Jodeci

Released: March 31, 2015

Songwriter: Steve Beckham DeVante Swing

Producer: DeVante Swing Timbaland

[Verse 1]
Hey what's your name? Let's meet up in the sheets
I know you got the same interest doin' the freak
You's fire, yeah you hot
Let's meet, yeah we should speak

[Chorus]
I just want to take you out
And do those things that lovers do
Girl I just want to take you out
And do those things that lovers do
And I wanna take you out

[Verse 2]
I'm steadily trying to find the words to say
'Cause you never gon' know [?] new flow
Hit a few notes, flip the track
Devante take 'em back

[Verse 3]
I've been watchin' you
For so very long
'Cause you are the one
You oughta talk to me
For the 3rd time, for the 4th time
For the 5th time, for the 8th time
For the 9th time, girl I don't mind
Speak your mind, cause if you got it
Consistency

[Chorus]

[Verse 4]
I wanna take you out
And show you what this life is all about
Maybe take you to the moon
Maybe drive you down south
You can have a love tonight
I promise you, no doubt
Maybe later on
I'll get my tongue in your mouth
Wet and deep, girl

[Bridge]
If you don't mind
You're so fine
Do you wanna go?
Baby I just gotta know and have to know
If we can get freaky tonight
Baby I just gotta know and have to know
If we can get freaky tonight
Baby I just gotta know and have to know
If we can get freaky tonight
Baby I just gotta know and have to know
If we can get freaky tonight

[Break]
Close, close, let's get close
Close, close, let's get close
Close, close, let's get close
Close, close, let's get close

[Chorus]

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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