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  • Friday (I Mean Monday) Throwback – The Pleasure Principle

    I tried to get this done on Friday, but oh well. Monday it is. I’ll still try to write them on Fridays in the future.

    Did you know that when Janet Jackson was 17, she did what people told her?

    The Pleasure Principle was the last of the singles from her coming out party album Control. And while it might’ve only been the 6th single of a 9 song project, it’s video is one that I adore. It’s bootyful.

    • Janet was looking a little like Michael with the knee pads. Wait, MJ wears shin guards.
    • I now want to dance in a warehouse in my bare feet like Kevin Bacon. Ok, maybe not, but it looks cool.
    • She’s even wearing a wristband. I wonder if she stole that from James DeBarge.
    • It’s the pleasure principle, principle, oh ohhhh ohhhh oh.
    • How many people have broken something trying to run and tip the chair like that?
    • Check out that cabbage patch. That was like Jerry Rice in the end zone.
    • I see an ode to her big bro in there.
    • My buddy Kenny Threeths, Arsenio Hall, and me were there three biggest Janet Jackson fans I knew.
    • Everything about this video is cool except that fake back flip off the box.

    Now that Janet has left Virgin and is going to be making records under Island/Def Jam, can she take it back to her glory days? Probably not. The one thing that can take her back to the top is risky. But if she wants to make it back to the top, it might be something she simply has to do. The first thing is that she has to politely dump Jermaine Dupri. We don’t want him trying to ruin her in the industry. Do it nicely. Secondly, call up Willis Jackson. Third, change your name to Charlene, and you and Willis can be together once again. I think it can happen. And then maybe he can be happy again.

  • Friday Throwback – Scenario

    I was just 15 years old and heard a track called Check The Rhime. I was floored. I had no idea who A Tribe Called Quest, affectionately now know to me as simply Tribe, was. They were three guys who created this sound of rap music that was very jazzy and soulful. Q-Tip had this helium sounding voice and Phife Dawg called himself the Five Footer. DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad rounded out the group. But it wasn’t until I heard a track called Scenario that I really started to understand the difference between what was good and bad in rap music. The posse cut featured another group called Leaders Of The New School (LONS) and it was just insane. It also made Busta Rhymes and he probably owes his career to it. Scenario made me wish I could rap.

    • Did you know that Bo knows this, and Bo knows that, but Bo don’t know jack, cause Bo can’t rap?
    • Phife knew were he stood as he calls himself, “short, dark, and handsome”.
    • Check out Reggie Noble smiling.
    • Wow, how, now, wow, how, now brown cow?
    • You understand the time frame when the references are Bo Jackson and Arsenio.
    • Spike Lee looks absolutely no different 16 years later, except I’m not sure if he still wears the X hat.
    • Q-Tip is my man but I may never fully forgive him for making out with Janet Jackson in Poetic Justice. Tupac could get it, but not Q-Tip.
    • I don’t understand anything Busta says, but when you’re most well known for the line, “Rahhh rahhh like the dungeon dragon,” does it even matter?
    • Young Busa Bus had mad charisma and also lacked the extra 100 pounds Busa Bus carries today.
    • “Checkady-choco, the chocolate chicken.” Whenever you have a chocolate chicken, life is good.
    • What’s up with the crazy hand signals Q?

    I know that people say that Midnight Marauders is THE CLASSIC Tribe album. Yes, it’s great. But it doesn’t have Scenario on it. And to me, that’s their signature song and that’s why I can never go against The Low End Theory. Will they ever get back together and record again? Who knows, but even if they don’t, I’ll just throw this track on once a month and be fine.