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"The Signifying Monkey", a song by Sam the Sham from the 1993 album The Wooly Bully Years.

"Signifying Rapper", a 1988 song by Schoolly D.

"King Monkey Rapp", a 1980 song by King Monkey (Jimmy Thompson).

"The Signifying Monkey", a comedy routine by Rudy Ray Moore, from the 1971 album This Pussy Belongs To Me.

"Signifyin' Monkey", performed by Johnny Otis and his band from the 1968 album Cold Shot.

"The Signifying Monkey", a song by Oscar Brown from the 1960 album Sin & Soul.

"Jo Jo Gunne", a 1958 song by Chuck Berry.

"The Signifying Monkey", a song by Smokey Joe Baugh, released by Sun Records as a 7" single in 1955.

"Straighten Up And Fly Right", a song written by Nat King Cole and Irving Mills and one of the first vocal hits for the King Cole Trio.

"The Jungle King (You Ain't Done a Doggone Thing)", a 1947 song by Cab Calloway and Mort Dixon (also recorded by Willie Dixon as "Signifying Monkey").

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The lion later realizes that the monkey has been signifyin' and has duped the lion, and as a result the lion angrily returns to castrate the monkey and renders him unable to reproduce. The lion then confronts the elephant, who in turn physically assaults the lion. In general, the stories depict the signifying monkey insulting the lion, but claiming that he is only repeating the elephant's words.

Numerous songs and narratives concern the signifying monkey and his interactions with his friends, the lion and the elephant.

The signifying monkey is "distinctly Afro-American" but is thought to derive from Yoruban mythology, which depicts Echu-Elegua with a monkey at his side. Esu and his variants all serve as messengers who mediated between the gods and men by means of tricks. This character was transported with Africans to the Americas under the names of Exu, Echu-Elegua, Papa Legba, and Papa Le Bas. The signifying monkey is a character of African-American folklore that derives from the trickster figure of Yoruba mythology, Esu Elegbara. For the literary theory text by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., see The Signifying Monkey.