Jodeci

Released: December 21, 1993

Featuring: Missy Elliott

Songwriter: K-Ci Hailey Missy Elliott Dalvin DeGrate

Producer: Dalvin DeGrate

[People Talking]
Yo what's up K, what's up dog (Hey)
It's cool man, yo what's been goin' on with you man
Look K, you know everything that's been goin' on, what's up baby
What's up, so what's up man
Nothin' just the same girl that gave me a tatoo last weekend
Well, yeah I heard that, she got it goin' on

[Chorus]
Won't waste your time, I won't waste your time
Don't play with my mind, don't play with my mind
Won't waste your time, I won't waste your time
Don't play with my mind, don't play with my mind

[K-Ci]
Ooh, last night I called you on the phone
Sounded like you had an attitude with me
Do you want me to leave you alone
If so, like a bird I will set you free
I won't NO!

[Chorus]
I won't waste your time
So girl don't play with my mind (Do what you wanna do)
Do what you wanna do (Don't cha' play me like a fool)
Just don't play me like a fool

[K-Ci]
Was it something I said or something I done
Ya know I would do anything for you
Just last week we were having fun
Now all of a sudden you wants to be so cruel, oh oh oh

[Chorus]
I won't waste your time (I won't waste your time, no no)
So girl don't play with my mind (Don't cha', don't cha' play with me)
Do what you wanna do (Do what you wanna do baby)
Just don't play me like a fool (Don't waste no time)

[Jodeci]
You know time is too precious girl (Yes it is, yes it is)
So we gotta do, what we gotta do (Yeah)
You know games are not for me no, no (No, no)
If you want, I can play them too (I won't waste your time, no)

[Chorus]
I won't waste your time (Oh)
So girl don't play with my mind (Hey)
Do what you wanna do (Do what you wanna do with me baby)
Just don't play me like a fool (Don't cha' play me like ya fool)

[Missy]
Black sugar, the man gets enough of this stuff, it's good nigga
Give me, give me hey, yeah, they got the fingers
Up, up me ass but bigger black sugar
Big up, big up BUMP! BUMP! black sugar
Cats get enough of this stuff, it's good nigga
Give me, give me hey, yeah, they got the fingers
Up, up me ass but bigger black sugar
Big up, big up BUMP! BUMP!
Give me the day, give me the day, I'm freestyler
Breakin' through the place, black sugar on she prowla
Just because I'm far, plenty gent-men gets angry
Bucks and bucks, in my butt and then ya take me, ooh baby
Help me, help me, help me 9-1-1 honey
Check for respect and a nine for me gun, son
I don't really wanna hurt no one
Me just wanna break a few bones when I'm done

[Chorus with various ad-libs] to fade

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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