It's time to pour you a drank of knotty-head and get yo'self a cup of souse...get out the card table and let's play us some spades like the grown folks used to do...









Show me your grown folks music!

You mean, like NIN or something?

Okay, babynoz...here we go

The Brothers Johnson

SADE

Yes, more SADE....

Cherish the Day (My favorite Sade song)

novabrkr said:

Stoppit!

I'm talking about the stuff our parents used to play that we used to snicker about till it kind of grew on us when we weren't looking and we ended up loving it.

Back in the day the when the grown folk would get together to drink and play cards and talk trash, us kids were supposed to be seen and not heard, so we watched and listened till bedtime. Then, when they thought we were asleep we'd sneak up on 'em to watch and listen some more.

2elijah said:

OMG girl, that's bribery 'cause you know The Lady is my all time fav female artist,

I'm a little older than you so I was "grown" when Sade blew up.

^^Damn Andy, now you KNOW I was waitin' for you to show up an' brang da hot sauce!

Hell...I forgot all about Taxi!

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These are probably the first songs I remember hearing as a child:

kitbradley said:

Maaaan, that's some hot buttered soul right there...

I laughed out loud when I got old enough to figure this one out...

Can't forget this.....

Hi to all,

This is my first time posting. I will just say 09 was a bad year. Lost a parent, my job... Could go on but there are so many others that have lost things and people as well.
That said, I had to comment on this thread. When I tell you that my family would get together and party to music like Down Home Blues, B.B. King, and ZZ Hill to name a few. They did.
Even to this day the older people in my family will not listen to anything other than the "Down Home Blues". (Unless you are on the saved side LOL )

I remember the kids would all pile on the steps that lead to the basement and sometimes one of my aunts or uncles would pay us to dance with them.
BEST TIME EVER.
Thanks for reminding me Babynoz.

For the fried buffalo fish with all those damn little bones. I don't know if anybody outside the South knows about those.

kitbradley said:

Hi Records.
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Phil Perry

babynoz said:

Hey I was grown too... My sister named her daughter after Sade. She's my favorite artist after Prince. Classic for sure! I'm waiting patiently for her new album to drop in February, and have been playing her single "Soldier of Love" constantly.

Another Phil Perry classic:

Can't have grown folks music without the Whispers...

Can't leave Patti out, that's for sure!

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Welcome to the org. I lost my mother in 2007 so I know what you mean. She used to throw card parties many a Saturday night back in the 1990s. They would start around 7:00 or 8:00 at night and a few of them lasted as late as Noon the next day. There was plenty of smokin', drinkin, cussin, and talkin' shit. My mother wasn't a smoker or drinker herself but her friends sure were and I was a smokin', drinkin', shit talker right along with the rest of them. Beer flowing, fish frying in the kitchen, ash trays full, smoke filled room, lots of jheri curls drippin', and plenty of shit talkin'. And since my mother didn't drink, she was usually the one going to the store to make another "beer run".

Here's some more....

BgoLala4life said:

Welcome! Glad I could make you smile after such a rough year.

I tell ya, every other friday when the city workers got paid, my godmother and us kids would pile into Mr. Charlie's car and go to the liquor store so he could cash his check and get him a lil' taste.

We would sit outside in the car and my godmother would give us money so we could buy fish sammiches, potato chips and candy from the truck in the parking lot, Those old dudes would be sitting under the tree tellin lies, playing whist and jammin that down home music.

At my house only gospel was allowed on Sundays, but my mom and her friends played everything else during the week, sometimes we'd get a quarter just for dancing too...try giving a kid a quarter nowadays, LOL!

Here's another good one...

2elijah said:

Oh Hail Yeah! We use to giggle our little butts off watching the grown folks get tipsy and try to slow drag off that song...

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vainandy said:

LOL..do NOT get me started on Saturday nights!

The smell of my grandmother frying chicken and fish competing with the smell of my mother frying our hair with the hot comb! People cussin each other one minute and laughing together the next.

I'm over here cracking up imagining you right in the middle of the action at your mom's house, Funny how we didn't need a lot of money to have a good time.

Here's a couple of my favorites...

Oh yes this is my kinda thread & this is going back to my childhood!!








as a kid this was the song that meant you could act a fool & not get smacked for it




no west indian wedding was complete without this song being played




this was my grans favourite song & you had no choice but to dance with her when it came on




school days




more school days

babynoz said:

OM..goodness. You really took it back to the "Cool Jerk"