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  • They Put Me In The Mix – JSlow 7: The Jodecidal JSlow

    After JSlow 6, I didn’t really have anything in the pipeline. With my son being born, I was buying less music so I decided to create a JSlow tape specifically focusing on one singer or group which meant I didn’t have to buy any new music to make the tape. I thought about doing Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, but for some reason, I went with Jodeci. Why? I’m not exactly sure, but I’d bet it was because of K-Ci and Jojo’s All My Life. That was “our” song. And by “our”, I mean that when K-Ci and Jojo’s Love Always came out, I told my now ex-wife about the song (several months before it hit) and it became “our” song. It’s still fun to listen to that song today because while it doesn’t have the same meaning, it definitely makes me smile.

    And I think roughly all the babies born between 1991 and 1994 were created to a Jodeci song.

    JSlow 7: The Jodecidal JSlow (circa late 1999 – meaning only the first two K-Ci and Jojo albums were used)

    1. Forever My Lady – Jodeci
    2. Hello Darlin’ – K-Ci and JoJo
    3. Cry For You – Jodeci
    4. How Could You – K-Ci and JoJo (Bulletproof Soundtrack)

    Ain’t no more blue left in my sky, only cloudy moments

    5. Lately (live version) – Jodeci
    6. Stay – Jodeci
    7. Love U 4 Life – Jodeci
    8. Don’t Rush (Take Love Slowly) – K-Ci and JoJo
    9. Feenin’ – Jodeci
    10. Life – K-Ci and JoJo (Life soundtrack)
    11. Come And Talk To Me – Jodeci
    12. All My Life – K-Ci and JoJo
    13. I Care ‘Bout You – Milestone (Soul Food soundtrack)
    14. Tell Me It’s Real – K-Ci and JoJo

    • What’s funny to me is that Life isn’t even a love song. But it was a song on the movie Life starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, and at the time, it was the best possible duo ever on screen for me. I also really liked the song.

    • I didn’t add Last Night’s Letter for some reason, which was actually the second single on K-Ci and Jojo’s rookie album, and the single before All My Life.
    • I always thought the Cry For You video was odd because Jodeci was in the desert, but wearing leather and Sox caps.
    • How Could You was the lead single from the Adam Sandler and Damon Wayons movie Bulletproof which was awful and great all at the same time.
    • The live version of Lately (a Stevie Wonder cover) is just fierce.
    • Feenin’ was heated and all of a sudden I had a new word in my vocabulary that normal people didn’t understand.
    • I Care ‘Bout You was a song from the movie Soul Food and was a made up group featuring K-Ci and Jojo, Babyface, and his brothers Kevon and Melvin Edmonds.
    • Tell Me It’s Real was the lead single for K-Ci and Jojo’s second album called It’s Real.

        Far more frequently you’re wearing perfume …

    Previous JSlows
    Jam Slow
    JSlo 3
    JSlow 4
    JS5 (JSlow 5)
    JSlow 6: A New Beginning

  • Friday Throwback – Everything’s Gonna Be Alright

    I had nothing today. I couldn’t think of anything for the Friday Throwback and all of a sudden, for some reason unbeknown to even me, the name Father MC just popped into my head. This is random y’all.

    – Look at K-Ci and JoJo looking like a couple of young bucks.

    – Damn, were they wearing those black Sox hats even back then?

    – When you hear the song you think Sugar Hill Gang, but you should really think Chic.

    – Father, make up your mind. Wear your sun glasses or don’t, but you shouldn’t change it in every other scene.

    – “Now I sign a couple autographs, take a few flicks, order Don Perignon and lay back with my chicks.” I want to be that man.

    – I kind of miss this haircut.

    – Do dat dance, do dat dance baby, do dat dance, let’s work it out.

    – Did he just name drop Andre Harrell?

    – Why is JoJo wearing a towel over his head?

    – Don’t tell me it’s a hood.

    – It is a hood.

    No matter what, that song is a party starter, even if it’s about 16 years old.

  • The Sunday Shuffle 9/28/08: Baby I’m Begging!!

    As someone who doesn’t watch a heckuva lot of TV, I think I’ve reached my fill for the day with football, the NKOTB Behind the Music (Jon got kicked out of the group? Who knew?) and the Family Guy premiere (this Cleveland spinoff doesn’t look promising). Needless to say, the time is right for the Sunday shuffle. So here goes.

    Track 1) Jodeci “Cry for You” (from “Diary of a Mad Band”, 1993)

    When last we saw any of the men from Jodeci, Jojo Hailey was eating stage while his brother K-Ci gamely continued singing “All My Life”. This song dates back to Jodeci’s second album, at a time when the four members were ostensibly in better physical and mental health than they are now. Actually, this is my favorite Jodeci song-almost over the top in its’ emotion, yeah, but that was these guys’ calling card before they became certified sexaholics. Neither the group Jodeci nor the duo K-ci & Jojo has released anything in half a decade, amid rumors of drug addiction and ego issues. With the R&B group field virtually empty, I’d think the time is ripe for a return. Don’t you?

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