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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

  • They Put Me In The Mix – JSlow 6: A New Beginning

    JSlow 6 means one thing for me. It means the birth of my first son Brian. The year was 1999. This was also the first JSlow that wasn’t recorded on audio tape. My wife at the time bought me a CD recorder.

    But back to Brian for a second. As I reflect back to when he was born, it really seems fantasy-like. It’s like he was born, and now he’s 9 years old. Where did all the time go? We have a pretty special relationship and he always knows how to put me in the right mood. I hope I do the same for him.

    Who knew Lark Voorhies was in this video?

    JSlow 6: A New Beginning (circa late 1999)

    1. Crazy Over You – 112
    2. One Day You’ll Be Mine – Usher
    3. My Love Is Your Live – Whitney Houston
    4. Silly Man – Tony Rich
    5. Don’t Rush (Take Love Slowly) – K-Ci & JoJo
    6. Right Here Waiting – Monica featuring 112
    7. These Are The Times – Dru Hill
    8. If You’re An Angel – Tony Rich
    9. Angel – Sarah McLachlan
    10. Ex Factor – Lauryn Hill
    11. When A Woman’s Fed Up – R. Kelly
    12. Never Say Never – Brandy
    13. Show Me The Way To Your Heart – Brian McKnight
    14. Ribbon In The Sky – Stevie Wonder
    15. Half On A Baby – R. Kelly
    16. To Zion – Lauryn Hill

    It’s funny looking back at these tapes and seeing what I was listening to back then. I’m not sure that I’ve listened to Monica’s version of Right Here Waiting in years. And that might’ve been the last Whitney Houston song that I liked.

    • Two Tony Rich songs? Dude was talented, but still, two Tony Rich songs?
    • Usher would go on to cut at least 10 slow jams that were better than this one.
    • That Sarah McLachlan song threw me for a loop. I forgot I had some SM on my slow jam tapes.
    • Man, when do the R. Kelly songs end on my tapes?
    • But at least I found a way to add some more Stevie.
    • Look at your career they said, Lauryn baby use your head, but instead I chose to use my heart.

      To Zion – Lauryn Hill (Featuring Carlos Santana)

    The next JSlow was a Jodecidal JSlow.

    Previous JSlows
    Jam Slow
    JSlo 3
    JSlow 4
    JS5 (JSlow 5)

  • They Put Me In The Mix – JSlow 4 Life

    You can read about JSlo 3 here.

    Ok, finally we have an inspiration. The previous two editions of Jam Slow really didn’t have much of an inspiration except that I just liked slow jams. But I had just met Carol (who eventually became my wife) and she became the inspiration for JSlow 4 Life (as well as everything until JSlow 15). This was one of my favorite editions of JSlow as it was a whopping 20 songs. This was back in the day when I did them on tapes and there were these things called 90 minute cassettes.

    Music is personal. You hear great songs and immediately put yourself into the lyrics. The songs become about you and about your life. That’s what slow jams were for me.

    JSlow 4 Life (circa 1997/1998)

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