Song · Fatboy Slim
“Gangster Tripping” by Fatboy Slim
From the album You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby (1998)
“Gangster Tripping” by Fatboy Slim appears on 9 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 1998 and 1999. It was first released in 1998 on the album You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby. Its best result is #10 on the WFNX Top 99 Songs of 1999. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #76 alternative song of 1999, #5,375 alternative song of all time and #423 of the '90s.
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Fatboy Slim followed "The Rockafeller Skank" with "Gangster Tripping", the second single from You've Come a Long Way, Baby, put out on Skint in 1998 (the single itself shortened the title to "Gangster Trippin"). It's big beat built like a crate-digger's scrapbook. The chant that anchors it came by way of DJ Shadow's "Entropy", which had lifted it from an early live recording of Pete Rock & CL Smooth, and the chorus line rides in on the Dust Junkys' "Beatbox Wash".
Around those he piles scraps of the X-Ecutioners, Jackie Mittoo's "Change the Mood", the Freedom Now Brothers and Ann Robinson, then slams the lot together over brawling breakbeats. DJ Shadow and Nicky Lockett share the writing credit, Simon Thornton engineered and mixed it, and the 1999 film Go put it on the big screen. "Praise You" came next.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 97 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 1998 | 107 |
| 1998 | 55 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 1998 | 100 |
| 1998 | 55 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 1998 | 98 |
| 1999 | 40 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1999 | 107 |
| 1999 | 56 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1999 | 91 |
| 1999 | 65 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1999 | 106 |
| 1999 | 48 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1999 | 100 |
| 1999 | 10 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 99 Songs of 1999 | 99 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 555 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
Also listed as: Gangster Trippin'; Gangsta Tripping.
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