The minute super-producer Rick Rubin heard the finished version of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s Baby Got Back, he said: “People are gunna be talking about this 20 years from now”. He wasn’t wrong.

While Sir Mix-a-Lot had achieved platinum sales before the release of Baby Got Back as an independent rapper, it was such a leviathan hit it rendered him a one-hit wonder in the wider music industry. The song was only beaten to the best-selling of 1992 by Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You. Sir Mix-a-Lot, real name Anthony Ray, reckons he’s “definitely made over a hundred million” off the back of Baby Got Back.

In 2014, US rapper Nicki Minaj created the song of the summer with Anaconda, a bombastic celebration of the female form which heavily sampled Sir Mix-a-Lot’s original paean to the posterior. Much as Anaconda followed Baby Got Back’s footsteps in terms of a graphic, bum-focussed video and libidinous lyrics, it also echoed the 1992 song’s chart success, becoming Minaj’s highest charting single in her home country and spending eight weeks in its top 10.