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Thursday, October 25, 2007

This Is How We Do The Old To The New...Thursdays

It's about a banging track...

Who doesn't remember MTUME's "Juicy" from the 80s? The track just pulls you in and you can feel the desire and passion that the lyrics express. It's a banging track so of course the Bad Boy camp had to resurrect it in the 90s with the late Notorious BIG's "Juicy." "It was all a dream. I used to read Word Up Magazine. Salt-N-Pepa and Heavy D in the limousine. Hanging pictures on my wall..." And because banging tracks don't go out of style, of course producer "supa dupa fly" Missy Elliot had to flip it for the 21st century in Keysha Cole's "Let It Go." This song has become a ladies’ anthem. I know I rocked it on my MySpace page for more than a minute and quiet as it's kept a sista has it as her ring tone right now. I think the reason why this song is speaking to so many folks now has to do with the liberating lyrics and the "Juicy" legacy. But mostly I think the reason this track has spaned three decades with hits is because it's banging! :-) Enjoy!

MTUME “Juicy Fruit”



Biggie Smalls “Juicy”



Keysha Cole “Let it Go”

15 comments:

Angelia Vernon Menchan said...

I sure do remember this, and I have a funny story, one day my husband, my youngest son and I were on a road trip and one of my favorite things is to sing to the radio, JUICY came on and I was singing out loud, my then sixteen year old leaned over saying, 'Well mama I guess suggestive lyrics weren't created by today's youth'...we still laugh about that today...Lovely...

smooches,
angelia

Ann Aguirre said...

Cool. I need to go check out the updated version.

Anonymous said...

I do remember that song and I loved Keyshia Cole's version. I love that song so much I had to download onto my iPod.

Don said...

"Remember rappin Duke...da huh, da huh"

Biggie put it down on that song! It was gangster but real hip hop at the same time.

I remember Mtume. They had another song my aunt used to always tell me to put on the record player...lol I think it was You, Me & He.

Keyshia Cole jammin' on her version

Angelia Vernon Menchan said...

Oh yeah, you me and he...I love that one too...

ummm
angelia

Poetic Genesis said...

Though I love the remakes...I'm a sucker for the oldies. I was a baby when Juicy came out but my mom and I play it and others (especially Mary Jane by Rick James) at least weekly! My daughter finds it interesting that all the songs she loves aren't original but it's turning her on to the 'real' music!

Thanks for the videos!

genesis

Gwyneth Bolton said...

Angelia ~ LOL. Your son ain't neva lied. I gave a paper once on lyrics looking at folks like Millie Jackson, Gwen Gunthrie, Roxanne Shante and Lil Kim. When sistas sing and rap about the 'loving' we realize they have been pretty explicit for a long time. :-)

Hi Ann! You should definitely check it out. :-)

Tiffany ~ It is definitely one of those songs that makes you want to download, sing along, all that. :-)

Don ~ "Ya never thought that hip-hop would take this far. Now I'm in the lime light, 'cause I rhyme tight..." Biggie did put it down in that cut for sure. And Mtume's "You, Me, and He.," wow, now that must have become the cheater's anthem.

Genesis ~ Yesh I think it's so funny that they are being introduced to real music and don't even know it. I was in Hotlanta for a conference a few years back and I went to the Underground and they had a Jazz band playing in the middle of the mall. They were playing an instrumental of the Isley Brother's "Between the Sheets." And a young head was like, "Hey, they playing that old school Biggie. That's hot." And I just had to shake my head.

Gwyneth

Anonymous said...

Girl I got the original Juicy by Mtume on a 45...lol

PatriciaW said...

I'm an oldies fan too. Sometimes I hear the opening bars on the radio and think I'm getting ready to go back. But then it turns out to be a remake of the song and I feel disappointed.

Not to take away from the remakes. Some of them are very good.

And Angelia, no, suggestive lyrics didn't start with today's youth. I'm surprised sometimes at some of what we used to groove to. At the time, it was just a slammin' track.

Don said...

lol @ cheater anthem

Gwyneth Bolton said...

Shelia ~ A 45? Girl, I haven't seen one of those in a minute. I wonder what happened to all my records. No that's a test... who remembers vinyl?

Patricia ~ That happens to me all the time! I'll get all excited thinking I know the song that's about to come on and nope, that's not it... LOL.

Don ~ :-)

Gwyneth

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