That’s a Chic joint, right?” he was like, “Yeah, you know your records.” I was like, “Yeah, pretty much.” I’m halfway sleeping and he plays the intro to “I Want To Sex You Up.” To the Tik Tok, You Don’t Stop, Stop / To the…. My favorite track of the album was the instrumental called “Open Up” that begins the album. 9/11 Families Slam Trump and Saudi-Funded LIV Golf Tournament in Bedminster. He plays a track that ironically, got a Chic loop from the Real People album. Digital Creator Brian Colletto Uses TikTok and Instagram to Document His. It’s the only time I’ve ever been to Oklahoma! My guy Stanley is in the studio with them working out chords, whatever, and Freeze starts playing tracks. I’m tired, I’m on this couch in Color Me Badd studio in Oklahoma City, or was it Tulsa? I think it was Oklahoma City, I can’t remember well which one they were from. Saw a movie, went to the hot party, hang out with the hot musicians, get on the plane, go to the hot crossover r&b group, wildfire. I’d been up all night in true record man fashion, Friday night. I got to get up in the morning and take my guys to Oklahoma to see Color Me Badd, to hear them sing and begin work on their album. We were hanging out by the pool blah, blah, blah, blah. I’m hanging out with Nile Rodgers and me and him, Benny Medina and a couple of girls I was with, wind up going to Herbie Hancock’s house after the club. Later on, I left and I went to Roxbury, which was the hot spot in West Hollywood. Champagne was spilled, it was this fabulous New Jack high point of the New Jack Swing career. I brought my crew onboard, we celebrated his birthday.Īl B. I’m like, “Tell Andre I’m down here.” They put the plank down for me. I was like, “Yo, Puff, tell Andre I’m down here.” There were people who were on the deck and whatever. Later that night we went to Puffy’s 25th birthday party and it was on a yacht. The film is fun to watch, and is the only watchable Chris Kattan film. In October of ’90, Doug and George showed me a working print of the film, a rough cut of New Jack City. A Night at the Roxbury is one of the first Will Ferrell films that I first saw, and I thought it was a pretty decent comedy. I was the keep it real factor and nothing else. One of the questions that came up, that Doug asked me was, How are we going to get some adults on it? How are we going to get adult record buyers? Cassandra Mills wanted to put Lionel Richie. I understood because I’m from north of 110th. I knew about the Lucas brothers from the time I was 11 years old. That’s Frank Lucas, who lived in the next town over from me. He was a core personality that was mentioned in whispers in my neighborhood, when I was a teenager.
I fully embraced the New Jack hustler aesthetic because I’d grown up in Englewood right outside where Nicky Barnes held sway over Harlem.
I was more interested in authenticity than I was in, Why don’t we put Prince on there, why don’t we have Chaka Khan on there.