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* RemakeCameo: Mario's semi-cover of the song, "Just a Friend 2002", features Biz cameoing throughout the music video, and an alternate version even has him performing on the song with Mario.
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"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aofoBrFNdg Just a Friend]]" is [[OneHitWonder by far the most well-known song]] by American rapper Biz Markie (April 8, 1964 – July 16, 2021), released in 1989. In it, Biz tells a story of a woman he met while on tour and how she broke his heart.
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"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aofoBrFNdg Just a Friend]]" is [[OneHitWonder by far the most well-known song]] by American rapper Biz Markie Music/BizMarkie (April 8, 1964 – July 16, 2021), released in 1989. In it, Biz tells a story of a woman he met while on tour and how she broke his heart.
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* YourMom: The video opens with Biz and a group of friends cracking jokes about each other's moms.
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* YourMom: The video opens with Biz and a group of friends cracking jokes about each other's moms.moms.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: Biz ends the song by explicitly stating the moral:
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"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aofoBrFNdg Just a Friend]]" is [[OneHitWonder by far the most well-known song]] by American rapper Biz Markie (April 8, 1964 – July 16, 2021).2021), released in 1989. In it, Biz tells a story of a woman he met while on tour and how she broke his heart.
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"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aofoBrFNdg Just a Friend]]" is [[OneHitWonder by far the most well-known song]] by American rapper Biz Markie (April 8, 1964 – July 16, 2021). In it, Biz tells a story of a woman he met while on tour and how she broke his heart.
It interpolates from Music/FreddieScott's 1968 song "(You) Got What I Need", borrowing the piano and chorus melodies as well as the beat.
!! You, you got the tropes I need:
* {{Anvilicious}}: Biz ends the song by explicitly stating the moral:
--> ''So please listen to the message that I send\\
Don't ever talk to a girl who says she just has a friend''
* BlahBlahBlah: The girl gives her name as "blah-blah-blah".
* BuxomBeautyStandard: Biz makes sure to mention that the woman he meets has "a very big bra".
* {{Groupie}}: Biz first meets the girl in the crowd at one of his concerts, and she continues to hang around for the rest of the tour.
* HopelessSuitor: Although he does have some suspicions, Biz continues to pursue a relationship with the woman, oblivious to the fact she's already spoken for.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Biz walks in on the girl and her "friend" tongue kissing.
* LetMeTellYouAStory: In the video, Biz tells his friends to ignore the two girls walking past them. He makes his point by telling a story, through song of course, about a past experience of his with a woman.
* MoralityBallad: The song tells a cautionary tale about trying to get with a girl who claims she just has a "friend".
* RelationshipReveal: The man who the woman initially claimed was just her "friend" is shown at the end of the song to be her romantic partner.
* RomanAClef: Biz has stated that the song is based on a true story, although the girl's name has been censored as "BlahBlahBlah" to protect her identity.
* RuleOfThree: The song contains three verses, each one ending with a variation on the phrase "just a friend".
* SerialEscalation: Each verse escalates from the previous. The girl first mentions her "friend" in the first verse, Biz hears the guy's voice in the second, and he catches the two of them kissing in her dorm room in the third.
* ShoutOut: In the video, Biz dresses up as [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]] and plays the piano during the choruses.
* StylisticSuck: Biz's singing in the choruses is intentionally out of key.
* SubvertedSuspicionAesop: Biz decides to take the girl's word for it at first when she says the other guy is just a friend, but his suspicions are later proven correct.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When asked if she's single, the girl does mention a guy she knows but claims that he's "just a friend". She repeats this claim when Biz hears the guy's voice over the phone.
* WaxingLyrical: During the video's diegetic opening, one of the guys says "you... you got what I need" to one of the girls.
* YourDoorWasOpen: Biz waltzes into a girl's dorm room without knocking and is ''immediately'' met with the sight of her [[InterruptedIntimacy kissing another guy]].
* YourMom: The video opens with Biz and a group of friends cracking jokes about each other's moms.
"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aofoBrFNdg Just a Friend]]" is [[OneHitWonder by far the most well-known song]] by American rapper Biz Markie (April 8, 1964 – July 16, 2021). In it, Biz tells a story of a woman he met while on tour and how she broke his heart.
It interpolates from Music/FreddieScott's 1968 song "(You) Got What I Need", borrowing the piano and chorus melodies as well as the beat.
!! You, you got the tropes I need:
* {{Anvilicious}}: Biz ends the song by explicitly stating the moral:
--> ''So please listen to the message that I send\\
Don't ever talk to a girl who says she just has a friend''
* BlahBlahBlah: The girl gives her name as "blah-blah-blah".
* BuxomBeautyStandard: Biz makes sure to mention that the woman he meets has "a very big bra".
* {{Groupie}}: Biz first meets the girl in the crowd at one of his concerts, and she continues to hang around for the rest of the tour.
* HopelessSuitor: Although he does have some suspicions, Biz continues to pursue a relationship with the woman, oblivious to the fact she's already spoken for.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Biz walks in on the girl and her "friend" tongue kissing.
* LetMeTellYouAStory: In the video, Biz tells his friends to ignore the two girls walking past them. He makes his point by telling a story, through song of course, about a past experience of his with a woman.
* MoralityBallad: The song tells a cautionary tale about trying to get with a girl who claims she just has a "friend".
* RelationshipReveal: The man who the woman initially claimed was just her "friend" is shown at the end of the song to be her romantic partner.
* RomanAClef: Biz has stated that the song is based on a true story, although the girl's name has been censored as "BlahBlahBlah" to protect her identity.
* RuleOfThree: The song contains three verses, each one ending with a variation on the phrase "just a friend".
* SerialEscalation: Each verse escalates from the previous. The girl first mentions her "friend" in the first verse, Biz hears the guy's voice in the second, and he catches the two of them kissing in her dorm room in the third.
* ShoutOut: In the video, Biz dresses up as [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart]] and plays the piano during the choruses.
* StylisticSuck: Biz's singing in the choruses is intentionally out of key.
* SubvertedSuspicionAesop: Biz decides to take the girl's word for it at first when she says the other guy is just a friend, but his suspicions are later proven correct.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When asked if she's single, the girl does mention a guy she knows but claims that he's "just a friend". She repeats this claim when Biz hears the guy's voice over the phone.
* WaxingLyrical: During the video's diegetic opening, one of the guys says "you... you got what I need" to one of the girls.
* YourDoorWasOpen: Biz waltzes into a girl's dorm room without knocking and is ''immediately'' met with the sight of her [[InterruptedIntimacy kissing another guy]].
* YourMom: The video opens with Biz and a group of friends cracking jokes about each other's moms.
