Has the song “I wanna be rich” been banned from radio?

[Booker T Garvey]

Cats old enough to remember this song know how much we use to sing the hook and how often they played it on the radio



Just looked it up, it went to #2 on the charts and was a hit on Rnb radio

But I can’t remember the last time I’ve heard this on any old school radio stations, just walking through a store, nothing. It’s like it never existed.

Or I could just be trippin, are they playing this song on the old school stations in your cities? I have my theories but I’ll reserve them for now

 

[Dameon Farrow]

I run it on my phone from time to time. Doesn't get radio play like that.

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

Last time I heard this song I was speeding down the road in the back of an old Chrysler in like 93

 

[Booker T Garvey]

Last time I heard this song I was speeding down the road in the back of an old Chrysler in like 93

Something is definitely weird going on with that song, it was huge, everybody was singing that hook - even white people

I don’t even hear it on old school stations..strange.

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

Something is definitely weird going on with that song, it was huge, everybody was singing that hook - even white people

I don’t even hear it on old school stations..strange.

I’m kinda with you on that. An even more interesting thought is why nobody’s been asking this question for years. Ain’t too many hit records that aren’t monetized especially in this era in some form. What made folks even forget about this song?

I don’t know if the Mandela effect is real, but you can’t tell me SOMETHING ain’t going on with that

 

[Great Big]

Something is definitely weird going on with that song, it was huge, everybody was singing that hook - even white people

I don’t even hear it on old school stations..strange.

We know how the music industry has excluded certain and forms of music. I wanna hear what you have to say though.

 

[krazykid18]

i had to exercise to this song in gym class in fifth grade Queens muthafukkas know whats up

 

[Tribal Outkast]

They might throw it in a mix or something but I don’t remember hearing it on the radio recently. You make a good point plus they’re adding these 5 to 10 year old songs to the old school stations now so that’s knocking off sone of the classics.

 

[Booker T Garvey]

We know how the music industry has excluded certain and forms of music. I wanna hear what you have to say though.

The song definitely promotes the opulence, wealth and free spending of the 80’s, perhaps it was seen as tasteless over time, as we moved into the 90’s?

Either way for a song that popular to have not been heard of or not even used in promos or commercials for this long is interesting.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I heard it on an episode of in living color. The fly girls danced to it into commercial break.


Ringalingaling

 

[krazykid18]

This was a number one song in the country you will never hear it on the radio

 

[Booker T Garvey]

I’m kinda with you on that. An even more interesting thought is why nobody’s been asking this question for years. Ain’t too many hit records that aren’t monetized especially in this era in some form. What made folks even forget about this song?

I don’t know if the Mandela effect is real, but you can’t tell me SOMETHING ain’t going on with that

Exactly, I’ve never even heard the song used in movies, commercials, nothing, especially a song damn near all of us old enough remembers...

Somebody at ASCAP or BMI put a lock on this song.

 

[letti cook]

damn, i aint heard this shyt since elementary

 

[Booker T Garvey]

This was a number one song in the country you will never hear it on the radio

Oh yeah there are a ton of these type of songs from that era we’ll never see or hear from again

But trust me, the whole country was saying “I wanna be rich!” after this dropped, that chorus was infectious especially to us little kids

This song reminds me of what happened to city pop in Japan, they erased an entire decade of this type of music when their economy fell

 

[Lootha VanDraws]

Imagine if The Time did this instead...