Pop producer drops initial support for artist? (5)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

wEASEL; ‘Pop! Goes the Weasel’ is a popular song and country dance which found wider fame as a nursery rhyme. Years of watching Cartoon Network with aforementioned daughter implanted these alternative lyrics on my brain: ‘You don’t need pants for the victory dance / Cuz Baboon’s better than Weasel / I R Baboon big star of cartoon / I am Weasel’. You can’t make that stuff up!