Jodeci

Released: July 18, 1995

Songwriter: K-Ci Hailey Dalvin DeGrate

Producer: Dalvin DeGrate

[Verse 1]
Here I stand, against the wall
The air is filled, but the chronic small
The club is packed, the music's loud
But all the girls in the club stood up in the crowd
I seem the way that you was freaking all my homies
The way you looking at me told me that you want me
So come on girl and get with me
I'll give anything to take you on the dance floor with me tonight

[Chorus]
This is your night, tonight
Everything's gonna be alright
Girl let your body loose
Let go and feel the groove
This is your night, tonight
Everything's gonna be alright
Girl let your body loose
Let go and feel the groove

I just wanna have fun tonight
We can have fun tonight
I just wanna have fun tonight
We can have fun tonight
I just wanna have fun tonight
We can have fun tonight
I just wanna have fun tonight
We can have fun tonight

[Verse 2]
The Moët and Alize
Let's go to my crib where we can play games
That'll make you wanna keep secrets
Come on, girl let's do this
But I'm tellin you we can do
Some crazy things if you want
Girl your body so damn tight
Come home with me tonight

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
Yeah, baby don't stop
J-O-D-E-C-I about to make it hot
Like that, like that, come on baby
I got my crew with me
We get your girls and we can-ah
Get it on all through the night, damn right
We can go back and forth, back and forth
I got my crew with me
We get your girls and we can-ah
Get it on all through the night, damn right
We can go back and forth, back and forth

[Outro]
We gon' meet girl, we gon' meet girl
We gon' meet girl, we gon' meet girl
We gon' meet girl, we gon' meet girl
We gon' meet girl, we gon' meet girl

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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