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A Groove of Love (What’s This Word Called Love?)C+C Music Factory

Released: December 18, 1990

Featuring: Freedom Williams

Songwriter: Freedom Williams Robert Clivillés

Producer: Clivillés & Cole

Do-do do-do do do-do

(verse 1)
I step in the jam
The party is packed
Straight to the microphone with much tack
Plug in the mike jack
The one, the dope track
MC's playing the (bees?) cause they lack the knack to pull slack on the mike
I attract the girls
And if I slip up they get the fall back
Choose to get loose, I met a flying goose
I said to myself the chick has come home to roost
We chill for 6 weeks
I'm playing, hunting streaks
I take her around
Show her the town that she speaks for itself
It's her microphone words
She's the chick I need
I'm the Big Bird
But time and time again, this is the scene
They open their mouths
I never know what they mean
Get off the sneak tip
I really can't see it
How can you love a man you don't be with
Just cause I'm a rapper and the mike is my god

So let me ask you this question baby:
What's this word called love? x5

(Verse 2)
Straight up I deal
I never flunk on the mike appeal
I feel blessed when I'm doing my best, you ain't real
(Weakness she kick, the levers, the prick, the bonk whose trying to grope up the donk but I stick?)
Back to back hits they need to call the quits
It's just that you're trying me again but I blitz the bits to cold crush
(You push up the bust, straddle back?)
Hoping I won't but I must
Hold back the blast
Smack your little ass
I step off the stage to wait, another grab
Jet to the car
Update the memoirs
Cold (potion?) Kiwi
I know who you are
Slide to the car on a moon roof star
I'm saying I'll drive but I know I won't go
Far to the crib
Knowing how I live
Hmm, I wanna get in her pants so I did
She said that she loves me, I said don't fob
Hey yo baby let me ask you this question alright

(Chorus)
What's this word called love? x5

(verse 3)
The world is my stage
The mike is my gauge
I love what I'm doing
24 is the age to drink and get nights
And double that twice
I was born to rock mikes
But believe me I've paid the price to rock hard
I've never been hard
Nothing means much to me but this rod
Love can be mean
Tight butt jeans
Girls, they only waste time, they crush dreams
The mike is my bitch
Well ain't that a switch
You thinking you can pay my bills well pay this
And this and this and this and this plus this
Now do you want to be in love?
I think you missed the point of me rapping cause that's what I do
I wouldn't have time for this if I fell in love with you girl
Can't you understand?
If I didn't do this you wouldn't want me to be your man
It's just fame that you're out to claim
You need to go check yourselves you dumb danes
I know you want to shop at Fit Like A Glove
But to get that close to me is unheard of

(CHORUS)
What's this word called love? x8

(Tom's Diner interpolation)
Do do do do, do do do do, do do do do, do do do do

C+C Music Factory

David Cole and Robert Civilles met while both working at a New York underground club. Before forming C & C Music Factory, they were primarily remixers, co-writers, producers and artist managers – having worked with Mariah Carey, Chaka Khan, Fleetwood Mac, Grace Jones, Seduction and others.

Cole & Civilles decided to launch their own music project with an ever-changing cast of vocalists. When an artist they were managing turned down the song “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)”, the duo decided to use it as their first single. They recruited a janitor from Quad Recording Studio who was learning to become an assistant engineer named Freedom Williams to perform the raps, and hired ex-Weather Girls singer Martha Wash for the female vocals – but credited them to Zelma Davis. Davis also appeared in the song’s video. Wash later sued for being uncredited in the song and its video.

The song became an international smash, reaching the top 5 in nine countries (taking the top position in five of them). Their debut album was released a month after the single and it reached #2 in the US, #8 in the UK and the top 30 in six other countries.

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