Larger Than Life
MCA (1989)
Album Peaked: #16 (Billboard 200), #5 (R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)

The singles:


Real Love
Debuted 3/11/1989
Peaked: #1 (R&B - 1 week), #2 (Hot 100 - 2 weeks)
(better quality video here)


Friends (my vote for one of the best rap collaborations)
Debuted 5/27/1989
Peaked: #3 (R&B), #9 (Hot 100)


Everything
Debuted 9/9/189
Peaked: #3 (R&B), #4 (Hot 100)


Precious Love
Debuted 3/3/1990
Peaked: #51 (R&B), #87 (Hot 100)

Cool. This album wasn't as good as her debut.
The highlights from this album for me was Real love,
friends, lifestyle. I even liked affairs of the heart
better than this album.

phunkdaddy said:

That's okay. I forgive you. Overall, I like her first album better. I'm just encapsulating its chart history.

RipHer2Shreds said:

Yeah the first album was the bomb. My favorites even today is still
a thrill and some kinda lover.

This album was weak in comparison to her 1st cd. I like this cd, but prefer Affairs of the Heart and Intimacy.

She goes down in history with this album as being the first rap/singing collaboration.
[Edited 6/28/08 12:59pm]

Everything was the best song on that album next to "Friends".....and 2 think it was one of the only ones Andre' didn't write or produce but still sounded like him....
[Edited 6/28/08 14:10pm]

daPrettyman said:

Affairs of the heart

daPrettyman said:

Chaka Khan's "I Feel for You" preceded Jody Watley's "Friends" by five years, so I'm not seeing how you figure "Friends" gets this honor.

I remember loving Real Love in summer 1989 when I was 6, it was always on the radio and my mom and I would listen to it.

Her first album is much stronger though, I think it's better than Janet's Control IMO :p

LittleAmy said:

Chaka's didn't really count because it was used more like a sample/into. Jody's song was the first one to ever do a complete verse.

daPrettyman said:

as far as raping/singin collab goes, years before Jody and Chaka there were Gary Byrd & Stevie Wonder doing this

also let's not forget the rap intermezzo on the title track from this album




Hey everybody in the neighborhood,
The beauty's on duty, better hear me good.
Sister e-flat tomato, brother b- flat balloon,
Somethin' funky's goin' down better listen to my tune.
I graduated from the college of the street,
I got a Ph..D. In how to make ends meet.
Inflation in the nation don't bother me,
'Cause I'm a scholar with the dollar
You can plainly see.

I LIVE FOR MISS JODY. She was giving my girl Janet some heat back in the day. Jody had style and definately gave face (big forehead and all). Did she have to work that runway like that in the Real Love video? OVAH! I loved this cd and remember going to her first headlining tour at the Beacon Theater. I remember her asking the crowd "does anyone need some hair" when she snached off her curly wig to expose her straight locs saying "that was my old weave, this is my new one". DIVA DIVA DIVA
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