"Baby Boy" is a song by American singer Beyoncé (pictured) from her
debut solo studio album Dangerously in Love. Featuring Jamaican rapper
Sean Paul, the song was released by Columbia Records and Music World
Entertainment as the second single from the album on August 3, 2003.
Both artists co-wrote the song with Scott Storch, Robert Waller and
Jay-Z; Beyoncé also co-produced the song. Containing a lyrical
interpolation of "No Fear" by hip hop group O.G.C, "Baby Boy" is an
R&B;
and dancehall song with reggae and Arabic music influences. The lyrics
detail a woman's fantasies. The song topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for
nine consecutive weeks, and was Beyoncé's longest-running solo number-
one single until 2007, when it was surpassed by "Irreplaceable". It
reached the top ten in many countries, and was certified platinum in
Australia and the US. The song's music video was directed by Jake Nava
and mostly shows Beyoncé dancing in various locations. "Baby Boy" has
remained a staple of Beyoncé's concert set lists.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Boy_%28Beyonc%C3%A9_song%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1903:
Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaimed a republic, which
existed for only ten days before Ottoman forces destroyed the town.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kru%C5%A1evo_Republic>
1913:
A strike in Wheatland, California orchestrated by agricultural
workers degenerated into a riot, becoming one of the first major farm
labor confrontations in California.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatland_hop_riot>
1936:
African American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of his four
gold medals at the Berlin Summer Olympics, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes
of Aryan domination at the Olympics.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Owens>
2005:
President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was
overthrown in a military coup while he was attending the funeral of King
Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Mauritanian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
unwittingly:
In an unwitting manner; inadvertently, obliviously, unintentionally,
unknowingly.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unwittingly>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep
space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no
thought of dominating another intelligent species. Further than this,
there should be no economic necessity of its doing so.
--Clifford D. Simak
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Clifford_D._Simak>
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