Cipha Sounds Presents: The 75 Greatest Tunnel Bangers
By Complex Magazine | Jul 13, 2010 | 1:22 pm | Permalink
#8. The Lox "Wild Out"
Producer: Swizz Beatz
Year: 2000
Cipha says: "This record was tailor-made for the Tunnel. After the Bad Boy era and the Ruff Ryders album, that's when the Lox was the most anticipated for their next album. When they did the album release party for We Are The Streets at the Tunnel, they performed a couple of songs, then they started to do 'Wild Out' and the club went crazy. It was so many people wildin' out—like 2,500 people in the club—that this dude in a wheelchair was getting shook around a lot. And he was getting nervous, so he went to pull out his gun, and shot himself in the leg. We heard gunshots, like pop-pop-pop, even though the music was so loud. Once we heard the gunshots, everybody started running. And that shut down the Tunnel for a couple of months."
Dee Phunk July 13th, 2010 at 11:37 AM
If u look close in the video, in some scenes he's wearing a cast. He tries to hide it in his pocket and uses his left hand instead. Always wondered what that was about.
step one July 13th, 2010 at 11:43 AM
download the original version of 'Benjamins' here (aswell as loads of classic 90s radio, mixtapes and freestyles!) http://djstepone.blogspot.com/2009/12/its-all-about-benjamins-original.html
Dee Phunk July 13th, 2010 at 12:19 PM
ROFL, Ciph LOVES Sheek.
Dee Phunk July 13th, 2010 at 12:28 PM
On another note, I would sometimes have to skip this song in the car if I was on the way to Manhattan from LI on the Northern State / Grand Central Pkwy in the car. It would make me drive fast for no reason.
tony-b July 13th, 2010 at 12:35 PM
anyone else feel like he lifted the hook from the DC Go-Go record with the same theme?
Dee Phunk July 13th, 2010 at 12:42 PM
Awww man, the link to the demo version is finito. Wanted to peep that.
Dee Phunk July 13th, 2010 at 12:55 PM
I'm DYING @ the guy in the wheelchair story. U know a song is crazy when it makes you shoot YOURSELF. I always connect this song w/ the second time I went to Cancun in 2000. They played "Wild Out" in the Baja Beach Club. And of course I'm w/ a bunch of NY cats so we lose our collective minds. Some guy I didn't even know yelled in my ear "FLING THAT SH*T!" I didn't know what he was talking about. He pointed @ my tall ass drink and yelled again "FLING THAT SH*T!" So of course I waited 'til the chorus and just splashed it all over the place and anyone in the vicinity.
david July 13th, 2010 at 01:04 PM
besides the liks yall played some whack music at that club.
JustinTime July 13th, 2010 at 03:55 PM
Yo Dee I got the demo version from when Ciph posted it last year. Shoot me a email. justintime410@vzw.blackberry.net
The Editor July 13th, 2010 at 05:02 PM
The great thing about most of these cuts were that they were album songs, and everybody knew them, crazy