Jodeci

Released: December 21, 1993

Featuring: Missy Elliott

Songwriter: Dalvin DeGrate Missy Elliott DeVante Swing

Producer: DeVante Swing

[DeVante]
So what chu' sayin' baby

[Missy]
Miggity, mix check, one, two get ready huh
I'mma get wreck, while I sex ya get sweaty huh
Mix check one, two get ready huh
I'mma get wreck, while I sex ya get sweaty huh
Mix check one, two get ready huh
I'mma get wreck, while I sex ya get sweaty huh

[DeVante]
So what chu' sayin' baby

[Missy]
Miggity, mix check one, two get ready huh
I'mma get wreck, while I sex ya get sweaty huh
Mix check one, two get ready huh
I'mma get wreck, while I sex ya get sweaty huh
Mix check one, two get ready huh
I'mma get wreck, while I sex ya get sweaty huh

[K-Ci]
Your body's lookin' real fine girl, so baby walk this way
Come to check out all my lines girl, sure that I can make you pay
Come and talk for a minute and I can surely make you smile
Then you can jump right in it, I know it's worth your while, girl

[Hook: Jodeci & Missy x2]
Girl I'm ready (Girl I'm ready)
To get nasty (Wanna get nasty)
Said you wanna get freaky
But are you ready to get sweaty (HUH! SO KEEP IT GOIN')

[DeVante & Jo-Jo]
I'll make ya, sweaty
Girl I'll make ya, sweaty
Girl I'll make ya, sweaty

[K-Ci]
Ooh, I know you like to have fun girl, I know you like to catch vet
You know that I'll be the one girl to make you love the sex
I'll give you all that you can take girl, if you go all the way
We don't ever have to break girl, cause I can eat you all day

[Hook x2]

[Jodeci]
You can come play for awhile, for awhile, for awhile
Girl I know you will sweat my style, sweat my style
You can come play for awhile, for awhile
Girl I know you'll leave with a smile

[Hook x2]

[* Phone Ringing *]

[DeVante]
Mr. Dalvin, pick up

[Mr. Dalvin (Rap)]
Ah, whoa, whoa, whoa girl I got ya sweat
I got the Trojan keep me strap
And let me freak the funky body all the way down to Manhattan, uh
In ya thang, we jet, we out the way I'm doin' my thing
I hurt ya feelings so good ya might think I'm kind of strange, what yes
But anyway it's Mr. Dalvin on the case
I got ya drippin from ya ankles, from ya thighs, to ya freakin' face
We're good and ready when all ya want is sweaty
Let me run around the party, just like I be witcha dirty, uh

[Hook x2]

[Jodeci & Missy ad-libs to fade]

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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