Took the 12" out yesterday ...

http://uk.youtube.com/wat...re=related

Maybe it's because i'm a brit a love the NY sound of Roxxane Shante voice

A lot of Rick purists didn't like this cut (or the album for that matter) but I liked it and some cuts on the album, especially "Sexual Luv Affair".

I love her voice too.

Were you piped into my work conversation yesterday? I had a conversation about this song with a coworker yesterday. He ran off to the record store on his lunch break to get this song.

Totally unrelated, but anytime I think about Rick's song, this one comes to mind...


Das EFX - Looseys

Not one of his best but it's OK.

The house mix, of this was pretty tight.

Rick was great but too many of his songs covered the same tired topic: sleazy,sexy,seductive women

"SuperFreak" (1981)
"Hard To Get" (1982)
"Cold Blooded" (1983)
"17" (1984)
"Sweet and Sexy Thing" (1986)
"Loosey's Rap" (1988)

The whole album is a huge disappointment... not a single good cut on it.
Damn, Rick

FuNkeNsteiN said:

you don't even like "Loosey's Rap"?

SoulAlive said:

No. It's shit, just like the rest of the album.

FuNkeNsteiN said:

I haven't heard this album in years.I remember not being very impressed with most of the songs.

SoulAlive said:

That topic rules! And they were written about different women in his life.

Cinnie said:

Yeah,but I think it's a topic that he sang about too much

SoulAlive said:

Yea well, you haven't been missing much

SoulAlive said:

I know. I remember reading a bio on the barkays last year and the bio
accused the barkays in their later years of trying to outfreak trick james.
Nevertheless i didn't care for this one too much. I did like
Wonderful and Judy
[Edited 7/15/08 18:56pm]

Oh that was the shyt back in 88.....It was a huge success here in st. louis, mo.

Cinnie said:

They are making a movie about her life... The girl who played in Akeelah and the Bee is supposed to play the lead role.

Oh my, I was shocked; people get movies when they die, so I had to check Wiki. She rocks!

At the age of 25, Shanté retired from the recording industry to become a psychologist. She continues to make occasional guest appearances and live performances, as well as mentor young female hip-hop artists. She also took part in a series of Sprite commercials during the late 1990s. She is married and has one son and one daughter. She earned a PhD in psychology from Cornell University—paid for by her record label via an unusual contract clause—and has a practice in Queens. She is a vegan and owns Hip-Hop Ices ice cream parlor in Queens.

She will be portrayed by actress Keke Palmer in The Vapors, a film about the formation and rise of the Juice Crew.

shorttrini said:

HamsterHuey said:

interesting.

I don't know if this will work but this is the information behind the label that put out one of the first successful battleraps( with her being one of them).

it would be nice to see something about shante. I want to know more about her. I have heard so much about her.


http://www.youtube.com/wa...re=related
[Edited 7/21/08 9:26am]

LondonStyle said:

I was always crazy about
that "east coast round
the way girl" accent myself