Straight Up

And it turns out that 1989, in September, guess who's topping the charts?

Straight up now,

baby.

It's Paula Abdul with Straight Up.

And so at that point, they're like, this is his name.

It's going to be Abdul from here on

And it turns out that 1989 in September, guess who's topping the charts?

Straight up now, baby.

It's Paula Abdul with Straight Up.

And so at that point, they're like, this is his name.

It's going to be Abdul from here on out.

It's straight up, now tell me, from Paula Abdul.

Jim, I'm just sure that a recently relocated Muslim family decided to look at a former Laker girl who's Jewish and scantily clad in her videos and go, that's what we want to associate with.

Greg, I don't know about you.

So they sort of cast about looking for a new thing.

And it turns out that 1989 in September, guess who's topping the charts? Straight up now, baby.

It's Paula Abdul with Straight Up.

And so at that point, they're like, this is his name.

It's going to be Abdul from here on out.

It's straight up now.

Tell me from Paula Abdul.

Jim, I'm just sure that a recently relocated Muslim family decided to look at a former Laker girl who's Jewish and scantily clad in her videos and go, that's what we want to associate with.

So they sort of cast about looking for a new thing.

And it turns out that 1989, in September, guess who's topping the charts? Straight up now, baby.

It's Paula Abdul with Straight Up.

And so at that point, they're like, this is his name.

It's going to be Abdul from here on out.

Ah, yeah, see.

Abdul Rahman.

They couldn't come up with a way to shorten Abdul Rahman until they heard straight up, now tell me, do you really want to love me forever? So they're like, oh, Paula Abdul.

[laughs]

So they sort, they, they, they sort of cast about looking for a, a new thing and, um, turns out that, uh, 1989 in September, guess who's topping the charts? "Straight Up now baby."

[laughs]

[laughs] It's Paula Abdul with Straight Up.

And so-

[laughs]

Straight up now, baby.

It's Paula Abdul was straight up.

Okay, so which one is it? Is it Servant Leader or did you get named because of Paula Abdul's song Straight Up? In 2018, he said that his parents named him Abdul after Paula Abdul.

I don't know.

Well, I mean, he's saying both.

Both his hits made the top three, Wild Thing and Funky Cold Medina.

But Wild Thing couldn't get past Straight Up by Paula Abdul at number one.

Little frame, I ain't lying, fellow she was fine.

That's when young Miss Gold gave me a kiss, and I knew that she was mine.