What Else Is Left?

So I've decided to jump back into the 90s for a bit, because honestly, that's the best era in which music captured my attention. I've done posts on 90s Girls and 90s Guys, and listed some of the groups that I felt helped shape 90s music into what we know and love today. Well today, I am going to focus on one of my favorite songs from the group Dru Hill.



This song came from their sophomore album "Enter the Dru" and instantly, the second CD became a hit just like the first one. Following their formula of starting out upbeat, and ending on a very slow note, this one was no different. This song instantly caught my attention, and I loved it from that moment on. The first reason being that because Sisqo wasn't the FIRST and ONLY person singing a verse.

I honestly think that Nokio held his own on this song. I know a lot of people didn't think that he could actually sing, because he never does, but I guess you learn something new every day. The song itself speaks volumes....exactly what DO you when you can't do anymore...or when you THINK you can't do anymore?

What are we gonna do?
What are we gonna say?
Where are we gonna go?
When they find out...

Scoopin Em Up

So of course I had to grab this one out of the archives...but it's still a bangin song to this day. I know the dudes wanted to be Raekwon, at least in this video, and the girls had their description already on deck:



Watch these rap niggaz get all up in your guts
French-vanilla, butter-pecan, chocolate-deluxe
Even caramel sundaes is gettin touched
And scooped in my ice cream truck, Wu tears it up


This video debuted in the height of the Wu era, when everyone was throwin up the "W", and bangin out to the likes of Method Man, GZA, RZA and Ol' Dirty Bastard. This song is good for bumpin during the summer time when all the ladies have on their tight fitted shirts and some even had the shirts with their "flavor" on it. Those were the best.

So ladies tell me, which flavor were you?

I Want to Get AWAY!

I dunno what it is about 4 day workweeks, but I swear it seems like they are LONGER than it would with a regular 5 day week. Maybe it's because all of the work from the day you missed is compiled with the work from the rest of the days in that week, or maybe it's just because you enjoyed the 3 day weekened that you normally wouldn't be able to have. Who knows....I don't. I know I do feel like this at the end of a 4 day workweek:



Lenny pretty much summed up my whole feeling with these words:

I wish that I could fly
Into the sky
So very high
Just like a dragonfly

I fly above the trees
Over the seas
In all degrees
Just anywhere I please

This has been a VERY long week for me work wise. But listening to this song lets me know that Lenny is feelin me, and I'm diggin this song. Not to mention that the guitar riffs in this song are HAWT! I know that guitar riffs are a general part of a rock song, but the ones in this song are worthy of a head rock Beavis or Butthead style (how many of yall remember them?).

Even tho it's only 2 days of "rest" from the job, I'm glad to have em. It's two days I don't have to deal with the troubles of the world (at least not professionally).

I want to get away
I wanna fly away
YEAH
YEAH
YEAH!

I Shot Ya!

One thing we don't see much of anymore is a group collaboration where EVERYONE on the track is spittin the bangin lyrics. Here is one of my favorite ones from the 90s, where all the folks are bustin out the "hawt fiyah". lol.



Around this time, LL Cool J was starting to take another route toward a more lovey dovey, "softer" James Todd Smith; gone are the days when folks used to "forget Oreos and eat Cool J cookies". But here, LL showed everyone that not only did he not lose that side of him, but he could hold his own on a track full of stars. Keith Murray introduced this track with a bang, and Prodigy followed right up behind him with another tight verse. Fat Joe, as always, brought the heat, but even the Madame of the Firm, Foxy Brown, showed the men that this was no longer "a man's world". LL ended it with the same energy as the rest of em.

Kudos folks on this. A lot of songs only do 2-3 people at a time, and not all of them are cohesive with each other. I think a lot of folks don't realize cohesion is the biggest part of any group collabo, and if the crew isn't cohesive, then the song is gonna fail. Here's another one that is a bangin remix: starting off with Young Jeezy and followed by more nice flows:



DJ Khaled couldn't have picked a better group (well I probably wouldn't have chosen Rick Ross, but even he brought it.) Can't even front...this is probably one of the most bangin group collabos this millenium.

We need more songs like this...if folks can bring it like this at least 85% of the time, then music can still stand a chance! Don't tear down your desk/office listening to this. I can't be held accountable. :-D

My Funny Valentine

Sweet comic valentine
You make me smile
With my heart

Yeah I know I said I wasn't goin to post on Valentine's Day, but I had some extra time to kill, and I figured I'd bless those in love (and even those not in love) with a love song. Now I figure, since I posted the upbeat love song on Friday, that I would post one of my favorite songs to listen to....not just on Valentine's Day, but any day where you can say that you have a "Valentine".



This is the perfect song to define love...she (well not really she, because this is a remake) but the writer of the song acknowledges that "your looks are laughable, unphotographable..." but yet and still "you're my favorite work of art".

Not gonna get into this whole spill about that's what love should be about...cause different people have different meanings. So I'll just say this, to ME, that's what love should be about. Knowing that nobody will be perfect, but if they are perfect to YOU, then you've achieved what very few have been able to do.

To all of my readers out there, I'll leave you with this simple phrase to kids from 1-92:

"But don't you change one hair for me,
Not if you care for me,
Stay little valentine stay.
Each day is Valentine's Day.

Love to all my readers and Happy Valentine's Day!

Cupid Reigns Supreme!

First off...I'm pretty sure that I won't be anywhere near my blogger (heck I don't plan to be at home...but eh we'll see on that one), so this is going to be my dedication to the holiday of "love" (and these days, baby making...lol). Now I'm sure that everyone will be posting love songs, slow and romantic and sappy, but I decided to take an upbeat direction in my post to those who have reason to celebrate this holiday. Me personally, yall know I'm all for those types of songs, but this is the one song that always pops in my head when I think about Valentine's Day #dontjudgeme:



Well we've all heard of the infamous Punxsutawney Phil, the ninja groundhog that cursed us to 6 more weeks of winter (and Mother Nature complied with NO hesistation), Jolly Ole St. Nick, the Easter Bunny, and all those other things made up to keep holidays pure for the child's mind. Well this one isn't or rather shouldn't be for the children...because I dunno how I feel about Cupid Valentino goin around shootin the kids with arrows. I mean I'm all for love, but how much do you know about love at age 6?!

In this song, Cupid is the hero of this here love song. And he's lurking around trying to find out his next "victim" of his love arrow. The problem is that nobody wants to believe in Cupid like they do the others.

Ya' won't believe in me, but you would fancy
leprechauns or groundhogs
No thank you, Easter Bunny!

I for one get into love...and even though nobody has actually "seen" Cupid, I believe that he exists and shoots people when they least expect it. Don't sleep...cause you know deep down, you believe in love as well. SOMETHIN has got to propel it, why not believe in Cupid?

So to all of my lovebirds...be good...or be good at it. *snickers*

Happy Valentine's, Happy Valentine's
Happy Valentine's Day, Happy Valentine's Day!

So Let's Crawl

OK...in light of all that's been happening with Mr. Brown, I still think that he produced a damn good cd. Unfortunately, what happened between he and Rihanna put a damper on the selling ability of the cd, but that's not why he's the featured artist on today's blog.



This song right here...I think he really put his whole heart and soul into it (and I could be safe to say that the whole cd is a myriad of feelings toward and about his relationship with Rihanna). But this song is one that instantly caught the ear and mind...at first it was just because it sounded good, but as I listened more and more to it, the words started to pop out at me.

So where do we go from here
With all the fear in our eyes?
And where can love take us now?
We've been so far down, we can still touch the sky

If we crawl 'til we can walk again
Then we'll run until we're strong enough to jump
Then we'll fly until there is no wind

Yeah, this right here, shows that a man can make a mistake and can own up to it. Not only that, but he wants to right what wrong he committed. I think that if he and Rih had actually tried, they could have made it back to where they were before the beating incident happened. Even if they decided not to make it work, I think this song still applies to them, in the fact that they could still be friends after it was all said and done.

C. Breezy, I feel you on this song...I've been there before, and it's not a good look in the direct aftermath of all that happened. But if you and Rih can get back to good terms, then all of the purpose of this song will be fulfilled. Good luck to ya Son.

So let's crawl, crawl, crawl
Back to love, yeah