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#Top10HipHopLoveSongs #5 LL Cool J feat Boys 2 Men…
#Top10HipHopLoveSongs #5
LL Cool J feat Boys 2 Men “Hey Lover”
This is an epic tail of a guy seeing that gal & giving chase only to find out they haven’t even met or spoken to each other. This song was the #BluePrint for every dude who ever wanted to talk to “her”, but couldn’t muster up the courage. Oh boy, have I been that “dude” so many times 😩😫….
Speaking of #BluePrint this song was the first of its kind, then about 10yrs later the concept was redone by S Dot Carter on “Excuse Me Miss” heard on #BluePrint2, which almost made the list, and still might. Not all the way done yet.
LL had it going in this one with the ultimate story telling setting the tone; “It was Harlem at the Rucker, I seen ya with ya man”. Then, “they caught eyes for minute and that was that”. He just knew he was gonna take her from her man that “was his mission”. Hatin ass LL just couldn’t take the loss lol. Talkin about, her man “drank too much and smoked too many blunts”, #hater lol…
Randomly he saw her other places like in the mall on the “pay phone about to make a call” (ha old school), damned near seemed like lightweight stalking by the Queens MC.
But at the end he completely bodied it by saying all the things he wanted to do like “tongue her down with French vanilla ice cream” and take her to “distant lands” was, and I quote, “a fantasy that won’t come true, we never even spoke and ya man swear he love you”. So, he kept all his feelings inside and kept his dream alive until the right time.
***Cue Boys 2 Men for the sultry hook*****
“This is more than a crush”
Read more#Top10HipHopLoveSongs #4 Right after I graduated from…
#Top10HipHopLoveSongs #4
Right after I graduated from high school in 1999 the Mighty Mos Def released this hood misguided love story, Ms Fat Booty.
Before he new her name, he “asked her to dance and she was like, yo I’m leaving now”. She knew the homie though, so Mos finally got to meet Sharisse.
But, after “weeks of dating, late night conversation in the crib heart racing trying to be cool and patient”, he finally realized the energy flipped and it didn’t look like they was gone make it.
Time passed and “3 months she call, I feel I’m runnin a fever, 6 months Im tellin her I desperately need her, 9 months flu like symptoms when she not around, I need more than to knock it down, I’m really tryin to lock her down”
I guess he was sick with love, eh!?
Mos was honest, told her what he wanted. She told him “commitment was something she can’t manage” then he saw her at the shake club “with some bangin ass Asian playin lay it down and lick me up.”
Moral of the story; expectations are wack, just let it shit flow organically. And, if the “ass is so fat you can see it from the front” be careful.
But like the sample says “You’re breath on my shoulder keeps reminding me, that’s it’s too soon to forget you. It’s too late to be free can’t you see…. One step ahead is a step too far away, from you….”
Read moreComing in at #3 for my #Top10HipHopLoveSongs is Pharcyde with…
Coming in at #3 for my #Top10HipHopLoveSongs is Pharcyde with “She Said”
Most want agree and would say “She Keeps On Passing Me By” is a better love record, but not I. This joint produced by Dilla goes too hard.
1st verse was random but Fat Lip saves the day in verse 2 with word play and painting a picture of a night on the town solo that reminds me of my nights alone on solo missions as he “bounced to House of Blues and slid in free with tennis shoes, sweatshirt jeans and no I.D”
Then he see’s her…. Let the word play flow “so i commence to mackin to baby to see what’s crackin maybe get her back to the cabin and start attackin. Threw back a shot of yack and started jabberin, jibbin, fibbin, and ad libbin just to get her to my crib and”….
Fat Lip’s failed attempts to get to the promise land and still let her stay was oh so real. Crazy how she told him “Oh like that!? You know I don’t get down” (ha been there before)
Then Slim Kid brings it home with the melody and “dances with the silhouette’s beneath the moon”
So whenever that girl says “it’d be good if you stay with me tonight” just make sure you grant her the wish!
Read more#Top10HipHopLoveSongs #2 Jay Z’s “Song Cry” …
#Top10HipHopLoveSongs #2
Jay Z’s “Song Cry” :::
I may never be able to “book 1st class to change the forecast” for me and my lady. But, this hustler’s recollection of the one who got away painted the picture of rags to riches, and losing your love vividly. I’m saying though, we “know the way he was living was wack, but you don’t get a n***a back like that”
Who didn’t see the sincerity in Hov during Unplugged when Jaguar Wright was killing the vocals and The Roots mashed up “I Need Love”!?
Then there was the hook, “I can’t see em’ comin down my eyes, so I gotta make the song cry”
The part that resonated with me the most was “They say you can’t turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls gone bad, she’s gone forever, I’ll mourn forever. Shit, I gotta live with the fact, I did you wrong forever” 😩😩😩 (been there and it makes me feel like sh** still to this day)
Damn…… “It’s f**ked up girl”
Read moreListening to #SwayInTheMorning I was inspired to do my personal…
Listening to #SwayInTheMorning I was inspired to do my personal #Top10HipHopLoveSongs the criteria is production, content, story telling ability, and how “real” it is.
Coming in at #1 The Roots “Silent Treatment”, this was a song about Amina, height 5’7, caramel complected and a body like heaven. She alluded the brother Black Thought all through out this song and I felt his pain, “she knew what he wanted but she fronted”.
But it was an excerpt of the 3rd verse that captivated me to the upmost when Thought commences to say:
“I puff an El on fifty deuce while I walk in the rain
Heart feelin killa pain while I hop the train
Dial her number to the rest, and ain’t no messages left
Regardless, my chest thumps from stress, yo it’s a mess
I don’t know what I got to do to make you understand
I’m for real and that’s no question, no frontin or no guessin”
This joint can be found on the Roots second album “Do You Want More!!?!!?”
So to all the gals that ever gave me the Silent Treatment to you, I say;
“Girl you know you need to Stooooop, giving me the silent, treatment baybeeeeee….. Can’t you see what you mean to me!?!? I wanna love you constantly but you keep neglecting me, and treating me silently, Silently…… SilentlyEeeeeee” *cue the horns*
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