The anthemic Hip Hop Hooray was the debut single from 19 Naughty III, Naughty By Nature’s third album from 1993

It was a mainstream top 10 hit and Naughty By Nature’s second best-selling single

The beat is samples on samples: Funky President by James Brown, Don’t Change Your Love by Five Stairsteps, Make Me Say it Again, Girl by the Isley Brothers, You Can’t Turn Me Away by Sylvia Striplin, 74 Miles Away by Cannonball Adderley Quintet and Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel