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{{Infobox song
| name = O.P.P.
| cover = Naughty by Nature single cover O.P.P.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = [[Naughty by Nature]]
| album = [[Naughty by Nature (album)|Naughty by Nature]]
| B-side = The Wickedest Man Alive
| released = August 24, 1991
| recorded = 1991
| studio = Unique Recording Studios <br />
| venue =
| genre = [[Golden age hip hop]]
| length
* 4:31 <small>(album version)</small>
| label = [[Tommy Boy Records|Tommy Boy]]▼
* 6:41 <small>(Ultimix remix)</small>
| writer = {{flatlist|▼
▲| label = [[Tommy Boy Records|Tommy Boy]]
*[[Anthony Criss]]▼
* [[
▲* [[Anthony Criss]]
*[[The Corporation (production team)|The Corporation]]▼
* [[
▲* [[The Corporation (record production team)|The Corporation]]
| producer = [[Naughty by Nature]]▼
* [[Herb Rooney]]
| prev_title = [[Scuffin' Those Knees]]▼
▲| producer = [[Naughty by Nature]]
▲| prev_title = [[Scuffin' Those Knees]]
| next_title = [[Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Naughty by Nature song)|Everything's Gonna Be Alright]]▼
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▲| next_title = [[Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Naughty by Nature song)|Everything's Gonna Be Alright]]
| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|idx3GSL2KWs|"O.P.P."}}}}▼
| next_year = 1992
}}
"'''O.P.P.'''" is a song by American
The song was a hugely successful single; ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' magazine named it one of the greatest singles of the 1990s, offering a brief verdict with the [[rhetorical question]], "Ever wonder where [[Sean Combs|Puffy]] came from?"<ref name="spin">{{cite web |last1=Weingarten |first1=Christopher R. |title=Naughty By Nature Look Back on 20 Years of 'O.P.P.' |url=https://www.spin.com/2011/12/naughty-nature-look-back-20-years-opp/ |website=Spin |date=December 7, 2011 |access-date=August 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170612113540/http://www.spin.com/2011/12/naughty-nature-look-back-20-years-opp/ |archive-date=June 12, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> It also made some media outlets' lists of one of the best rap songs of all time: including ''[[The Source]]'',<ref>
==Content==
The song samples Melvin Bliss' "[[Synthetic Substitution]]" and [[The Jackson 5]]'s "[[ABC (The Jackson 5 song)|ABC]]". Its lyrics concern sexual infidelity, with "O.P.P." standing for "other people's pussy" and "other people's penis". [[Treach]] told in an interview with ''[[New York Times]]'', "'O.P.P.' is about crazy messing with other people's girls. Everybody knows about that, girls messing, guys messing, you know the bit. It goes on, so everybody could relate, the fellas and the girls, and it's got a hook for the party and everybody can crazy groove to it."<ref name="newyorktimes">Watrous, Peter (August 14, 1991). "The Pop Life". ''[[New York Times]]''.</ref>
==Critical reception==
Peter Watrous from ''[[New York Times]]'' wrote, "There are a couple of signs that "O.P.P.", an old-fashioned cheating song by Naughty by Nature [...] is shaping up as one of the summer's hits on local streets. The first indication is the sound of "O.P.P" coming from the back of Jeeps; the second is that bootleg T-shirts advertising the band—Trech (Trech Criss), Vin Rock (Vinnie Brown) and Kay Gee (Keir Gist) -- are being sold all over lower [[Manhattan]]."<ref name="newyorktimes"/> Johnny Lee from ''[[Smash Hits]]'' declared the song as "everso jumpy".<ref>{{cite magazine|first= Johnny |last= Dee |url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/57779449@N02/50090766442/in/album-72157715017331281/ |title= New Singles |magazine= [[Smash Hits]] |date= January 20, 1993 |page= 49 |access-date= January 4, 2023}}</ref> [[Scott Poulson-Bryant]] from ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' said, "I'm definitely down with "O.P.P."—you will be too."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Scott|last=Poulson-Bryant|title=Heavy Rotation|magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|date=October 1991|page=28|accessdate=January 23, 2023|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yGjqAHJs488C|author-link=Scott Poulson-Bryant}}</ref>
==Retrospective response==
German rock and pop culture magazine ''[[Spex (magazine)|Spex]]'' included "O.P.P." in their "The Best Singles of the Century" list in 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~tommi.s/spex20jh.htm#singles|title=Die besten Singles aller Zeiten at home.rhein-zeitung.de|access-date=June 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120706022353/http://home.rhein-zeitung.de/~tommi.s/spex20jh.htm#singles|archive-date=July 6, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> In a 2021 retrospective review, Jesse Ducker from Albumism said about the song, "It's one of the most light-hearted songs about infidelity this side of [[Clarence Carter]]'s "[[Back Door Santa]]", as [[Treach]] gleefully lists the virtues of engaging in sexual congress with someone else's girl."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.albumism.com/features/naughty-by-nature-eponymous-second-album-naughty-by-nature-turns-30-anniversary-retrospective|publisher=Albumism|date=August 31, 2021|first=Jesse|last=Ducker|title=Naughty By Nature's Eponymous Second Album 'Naughty By Nature' Turns 30 — Anniversary Retrospective|accessdate=October 3, 2021}}</ref> Stanton Swihart of [[AllMusic]] felt it's "a song that somehow managed the trick of being both audaciously catchy and subversively coy at the same time." He added, "Its irrepressible appeal was so widespread, in fact, that it played just as well to the hardcore heads in the hood as it did to the [[hip-hop]] dabblers in the suburbs."<ref>{{cite web|first= Stanton |last= Swihart |title= Naughty by Nature – ''Naughty by Nature'' |publisher= [[AllMusic]] |access-date= November 4, 2020 |url= https://www.allmusic.com/album/naughty-by-nature-mw0000272277}}</ref> Jean Rosenbluth from [[Los Angeles Times]] stated, "The fabulously wicked chant "O.P.P." masterfully captured hip-hop's silly side even better than that genre's prime exponent, [[Digital Underground]]."<ref>Rosenbluth, Jean (1993). "Naughty By Nature – ''19 Naughty III''". ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''. – via ''[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]''. (April 9, 1993).</ref> In October 2023, ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' magazine ranked it number 96 in their "500 Best Pop Songs of All Time",<ref name="billboard500bestpopsongs" /> saying, "Three decades later, all it takes is the opening piano plinks to remind even the most conservative ‘90s kid that deep down, damn skippy, they’re still a card-carrying member." Same year, ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' ranked "O.P.P." number 60 in their "The 100 Best Party Songs Ever Made".<ref>{{cite web|first1=Ella|last1=Doyle|first2=India|last2=Lawrence|first3=Henrietta|last3=Taylor|first4=James|last4=Manning|first5=Andy|last5=Kryza|first6=Andrzej|last6=Lukowski|first7=Nick|last7=Levine|first8=Chris|last8=Waywell|url=https://www.timeout.com/music/best-party-songs|title=The 100 Best Party Songs Ever Made|work=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]|date=July 28, 2023|access-date=August 8, 2024}}</ref>
==Music video==
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==Track listing==
# "O.P.P." (
# "Wickedest Man Alive" (
# "O.P.P." (Sunny Days
# "Wickedest Man Alive" (
# "O.P.P." (
==Official versions==
* "O.P.P." (
* "O.P.P." (
* "O.P.P." (
* "O.P.P." (Sunny Days
==Charts==
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===Weekly charts===
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!scope="row"|Canada Top Singles (''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'')<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.2030&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=k91sl8fh1frsaipeg1lrimanq0 |title=Canadian Top Singles peak |access-date=February 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212061116/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.2030&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=k91sl8fh1frsaipeg1lrimanq0 |archive-date=February 12, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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===Year-end charts===
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!Chart (1992)
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==In popular culture==
The song has been used as a soundtrack to various films as well as television series, including the TV sitcoms ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'' and ''[[The Office (American TV series)|The Office]]'', and the films ''[[La Haine]]'', ''[[Jarhead (film)|Jarhead]]'', and ''[[Up in the Air (2009 film)|Up in the Air]]''. In the film ''[[Sister Act 2: Back In The Habit]]'', the song was parodied as 'Down With G.O.D'. In the video game ''[[Minecraft]]'', the phrase "Down with O.P.P.!" was used as a splash text which appeared on the game's menu screen. The splash was added on February 7, 2010 in Java Edition version Indev 20100207-1 but was later removed in version 1.16 Release Candidate 1 on June 18, 2020.
==References==
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