Who knew?: Sir Mix-A-Lot likes big bootys and 8 bit microprocessors
Were you aware that Sir Mix-A-Lot, known for liking big butts, is also an electrical engineer? According to a rap battle he participated in on Twitter last year with Mouser Electronics and Atmel, he also “likes his MOSFETs wide and juicy”:
@MouserElec ♫ We like 8-bits and we cannot lie. All you other Makers can’t deny. ♫ #Atmel #TBT
— Atmel Corporation (@Atmel) November 14, 2013
@Atmel When a board drops in with 8 bit pins and a grounded interface you get sprung. #tbt #Atmel @therealmix — Mouser Electronics (@MouserElec) November 14, 2013
@MouserElec @Atmel wanna pull up tough but your solder got flow with flux
— Sir Mix-A-Lot (@therealmix) November 14, 2013
@therealmix @MouserElec ♫ Little in the middle with a shirt pin on its back. ♫ #Atmel #TBT — Atmel Corporation (@Atmel) November 14, 2013
@Atmel @therealmix I’m tired of Double-E’s saying 32-bits the thing. #tbt #Atmel
— Mouser Electronics (@MouserElec) November 14, 2013
@therealmix @MouserElec @Atmel Yeah baby, when it come to uC’s ARM got nothing to do with my selection. 72Mhz-256K? Only if she’s 8 bit. — Garrett Mace (@macegr) November 14, 2013
@MouserElec @therealmix ♫ ‘Cause our chips are small and screen curves are kickin.’ I’m thinkin’ bout stickin’…with Atmel. ♫ #TBT
— Atmel Corporation (@Atmel) November 14, 2013
@Atmel @therealmix So dial 1-800 346-6873 and kick those nasty BOMs. Mouser’s got stock. #TBT #Atmel — Mouser Electronics (@MouserElec) November 14, 2013
@MouserElec @therealmix ♫ Take your average Maker and ask him that, it’s gotta pack some flash. ♫ #TBT
— Atmel Corporation (@Atmel) November 14, 2013
@MouserElec @Atmel I like my mosfets wide & juicy. That bandwidth has to double. 30mhz bubble, high frequency RF trouble — Sir Mix-A-Lot (@therealmix) November 14, 2013
@therealmix @MouserElec ♫ Some engineers wanna play that hard(ware) role and tell you that AVR ain’t gold… ♫ #TBT
— Atmel Corporation (@Atmel) November 14, 2013
@therealmix @MouserElec ♫ So they toss it and leave it, and we pull up quick to retrieve it. ♫ #TBT — Atmel Corporation (@Atmel) November 14, 2013
@Atmel @therealmix So give me a sister with a resistor, sends currents through my transistor
— Mouser Electronics (@MouserElec) November 14, 2013
It is still unconfirmed if he is/was also a ham radio operator. The rumor mill states that he held N6IWP (under his real name Anthony Ray) but let it lapse in 2011. However, the birth date of this licensee was a couple of years off, and a Google Street View of the station license address doesn’t seem like it would be the abode of one Mr. Mix-A-Lot. HOWEVER, according to an Entertainment Weekly article in 2002, he owns (owned?) a ham radio parts company in Seattle:
No need to weep at the strains of ”Baby Got Back”: Despite reports to the contrary, its author isn’t toiling as a repairman. Actually, the 38-year-old MC employs five workers at RC Electronics, a Seattle area ham-radio-parts manufacturing biz he launched in 1994. ”It’s not gonna make anywhere near the money music is making me, but it’s something to fall back on,” says Mix-A-Lot (né Anthony Ray).
The world may never know….
(Published from Chicago, IL)