On March 11, 2002, Shaggy and Ali G released " Me Julie" from the soundtrack to the film Ali G Indahouse. Shaggy's last top 40 single in the United States was "Angel" from the album Hot Shot. Shaggy re-made the Scooby-Doo theme song on the soundtrack titled "Shaggy, Where Are You?" Shaggy also recorded the theme for the 2002 movie Showtime. Lucky Day was more successful in Europe, especially with heavy airplay for the single " Hey Sexy Lady". ĭespite this, both albums were more successful internationally. Shaggy's only album on Geffen, 2005's Clothes Drop, was even less of a success, only selling 40,000 copies, and he parted ways with the label the following year. MCA, who had been banking on the album's success to get the label through a poor financial year, subsequently went under, and was absorbed into sister label Geffen Records in July 2003. While the album went on to sell 352,000 copies in the United States and become certified Gold by the RIAA, it was considered a sales disappointment in contrast to those of Hot Shot. In October 2002, Shaggy released his second album for MCA, Lucky Day. Over the course of his next two albums, Shaggy saw his popularity decline in the United States. In 2001 Shaggy was selected to perform with Rayvon and Rikrok at Michael Jackson's 30th anniversary, performing the songs "Angel" and "It Wasn't Me" from Hot Shot. Hot Shot debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, and would go on to be certified 8x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), as well as achieving platinum or multi platinum status in a number of other countries, and ranking as the second most successful album of 2001 on the Billboard Year-End charts. Female artist Lady Saw (aka Marion Hall) did an answer record to It Wasn't Me ("Son of a that also saw chart action. Both songs topped the Billboard Hot 100 and saw similar success worldwide, reaching number one in the UK, Ireland, Scotland and France, among others. The album featured the smash hit singles " It Wasn't Me" and " Angel", the latter of which was built around two song samples – Chip Taylor's song " Angel of the Morning" (which released by Merrilee Rush in 1968 and covered in 1981 by Juice Newton), and The Steve Miller Band's 1973 hit " The Joker". He would sign with MCA Records to release the album Hot Shot, the following year. In 1999, Shaggy was dropped by Virgin, who felt he was unlikely to release another song as successful as 1995's "Boombastic". He had further big hits, including " Boombastic" in 1995, the theme tune of a popular Levi's commercial, and sang with Maxi Priest on his Top 20 hit from 1996, " That Girl". He worked together with producers such as Sting International, Don One, Lloyd 'Spiderman' Campbell, Robert Livingston and Frankie Cutlass on the Maxi-Single title "Nice and Lovely" Hip Hop Remix. The same year, Shaggy appeared on Kenny Dope's hip hop album The Unreleased Project. Shaggy decided to pursue his music career and his first hit in 1993, " Oh Carolina", was a dancehall re-make of a ska hit by the Folkes Brothers, which appeared in the film Sliver. Shaggy perfected his signature " toasting" voice while he was in the Marine Corps. The highest rank he achieved was lance corporal, although he was reduced in rank twice. He served with a Field Artillery Battery in the 10th Marine Regiment during the Persian Gulf War. Shaggy enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1988 and obtained the MOS of 0811 (Field Artillery Cannon Crewman). At the age of 18, he moved to New York City with his mother. Shaggy during his military service with the United States Marine Corps.īurrell was born on October 22, 1968, in Kingston.
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