Old School Jams: Mtume

[stinglikeabee]

This will be the first of a regular Wednesday feature, conceived because it's usually the time when I'm distracted by comics and back-to-back Law & Orders. Still wanting to keep up the once-a-day post but not by writing something meaningless, I've decided why not go with music? Just a note of warning, the old school in OSJ includes turn of the 20th century. That's how I roll, yo :P

It was an easy decision picking up this first jam. It's a sexy, slinky beat endlessly repeated in R&B and sampled in countless rap songs. Most recently, it made a showing in Keyshia Cole's Let It Go. But nothing, nothing can surpass the original:

Juicy Fruit, Mtume

Comments

[parlance.livejournal.com]

I remember thinking that song was nasty when I was a kid, lol.

[stinglikeabee.livejournal.com]

Haha, you're not alone my friend. I used to freak out my little sister by repeating the suggestive JUICY at inappropriate times. Nevermind no one could explain what juicy fruit really meant (the gum, perhaps?) :P

[parlance.livejournal.com]

I think with the "you can lick me everywhere" we kinda knew. ;-P