Once Upon A Time In Music

Sing It, Sis! The 90s Female R&B Era

• Once upon a time In Music • Season 1 • Episode 2

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 Cheryl Poizon and EL of Once Upon a Time in Music! This week they’re talking about their favorite female singers of the 90s—from Mariah to Mary J., Toni Braxton to Aaliyah—sharing memories, deep cuts, and the songs that still hit today. Plus, they mix in movie flashbacks, snack-time nostalgia, and plenty of laughs that will take you right back to the era. 

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We are back. Back in effect. This is Once Upon a Time in Music. I'm Cheryl Poison. I'm Al. We got a new episode. We'll talk about movies. Anything we can think of that's going to bring you, that's going to jog your memory.

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Yeah.

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Refresh your memory. Yeah. You know, the stuff that brings you back sometime. And music is like a big thing. Bridge. A big bridge on, you know, memories. That's right. What's up? Today, what are we doing today?

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Today we're doing 90s female singers.

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Yeah, 90s top, well, our favorite 90s female singers. They might

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not be yours, but.

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Yeah, I think, and we're not saying that they're the best either. These are ones off of our list. My list is strong.

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My list is strong, too.

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My list is

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strong. I got some heavy hitters.

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What else we gonna do? We got a snack time segment. We also got a movie flashback. Yep, movie flashbacks and just regular talk. Just regular talk. Anything we could think of, we gonna talk about and we gonna say on this episode. What's up? How you been? I'm good. How you doing? Pretty good. Pretty good. Just another day back.

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Another day.

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Another day. How was your week so far?

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My week went by fast.

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Yeah, man. Really fast. And I'm glad. The weekend goes by even faster.

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Yeah, always.

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The weekend goes by even faster.

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Back to work on Monday.

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Have you had anything that brought your memories back to old school anytime this week?

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actually i seen something on facebook today

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get out of here what you say

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i seen a video from besta williams oh yeah don't make me over not that one it was congratulations

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oh okay

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you know that song yeah so my best friend in new york loved that song get out of here she would sing that song all the time so when i saw it today i thought of her

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oh so i wasn't I wasn't too off when I said, don't make me...

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I don't even know whether she's saying that. I

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don't know. I hope so, because... Because they're going to get on you. Yeah, man. I'm always getting them wrong sometimes on them other shows.

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That's going way back, though. That was 1988. Fester

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Williams. Okay. Yeah. I don't think I had any memory jogs this week. Maybe... I always watch something old. But I'm going to save that for, you know...

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That's me. I

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watch all old stuff. Movie flashbacks.

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If you ask me about something new, I probably won't know it. But you asked me about something old. For real? Yeah.

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Oh, so that's even better. Yeah. That's why we got you here. That's why I'm here. That's why you're here. That's why we're here to talk to the people. You want to get into snacks? Let's get into snacks. Okay. We'll start with

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these KFC snacks. KFC wings. You see they brought back the wings. Yeah, they brought back the wings. And the wedges. Now, I'm not too into the wedges, but I used to love me some honey barbecue wings. For real? So if they bring back the wings, I'm all in there. They got the wings. They don't have the honey barbecue, I don't think, though. Yeah, they got the hot wings. They got spicy.

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Yeah.

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That's crazy. So, KFC.

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Let me get some honey barbecue. You remember that? The whole thing be all stick. Oh, and I love it.

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And I usually don't eat coleslaw, but I have to have coleslaw when I eat my honey barbecue.

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Yeah. I remember what I used to like. Probably those chicken littles from the 80s.

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Yeah, that

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was

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in the

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90s, right?

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Yeah. It might have

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been the 90s. Chicken littles.

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Those were good. They need to bring those back too. I don't

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know if

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I eat it now though.

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Why? Because I don't really, mayonnaise, I don't eat mayonnaise too much. Just tell them don't put mayonnaise on yours. Then it's going to be something dry. They don't put no cheese on it or nothing. They have to eat you some sauce. Barbecue sauce.

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Yeah, put it on there. Yeah. Don't listen to him KFC. Bring the wings, I mean the chicken littles back, please. Bring the chicken littles back. And while you at it, bring the strawberry parfaits. Now that's what you really need to bring back. Strawberry or the chocolate one? The strawberry. Strawberry all day. So what was that? That was like,

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that was like whipped

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cream. Whipped cream and strawberries. You can't go wrong. A little strawberry shortcake.

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Yeah, the strawberry one. Yeah, you're right. You're right.

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But if you

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want to bring back chocolate for the chocolate lovers. Do they still have those? They don't have them no more. It's coming at a little... Plastic container with the foil. You peeled it

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back?

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Yeah.

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Yes. It looked like something you would get at school. I didn't even want the food. Just give me the strawberry shortcake. For real? Yeah. Oh, man. What else do you have? That's all that. Original and crispy. That's what you get.

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Yeah, crispy. I'm a crispy.

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I'm original. But you got to eat it right when it's hot. You can't wait. It get kind of soggy.

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You know what's crazy? Here, you know, we're in South Carolina right now. Not too far from here, Bishopville, South Carolina, used to have, all the way up until COVID, they had a buffet KFC.

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Really? I

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used to go there almost every week.

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So what was on the buffet?

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Everything.

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Just everything on the menu was

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on the buffet? Everything on the menu was on there, plus extra, plus chicken gizzards and country stuff too. Wow. Do you know how it is to have KFC macaroni and cheese as much as you want? You can just go back how many times you

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want. I

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never knew that. The coleslaw as much as you want. So KFC, bring back the buffet. They're not bringing that back. I don't blame them. Not that one.

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I don't blame

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them. I don't blame you. What's that? That's not even a... It was a truck. No, that's not a truck stop. Here's a truck

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stop at the exit.

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Yeah, at the exit. The KFC that's at the gas station.

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That might have been a truck stop.

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Oh my gosh. They need to bring that back. That's why I need to find a KFC that do buffet still.

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They probably don't though.

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Yeah. It's going to be hard to find it. Yeah.

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That's great. A lot of buffets are closing. Yeah.

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Thanks to COVID.

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Yeah.

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Thanks COVID. Thanks to COVID. All right. Well, you want to get into it? All right. You want me to start? Nah, I'm going to start it. Okay, you can start it. Nah, girl, you can start

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it. All right. I'm going to come strong with Mariah Carey, the Butterfly CD.

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Okay.

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My favorite song off there is Breakdown.

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Oh, with Bone Thugs and

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Harmony, yeah.

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Break, break down. That was...

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That was my song.

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I'm the type that... So did you like Mariah Carey before that song? Because that was like, you know...

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Yeah, she had some good joints before then. Like, let me see what she had.

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She had a lot. I got all her CDs, but I never really listened to Mariah Carey. Yeah. Remember that? Yes.

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You know how many times I played this? Shoot, I used to kill it. Over and over and over. I had the singles. I put stuff on and I will repeat it. All day.

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Oh, my gosh. I would... I had the single cassette or the CD?

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I had the CD. The whole CD or the single? I had the whole CD. I had the single. And I just would do repeat and just... Oh, my gosh. This song right here. I think I had a radio and you could, like, program with you. I would do this and The Roof. That was another good one on that own CD.

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Breakdown. Okay. Breakdown. All right. I got... This is probably going to be on both of our lists. But we might have different songs. Because I kind of like her... What are they called? Deep cut? Deep cut songs? I kind of like her deep cut songs better. Mary J. Blige.

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Everybody loves Mary.

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Mary J. Blige.

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We love you, Mary.

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She... I mean, the 90s... She had it on lock. Definitely did. I don't know if it was just because of Diddy, but the 90s, she definitely had it on lock. And some of my favorite songs was, let's see what I got. 1997 on a Share My World album, I Can Love You. I Can Love You. I Can Love You. This right here was like one of my favorite songs on there. That whole album was on it. Yes. That whole album. I think they had another one on there that I really liked. I'm not going to play too many of them, but I think Share My World itself, the song itself on that album was, was it Share My World? Yeah.

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Yeah, it was

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Share My World. Yeah, that was another one, right?

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That was the name of the album and one of the songs.

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Yep. So 1997, this was a hit. My uncle had a, he had like a brand new Ultima. Like Ultimas was big. Yes. And fog lights was big. Like he had the rainbow fog lights and he would, you know, he worked nights. He would let you borrow his car? Yeah. So he'd let me borrow his car while I sleep or, you know, He was around here stuck. Man, this CD right here, I played so much in that car. And he had a nice new radio in there, too. Shout out to my uncle. He probably had a CD changer and everything. Nah, he didn't have a CD changer. He didn't have a CD changer? It was like the era of the new color, you know, the dolphins on your radio. Oh, okay. That era. But that was another one.

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I like Get to Know You Better, too.

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Yeah, it's on that same album. It's on that

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one, Share My World. Okay.

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That's it. Mm-hmm. Yeah, this whole album. Yeah,

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you could just

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play this whole album. You definitely can. And it was an R&B album. It wasn't like R&B. And hip-hop. Yeah, it was a straight R&B album. And 1994, she came out with My Life. And the cover song on that, that was my favorite, My Life also.

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That's on my list too, so let's talk about that. Let's talk about My Life. It is? That whole album is fire.

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I think I might have played this one just as much as that other one. I think I might have played this one more. This one had, yeah, this right here. See, everybody know this beat now because it's on...

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Because of, mm-hmm.

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Was it on... What movie was that? Straight Outta Compton. The beginner, Straight Outta Compton.

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Was this on Dead Presidents 2?

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I don't know. Dead Presidents is playing on the screen right now, too, behind you.

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It might have been on that, too. Was

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it?

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Don't make me lie to you.

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Yeah, this right here, that My Life, plays at the beginning of, you know, the Compton movie. My Life.

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Yeah, that whole album is my pick. Yeah, 1994.

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That was

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the whole album? The whole album. I can't

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even pick a song. I'm going to just say the whole album. Oh, I got another one for it. I got another song from that album, and I'm going to play it real quick, and then we at it. Come on. The whole album. The whole album. When she comes in, I ain't got to hear nothing else. Just the first, you know, the verse. Yeah, this is enough. I would sing it for

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y'all, but I can't sing. Nah, I'm good.

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Alright, that was my next favorite. What else you got? Let's see.

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My next is... Sade. Good old Sadie.

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Okay, I knew you was going to pick something like that.

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And let me tell you, my friend in high school, shout out to Tamika. She passed away, so we're going to say rest in peace to her. But she used to come to school every day talking about Sade. Love deluxe. So I got so tired of her talking about it, I had to listen. And I fell in love with that CD.

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Get out of here. What were some of your favorite songs on

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there? Bulletproof Soul and Kiss of Life.

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Oh, everybody loved that Kiss of Life.

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That

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is

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such

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a good song. That, I think, that still plays on the radio now, doesn't it?

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I doubt it. No? Must be on some smooth, the smooth CD radio station.

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Let's see. I don't know if I know that one. Oh yeah, I definitely do. Yeah, they definitely play that now. And she didn't, she don't really sing during the whole song, right? No. Yeah. That's a classic. Yeah, that's a classic right there.

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Okay.

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Yeah. So what grade were you at?

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We were in 10th grade because that was 92. What

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sneakers were you wearing then? All of them. So 10th grade around

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then. I was the Reebok queen. For real? I had every color Reebok. I taught 54-11s all day. You had the purple ones? I had purple, yellow, red, blue, every color.

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All the hood chicks had the purple ones, the yellow ones, and the red ones. I had every color. My brother had the black ones.

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Really? I don't think I had. I've never had black.

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Yeah, my black.

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I never had black or the white ones. But if there was any fruity color like Skittles,

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I had them. Did you do the color socks with it? Yes.

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You know that. Two pair. You got to do white in whatever color you're wearing. Exactly. You got to switch it up on them.

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And both legs, you had it a mismatched

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way. White on the bottom on one and white on the top on the

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other.

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Those were the good old days.

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What kind of jacket you wearing? In 1992?

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Yep. Ooh,

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92? I

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probably was just rocking a jean jacket. I can't even remember.

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Yeah.

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Jeansuits was in, I think, at that time.

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Probably a Guess. No. Yeah, Guess. Guess had all the colors. I

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don't think Guess was hot right then. Or maybe I just wasn't on Guess in 92. 92?

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Yeah. Think Guess, because that's when the Guess shorts. No, that was 94. That was 94. Dang, 92. I think. I wonder what

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Jackets was. I started rocking Guess in like 95. 94,

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95, right? Yeah. That's when they

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had. And they had like all color shorts and jeans.

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Yep. I used to go to. Oh, man.

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I used to go to Belts.

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I used to go to Picking Avenue.

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I would go to Belk's down here and they had like all the colors.

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Picking Avenue in New York. That's where you go get your school supplies. Okay. Not school supplies. Your

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outfits.

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Yeah, your outfits. Like, I'm

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going to kill them. I'm going to kill them on the first day.

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You get that purple jam sport.

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I had a purple jam sport. And somebody stole my book bag. Whoever stole my book bag, I'm really mad at you. I had my Walkman in there. I had a whole bunch of CD. I mean, not CD. They had cassettes. I'm going to let you know how old I am. That's old.

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Yeah, that was dope. They got me. It was all purple? It was all purple. That's the one I had. I had the all purple. You stole my

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book

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bag then. Nah, because somebody... Nah, nobody stole my book bag. Yeah, I still have my book bag. They got me. I ended up trading my book bag for a black one. Really? Yeah, because you know the strings off of them? Oh, okay. We used to collect those. So while you were in school, you... stealing strings, walking in the halls. Really? So you have like a big bundle of strings on the side. Different colors. And then you would have the two-tone. You'll take the inside of the string out.

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So you was like braiding them together?

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Nah, they're like they have like a string inside of it and they're kind of hollow. So they have like a blue or pink string inside. So I was

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just doing stuff.

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Yeah.

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You probably got my book bag. Whoever got my book bag from South Florence High School, I'm still mad at you.

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See? You owe me, Walkman. I didn't think they were wearing that down here.

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Yeah, I had to get a good book bag. Those last forever. If somebody would have not stolen it, I would have still had it to this day. I

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could have

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passed it on to my daughter.

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Yeah, my oldest daughter has one now. All

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right.

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Who else I got? All right, I got Coco from SWV. From SWV. Yes. For... What's your favorite

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song?

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She got so many. I think one of my favorites had to be Rain from... It was an SWV song. But I kind of think that might be one of my favorites. I think I listened to that. What was the other song they had?

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I'm So Into You. That was the one I like. You're The One For Me. Go

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Down.

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What was the name of that one? Downtown.

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Downtown. That's it. Yeah, Downtown. Let me see what else I got. See if I can pull it up real quick for y'all.

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Anything. Anything. Anything that had a remix

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to that. The remix with Wu-Tang. Mm-hmm. Um, I think, I think there was, that was on a, on a single. That was on

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like. For a soundtrack, I think.

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Yeah. Oh,

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ask me what movie it was.

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Um, what was that name? With the basketball. Um, with Fredro Star. Sunset Park.

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Okay. Yeah.

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Sunset Park, um, soundtrack. Um, I was trying to pull it up. I'm fiddling over here. I'm fiddling. I see. What are you doing over there? It's hard to do all five things at one time. You

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got the multitask. I only got

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one hand. You

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got the

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multitask. Yeah, so SWV had a lead singer. Her lead singer's name was Coco. And she was one of my favorites. That was it. And if I can get the song on the play.

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Come on.

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Sometimes it's

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something Yeah, that was one of my favorites from her. I got one more favorite from her. Coco from SWV. And that's this. Oh yeah, this was a good one too. 1996 from the CD, New Beginning, Use Your Heart. Coco from SWV.

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But... got to give the other girls some love too. Taj and Lili. Oh, thank you because they wasn't

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going to get no love. I'm going to give y'all some love. Coco was the one with the long fingernails. The long fingernails. Everybody knows her. She looked like the tallest. It was

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a tall little chocolate thing.

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Yeah, you right about that. Alright.

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Alright, I'm going to go with Shantae Moore. Okay, you old school. I'm old school. You old school. The song I like was Love's Takin' Over.

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So, is that, what year was that?

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1992. Okay.

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What's the other song she had?

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Shantae's got a man.

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Yeah, that's the one I'm thinking about. At

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home.

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What's the name of that one you like?

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Love's Takin' Over.

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It would be something that's...

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That was like her first

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single. Eh, 1992. From what album was that? Precious. Okay. I think, um... I think I know this song.

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I'm pretty sure you do.

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Okay. It's taking long to start up.

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Yeah.

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Oh, my God. It's the longest intro ever. It's a good song, though. Let's fast forward.

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So we got like a little. Oh, I know. I know this song. You know this song.

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Mm hmm. OK.

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Yeah. Yeah. OK. OK. So the song I was thinking about was this. They still play this on the radio also.

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Shante's got a man at home.

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You think somebody else wrote this for her?

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They probably did.

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Because I don't think she would talk in third person. Like, she was writing it herself. I don't

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know if she write.

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Yeah, so somebody wrote that for her. And she just, she just left it, just left it. The way it is.

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She probably was in the studio and was like, yo, I got to go home to my man. And then it started from that.

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I guess so. Well, my next one. 1993. It's probably the first time I saw this person. No, I'm not going to say saw. Yeah, probably the first time I heard this person. And ever since then.

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He been sweating, huh?

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Every Toni Braxton song.

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Toni is fine, though. Thank you for saying that. She is fine. She's still fine to this day. See, I didn't want to be the one to say it. I'm going to give props where they do. Toni is fine. Yeah, all Tonis. And Toni got a lot of bangos.

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I'm telling you, this song right here, 1993. This was on the soundtrack, I think, for Boomerang. No, I might be wrong. Because Boomerang came... I might be right. Who knows? I think this was on the soundtrack. 1993. The name of the album? Love

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Should've Brought Ya As Home was on the Boomerang soundtrack. Maybe that's what you're thinking about. Could be.

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Because what's his name?

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Marcus?

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Yeah, when she... Did the finger in the face and the head when she mushed him. Didn't she

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slap him

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too? Yeah, she mushed him and all that. I ain't promoting all that. Yep, so that was it. He should have came home. He probably... He didn't live there. Was that his house?

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That was his house. It was. They was at his house because she moved into his house. I wouldn't say move in. She was staying in there. That was her new man. She was staying at his house. And he was out with... Robin.

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Oh, he was. Okay. Well, see? Toni Braxton, Seven Whole Days, 1993, on the album Toni Braxton. That is my next favorite.

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You got to add some other stuff. You're Making Me High was 96.

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Because you know what? If I did anything else, Toni Braxton... Unbreak My Heart. Yeah, but like I can... I can go on for days and days with Toni Braxton.

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That's why... You mean the world to me? Ooh, How Many Ways. That was a good one. I

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guess you're right. I could... I could go... That's the thing. I could go on and on for Toni Braxton songs. I didn't want to, you know, run it out because she got too many hits. The next one...

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You want to stun on them?

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Yeah, see...

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Come on, this one right here. I used to play this song out too.

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Yeah. Just be a man about

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it.

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Man, there's too many classics. Tony Braxton is, you know, still one of my favorites. See? That's all I got for Tony.

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Okay.

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I didn't want to, you know, ruin the whole show. You didn't want to ruin it. Have a Tony Braxton playlist.

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All right. My next person is Aaliyah.

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Classic.

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Classic. 90s girl. Her boxers showing under her jeans. The sports bra. My favorite song is If Your Girl Only Knew.

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See,

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I wonder

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if they made her up to look like the way she looked.

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I think they did. You think so?

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Yeah.

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She might have been tomboy, but they kind of...

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I think she had a real dark side behind her. Or some trauma behind her. Because that R. Kelly stuff and all that other stuff, I think.

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They was in love, sneaking, getting married.

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Yeah.

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When she was 12.

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What about Jay-Z and what about Dane? She definitely was a... staple

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in the music

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yeah especially 2000s area

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she was doing movies too yeah you remember

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that romeo was dying i

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went

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and saw that in the movies

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that was 2000

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it was i remember seeing that in the movies like and i still i don't know if i can watch it anymore but i can still watch it i

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like um jet

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lee Dim sum? Dim sum. Yeah, she got hits.

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Yeah, she got a lot.

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Even if it sounds like R. Kelly behind it, but it don't matter.

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You can't be taking stuff from R. Kelly. R. Kelly write the hits.

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He do. He did.

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I'm just not going to look at what he did. You

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know

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what?

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I don't want to get too much into it, but there's a lot of other celebrities that we like that have dark pasts or do things in the dark.

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So we started canceling people out. We wouldn't have anybody to listen to.

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Definitely.

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Yeah.

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Definitely.

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So yeah, Aaliyah. All right.

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All right. Well, my next one. I know you know the group. They made like, they have, I kind of think they only have one album. But that one album was like very, very listened to. They had two singles off of that one album that I would listen to all the time. But the lead singer, I'll just let you hear the song. I can't wait to hear. I mean, it's classic. Yep. The lead singer name is Nikki Gilbert. The group is Brownstone. Brownstone. 1995. This song is Grapevine. I don't have too much to say about it. I just know this is one of my favorites. Yeah, some other joints too. Yeah, they did. Yeah, that was... That was a classic. Another one I used to listen to that album, I think, was this one.

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If You Love Me.

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Yep. Now, Tory Lanez went and grabbed a sample, made the song popular again. But he did it justice. He did good

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with it. He

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did. But the song is totally different. It doesn't sound the same.

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I want to rain on this pool.

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They

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had another one, Five Miles to Empty. I like that one too.

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For

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real? I guess they did have a couple songs. I guess they did. I'm thinking they only had maybe two songs. Oh yeah.

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You know the song? Yeah, definitely.

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That was a good pick. So that's my next one. Her name is Nikki Gilbert. Lead singer of the group Brownstone. And that was 1995. I

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got one last one. Okay. And it's going to be Faith Evans.

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Oh, yeah. Faith Evans.

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My joints was, you used to love me and ain't nobody.

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So what were you wearing at that time? What sneakers? What year was that?

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That was 95. 95.

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Oh, they had the Air Maxes at that time? Mm-hmm. What else they had?

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Ones, Air Force Ones. They did? Mm-hmm. I remember wearing them. You had to have the fresh white pair.

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Mm-hmm.

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Still? Yeah. Yep. So this is 1995. Self-titled album, Faith.

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Mm-hmm.

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Since we're talking about this album, this month marks the 30-year anniversary of Faith, the album. Keep the Faith. Keep the Faith. Faith Evans. Cool. All right. My next one is, I guess it's my last one. I wanted to give this one. I'm not even going to give a lead title on this one. Because it's a two-person group. And I don't know who was singing during any song. I

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bet you I know who you're talking

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about. Maybe because I was young. And

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they sounded alike.

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Yeah.

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I bet you I know who you're talking about.

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They kind of look alike. So you go ahead and say the name. I know you know who it is, and I'm going to turn it up while you say it. Johnny? Oh, you got it wrong. I'm sorry.

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That's not it? Nope. I know who you're talking about now. Changing faces?

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Yeah. Yep. So 1994. Relax, baby. The album is, I think the album is self-titled, Change Your Faces. And this song is Stroke You Up.

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And another R. Kelly

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production. Yes.

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And another one.

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You can hear it on this one. Yes. But they had a lot.

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What is this, Stroke You Up?

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Yeah. I guess they were extended versions at the beginning. You know, music was different back then. But I had another one on that same album. Remember that?

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Yeah. Yeah, that was... We did kind of sound alike. I don't know why. Yeah, you don't know which one is singing.

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Yeah, I don't even know why I was listening to this stuff at that time. That's what was out. No. Teenagers my age was not listening to Changing Phases. Oh. They had... I sure was. You know how I got onto it, I think? Okay. Okay. Oh, God. Back in the day, they used to have Columbia House where they say it's 10 CDs for 10 cents. So you would get a whole bunch of CDs for 10 cents. Well, I lived in an apartment building. I would love when somebody else was getting those same deals and a mailman left it on their doorstep.

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Tell me you was

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swiping. What? Swipe or don't swipe. Man, it got to the point where if I was out of school or something like that. What if they didn't

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have the same taste you have?

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Oh, guess what? I still got those CDs right now.

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And you made them people get a bill for$500.$200 for

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three CDs or ten CDs? I hope

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Columbia House ain't listening.

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Columbia House, they had it in a chokehold. I

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know I at least ordered twice. You did? Did you

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get it at that deal? I

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got it at the deal. But then they send you that bill and be like, oh, you owe$1,000. You said it was

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$0.15. It was something funny. It was like that first one you would get. And then you have to pay for all the others? Pay for the next ones. It would keep on coming the rest of the month or something

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like that. That ain't how I

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interpreted it. I loved it. I loved it. That's how I started my CD collection.

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That's probably how you... messed

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up your credit. Nah, it would always be somebody else's. Like, it got to a point where the people across the hall. Because

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everybody was doing it.

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And I was getting

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them. The people at school was doing it. It was the thing.

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My building, if I seen it sitting on your doorstep, that's it. He was swiping it. I knew the box. It was a long little rectangle box. I knew exactly where it was coming from. And the CDs I really didn't like, they got thrown in the trash. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You should have donated them. You was getting them free anyway.

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Hey, I should have put them back, right? Right now, I don't like these. I don't like this one. You'll

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have

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it back. Yeah, I think y'all can order Run

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DMC next month. Oh, those were the good old days. All right. Well. I got one extra. Let me see my extra. What you got? Kelly Price.

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Okay. See, is that 90s?

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That's 90s. The one song I really liked, that was... I liked

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it on that Heartbreak Hotel with

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Whitney Houston and Faith Evans.

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Yep, exactly. That was one of my favorites. My

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favorite song was a friend of mine remix with Mr. Biggs. This is Mr. Biggs. How you doing, Mr. Biggs? What the hell is going on? Nothing's

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going on.

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Kelly's telling me that you're sleeping with another woman. Just because you're sleeping.

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That

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was the joy. See, R. Kelly be doing it.

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Yeah, he did that one. He made Ron Isley again.

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Yes. And Ron Isley is fine now, y'all. What? Old man fine?

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He ain't. Yeah, old man fine.

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He old man fine. With the gray, the salt and pepper.

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So,

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what'd you date? I don't want to date him. I'm just saying. I got to give props when they do. Okay. And Rhonda was fine.

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He

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look better now than he did back then.

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Yeah, I guess you're right about that.

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I think because he got a young wife. Oh, how? She's like, she half his age.

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Half his age is old now, too. He at least 80. Well, she's 40 something. That's young.

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I wouldn't know. I'm not 40. I'm still. She's in a little group, too. I can't think of the name of the group. Oh, for real? She's a

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singer, yeah.

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Dang.

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Yeah, this was a hit.

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Mr. Biggs.

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Mr. Biggs. Well, Kelly Price featuring Ron Isley and R. Kelly in a remix of In The Mind. That was a classic.

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Classic.

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They had a video for that? Mm-hmm. She was crying in it, right? Mm-hmm. She was mad. Yeah, I remember that. I remember that. All right, well, let's get into flashback movies. What you got? My flashback movie, 1997. 1987. The Fat Boys. Delirious. No. Disorderly? Disorderlies. Oh, boy, where's the... There it is. I got to say it for myself sometimes. You went way back with that. I even watched it recently. If you didn't see this movie, you know, it was cool when you was... 12? Yeah. I

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don't know if I would watch it today, though.

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I

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watch it. But it might be funny.

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It was all right. It's definitely good for a 10-year-old. A 10-year-old will love it still. It's more like a daggone Three Stooges of hip-hop.

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That's what it is, basically.

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Yeah, so the storyline for this was it was an uncle that was old. And the nephew was trying to kill him so he'd get the money. So he wanted to hire the worst caretakers to, you know. He

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succeeded.

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Yeah, but he ended up getting better and they ended up having fun. It's

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always the plot. They always start liking the person. Yeah, we love you. We love you black

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kids. Okay. So that was it. Disorderlies. 1987 Disorderlies with the Fat Boys. That's mine.

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All right. Well, mine isn't a movie. It's a show, a series. And I started watching Oz again. Okay. So I'm like at a BC and they getting on my nerves already. It's a

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lot of

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sex. Yeah. Sex that you don't want to see. Why? They ain't really showing it though, but... You know it's happening. All I know is I can't go to jail. It ain't

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like that, is

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it? I just can't. I can't go to jail.

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So what episode, what season are you up to?

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I'm on season two, the first episode.

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Okay. I ain't wilding up in the jail. I used to have that. I think I still do have it. But I got the series, like the whole series. Okay. But it's one of those, I can only watch it late at night. Like, I haven't watched it in a long time.

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You should watch it so we can talk about it. So you can be mad like me.

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All right. And you

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don't go to jail.

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I'm not. I'm trying not to go. Don't go to jail. I'm trying my best not to go there.

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Don't go to jail.

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That's all I can say. Fellas, don't go to jail. Who else was in there? There was a lot of like... Stars of like Cameo appearances

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Um

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Lord Jamal was in it The

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guy from The Wire What's the little guy Which one I can't think of his name Bodhi Bodhi from The Wire I

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um Oh yeah Nah I was just telling you No Don't I was um Bodhi I don't remember him in it

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He's in it He's a young kid in there too Yeah Who else trying to think of the guy from um what's a little

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crime series i know a lot of people from like the wire and all those series it was all on law and order different shows the guy from law and order white guy

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the white guy with the black hair

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that he was an arian nation yep i know you're talking about that's a good one that's a good one

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yeah

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what year that came up you remember

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97

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Oh, that's when it started.

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Yep.

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Okay. All right. Well, since we're talking about 1980s and 90s stuff, August 28th, 1989 to 2008, a series came on TV that everybody used to watch called BET Rap City. Rap City. Rap City. I think they had some of the best interviews. Like, I think... And in

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the booths, when it got in the booth.

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Yeah, I liked it better than...

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Rap City? Not

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Rap City. Yo MTV Raps. Yeah, I think I liked it better than that. It just seemed like it should have been on longer. Yeah. I don't know. I kind of like both of them. Because the interviews were cut so short because they were playing. They were going to commercial. We're going to.

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They had to play

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the next video. But make it. It should be longer. Like it's BET. Like y'all get a whole hour and a half.

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See, rap wasn't as big as it is in the mainstream back then.

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So

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they wasn't going to give them no whole hour. It was like, get these 30 minutes.

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Yeah, you're right.

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Was it 30 minutes?

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Yeah,

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I think it was 30

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minutes. That really sucked then. That's like Video Music Box. Video Music Box started at what? 3.30? It was over at 4.30? They

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must have been giving us a lot of time back then.

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Yep. So, August 28th to 1989. I mean, 1989 to 2008 was BET Rap City.

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That was a long run though. I liked it when they did the basement.

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Yeah.

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What was the guy? Joe, Joe, Claire, Joe, Claire and Tigger,

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Joe, Claire, Tigger. I think it might have been the basement. No, the

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basement might have been Tigger.

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It was Tigger, right? Because I was supposed to be his mother's mother's basement or something. Yeah, the basement was good. I remember a lot of

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everybody coming through the basement.

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And getting in the booth. Yeah. I remember Ghostface kind of... He didn't... Like, I think Tigger was like trying to crack a joke.

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Because he had his mask on? Did he have his mask on?

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No, he didn't have a mask. He was talking about... Tigger said something. But Ghostface was like, well, I look like a clown. When I'm here to amuse you, you hit him with that. But he was serious. And... It just was a funny moment.

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Ghostface don't play. I

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wouldn't play around with them. It was just a funny moment of hip hop. I think it's running around on social media right now anyway. All right. Well, let's get into our last bit. Our snacks. What you wish they would come back? I did my

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snacks, but you didn't do your snacks.

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I didn't. Oh, okay.

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Well...

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You did yours? I did mine. I said the honey barbecue wings. Oh, see, you skipped over me. I want your ass on right now. Yeah, you skipped over me. I'm sorry. Nah.

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We gonna bring it back. Bring it back. Bring it back.

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Nah. Well, WWF had these sandwich ice cream bars. It was like soft cookie on one side with a wrestler on it. And then the backside had like a chocolate backing thing. Man, they were WWF superstars. I definitely don't remember that. What? Was they on an ice cream truck? Of course. I got to find a picture for you. They had like the Hulk Hogan one. What else they had? I can't

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even think of no wrestlers. Mr. T? Was Mr.

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T a wrestler? Yeah, he was. He was at...

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Ric Flair?

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Nah, he wasn't on that. It was like the 90s wrestlers. So Ric Flair

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was more in the 2000s?

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No, Ric Flair was really from the 70s. But, you know, he came back. One of those come back after retirement 15 times. Yeah, I'm going to find an ice cream bar sandwich to show you what it look like. I ain't going to bring it back. Nah, they're definitely never going to bring this back.

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I don't know why they take away all the good stuff.

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They're never going to bring it back.

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You

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know what? It looked like it'd be good. It was. It had like chocolate on one side and like a soft cookie on the other side. I've never seen that before. Different wrestlers on it.

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Okay.

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Yep, yep. So that was my snack since we skipped over me.

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Yeah, we forgot about him. Sorry. Sorry.

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And it was like, I remember it was like a dollar worth. On the ice cream shop.

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Everything was a dollar back then.

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They had Coco Beware on it. Animal. They had Andre the Giant. Honky Tonk Man. Macho Man. Elizabeth. Oh, I know Macho Man. The Hulkster. Hillbilly. I don't remember Hillbilly. Ricky the Dragon Steamboat. Okay. Yeah. That was back in the 90s.

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Yeah. They're not going to bring them back.

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Yeah, they're long gone. They're long gone. Well, you got anything else for the rest of the week?

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That's all I got. That's all I got.

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All right. Well, we're going to get on out of here.

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All right. I thank y'all for joining

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us. Yep. Yep. I'm L. I'm Poison.