Mine 12" single; 1988)


Thank you Based Bear and the track's producer Shabazz for sampling that good bit from Once In A Lifetime so I've only had to sit through the original Talking Heads song a mere once. Give me Sugar Bear's proto-Tim Dog vocal stylings over David Byrne's poncy ‘wacky’ vocals all day, every day. Let's not even try to bullshit each other here, folks: everything Talking Heads did on their Remain In Light LP in 1980 was done a billion times better by Peter Gabriel on his So album in 1986.