War - Low Rider

War - "Low Rider"

Low Rider is a song written by the band War and appearing on their album Why Can't We Be Friends?, released in 1975. It reached number one on the Billboard R&B charts and peaked at number 7 on the Pop Singles chart.

According to the Allmusic review of the song, "the lyric takes the cool image of the low rider — the Chicano culture practice of hydraulically hot-rodding classic cars — and using innuendo, extends the image to a lifestyle."

The music video for the song consists of various pimpmobiles on a typical traffic suburban style street, showing two men each driving a pimpmobile. At one point, an animated version of the face of the album Why Can't We Be Friends is lip-synching as well as a man wearing a mask of the album's face. There are also scenes consisting of a driver showing off the album holding it out the window or on the windshield.

The song has been covered by the following artists:
Blues Traveler
Peter Cetera
The Fantômas Melvins Big Band
George Clinton
Cypress Hill
Earth Eatz Dog - on their album Sniff This!
Epsilon Minus
Exodus
Gary Hoey
JFA
Terry Kath
Korn
Latin Alliance
Phish
Popa Chubby featuring Galea
Quando Quango
Son Of Dave
Cedar Walton
Widespread Panic
Barry White
Yukon Kornelius
"Low Rider" was sampled by The Offspring in the remix version of "Pretty Fly For A White Guy".
War's "Low Rider" was also significantly sampled by The Beastie Boys for their track "Slow Ride" on the 1986 album Licensed to Ill.
The song "Jorge Regula" by The Moldy Peaches borrowed the main riff from "Low Rider."
Sublime sampled the song in the bassline of Forman Freestyle on disc 2 of their posthumous release Everything Under the Sun.

The song was featured on the first compilation in the Lowrider Soundtrack series.
Movies: The song has been featured in fourteen movies, including the Cheech and Chong series, A Gnome Named Gnorm, Robots, 21 Grams, Dazed and Confused, Paulie, Beverly Hills Ninja, A Knight's Tale, the 2000 remake of Gone in Sixty Seconds, The Young Poisoner's Handbook, Friday and Beverly Hills Chihuahua.
Low Rider is the theme song for George Lopez and for its titular star's stand up comedy appearances.
At the 2007 ALMA Awards, George Lopez also called this song, "The Chicano National Anthem".
Low Rider is featured in the video games Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (playing on Master Sounds 98.3), Skate 2, Skate It, and Driver: Parallel Lines.
It can be heard in MLB 08: The Show, a Playstation 2, PSP, and PS3 game.
CWF Superstar 'The Casino Kid' Vegas Ford used the song as his entrance theme from 1996-97.
Los Angeles Dodger Nomar Garciaparra and Houston Astros Mark Loretta use this song as their entrance music when they come up to bat.
On That 70's Show, it is considered by Eric to be his and Donna's song, since they heard it on their first date.
Part of the song was used in advertisements for Marmite.

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Music

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• War
• Low
• Rider
• low
• rider
• lowrider
• latin
• funk
• rock
• LP
• Why
• can't
• we
• be
• friends?
• 1975

[aussiechriz]

this isnt the song (n)

[Set400]

Gay

[Mrmodeltrainz]

It would have been better to have been Rick Rolled than this crap!

[JoshMellers]

Fuck you bitch.i hope you die motherfucker!

[civicted]

this is rick roll's brother? :D

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[1492Stiegl]

Motherfucker, u don't know anything 'bout WAR, FUCK YOU!!

[gruvintubin]

Ahhhh....chuckle chuckle, exactly my thoughts before I read the comments.