Ok, I guess im one of the few who likes Emancipation (some iffy production aside, ill take it over Rave, Chaos & Disorder & NEWS any day hands-down. That aside, I was listening 2 one of my fave trax from the album 2day, and I'd totally forgotten about that wierd-assed segueway at the close of the song.

WTF IS THAT ALL ABOUT?!?!?

Any ideas - cuz Im totally in the dark...

i just discovered that myself a coupla months ago. i can't stand most of the material on disc II, so it's hardly been "headphone material" over the years...i recently put J2J on a comp i made for myself, though, and i discovered the segue with that kooky little spoken word thing. that whole song is full of THANGS in my opinion, though. it's like his brain exploded all over the studio or something.

What does the segue say?

What's that before the beginning of Holy River?

Is this the "come upstairs to my room" part?

Or the cap'n'crunch part?

mrdespues said:

yeah, I dig that part....

1
of
my
TOP
3
P Joints
Ever!!!
Crazy
Shit
goin on
in
that
jam!!!
!!!

It's one of Prince's weird pleas for Sex thingies je pense.

Otherwise I love that song, it's really trippy, or is it a trip, or do I liket to trip to it?

whaterver, it still makes me really happy and it's a really fun groove, jeez I wish I cud show you guys the images that song generates in my head
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Where 2?
I..I don't know
An..anywhere, just drive

It's me
I'm just drivin'
Listen, I need 2 get with U
No, I mean 4, I mean 4 good
I'm serious this time
Nah, that's all over now, U know it
I front sometimes, but U know, this is as quiet as it's kept...
Listen, I just gotta get outta here, that's all
Let me call U back, alright?
Yeah, yeah, later

i reckon it's something about WB

i dunno i'm afraid, but do you people pronounce it, "SAY-GE" or "SEG-WAY".

i'm having a...uh...discussion about this at the moment.

Well, seeing as this precedes Savior, isn't it obvious? He's telling Mayte he wants to marry her. He is done with other women (yeah, right)

MashedPotatoKid said:

Wht does every1 swear that everything this fools has to say is about WB...Jesus Christo!

It's obviously about a personal relationship with a woman...

Abd by the way...it's SEG-WAY....like those fancy high-tech stand-up scooters that came out not to long ago.

MashedPotatoKid said:

THAT'S IT!!! Interesting theory, but man, it's gotta be one of the wierdest segues ive heard him do (and let's face it - he's done a few!)

3bogs said:

'SEG-WAY' my man.
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bananacologne said:

Interesting. the echo makes it really hard to hear whats happening and the segue doesn't make any sense, in relation to the songs its in between. It's just.....weird!

or i could be a big loada crap so the cd could be EXACTLY one hour long . let's face it, there is alot of unneeded bits in emancipation, it's just there to make up the time!

The meaning here seems very plain and clear. It's part of "Holy River" and he's speaking to Mayte on the phone about the fact that he wants to marry her. Coming as it does after a song that's about casual sex, he's saying "That's all over now" meaning sleeping with other women. He feels confused and lonely (driving around by himself in a taxi), he's turning (a bit desperately) towards monogamy and marriage-- "Listen, I need 2 get with U / No, I mean 4, I mean 4 good."

Couldn't be much plainer, I think, I mean from the first time I listened to it I thought this was what it was about.

Anotherwontdare said:

that, and it's about WB.

i love this song. the entire album, actually.

BobGeorge999 said:

you're right. it's obvious it's about relationships with women; nothing to do with WB.

MashedPotatoKid said:

It's just filler to make the disc exactly 60 minutes long. The whole point of Emancipation was that it was 3 discs (representing the three points of a triangle) exaclte 60 minutes long. And he said there were "many things hidden within...just like the pyramids of Egypt."

I love that album.
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manci said:

of all the song on this album this is NOT a filler cut.....u must be outcho mind!

3NineteeN04 said:

i think they were referring to the spoken word part at the end, and not to the song overall.