Artist Lounge: Rick James
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OH YEEEEEEEEAH!!!! I love this song yall! This is Rick James with Ghetto Life from his classic 1981 LP Street Songs. I was way too young for this music back in the day. I do remember Rick James being spinned heavily. Street Songs has two classic tracks that have been sampled several SEVERAL! times since 1981: Give It To Me Baby and Super Freak. 25 years later in 2006 Ghetto Life would be sampled by rapper Busta Rhymes for the song In The Ghetto fo... MORE
I've been listening to this song on and off today. It's just an awesome, awesome song. Me and Mary Jane don't hang out, but even I can appreciate how awesome this song is.
Did I mention it's awesome?
Unfortunately I don't have an embed link. You can listen to it here at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhreCLlcq3Q
Spinner came out with a list of 25 best opening lines. It's a pretty pop oriented list—"Superfreak"'s "She's a very kinky girl" ranked #1, which is debatable, but I'm mildly annoyed by the inclusion of "Buddy Holly" and "In da Club" over some more obscure, but better opening lines. My fanatic love of Wire leads me to be partial to "Our own correspondent is sorry to tell, of an uneasy time, that all is not well" from "Reuters," and what about "I'm a street walking cheetah w... MORE
So, I was listening to Rick James (not just now, before) and wondering, how do people on MOG feel about bud? Who's for, who's against? Why? Let's discuss, I love discussion. As for me, I am a happy smoker, infrequent (due to lack of fundage), but when I get it, I enjoy it. Some of my greatest memories have come about with the help of m.j. (How I remembered them, I have no clue, but se la vie). Still, I know that weed means death to anything you might have wanted to get d... MORE







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