The Songs That Raised Us

This week on Once Upon a Time in Music, the crew kicks things off with childhood cartoons. From attic dives for forgotten CDs to vinyl obsession, the conversation turns to how music collections become time capsules of who we were and where we come from.

The episode then dives into the soundtrack of growing up—songs that played at house parties, Saturday cleanups, car rides, and late-night “Midnight Love” radio hours. From cookout anthems and blues joints to R&B slow jams and pop classics, EL and Cheryl Poison trade memories, debate lyrics that hit different as adults, and break down how music shaped family gatherings, block parties, and culture itself. Add in listener emails, freaky song revelations, Kiss-Marry-Kill debates, and plenty of laughs, and you’ve got an episode that feels like sitting in the living room while the adults reminisce, the records spinning.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:19

This is a mountains.

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What's up? What's up? We back. What they know about the Smurfs? Come on.

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Who's your favorite?

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Smurf Fed. What it looked like. Yeah. Come on.

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Yeah, she was cool.

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And Brainy Smurf.

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Oh, I hated Brainy Smurf.

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He was a small one. He was the one that helped build stuff. Who was your favorite? Papa Smurf?

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Probably Papa Smurf. What's the the cat?

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Azriel?

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I hated Azriel too. And Gargamel.

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Gargamel.

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I was some good times. That was one of my favorite shows.

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Yep, yep. The Smurf. The Smurfs. Alright. We back. I'm L.

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I'm Cheryl Poison.

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This is Once Upon a Time in Music. And uh we missed y'all last week. Since last week.

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Yeah.

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Since last week. Last week was a crazy show.

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Clan Scott, Clan's God.

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Yes, please go back and listen to last week's show because uh that was our first show back from a little break. We took a two weeks off. So uh I was snowed in. Snowden or flu down. Which one? Uh boy, how you been? I've been good. What you been doing?

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Chilling, chilling, working and chilling. Okay. Okay. Yeah.

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That's it, huh? That's it.

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Yeah, I hear you.

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I hear you.

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No in between.

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Come on now. Come on now. Come on now. No in between. Why are you smiling so much? Why you smiling so much lately? You know I read people, right? So now you're like a psychic, like? No, people say that, but I can read people. Yep. And I'm not gonna tell you what I'm reading, but I know you're not telling.

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Not the crazy music.

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Well, you know. Okay. What's up though?

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Nothing. Nothing.

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Well, anything new? Anything old?

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No, that could be a good idea.

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I do need you to do something. Oh my god, what? Why? Every time I ask to for you to do something, you never want to do it.

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What is it?

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Am I that bad of a friend?

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No. Yeah, I'm a I just don't like surprises. Like. It's not a surprise. It's an ask. So what it is.

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I need you to go up in the attic.

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I'm not going in the attic.

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And get those CDs down.

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How long is it gonna take me to find this? I have to find them up there first. I'll see. It's Sunday. I'm definitely not doing it today. That rain.

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Yeah, but the attic is in the house, not outside in the rain. Dang. I thought we were cool like that. We need cooler.

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Don't you got enough CDs?

unknown 3:56

No.

SPEAKER_06 3:57

Everything that's in the attic, you probably already have it.

SPEAKER_09 4:00

I'm looking for certain stuff.

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Okay.

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And I just need to see them to know if that's the one I'm missing. So if y'all guys don't know, I collect vinyl. You collect everything.

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Everything.

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I want vinyls and CDs. If you have old vinyl, you have old CDs in the booklet or even loose. Not too much loose, but if you got them loose, uh you got a whole little music store.

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Yeah, but go in there and just browse and be like, mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_09 4:34

There's certain things I want though. I want them in certain forms too. I might want it on vinyl. I might want this.

SPEAKER_06 4:41

How do you keep track of everything? Is that like a book?

SPEAKER_09 4:45

Like a no, I have an app. You know I do everything electronically. Oh, I forgot. So there's an app that, you know, you scan it, scan the barcode, or you put in the name of the CD.

SPEAKER_06 4:56

You high tech over there. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 4:58

Nah, it's it's a good app. It tell you the value of the stuff and it tells you about your whole collection, stuff like that. Um, it's cool.

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Oh, I know we're rich. We raking in the dough.

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Where?

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With all the stuff you got.

SPEAKER_09 5:14

No. I collect for fun. See, that's some of the stuff. That's okay. It goes, you know. As soon as I scan it in, it comes up. I got duplicates or whatever. So if you do have vinyl or CDs, I will buy them from you.

SPEAKER_06 5:34

I had a couple of vinyl. I gave them to my um producer friend.

SPEAKER_09 5:38

Oh, word. And that nigga never brought them back. I know you. No, I gave them to him. Oh, so you gave him something, but you ain't gave me nothing.

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I didn't know you back then.

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You know me now.

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I was too late now. I didn't give them to him. I wants to be. When he was making me beats, shout out to Mark Ella Vinson. Do he listen? He might not listen, but. Okay.

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I ain't shouting him out. Even though I know shouting him out. If you don't listen, if you don't listen to the show, I don't shout you out.

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Shout out Mark Ella Vinson.

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He gotta prove it. I need to see that he listens to the show. All right. Pull up. If you shout him out, shoot, there's nothing to pull up. He don't live here.

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Wherever you live, you we got people all over the world that listen. I'ma get one. I'm gonna see if he'll um come on the show. He ain't coming on the show. I already know that.

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He might come on the show.

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Well, send an email. The email address is Once Upon a Time in Music, all one word at podcast at Yahoo.com. Ooh, look at that. Talk about emails.

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Do we got an email? We do have an email.

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What we got?

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We got an email from HiStar.

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DJ HiStar from Mandatory Overtime Podcast. What up?

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A homeboy.

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Yeah, HiStar. Hey, if you get HiStar to come on your show, he brings breakfast. He brings food. He brings he comes with gifts.

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He comes with the gifts.

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He comes bearing gifts.

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That's how you're supposed to.

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I didn't know that.

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Or is the host supposed to provide yourself?

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So I guess nobody invited me to their podcast, so I wouldn't know.

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Maybe you'll get an invite now.

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Sure. Give us a call. Um, I come in, I come as a pair also. If you like Cheryl Poison, if you want the people from Once Upon a Time in Music to show up on your podcast or call in or whatever you want us to do. We down.

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Holler at us.

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Yeah, yeah, we down.

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All right. Let me read this email. DJ Hostar.

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Okay, go ahead.

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He says, yeah. I guess that's how you say that. You're testing this thing out to see if it works. I wish I could cue up my soundboard for y'all last episode. Use a freaky ass nigga. Who? Lol.

SPEAKER_09 8:12

He must be talking about you. No, he's talking to you.

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You mustn't talk about me.

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The name of the episode was based off of what you said.

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Anyway. You mustn't talking to me. I'm a lady. I'm a if anything, I'm a freaky ass lady. Anyway. Lol, nah. Awesome show last episode. I have a light list to share with y'all. L, feel free to play any of these, but three freaky songs I had no idea about.

SPEAKER_09 8:41

Well, he got freaky songs too? Yeah. So all right, so slow down. If he got freaky songs, then I gotta get my freaky song button.

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You gotta get it ready?

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Gotta get my board, my board ready.

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Go ahead.

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Uh go slow with it.

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The first one is Turn Your Love Around. George Benson. And I like that song too. And I never looked at it this way.

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Okay.

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And listen to George Croon, a night walker, into consensual backdoor intercourse. What? It's a time. It's time a girl becomes a woman. Very rapey undertones towards the end. Shaking my head.

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So wait, what was he saying?

SPEAKER_06 9:26

He's saying he's trying to seduce someone into doing backdoor intercourse.

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Get out of here.

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Turn your love around.

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Let's see.

unknown 9:37

The talk of hotel.

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You think it's low. Turn your love around.

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Don't you turn me down? I can show you how. Turn your love around.

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I'm never gonna listen to this song the same.

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Can't jam to it like you used to, right?

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Mm-mm. Cause I'm not turning my love around.

unknown 10:15

I can make it. But I need the girls today.

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I'm gonna have to check it. I'm gonna have to check it out slowly by myself and see what's going on with it. Turn your love around. That was a popular one. Yeah. I need to be on today's list show. Uh today's uh topic show.

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The next song is Electric Boogie by Marsha Griffith. This song plays everywhere. I mean, everywhere. Who knew this generational dance hit was talking about sex toys? When I found out, I was shocked.

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So I wonder where he got these from.

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Like where Electric Boogie.

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Oh my god. I wonder if he got these, you know, he knew about these already. Or what?

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Well, now he has to write another email and let us know. Hi stark boogie. Oh my god.

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I'm trying to boogie boogie boogie. I'm trying to, I'm trying to pull him up. I'm sorry. I I was lube.

SPEAKER_06 11:27

This is like the official cookout song. Yeah, it is. And we just jamming to the sex toy song.

SPEAKER_09 11:35

Oh. Let's see. Where's the so that we want a party line? I don't know. I might I might have to debate this one with High Star.

SPEAKER_06 12:35

No, I think I've heard that before too.

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For real?

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You think so? I guess you have to listen to all the words.

SPEAKER_09 12:45

I I know he got another one. We can go ahead. Go to go finish the email.

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The next one is Too Close by Next.

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Yeah, we definitely know that one. That's definitely.

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And he says this 90s RB made it swaggy and even a bop to talk about getting a chubby in the club, which likely championed the bathroom sex culture of spots like the tunnel.

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Perhaps have you ever got a chubby in the club?

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I never had a chubby in my life.

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A chubby never came upon you?

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Have I been dancing with somebody or somebody tried to dance up on me with a chubby? Yeah.

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How do you know?

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Like because you can feel it.

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Like, how? Like, oh, get that off me. Or it was during the race.

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Guys, guys will come through. Like, you don't even have to be dancing with them. They'll be coming through and try to put it up on you. And you feel it? Yeah. And you're all you have to push them off. Like, you're not trying to get through. You're trying to get on me.

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How you know that's what was poking you though?

SPEAKER_06 13:47

Yeah, I just know. Oh, it was either that or that gun.

SPEAKER_09 13:50

Yeah, girls. I I I'm sorry for y'all ladies, but uh, I couldn't deal with that. Y'all can't just be walking around.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, I feel for y'all that one. But now, ladies.

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Fellas are pervs.

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If ladies did it, you wouldn't mind. They put the headlights on you.

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You wouldn't mind that? No way. So you just want a random girl coming up on you.

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And brush them up against you? Yeah. Yeah, let's do it.

SPEAKER_06 14:16

Oh my god, you're a perv too. Hi, Star. He is a freaky ass nigga. He wants the random girl at the club just brushing up against him.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Okay. I guess so.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_06 14:35

Let me finish this email. Anyways, awesome show. I look forward to the next episode. DJ HiStar.

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Word. Okay.

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We love you, HiStar.

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Shout out to High Star and Mandatory Overtime Podcasts.

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Great podcast. Yes, it is. Check that out.

SPEAKER_09 14:50

Yeah, check it out, people, people. All right. Um, we didn't tell the people what the show is about. I'll let you explain it. This episode is about songs that you grew up around. Like, you know, at the at your house, you know, the house parties and stuff that your parents might have brought you to. Just songs that you grew up.

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Cleaning up on a Saturday.

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Yeah.

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Driving in the car.

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Yeah, if you're riding in the car, you know, you hear stuff like that. Um, we're just gonna go back and forth to what, you know, I heard growing up and what show I have. Miss Poison has been hearing growing up. Um what else we got? We got Kiss Mary Kill. We got uh What Came Out Today. You know what? We can start the show off with that. I'm gonna do uh What Came Out Today. February 1990. A small album by the name of uh what is it? Please Hammer Don't Hurt Hem. 1990. You know how long ago that was?

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A long time ago.

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Um MC Hammer dropped an album called Please Hammer Don't Hurt Hem. It had songs like uh Can't Touch This Pray. I know you heard uh Can't Touch This because it's on everything. Everything it's a sample from Rick James. Rick James uh there's another one that came on this album Pray So people might not have heard this one if they wasn't into MC Hammer.

SPEAKER_06 16:39

No, because they played this video all the time.

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They did, right? I don't know how he got cleared for the sample. Listen.

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Because they um Prince don't like the um He don't like clearing samples, yeah.

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And that was Prince's song. Prince probably came out what 84? So this was only 84.

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He probably had to pay Buku money to get that sample.

SPEAKER_09 17:10

This was probably only six years six years after Purple Ring came out. That was early for back then.

SPEAKER_06 17:19

What other songs was on there?

SPEAKER_09 17:20

Uh Can't Touch This. Uh, what's that other one? Uh Here Comes Hammer. That was a big one.

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Hammer was the bone back then. That's what I'm saying.

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And you was a dancer. Yeah, that was the super commercials on like it was on Burger King commercials, everything. So Hammer was big back in the day. 1990. Please hammer don't hurt him.

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Please, hammer. Don't hurt him.

SPEAKER_09 17:57

What was that other one? Turn this mother out? That was a different one.

SPEAKER_06 18:00

That was a good one too.

SPEAKER_09 18:01

That was a different album, though, right? Yeah, I think that was.

SPEAKER_06 18:03

It seemed like all his songs blew up though.

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Yeah.

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Like he didn't have nothing that like flopped. My favorite MC Hammer song is Pumps in a Bump.

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Pumps in the Bump.

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Pumps in a Bump. Pumps in a bump. We like the girls with the Pumps in the Bump. That's my song.

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You just like the video. Don't try to play.

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I don't like the video, but I like the song.

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You like the video. I do not like the video.

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I don't want to see no man with no little speedo. That's not my type.

SPEAKER_04 18:29

What they call them? Banana hammocks?

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I want a dude that's gonna wear his jeans into the um water. Okay.

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You like niggas that wear jeans on the on the beach, huh? With Tim's. Okay. Alright. Where we at now? Kiss Mary Kill.

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You wanna start it off with that?

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You want to go first or you want me to go first?

SPEAKER_06 18:55

I'll go first. Lady's first. Go ahead. Your three is Alicia Keys.

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Okay.

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Selena. Selena the Beatty BD Bum Bum.

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Okay.

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And Tiana Taylor.

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Oh, this is easy.

SPEAKER_06 19:09

Oh, it's easy?

SPEAKER_09 19:10

Yeah. Marry Selene. What's her name?

SPEAKER_06 19:14

Selena. Selena, Mary. Selena's.

SPEAKER_09 19:16

Marry Selena. Kill Alicia Keys. And kiss. It was already planned out. I already knew what I wanted to do.

SPEAKER_06 19:27

Why do you want to kill Alicia?

SPEAKER_09 19:29

Because uh.

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You like them light skinned.

SPEAKER_09 19:32

Yeah, but she's boring. Like, she's like boring.

SPEAKER_06 19:35

She can play the piano.

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Uh Tiana Taylor, too.

SPEAKER_06 19:38

I don't know about her playing the piano, but you just want Tiana to dance for you and stuff. Nah, she got to kiss lips. And she do got some big lips.

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See? Okay. It's all planned out. Boom. That's what one does. Okay. And Celine.

SPEAKER_06 19:54

Selena. Selena's. Selena's.

SPEAKER_09 19:57

Jennifer Lopez, right?

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Beatty beatty bum bum.

SPEAKER_09 20:00

It's Jennifer Lopez.

SPEAKER_06 20:01

Yeah, but um Selena looked better than Jennifer to me.

SPEAKER_09 20:04

See, there you go. And you know what I say. If you marry him, you get to do everything. You get to do everything.

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You get to do everything. Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 20:14

Yep, yep. So talking about Alicia Keys.

SPEAKER_02 20:19

What about Alex?

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Guess what? Swiss Beats is one of my people. One of your peoples. So it's Swiss Beats, Jermaine Dupree, and Dr. Dre. Be careful now. One of these people has allegations of.

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Yeah, somebody gonna beat my ass, because I I talk a lot of shit. So I need a gentleman. I don't need no thug.

SPEAKER_09 20:50

So you got Jermaine Dupree, Swiss Beats, and Dr. Dre. I know that's a hard one. No?

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Okay.

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We're going to.

SPEAKER_09 21:10

Is that hard?

SPEAKER_06 21:12

You're gonna kill off Dr. Dre.

SPEAKER_09 21:14

I thought so. I thought you would do that.

SPEAKER_06 21:16

But he makes him go beats. He's a good producer. I can't kill him.

SPEAKER_09 21:20

Yeah, but he's he got to go. You think any of his wives were able to get a beat from him? He got people he makes music with that can't even get him.

SPEAKER_06 21:27

Maybe his um wives did rhyme. Anyway, he he's gotta go. He gotta go, right? He gotta go. Cool. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_09 21:36

Kill.

SPEAKER_06 21:37

Okay. Jermaine Dupree and Swiss Beats.

SPEAKER_09 21:41

Yep. Go ahead and kiss Jermaine.

SPEAKER_06 21:44

I'm gonna marry Swiss Beats because he seems like he really like is real good to Alicia. Okay. Even though he was cheating on his first wife and then married Alicia.

SPEAKER_09 21:56

Don't go by the r rumor.

SPEAKER_06 22:01

I'm just saying. But I'll marry him. Okay. And then I guess I'll kiss on Jermaine Dupree.

SPEAKER_09 22:09

Cool.

SPEAKER_06 22:10

Get some beats from him too. I'm going to get beats from everybody.

SPEAKER_09 22:16

That's why I picked all these people. I say, you know what? I got a good one for this week.

SPEAKER_06 22:20

Okay, so we're killing Dr. Dre. I'm gonna kiss Jermaine Dupree, but I'm not gonna tongue him down.

SPEAKER_09 22:25

Yeah, you are.

SPEAKER_06 22:26

No, I'm not.

SPEAKER_09 22:27

He's gonna take it.

SPEAKER_06 22:28

And he's gonna take it?

SPEAKER_09 22:29

Yep. Oh god. He's gonna be he's gonna jump up on you and cause he's little.

SPEAKER_06 22:33

Because he probably smaller than me, right?

SPEAKER_09 22:35

Yeah, he gotta be.

SPEAKER_06 22:37

The same size, right?

SPEAKER_09 22:38

Nah, probably smaller.

SPEAKER_06 22:39

You think he's shorter than me?

SPEAKER_09 22:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 22:41

I'm only 5'3.

SPEAKER_09 22:42

You are?

SPEAKER_06 22:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 22:44

Dang, I didn't think people came in that size.

SPEAKER_06 22:46

Whatever. And I'm gonna marry Swiss Beats.

SPEAKER_09 22:49

Alright. Well, that was a good one. Yeah, that was a good one. That was a good one. You ready to get into it?

SPEAKER_06 22:54

Yes, let's get into these joints.

SPEAKER_09 22:57

Alright. You wouldn't start it off if you want me to start it off.

SPEAKER_06 22:59

I'll start it off because this is the anthem of a black cookout, a black party. Alright. A black household.

SPEAKER_09 23:08

What you got?

SPEAKER_06 23:09

Ain't no stopping us now. 1979. McFadden and Whitehead.

SPEAKER_09 23:16

Yeah, that's a good one. You got any stories from this one?

SPEAKER_06 23:31

I just remember being at house parties in this song plan.

SPEAKER_09 23:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 23:34

And I was probably like 1979. I was three.

SPEAKER_09 23:40

Oh, I don't remember it from then. All mine I remember from like once they was already older.

SPEAKER_06 23:46

I probably wasn't, yeah, I probably was a little bit older than three. But I remember house parties just being at the house parties and this plan.

SPEAKER_09 23:54

Yeah, this is a good one.

SPEAKER_00 23:56

There's been so many things that's held us down. But now it looks like things are finally.

SPEAKER_09 24:02

I'm gonna be an old man and say they don't make music like this.

SPEAKER_06 24:05

They don't. Because this is like classic. Like you could play this at a party now and people gonna be jamming.

SPEAKER_09 24:14

You know why? This was an original music. Like now they're gonna sample this and then come out with it. Dad, we cut so many corners.

SPEAKER_06 24:25

That's what made it so good back then, because people was making their own music. Yeah, yeah. It was actually in there playing the um music instruments to come up with this stuff.

SPEAKER_09 24:37

So that's that goes for the stuff that I picked. My dad was basically he was into instruments, you know, playing in college and stuff like that. So, you know, all the big bands was stuff that was getting played in my house, like, you know, gap band and Earth, wind, and fire. Yeah, that stuff was getting played because it was big bands. It was, you know, they had that on so many people in the group.

SPEAKER_06 25:04

Imagine being alive, like and old enough to like go to their concerts and stuff back then.

SPEAKER_09 25:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 25:09

That probably was a treat.

SPEAKER_09 25:11

My dad tells me a story all the time about how him and my mother went to uh I think that was the Rick James concert in the limo.

SPEAKER_06 25:21

I can't imagine.

SPEAKER_09 25:24

He tells me about that all the time. Alright, so you ready for mine? Yeah. So what I do online, I started. I I guess I started way back and kind of went down, I think. But uh there was so much different music at my house. It would start with like this. This is Z Z Hill 1986, Down Home Blue.

SPEAKER_00 26:01

And you know what's going through my mind.

SPEAKER_09 26:06

So on the weekends, we would be like at my uncle's house. And you know, all the older people there. So they was playing this.

SPEAKER_06 26:16

I bet you they was playing Johnny Taylor, too.

SPEAKER_09 26:18

Yeah, they were definitely playing Johnny Taylor, and my dad loved Johnny Taylor, so hearing them play this. This is what they were playing at the cookout, stuff like that. And late at night after they nice and partied, partied out. So that's uh 1986 Z Z Hill Down Home Blues.

SPEAKER_06 26:43

Okay, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_09 26:45

Yeah, that's old. That's uh you ain't gonna have too many blues on this list, but that's that's what I used to list to. Johnny Taylor and stuff like that. All right, what you got? Talk about big bands.

SPEAKER_06 26:57

My next one is Before I Let Go. Frankie Beverly. I know everybody knows this song.

SPEAKER_08 27:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 27:19

Every single cookout. You mean me happy. And everybody knows the words.

SPEAKER_09 27:26

Everybody danced to it, even the kids. This was a big one. They still play this every cookout.

SPEAKER_06 27:34

And this song is still good. It's still good to this day.

SPEAKER_09 27:37

That's crazy. They still play this stuff. Now, the only thing they're gonna guarantee play.

SPEAKER_06 27:43

They might play the Beyonce um version of this. I hate that. I don't like that one either.

SPEAKER_09 27:48

That's trash. That messed the whole song up.

SPEAKER_06 27:50

Yeah, I like the original better.

SPEAKER_09 27:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 27:53

That was 1981.

SPEAKER_09 27:55

So think about it. They played that guarantee from was it 81?

SPEAKER_05 28:02

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_09 28:03

Probably 80 from 81 to now, they played it in every single cookout to now. Now the only thing we got is like that, is might be like the electric slide or the cha cha cha slide. That's the only stuff that are um good. Like that you guarantee to hear. Right?

SPEAKER_06 28:23

You're right. Because I can't think of nothing else.

SPEAKER_09 28:26

Even Michael Jackson songs, like you they played them, but they wasn't guaranteed to be at the cookout. They wasn't saying, put this on.

SPEAKER_06 28:33

Yeah, that's not gonna be a song that you're gonna automatically get up and dance to.

SPEAKER_09 28:36

Yeah. That's crazy. That's crazy if you think if you look at it that way. Alright, so we're up to me, right?

unknown 28:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 28:46

So the radio was big at this time. This is 1984. This is where you know there wasn't no black station, no white station. It was kind of it was everything was considered pop.

SPEAKER_06 28:57

Everything was together.

SPEAKER_09 28:58

Once it was on the radio. Uh this is Billy Ocean. 1981. He also, this is uh Caribbean Queen.

SPEAKER_06 29:20

Billy Ocean had to be the Usher of that um. Had to be.

SPEAKER_09 29:26

You're right.

SPEAKER_06 29:27

Yeah, he he had it unlocked.

SPEAKER_09 29:29

Who else could it be? He was either the Usher or I wouldn't say the R.

SPEAKER_06 29:35

Kelly.

SPEAKER_09 29:36

Nah, he wasn't.

SPEAKER_06 29:37

I would say, I would just say the Usher. He was the Usher of that time.

SPEAKER_09 29:41

Usher, who else? It gotta be. Give me one more. Let's see if we can think of one more.

SPEAKER_06 29:46

Chris Brown?

SPEAKER_09 29:47

Nah, because Chris Brown's like so over the top. Usher's like right there. Usher and not a Drake. He was like the Usher, like you said. That's perfect.

SPEAKER_06 29:59

Yeah, I think he was the Usher.

SPEAKER_00 30:02

She touched by me, impainted on jeans.

unknown 30:10

And don't have time, cause she was the one.

SPEAKER_09 30:14

Yep, so that was considered pop.

SPEAKER_06 30:15

They played this video so much.

SPEAKER_09 30:18

Yep.

SPEAKER_06 30:19

This video was played out.

SPEAKER_09 30:21

You're right.

SPEAKER_06 30:22

You could not turn on the music channel and not see this video.

SPEAKER_09 30:26

You're right about that one. I think what is this other song he had?

SPEAKER_06 30:32

He had another one. Get out of my dreams and get into my car or something. Get out of my dreams.

SPEAKER_09 30:37

Oh, that was him.

SPEAKER_06 30:39

Get into my car. Oh, that was him. That was him.

SPEAKER_09 30:43

Dag, yeah, that's another big one.

SPEAKER_06 30:44

He had a lot of joints. I can't think of them right now.

SPEAKER_09 30:47

Yeah, he did have. He was the usher. He was the usher back then.

SPEAKER_06 30:51

He had joints.

SPEAKER_09 30:52

Alright. You ready?

SPEAKER_06 30:53

I'm ready.

SPEAKER_09 30:54

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_06 30:55

My next one. Okay. I can remember every time we got in the car to go somewhere, my mother was pushing this little tape into her little tape deck. And it was Shake You Down by Gregory Abbott. I don't even like this song as much as I used to hear it.

SPEAKER_09 31:14

I just know some of these songs were played at both of our houses. This is one of the ones.

SPEAKER_06 31:26

I think everybody mama was playing this. And he had them pretty eyes too. He did? He was like a pretty boy. He looked like Philip Michael Thomas. Yeah, like he could be his brother.

unknown 31:37

I see that look in your eyes.

SPEAKER_06 31:39

My mother played this song out. And what it's telling me.

SPEAKER_09 31:44

What was that? What year was that, you think?

SPEAKER_06 31:46

That was 1986. I wanna shake you down.

SPEAKER_04 31:52

Let's see. Here we go.

SPEAKER_02 31:57

You know your name. I wanna shake you down. Well, well, I can give you overlooking me. I'm gonna love you.

SPEAKER_06 32:08

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_09 32:09

That's a good one.

SPEAKER_06 32:10

I wanna shake you down. If somebody came up in my face and said, I wanna shake you down.

SPEAKER_04 32:16

You you think they're robbing you, right?

SPEAKER_06 32:18

Yeah. I wanna shake you down. If you don't get out of my face, they be saying stuff like that to you? No. Men don't approach me. Only old men approach me.

SPEAKER_09 32:28

Okay. Cougar tracker.

SPEAKER_06 32:30

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_09 32:31

No. What uh what are they called, old man?

SPEAKER_06 32:33

Sugar daddy. Sugar daddy. Grandpa? Grandpa's love me.

SPEAKER_09 32:39

Grandpa. Or Nate. I'm in a Nate.

SPEAKER_06 32:42

I'm in a bond, Nate.

SPEAKER_09 32:44

I'm in a bond. I'm never in a bond.

SPEAKER_06 32:45

I don't care if I'm in a bond. I'll be like, mm-mm. I'm married.

SPEAKER_09 32:48

You sure? I'm in a bond.

SPEAKER_06 32:50

But I always said the next old man that try to holler at me, I'm gonna get that for a 1k. You're gonna go for it? I'm gonna go for it. Okay. Okay. When I come up in here with my mink and my diamonds, I'm like, oh, okay. You're gonna know what time it is. Read that. When you see that, you know what time it is.

SPEAKER_09 33:08

You hit you hit a lick.

SPEAKER_06 33:10

I hit a lick.

SPEAKER_09 33:12

All right, here go mine. Like I said, back in the day. What was it? What? Let's see. What's the name of that station? BLS. What was WBLS. WBLS KISS FM? 98.7 Kiss FM. Yes. That was the other one. So this is what was playing on BLS. And this was at the same time that Billy Ocean was getting played. This is Tina Turner. 1984.

SPEAKER_06 33:41

Great, you ain't lying.

SPEAKER_09 33:44

My aunt. She was Tina Turner. She had this wig she would throw on while they was partying. Shout out to Aunt Maria. Tina Turner was so big at that time.

SPEAKER_06 34:11

She really was. She was the Beyoncé of that time.

SPEAKER_09 34:15

Of course.

SPEAKER_06 34:15

Yes, because she had like both. She had white people and black people about her music. I always thought she was from like across the water or something.

SPEAKER_09 34:23

Me too.

SPEAKER_06 34:27

She would do her little dance. This video played back. They'll play this back to back sometimes.

SPEAKER_09 34:35

Oh my god. Here we go.

SPEAKER_02 34:38

Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken? That was a good one.

SPEAKER_09 34:45

So that's Tina Turner. Was that 1984? Did I say 1984?

SPEAKER_06 34:50

1984?

SPEAKER_03 34:51

Wow.

SPEAKER_09 34:52

Yeah, 1984. I remember.

SPEAKER_06 34:54

I remember too. I could I could see her on the video.

SPEAKER_09 34:56

I can see my aunt in the video right now. I remember. I lived next door. We lived next door. So Christmas, we would hang out over at the house until all of us is falling asleep, and then they bring us home and do presents. So while we were up hanging out, they was partying. Partying, partying.

SPEAKER_02 35:17

She wore the little short skirt. Of course. Of course. The pumps.

SPEAKER_09 35:21

Oh, all of that. She'd come out there and doing a dancing between her and my mother, just dancing around. Shout out to them. I can see it now. It was the Bacardi on the table and the Pepsi bottle. They were, you know, mixed Picardi and Pepsi. That was a drink of choice. Those are the days. Those were the days. 84. Alright, what you got?

SPEAKER_06 35:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 35:51

Oh, I remember this.

SPEAKER_06 35:53

This song used to play so much. They really had one with this. 1987. Always. At Lenox Star.

SPEAKER_09 36:03

Yeah, this was a good one. This was a this is a ballad, right?

SPEAKER_06 36:08

They would play it, especially at night. Oh yeah. What you call the nighttime hour? The the love hour. They got a name for it. I can't think of it. The love hour.

SPEAKER_09 36:22

Midnight Love.

SPEAKER_06 36:23

Midnight Love.

SPEAKER_09 36:25

That's it. Girl, you are to me all that a woman should be in a cake by life. I done came up with it.

SPEAKER_02 36:39

What?

SPEAKER_09 36:39

You had a good, quiet house. And my house was the party house.

SPEAKER_06 36:44

I had a party house too, but I just remember these songs playing.

SPEAKER_09 36:49

This definitely was uh after it was out, I remember this being like infomercials, not like where they selling the albums.

SPEAKER_06 36:55

Yes.

SPEAKER_09 36:56

Uh-huh. In the commercial they had the credits.

SPEAKER_06 37:00

What was the name of that album? This is like a um like a wedding song. Oh yeah. No, my brother, you got to get your own.

SPEAKER_09 37:07

Oh, my brother, you gotta get your own. What was that? Midnight Love or Midnight Something. I got some of those too. You do? Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 37:15

Oh, you got the classic.

SPEAKER_09 37:17

Yeah, I got some of those. Dag. That's Atlantic Star.

SPEAKER_06 37:21

Atlantic Star, 1987.

SPEAKER_09 37:23

Any way.

SPEAKER_06 37:24

My little niece loved the song. I guess because they played it all the time, and she would always sing this. For real? Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_09 37:30

Alright, so this is gonna prove. So we're going down the list. And all my songs compared to your songs was like the house shaker. Like, there was drinks around. I don't know, it might have been drugs around. I just didn't see them yet. When I was a kid. I only seen the Bacardi.

SPEAKER_06 37:53

I only saw the drinks.

SPEAKER_09 37:54

Bacardi and Jack Daniels and Remy Martin. That was another thing. My dad used to drink Remy Martin all the time. Come on, man. This is loose ends, 1986. Slow it down.

SPEAKER_06 38:11

You went back with this one.

SPEAKER_09 38:17

I remember this playing and they just partying, chicken frying. The house is smoky. Because her mother smoked in the house. Everybody smoked in the house at that time.

SPEAKER_06 38:30

This was a joint back then.

SPEAKER_09 38:33

I remember seeing the record just sitting there by the turntable while I didn't think it was.

SPEAKER_06 38:38

It was the lady and two guys. One was light skinned, one was dark skinned.

SPEAKER_09 38:44

So my dad had all these records. All this stuff that I'm playing, it was on a record. Except the first one, the Bobby Blue Band, probably was an eight track.

SPEAKER_06 38:55

It could have been a 45 though.

SPEAKER_09 38:56

Yeah, it could have been. We didn't have too many 45s, but at my uncle's house. They had 45s there. Yep. Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_06 39:11

Slow down. I can't take the heat.

SPEAKER_09 39:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 39:14

That could have been on our show last week.

SPEAKER_09 39:16

It could. Yep. Slow down. Loose ends, 1986. God man, that's a you can play that now and put that in your little playlist. All the 80s stuff.

SPEAKER_06 39:32

My next song. It's kind of like a women's anthem.

SPEAKER_02 39:38

Bill Collectors at my door.

SPEAKER_09 39:40

Oh, you remember that?

SPEAKER_06 39:41

What can you do for me? When Guthrie.

unknown 39:48

What can you do for me?

SPEAKER_06 39:52

1986.

SPEAKER_09 39:56

This was in my house, too.

SPEAKER_06 39:57

Ain't nothing going on but the rent. She was dealing with a scrub.

SPEAKER_09 40:08

Why? Cause he ain't.

SPEAKER_06 40:10

Cause she had no money. Your pocket show look empty.

SPEAKER_09 40:15

A famous saying.

SPEAKER_06 40:18

Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.

SPEAKER_09 40:20

No, it was the other one. It was um. What was it about the rent?

SPEAKER_03 40:27

Nothing in life is free. That's why I'm asking you, what can you do for me? I've got responsibility.

SPEAKER_09 40:38

So yeah, ain't nothing going on but the rent.

SPEAKER_06 40:41

I'm looking for a man that got some money in his hand.

SPEAKER_03 40:46

Leave another.

SPEAKER_06 40:57

A black girl like me needs security. Somebody asked me what's going on. That's what I'm gonna say. You know what I mean? We got to have a J O B. If you ever wanna be with me.

SPEAKER_09 41:18

Here we go.

unknown 41:21

Come on. If you wanna be with me.

SPEAKER_06 41:23

That's right. Nothing going on.

SPEAKER_03 41:28

We got to have a K O B if you wanna be with me.

SPEAKER_06 41:33

No romance without finess.

SPEAKER_09 41:36

So I can I can remember my uncles and dancing around to this.

SPEAKER_06 41:42

I can remember my mother and my aunt dancing around to this too.

SPEAKER_09 41:45

They would. See, nowadays, guys don't dance to ladies' songs and ladies, right? Guys don't dance to ladies' songs.

SPEAKER_06 41:53

Because guys be too cool.

SPEAKER_09 41:55

They don't dance to no uh Beyoncé song. Now let's say drunk. You know why?

SPEAKER_06 42:00

Because women gonna look at them crazy. What are you dancing for?

SPEAKER_09 42:03

Oh, that's a little sassy. These ladies need to stop making songs like that.

SPEAKER_06 42:09

A fly girl like me. He's security.

SPEAKER_09 42:12

Alright, so like I said, my house is the party house. This definitely was played in the house. I'm telling you. And it's all big bands.

SPEAKER_08 42:35

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_09 42:39

This is 1981, slick rick, off a street songs album.

SPEAKER_02 42:46

When I came home last night, you wouldn't make love to me.

SPEAKER_09 42:52

And the name of song is Give It to Me, Baby.

SPEAKER_02 42:55

Fast asleep. You wouldn't even talk to me. You say, I'm so crazy. Oh, that was so crazy.

SPEAKER_07 43:07

Coming home intoxicated. I said, just wanna love you.

SPEAKER_02 43:12

I just wanna love you, brother.

SPEAKER_06 43:17

Oh give it to me, baby.

SPEAKER_09 43:20

Give it to me, baby.

SPEAKER_06 43:21

Rick is kind of um aggressive. Like, calm down, like he acting like he never had it before.

SPEAKER_09 43:29

He had a lot of it too, didn't he? I read James Patch.

SPEAKER_06 43:33

Give me that funk that sweet, that nasty. Say what? Yeah, that was a good one. Where's it at? Okay. Give it to me, Danny.

unknown 43:42

Give it to me.

SPEAKER_09 43:43

Let me see if I can find it.

unknown 43:46

Just give it to me.

SPEAKER_09 43:47

Here we go. Give it to me.

SPEAKER_07 43:48

Give me that stuff that funk that sweep that funk is stuff. Give it to me. Give me that stuff that funk that sweep that funk is stuff. Give it to me, give it to me. Give it to me. Give it to me.

SPEAKER_06 44:03

I see why she went fast asleep. Why? Because he was drunk. He thought it was high. She was like, I'm not dealing with him tonight.

SPEAKER_04 44:11

And he all the time, give it to me. Man, get off my shoulder. You wouldn't make love to me. Talk about you with fast asleep.

unknown 44:21

Come on, baby.

SPEAKER_06 44:22

You wouldn't even talk to me.

SPEAKER_09 44:25

Classic.

SPEAKER_06 44:26

Classic.

SPEAKER_09 44:27

Classic.

SPEAKER_06 44:27

That was a good one.

SPEAKER_09 44:28

Party house. That's a party song. Like that's.

SPEAKER_06 44:31

I should have lived on your block. Your block had it going on.

SPEAKER_09 44:35

Man, every weekend, it was either they was at my house, my aunt's house, or my uncle's house, great uncle's house. Every weekend.

SPEAKER_06 44:48

And they was not celebrating nothing. They just was together, having fun together.

SPEAKER_09 44:53

Every single weekend. Yeah. And I used to be on punishment a lot.

SPEAKER_06 44:56

It was a bad job.

SPEAKER_09 44:57

Yeah. So I used to be on punishment. But hey. They was at the party, so we we had the party, so I'm not on punishment right now. This is it.

SPEAKER_06 45:07

Oh my God.

SPEAKER_04 45:09

I'm outside. I'm playing, playing with other cousins. So you was glad they was having a party.

SPEAKER_09 45:13

What? They forget about it. They ain't worried about no punishment. They party and they still had a little drinky drinks.

SPEAKER_06 45:19

They wasn't thinking about you.

SPEAKER_09 45:20

No punishment. Oh yeah. No watching TV. Okay, cool. Y'all go back in the room, watch TV.

SPEAKER_06 45:26

Yeah, that's exactly what they did.

SPEAKER_09 45:28

Boom. Guess what?

SPEAKER_06 45:30

Y'all go in the room and play.

SPEAKER_09 45:31

Yep. We we in the back room playing. Oh, I could watch TV? Good. It wasn't nothing on TV, but you know.

SPEAKER_06 45:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 45:40

Cause you know, those.

SPEAKER_06 45:42

It's just the fact that they told you you couldn't do it.

SPEAKER_09 45:45

There was you might catch wrestling. Wrestling used to come on 12 o'clock at night. Nah, this was no, I'm sorry, not 12, 11. It was uh whatever wrestling, WWF used wrong.

SPEAKER_06 45:59

Oh, Star Trek. I remember Star Trek used to come on.

SPEAKER_09 46:01

Oh, I hate that. I hate Star Trek.

SPEAKER_06 46:03

You don't like Star Trek?

SPEAKER_09 46:04

Nah, not when I was that age.

SPEAKER_06 46:06

It's pretty good if you watch it.

SPEAKER_09 46:09

Channel 7 used to play like old movies at night.

SPEAKER_06 46:13

Western movies?

SPEAKER_09 46:14

Nope. Like uh it'd be like an old, old movie for back then.

SPEAKER_06 46:20

Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_09 46:21

So, what you got? Good old days. Yes, definitely the good old days.

SPEAKER_06 46:24

My next one, this was a hit, like an insta class. Lisa Lisa in the cult jam. She definitely could have made Wanda if I take you home.

SPEAKER_09 46:33

She could have made the crushless.

SPEAKER_06 46:36

I don't know why you liked it too. Why not?

SPEAKER_09 46:40

Sure, brush him up against me.

SPEAKER_06 46:45

Exactly.

SPEAKER_09 46:52

So this is Lisa Lisa Coat Jam 1985. With full force.

SPEAKER_03 47:07

Because I'm not too sure about how you feel.

unknown 47:11

So I'd rather go with Michael Face.

SPEAKER_09 47:13

Shout out to uh don't go to his place. Shout out to Michael Hughes. Um we get together. I talk to him every once in a while on Facebook. He's also a member of this group.

SPEAKER_02 47:25

Over real?

SPEAKER_09 47:26

Mm-hmm.

unknown 47:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 47:28

And uh shout out to Paul from Full Force. Staff.

SPEAKER_06 47:34

I just heard a little story. She said she was at was it the Benetton store, the Gap store? One of those stores. Folding Shirts. And her song came on the radio. And she said she was going crazy in there.

SPEAKER_09 47:47

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_06 47:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 47:48

I just watched the. So they made a documentary song, um, a document documentary movie. What do they call them? Biopic?

SPEAKER_08 47:57

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_09 47:57

A biopic of Lisa Lisa Coach. Okay. A lot of people was mad at a lot of the stuff they left out. Like they left out full force.

SPEAKER_06 48:07

When they was a big part of her.

SPEAKER_09 48:09

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 48:10

Because I they probably wrote this song.

SPEAKER_09 48:12

Yeah, I think they did. I think they did. And full force, their father is a super like he he molded a lot of people. He was the one that used to give vocal coaches to MC Light. Like she he showed them how to talk and how to rap, you know. And now look, shoot, MC Light's still doing it.

SPEAKER_06 48:36

She does voiceovers for everything.

SPEAKER_09 48:38

Yep. It's a little harsh, but you know, that harsh voice.

SPEAKER_06 48:43

I don't think so. Why do you think she has a harsh voice? I don't know.

SPEAKER_09 48:46

It's just something.

SPEAKER_06 48:47

It just seems like professional to me.

SPEAKER_09 48:50

It's too, it's too low. It's coming from too low.

SPEAKER_06 48:54

You don't like nothing.

SPEAKER_09 48:55

I do like something. I like Lisa Lisa. Shoot. That video, she had a pink. Uh thank you, Alexa. She had that pink uh crop top thing with the hair over the eye with the headband. White headband. Come on.

SPEAKER_06 49:12

And you was like, oh yes, Lisa.

SPEAKER_09 49:14

Do they got slow motion on this video?

SPEAKER_06 49:16

She probably had a bodysuit on. I could see her with a bodysuit on because all you can see is her chest. And I was a girl in noticing, so I know the guys was looking. Shout out, Lisa Lisa.

SPEAKER_09 49:29

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 49:32

I wonder if I take you home.

SPEAKER_09 49:34

Alright. Once again.

SPEAKER_06 49:39

Is that the party house?

SPEAKER_09 49:40

Party house. My grandfather.

SPEAKER_03 49:44

Party over here.

SPEAKER_09 49:45

Call this man uh slick dick one time. He was called he was talking about slick Rick, but they would talk about Rick James at the time. Dance with me. 1982, Rick James. The album's called Throwing Down. You ready?

SPEAKER_07 50:17

Girl, you're looking fine. And I wonder can you spare a moment of a precious time?

SPEAKER_04 50:27

Do you hear?

SPEAKER_09 50:28

Listen.

unknown 50:30

I really would not.

SPEAKER_09 50:31

Anything you had all those instruments in the background playing, my dad was playing to the loudest. And then he would break out. A harmonica, one of his trumpets, all of the stuff. He's everybody trying to dance and run out and he playing it. If you play this now at the house, a little saucy. And you just let the harmonica sit right there on the table. I can pick it up and play it.

SPEAKER_06 51:01

Shake it up. Shake it up, baby.

unknown 51:05

Shake it up.

SPEAKER_09 51:06

1982. Rick James.

SPEAKER_06 51:09

Rick James says, shake your body all over me, woman.

SPEAKER_09 51:13

This was a club song. Classic. Rick James was it back then.

SPEAKER_06 51:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 51:17

They don't know how. It ain't just super freak and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_06 51:22

Because I used to love, what's the song? Mary Jane. I used to play that song out.

SPEAKER_09 51:28

Yep.

SPEAKER_06 51:29

And I was older and didn't realize what he was talking about. But when I was playing it, I didn't realize. I thought he was talking about a woman.

SPEAKER_09 51:37

I think that same album that Mary Jane was on, he had a song called 17.

SPEAKER_06 51:41

Mm-hmm. She was only 17. 17, but she was sexy. Come on, man. Now why he singing that?

SPEAKER_09 51:50

Because he was gonna try it out.

SPEAKER_06 51:52

He probably did try it out.

SPEAKER_09 51:53

He did try it out.

SPEAKER_06 51:54

He said he had some crazy parties.

SPEAKER_09 51:56

Yeah, they shoot. Last time he got locked up, he had a girl chained up in the basement.

SPEAKER_06 52:01

Shake it up.

SPEAKER_09 52:03

So that was uh Rick James 1982 album is Throwdown, and the name of the song is Dance With Me. Dance With Me.

SPEAKER_06 52:14

Shake your body all over me, woman.

SPEAKER_09 52:18

Party. Party, party, party. That's I'm not even the songs and stuff I'm bringing up are not even like songs from like my younger brothers, my older brothers and my uncles and stuff like that. I didn't even get to go to those. So we had to probably do a part two. A part two to this.

SPEAKER_06 52:36

Because it's a lot of rap songs, too.

SPEAKER_09 52:38

Yeah, that we didn't even get to I didn't even do no rap songs. I had one and I took it off the list. Like this is my this is your last one, right? Yeah, this is your last one.

SPEAKER_06 52:47

This is my last one.

SPEAKER_09 52:48

So this is your last one, and we none of us did a rap song. That's crazy, right?

SPEAKER_06 52:53

Yeah, it is crazy. I think because at that time they had rap songs, but it wasn't as big as it is now. Yeah, yeah. So it was more RB stuff, more pop stuff that you yeah, you're right. Because it's a lot of it's a lot of pop songs too that I could um write down. Oh yeah. Um that Boy George. Oh yeah. Um George Michael.

SPEAKER_09 53:18

Wham.

SPEAKER_06 53:19

Wham. It's a lot of dang.

SPEAKER_09 53:21

Don't say no more. Okay, okay. We're gonna do a part two. You're gonna have to do a part two.

SPEAKER_06 53:24

You're gonna do a part two.

SPEAKER_09 53:25

Part two to this.

SPEAKER_06 53:26

Um my last one.

SPEAKER_09 53:29

What you got?

SPEAKER_06 53:30

This is a party song. This is gonna make you get up and dance. 1983. Let me get up. Encore by Cheryl Lynn.

SPEAKER_09 54:24

Do you hear that? Do you hear that? That was definitely at my house, too.

SPEAKER_06 54:28

Yes, I don't know where it was.

SPEAKER_09 54:29

I didn't I remember the album cover sitting, you know, the albums would be laying around.

SPEAKER_06 54:34

I can't remember the album cover, but I remember my brother playing it and mixing it with other stuff. Because he had his little turntables and he would play this and mix it up. Yeah. Something else, yeah. Dang.

unknown 54:49

Going to a show tonight. Do it being talked 95.

SPEAKER_09 54:56

Come on, man. This definitely easily could have made my list, too. You know what? I should I should have taken one of my Rick James out and put this there.

SPEAKER_06 55:06

Oh, your two Rick Jameses was good.

SPEAKER_09 55:09

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_06 55:11

All right. I wanna see you tonight. Yeah, this is a jam. Okay. I would listen to this now.

SPEAKER_09 55:18

What year was that?

SPEAKER_06 55:20

That is 1983.

SPEAKER_09 55:22

Dag. 83.

SPEAKER_06 55:23

83.

SPEAKER_09 55:25

They still play this. They still play this song. You know how many songs 20 years from now that are not gonna be played no more? Uh a lot. We're still gonna be playing this. Give me one song that you can see not gonna be in 20 years.

SPEAKER_06 55:48

You put me on the spot.

SPEAKER_09 55:49

My booty hole brown. What's that one?

SPEAKER_06 55:52

Sexy Red? Sexy Red. None of her stuff gonna be played.

SPEAKER_09 55:56

A hundred dollar bet that not one song from now is gonna be played.

SPEAKER_06 56:01

What's my homegirl? Cardi B and Megan the Stallion. Their little song.

SPEAKER_09 56:05

Uh WAP. WAP?

SPEAKER_06 56:07

I doubt if they play WAP.

SPEAKER_09 56:08

Yeah, that ain't gonna get played. It depends on the beat. I gotta, I gotta hear the beat.

SPEAKER_06 56:14

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_09 56:16

It's definitely not gonna be a smash. It's not gonna be a S.

SPEAKER_06 56:19

It's not gonna, it's not a classic.

SPEAKER_09 56:21

It's definitely not gonna be at a barbecue.

SPEAKER_06 56:23

Yeah, it's definitely not. Definitely not.

SPEAKER_09 56:29

The WAP. Alright. Here we go. I don't know the name of this. I don't know this guy's name. I'm gonna let you pronounce it because I know his name is Cash. Let me see. Kashif.

SPEAKER_06 56:48

Kashef.

SPEAKER_09 56:48

Kashef. Boom. There you go. I knew you had it in you. Kashef. But you're not gonna know the name, but when you hear the song, you'd be like, he might know the name.

SPEAKER_06 56:59

Because he had a lot of joints back then.

SPEAKER_09 57:01

He did. Oh man, I don't know the year of this one. Dag, this probably was 83. I don't have the name of this one. I don't have the the name of the song is Just Gotta Have You. Oh, you you in the back. Uh anything with a bass, uh instruments, stethosonics, what they call those things? Those pianos, if that was in it. I don't know what you have uh electrosonic, stephasonic, step what they call it stetsonic. No, that's the group. That's the group. Symph synthesize, whatever.

SPEAKER_06 58:02

Yeah, I ain't heard this song in forever.

SPEAKER_09 58:06

I just want to get up to the girl part, and I'm gonna shut mine off. Let's see.

SPEAKER_02 58:13

Don't give me some comfort.

SPEAKER_09 58:16

Oh man. Here we go. I think it's it. Now, if you're listening to this and you're so used to us talking about rap music and Jay-Z, you might not relate to this. But uh nigga households.

SPEAKER_06 58:57

No, I think people who love music, they love all music. They don't just love one type of music.

SPEAKER_09 59:03

You might be right.

SPEAKER_06 59:05

People who love music, they just love music. It don't matter what it is.

SPEAKER_09 59:08

Yeah, you might be right. I'm gonna go with you on that one.

SPEAKER_06 59:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 59:12

All right. Give me one more honor. Give me an honorable mention.

SPEAKER_06 59:15

I got an honorable mention, and I know everybody knows this song.

SPEAKER_09 59:18

Let's see.

SPEAKER_04 59:19

I I I saw it and I was like, I know that album.

SPEAKER_06 59:25

1986.

SPEAKER_09 59:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 59:27

The group is New Shoes. The song is I Can't Wait. They played this on the radio like crazy.

SPEAKER_09 59:34

Oh, yeah. This even made it to a breakdown.

SPEAKER_06 59:38

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_09 59:46

It was playing this at the end.

SPEAKER_06 59:48

Yeah. Yeah. And this is a white fruit.

SPEAKER_09 59:54

What? My mind is blown. That's the synthesizer. Right there. You hear that? Computery? That's synthesizer. See? I got it right there.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:13

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_08 1:00:24

Tell me who they're told.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:27

Yeah, they are white. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:00:30

You are so good.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:34

And we took this song and ran with it.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:36

They jamming though.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:37

They jamming. And it probably came from London.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:41

Probably. They pop across the water.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:43

Do they have any other songs? I don't even know.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:46

I wonder. Let me see.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:48

I think they do though.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:51

Let's see. Uh let's see. I I got one up here, but I think I think it's a a famous one.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:10

I think point of an overturn.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:12

Yeah, that's what that is.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:13

This is what this is?

SPEAKER_09 1:01:19

Uh, didn't make it to my house. Not that one. Alright, I got an honorable mention. And my brothers. And my my brother and my uncle. My brothers and my uncle are around the same age. Like they hang hung out together. But when they would get like they would come in the house and they really go out and they get getting dressed to go out. My brother, he would pay play stuff like this. This is Shelly Thunder, Koof.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:04

Sometime my man forget coof again, coof again, cool. Sometime my man figure and coof again, coof again. That's a classic. Maria manan named from last month in my one like him to you.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:17

Shelly Thunder. Coof.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:19

Coof.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:20

The Jamaican music.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:22

Yeah, my brother used to listen to that. And he had a Puerto Rican girlfriend. So he would listen to they call it house music back then.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:31

Because it's just Spanish music.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:32

Nah, what's that stuff they played on KTU? It was it was considered house. No, no, no. It was considered freestyle music. You know what I'm talking about?

SPEAKER_06 1:02:53

I can remember like Spanish people on the block having their parties and have their little Spanish music clan and you'll do your little dance to their music. Is that what you're talking about?

SPEAKER_09 1:03:05

Nah, it's uh let me see if I can find something real quick. I'm searching real quick. Hold on. Well, tell them where you can find us uh while I'm doing this.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:17

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SPEAKER_09 1:03:26

Every Thursday, yep, yep, yep.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:27

You show every Thursday.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:28

You ready? I'm ready. This was a famous person too. Stevie B. Freestyle. This was like freestyle back in the day. Like, what's called fall under this category? Lisa Lisa.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:47

I would see like Italians listening to this kind of music.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:51

Yeah, they started listening to it like I guess when it was out. Yeah. Italians in New York, yeah. Yep, freestyle music. Yep, so they called it freestyle. Um Higgle, Higgle, a super famous one. Italians and Puerto Ricans. Yep, so that's what my brother used to listen to. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:32

And they call it freestyle music?

SPEAKER_09 1:04:34

Yeah, freestyle. Okay. Freestyle.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:37

I don't know what I would consider this.

SPEAKER_09 1:04:40

Yeah, it it made its own. It's just like how regular.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:43

It's kind of like I wouldn't call it house music, I would call it club music.

SPEAKER_09 1:04:46

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:47

Yeah, like just club music. Club music and house music is two different things to me.

SPEAKER_09 1:04:51

When KTU first came out, that's a station in New York. Um, when that can first came out, that's all they used to play.

unknown 1:04:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:00

High 97 used to only play house music. Well, freestyle. They switched over. Yeah. Yep. All right. So uh I'm done.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:11

Okay. That was a good show.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:13

We had some good ones. That was yeah, pretty good episode.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:16

Make me want to go listen to some Rick James. Rick James, bitch.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:20

I'm Rick James, bitch. All right. Well, um I'm gonna send us out of here, I guess.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:27

I guess so.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:29

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SPEAKER_06 1:05:33

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SPEAKER_09 1:05:34

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SPEAKER_05 1:06:06

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