Jodeci

Released: July 18, 1995

Songwriter: DeVante Swing K-Ci Hailey Dalvin DeGrate Timbaland

Producer: Dalvin DeGrate

[DeVante]
Stick em' uh uh uh uh uh, yeah

[Jodeci]
I peeped you, lookin' like ya comin' from the dance floor
Trying to look in my window, but you just couldn't see me though
You attracted me with all your body, uh do you wanna roll with me
Through uptown

[Timbaland]
All I got is that old funk
So let it bang and boom in ya trunk
Girl I know that's what you want, that, that funk

[Jodeci]
I know you want it, and you know I got it baby
Anything you want from me baby
Girl if you want it, just come get it from me
Anything you want from me, I'm trying to tell you bring on that funk
Bring on da funk, bring on da funk
Bring on da funk, bring on da funk
Bring on da funk, bring on da funk
Bring on da funk, now

[K-Ci]
Now you know, you really do fit my steelo
You can flow, I just got to know
Do you wanna roll with me, sweet lady in my Jeep
Let's keep it all discreet, I'm just a simple freak babe

[Timbaland]
All I got is that old funk
So let it bang and boom in ya trunk
Girl I know that's what you want, that funk, that funk
All I got is that old funk
So let it bang in ya trunk
Girl I know that's what you want, uh that funk

[Jodeci]
Girl if you want it, just come get it from me
Anything you want from me, I'm trying to tell you bring on that funk
Bring on da funk, bring on da funk
Bring on da funk, bring on da funk
Bring on da funk, bring on da funk
Bring on da funk, bring on da funk
Bring on da funk, bring on da funk
Bring on da funk, bring on da funk
Bring on da funk, bring on da funk
Bring on da funk, now

[Mr. Dalvin]
Yeah, bring it on, cause we be gettin' freaky
Cause we be gettin' freaky
Cause we gettin' down
Cause we gettin' down
Cause we gettin' down
And we be gettin'

[Missy (singing) -1]
Jodeci funk, that's what it is, ooh
Gotta get into you
Jodeci funk, that's what it is, ooh
Gotta get into you, ooh ooh

[Mr. Dalvin with Timbaland rapping along]
We be kickin' at the parties and the after-parties
So baby bring ya bodies
She be gettin' smacked a lot, slapped a lot

[Mr. Dalvin with Missy singing 1 in background; repeat to fade]
Cause we be gettin' down
And we be gettin' down

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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