It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment at which "Yeah!" won over America. Was it Usher's opening declaration of "Peace up! A-Town down," which heralded the coming (brief) command of the airwaves by Atlanta's crunk music scene? Or maybe when Lil Jon's sparse synth beat kicked in—its aggressive four-note progressions so strikingly different that they demanded attention? Perhaps it was the repeated calls of "yeah, yeah, yeah," surely one of the simplest and most effective hooks in modern pop music. Regardless, anyone not on the dance floor trying to take that and rewind it back by the time Ludacris' naughty guest verse rolled around was probably one of those sad people who hates having a good time. This was, and remains, easily a high point of urban music's mid-aughties domination. A-
Eight years ago this week, "Yeah!" was the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100.
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