Mama se mama sa mamacoosa

Music in this episode:

Michael Jackson - “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” (1982)

Manu Dibango - “Soul Makossa” (1972)

Manu Dibango - “Mouvement Ewondo” (1972)

A Taste of Honey - “Boogie Oogie Oogie” (1978)

Manu Dibango - “Electric Africa” (1985)

Michael Jackson - “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ (home demo)” (1979)

Fugees - “Cowboys” (1996)

Will Smith - “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” (1997)

Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz (feat. Chauncey Black) - “Startin’ Somethin’” (1998)

Björk - “I Go Humble” (1998)

Missy Elliott - “Intro/Go To The Floor” (2002)

Rihanna - “Don’t Stop the Music” (2007)

Charles Hamilton - “Brooklyn Girls” (2008)

Geri Allen - “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” (2013)

References

My MusicRadar column about this song

Nelson George - Thriller: The Musical Life Of Michael Jackson

Manu Dibango and Danielle Rouard - Three Kilos of Coffee: an Autobiography

George Echu - “Multilingualism as a Resource: the Lexical Appropriation of Cameroon Indigenous Languages by English and French”

Ben Zimmer - “Ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa”