Armand Van Helden

Released: June 19, 2000

Featuring: Common

Songwriter: Armand Van Helden Common James Bedford

Intro:
Freak freak y'all
And you don't, don't stop
Keep on y'all
And you don't, don't stop
(repeat 4 times)

Follow me like one time
Everybody love me like they do the sunshine
Niggas just got off work
Time to unwind
Strobelight smokin thick (??? ???)
Got my mind made up
All night I'mma stay up and fuck a lot
But nah, I ain't a playa
Girl I'll house you
You in my hut
Thinkin of a rhyme trying to hold my nut
Armand on the cut Com Sense MC
Baby put that ass in the air where I can see
Feel free feel good
You ain't in the club trying to find a real love
I spill dubs on Heiny's and tequila shots
Where studs and chicks pee in the same spot
It's hot as hell
Freakshow on the dance floor Is that you I smell?
I'mma give that ass room
Better yet, let's fuck in the bathroom
If we have room it's a full moon

Chorus:
It's a full moon out tonight
Party people here just feel alright
The place is packed and the mood is right
Now have a good time y'all
A good time y'all
I know y'all niggas ain't come here to fight
Ain't nothin but love so don't be uptight
Black Latin Asian and White
(repeat)

There's some hoes in this house
It's thick like them hoes from the south
Toothpick froze in my mouth
Y'all chicks don't know what I'm about
I did "Retropsect For Life"
They think I got a wife
But I got style to mine
So I dog 'em like Phife or Snoop
Already boned 3 out the group with my crew I rock steady like the park
I hear foot steps in the dark
From them househeads
Dancin in the circle in the house like curfew
To work you to the bone
Old school cuts get me in a zone
In the line I get restless
I'm straight I'm on the guestlist
The red light specialist
Love is the message
From B-Boy to raver expressions
I get open like the bar at the rap sessions
Diggin in the crate with Armand
The phenomenon
Com think faster than a Muslim doing Ramadan
I'm a wand
In otherwords I'm wildin'
It's a full moon and peoples is howlin

Chorus
(repeat 2 times)

Chicago rock the house and
New York rock the house and
DC rock the house and
London rock the house and
Australia rock the house and
Europe You gotta rock the house and
Party People rock the house and
Japan rock the house and
New York rock the house and
Chicago rock the house and
Atlanta rock the house and
Detroit rock the house and
Cali rock the house and
Texas rock the house and
Alabama rock the house and
Black man rock the house and
Go on

Armand van Helden originally hails from Cambridge, MA, USA, just outside of Boston. His early days were spent following his military father to various countries but by the age of 1983, at the age of 13, he was living in Cambridge and, a hip-hop fan, had already gotten his first drum machine. Most sources agree that he first got turntables at the age of 18 and soon after finishing college he quit his job as a legal reviewer to take over promotions and work as one of the resident DJ’s at the now famous Loft.

According to interviews, he did not like house when he first heard it; later he was taken to a very underground house club night and, hearing the music in it’s proper environment, fell in love with it. His very first production jobs were uncredited remixes for a “For Professional DJ’s Only” label (that I do not name because I go there for top secret FIRE, sorry!) and a few under one of his many aliases, such as the Mole People, so named, likely, after the underground novel popularly describing people living under the streets of new york city.

His first big hit, credited to his name, was Witch Doktor, followed shortly there after by Funk Phenomena, both of which are still popular to this day; recall it was only a few years past that Todd Terry and then the Jungle Brothers added the hip hop polyrhtyms to house, making it what we know today and van Helden added a “ninja-like” mid-high secondary rhythm and melody (or even a canticle!) making a richer, fuller, hip-house sound that House Music is known for today. While it is arguably not his best remix (or perhaps isn’t a remix but actually an original song with a lot of sampling) van Helden became a global phenomena in 1995 with Professional Widow (originally by Tori Amos and for which he was paid only about $10,000); this song is generally accepted to have started the garage/speed garage genres so popular in the 2nd half of the 90’s.

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