Jodeci

Released: July 18, 1995

Songwriter: DeVante Swing

Producer: DeVante Swing

[Intro: JoJo]
Lay down, lay down, lay down, lay down, lay down!

[Verse 1: JoJo]
Let me take you on a fantasy, can I do that?
Just grab on tight and hold my body
I'm gonna take you anywhere you want
Just get on top and hold me down, baby

[Chorus]
Girl, don't you know, I feel you so
Can we just flow? (Can we just flow?)
Girl, don't you know, I feel you so (I feel you so)
Can we just flow? Baby, oh...

[Interlude: DeVante Swing]
Can we get down? Get on down! Time to get down!
Can we get down? Get on down! Time to get down!

[Verse 2: K-Ci]
That smile you got just looks so fly
I don't have to roll this dime, 'cause you already got me high
Can you see where I'm trying to go?
I just want you to lay back and feel my flow

[Chorus]
Girl, don't you know, I feel you so
Can we just flow? (Say it again! Say it again!)
Girl, don't you know, I feel you so
Can we just flow?

[Interlude: DeVante Swing]
Now let it play
Yeah, get on down
We gon' flow
Check it, check it out

[Chorus]
Girl, don't you know, I feel you so
Can we just flow?

[Rap: Mr. Dalvin]
So I beez rollin' in my six-fo', bouncin' in my trizzay
'Bout to fetch a trick and I'm 'bound to get busy on the set
But first I got to these B's wet, see
'Cause I beez the letter D, rollin' wit the Jodeci
And all the players wanna get close to me
Smoking with that old-timey Mickey D
And baby, don't you wanna get with me?
'Cause I'm so freaky
Get down, get down, get down
And girl you ought to get on down
Get down, get down, get down
And girl you ought to get on down
Get down, get down, get down
And girl you ought to get on down
Get down, get down, get down
Yo Playa, yo, help me wit' the sounds

[Interlude: DeVante Swing]
Yo Static, get my fur out the closet, G
Get the keys, go warm up the Caddy
'Cause this baby 'bout to roll with us, you know what I'm sayin'
'Cause can't nobody freak it like us or do it like us so what the fuck
Baby, you got enough to go around, so get on down...

[Outro]
If you wanna party...
If you wanna party...
We could have a party...
If you wanna party...

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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