Shaggy’s Angel bass line comes from this! Yep, the song’s wiki makes it official. Tracking samples is fun in itself but it also offers the opportunity to compare songs across genres:

Steve Miller’s ‘You’re the cutest thing/That I ever did see/I really love your peaches/Want to shake your tree’ doesn’t, for me, compare favourably with Shaggy’s ‘Life is one big party when you’re still young/But who’s gonna have your back when it’s all done/It’s all good when you’re little, you have pure fun/Can’t be a fool, son, what about the long run’. There’s more of a sense of a real relationship and some classic instructional wisdom to boot. [Blog about instructional wisdom in pop songs coming very soon, see: God Bless the Child, A Message to You Rudy, Get Up Edina, Don’t Be a Dropout]