Annnd as DLT90s gets closer and closer to its one-year anniversary (June 1st, mark it down), I introduce another lil’ feature I plan to do more of in the future: DanjLovesTheAlbums. Of course, there’s some ’90s albums that I’ve already covered in depth, and there’ll be be more. DLTAlbums will be for some of the others that made me tick during the decade, and whether or not I still feel the same way about ‘em today as I did then.
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“Where else can you see three White women fight over a nigga with one tooth?”- Paul Mooney
Back in ’97 after I graduated high school, there were few things I enjoyed more while wasting my afternoons than watchin’ The Jerry Springer Show. Back when pop culture as a whole was reveling in crude humor, sex, and violence more than ever, Jerry and his crazy-ass guests brought it every afternoon at 3 p.m. If you wanted to watch two lesbians tongue each other down while their boyfriends slugged it out, this was the show to watch.
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Annnd welcome to your favorite site and mine, DanjLovesThe90s- where we provide nothin’ but the absolute latest in ’90s shit.
Sometimes, the term “one hit wonder” is a lil’ polarizing. In some cases, it doesn’t necessarily mean the artist had nothing else to offer, it simply means the people didn’t accept it like they did that one in particular. Take for instance, some of today’s entries. Not to say any of their other stuff is as notable as their hit single was (although in one case, the artist’s other endeavors were WAY more notable than her music), but I’m just sayin’…
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Not the first news I expected to see this morning. Keith Elam, aka Guru has passed away after a battle with cancer at age 47. He was expected to make a full recovery about a month ago after going through surgery, but ultimately, he died yesterday morning. Big respect to this man, who was best known as the voice of GangStarr from 1989 to 2004, and for his own Jazzmatazz series. Regardless of any bullshit that someone’s been shoveling in the wake of his passing, hip-hop has lost another of its most dedicated. This is in memory of…
GangStarr “Step In The Arena” (1990)
Guru feat. N’dea Davenport “Trust Me” (1993)
Group Home feat. Guru “Serious Rap Shit” (1995)
Guru feat. Chaka Khan “Watch What You Say” (1995)
GangStarr “In Memory Of…” (1998)
-D!
(PREVIOUSLY: The Chain & The Star)
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16 years ago today… hip-hop gained another classic. I don’t mean “classic” like “millions of people bought it and played it to death, then forgot all about it”, I mean “classic” like… well, just keep readin’.
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…what’d YOU think this was gonna be about? PAUSE for the cause. Come on now- it’s still New Jack Week, and I can blog about a lotta stuff, but I doubt I’ll ever be doin’ an entry on… THAT.
Back when I was a youngsta listening to the radio, I filled up many a Memorex with New Jack Swing hits between 1988 and ’92. I can’t dance for jackshit now, but I was doin’ my best back then, although I could never get that Bobby Brown “My Prerogative” move quite right. I was also never gonna get a Gumby fade or blonde streaks or any of that craziness. Even without the crazy hair, and even when I was also crankin’ that Guns ‘N’ Roses somethin’ hard, I was all in with the NJS.
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Aiight, so… maybe I’m a bigger New Jack City fan than y’all, eh? HA! In other news, New Jack Week keeps it movin’. Most of the time on this site, I throw in my own opinions along with some facts about the subjects of my entries. In other cases, I just try to stick to the history and leave it there. That said, this is how it went down with a label that played a big part in the New Jack era, Uptown Records.
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Annnd here it is… the long-delayed New Jack Week right here on DanjLovesThe90s, which I’ve been thinkin’ about doing for a good six months or so. Quiet as kept (or maybe not so much), I’m a fanatic of the New Jack Swing era in R&B, as it was the dominant sound/style of the late-’80s and early-’90s when I was still a kid. I’ve also been sittin’ on this entry for a minute, because I wanted to drop it once I finally did New Jack Week, as it’s probably the movie that most represents that time period.
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Peeps think because I’m old school , I want 2 hear old school artists making music. HA! I DON’T. I want the new artists 2 make better music.- D-Nice
If I’ve given any of y’all the impression that I listen to old music all the time and rarely get into the new joints… you’re about 90% right. But it’s not because I haven’t been listenin’ for some great newness- I just haven’t heard any. Even when I was just shootin’ the shit on message boards, my credo has always been the same. I love all that old shit, but I was already there for the good ol’ days. I wanna see some great new days. At the same time, I can’t trick myself into thinking most of these so-called “hot” new niggas ain’t weak as water. I don’t knock the youngins for likin’ what they like- but on a personal level, shit just ain’t for me. The radio joints, the “underground” joints, the internet joints- to hell wit’ em.
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When I first heard of Outkast, it was early 1994 and I was thumbing through a magazine, when I saw an ad for their single “Players Ball”. My first thought was “a rap group on LaFace Records?” I didn’t think much more of them until the video started playing on TV and really started taking off. This was still during a time when there weren’t many rappers from Atlanta, but I liked their style. I’d later hear them freestyling over a Black Moon instrumental on the “Strictly Hip-Hop” show on Morgan State’s 88.9 (which I actually might still have on tape somewhere). As ’94 went on, with a LOT of music to choose from, I was a lil’ slow to pick up their debut album, Southernplayalisticadillacmusik.
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