Jodeci

Released: January 26, 2015

Songwriter: Steve Beckham DeVante Swing Dalvin DeGrate

Producer: Sanchez Holmes DeVante Swing Bradd Young

[Verse 1: K-Ci]
Cars, clothes, girls and games
Through the years a lot of things changed
We shared a love like a melody
My sweetest moments are when you're here with me

[Pre-Chorus]
Give me all of me
Giving you all of me too
Trusting me, trusting you
In my life

[Chorus]
Every moment is so sweet
When you laying next to me
Our hearts beating as one
Nothing we can overcome

[Verse 2]
Every time I look at you
Your smile let's me know you feel me too
Anything you wanna be
I can do it because you're right here next to me

[Pre-Chorus]
Give me all of me
Giving you all of me too
Trusting me, trusting you
In my life

[Chorus]
Every moment is so sweet
When you laying next to me
Our hearts beating as one
Nothing we can overcome

[Verse 3: JoJo]
The sun, the moon, the stars
It can't compare to you and me
Cause you are my everything
And I can't explain
(And I can't complain)
You never out of range
The wind, the rain, the sea
It just can't move like you and me baby
So can you feel the breeze
When you're laying next to me baby
Chills come constantly

[Chorus]
Every moment is so sweet
When you laying next to me
Our hearts beating as one
Nothing we can overcome

[Bridge]
I'm lying here, waiting for you
Girl you can get it any time you want it
I'm lying here, waiting for you
Girl you can get it any time you want it
I'm lying here, waiting for you
Girl you can get it any time you want it
I'm lying here, waiting for you
Girl you can get it any time you want it

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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