C+C Music Factory

Released: August 9, 1994

Featuring: Kulcha Don El General (Panama)

Songwriter: Robert Clivillés Duran Ramos

Producer: Clivillés & Cole

I'll take you higher, higher
I'll take you higher, higher
I'll take you higher, higher
I'll take you higher, higher

Take a toke slow or you might choke
I got the best love you ever smoked
Take a toke but baby it's no joke
So strong it will make you choke

Spark up the love you need in me, in me
Roll it up tight lightly
And don't let any fall down
Get rid of the slight debris between you and me
'Cause we don't need any bad seeds

Cause all of my life, baby
I've been living kinda trife, sugar
No one to guide me through and
Day and night without a clue
And I really need someone
To point me in the right direction
Swing my way, parley parley
Prove my point that I am the joint

Take a toke slow or you might choke
I got the best love you ever smoked
Take a toke but baby it's no joke
So strong it'll make you choke

There's no need to try to front on you, on you
I'd rather be... blunt
This much is true
Slide to the room, let's hit the boom, babe
So supersonic once you get to taste the chronic
More than you'll ever need

You ignite me and I'll ignite you
And once all the sheets burn, baby
I've got some more bambu
And when the smoke clears
Lady, still my eyes focus on you
Huff-n-puff some of my funk stuff
Prove my point that I am the joint
You know I'm the joint

Take a toke slow or you might choke
I got the best love you ever smoked
Take a toke but baby it's no joke
So strong it'll make you choke

I like it
I love it
I need it
I want it
Got to have it

Take a toke but baby it's no joke
So strong it'll make you choke
Take a toke slow or you might choke
I got the best love you ever smoked

David Cole and Robert Civilles met while both working at a New York underground club. Before forming C & C Music Factory, they were primarily remixers, co-writers, producers and artist managers – having worked with Mariah Carey, Chaka Khan, Fleetwood Mac, Grace Jones, Seduction and others.

Cole & Civilles decided to launch their own music project with an ever-changing cast of vocalists. When an artist they were managing turned down the song “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)”, the duo decided to use it as their first single. They recruited a janitor from Quad Recording Studio who was learning to become an assistant engineer named Freedom Williams to perform the raps, and hired ex-Weather Girls singer Martha Wash for the female vocals – but credited them to Zelma Davis. Davis also appeared in the song’s video. Wash later sued for being uncredited in the song and its video.

The song became an international smash, reaching the top 5 in nine countries (taking the top position in five of them). Their debut album was released a month after the single and it reached #2 in the US, #8 in the UK and the top 30 in six other countries.

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From the albums

Anything Goes! (1994)
Quatro Por Quatro: Internacional (1995)

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