Jodeci

Released: December 21, 1993

Featuring: Timbaland

Songwriter: DeVante Swing Timbaland James Brown John “Jabo” Starks Fred Wesley

Producer: DeVante Swing

[DeVante]
Sticky, sticky, let's get sticky, word
Yeah, I like it

[Jo-Jo]
In the mirror

[DeVante]
Can you pose in the mirror baby, get sticky

[Jo-Jo]
I don't have to be the only one
But we can still have fun
Till the rising sun
As long as you with me
Baby don't diss me
And we can get busy
I know you have a lot to do
But can I get a second or two
So when you get with me
I can spin you around and we can get busy

[Hook x4]
You know I'm down to make you smile
So I'll be around in the meanwhile

[DeVante x2]
1- How you want it (Sticky)
How you like it (Sticky)
How you love it (Sticky)
How you need it (Sticky)

[Jo-Jo]
You say you wanna do a lot of things
So check the joy I bring
Baby you can hang
If you wanna feel sexy
Baby just call me
And we can get nasty
Come out cha' clothes and play for awhile
Come to my crib and check my style
So baby let me pour you found, in the meanwhile, in the meanwhile

[Hook x4]

[Timbaland & DeVante talking]
Yo DeVante, (Yo what)
This girl tried to get sticky with me, word up
And guess what I told her, (What's that) Timbaland

[Timbaland]
I can rock a party, like Liberace
I can catch a groupie, and all the hotties
Take her out and get sticky right in the lobby
Then get my crew and run a Swing Mobbie
We like Norman, our skills are the bait/Bate
People can't wait to get a dub of our tape
On a hundred-and-twenty-fifth, catch a whiff
K-Ci my man won't cha' hit a riff (Ooooh)
And show the sticky girls with the after
Rub her down, lick her thighs, now we Casper

[Jodeci]
All night long, keep you smilin'
All night long, get buck wylin'
All night long, make it sticky
All night long, we're not naked

F-feels, f-f-feels
F-feels, f-f-feels so damn
F-feels, f-f-feels
F-feels, f-f-feels so damn
F-feels, f-f-feels, h-how you want it, h-how you want it
F-feels, f-f-feels so damn, h-how you want it, h-how you want it sticky
F-feels, f-f-feels, h-how you want it, h-how you want it
F-feels, f-f-feels so damn, h-how you want it, h-how you want it sticky

[Hook x4]

[Repeat 1 x2]

[Jodeci]
You know I'm down, in the meanwhile

You know I'm down to make you smile
You know I'm down to make you smile
You know I'm down to make you smile

You know I'm down to make you smile
So I'll be around in the meanwhile

Started in 1983, Jodeci is comprised of two sets of brothers—Cedric and Joel Hailey (also known as K-Ci and JoJo) and Donald and Dalvin Degrate (also known as DeVante Swing and Mr. Dalvin). Jodeci were once known as the “bad boys of R&B,” notable particularly because they were actually boys at the time, breaking out as teenagers in 1991 with their debut album and its title ballad, “Forever My Lady.” Natives of North Carolina, they were discovered by Heavy D, who overheard their demo when an A&R at Uptown was in the process of passing on them. Heavy D introduced Jodeci to Uptown founder Andre Harrell, who signed them after they sang in his office, and handed them off to his then-protégé Puff Daddy, who outfitted the group in dark shades and coordinating leather ensembles. The look, along with the streetwise soul found in songs like “Cry 4 U” and “Feenin” (as well as a few run-ins with the law) made them the antithesis to good-guy personas of then-peaking R&B superstars Boyz II Men. Devante, who along with Mr. Dalvin held down production duties for the group, founded the Swing Mob, a collective responsible for the discovery of musical geniuses like Timbaland, Missy Elliott, and Static Major. As a group, Jodeci would go on to release three critically-acclaimed album in the ‘90s, before disappearing from the limelight. K-Ci and JoJo splintered off as a duo in 1997, producing hit single “All My Life” and, eventually, five albums, but adoring fans never let go of their Jodeci obsession. In March, the group released The Past, The Present, The Future, the first Jodeci album in two decades. Jodeci, if y'all reading this, where’d you go?

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