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A lot of the heavy lifting on this song is actually carried by some uncredited male vocalists who do a funky "Oh! Oh! Ooh, oh, ooo oh, ooh oh ooo" behind the bulk of the song. Like "Don't Rock the Boat," this 12" gives us an exclusive extended mix, this time adding a whopping extra two and a half minutes. Boy, do I not remember that movie, even in the slightest.Īnyway, Turner and Whodini were label-mates on Jive, which probably explains this team-up.
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1990's "Paradise" is the title cut and lead single off of Ruby Turner's third album, though as the picture cover tells us, this was originally recorded for the Dancin' Thru the Dark soundtrack. Then the other one is actually an example of the perfunctory quick rap verse on an R&B record, but fortunately, it's a pretty funky R&B record in its own right. I'd actually say this is a better Whodini single than the actual singles Whodini was releasing that year. It comes in a sticker cover and throws in a shorter radio edit and a couple dubs. The extended version has extended break beats and stutters his line "don't do it," so it feels a little more Hip-Hop. There is a nice part where Belinda finally joins in, taking the vocals to another level as they pledge devotion to each other. Ecstasy provides nearly all the lyrical content of the song, starting with a narrative "about a girl and a guy," which he later extrapolates into a general message about how if your relationship is working as-is, don't make any changes. Ecstasy doesn't just have one of those quick, perfunctory raps on an R&B record he has three verses (though the last one's a reprisal), and he pipes in a bit through the other parts, so he's a consistent part of the song. It could play right alongside "Yours For the Night," except it's even funkier. Midnight Star's style at this time was already pretty close to Whodini's wheelhouse, so with Ecstasy's involvement, this plays almost like a proper Whodini record with an extended R&B hook. But the 12" offers an extended mix, adding another minute. On the album, the song was already pretty long, over six minutes. But they got Ecstasy to be on this one, and yeah, he was in the video with his own boat and everything. In fact, I think the only other time they dabbled was a couple years later in '90-'91 when one of the guys did their own rapping. These guys didn't usually mess with rappers. I can still remember this video airing on BET all the time, and probably even MTV, with the whole band in boats and there's a shark fin in the water. They were a sort of post-disco R&B/ funk group, and this was one of their last successful singles after a pretty strong run through the 80s.
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And besides that and full Whodini tracks, there's really only these two.įirst up is Midnight Star's "Don't Rock the Boat" from 1988 on Solar Records. There's that weird Paul Schaffer record he was a part of with The Fresh Prince. So what is there from Ecstasy outside of a complete Whodini collection? There's actually only a couple. And in thinking about what exactly to post about for this, I kinda figured everybody pretty much has all of their albums, at least us older heads. But if you haven't heard, we've just lost Ecstasy of Whodini. So I wasn’t playing with that whole studio sh*t. In a 2016 interview with The Fader, DMX admitted the million-dollar bonus was the source of his motivation for Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood. “That was the whole drive,” he said. And in just one month, his second album Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood was done. He put in hours of work every day recording and mixing new songs in studios from Yonkers and Manhattan to Miami and Los Angeles. According to Urban Legends, label exec Lyor Cohen offered $1 million of Def Jam’s money if DMX was able to write and record another album in 30 days.ĭMX accepted the challenge without a second thought and his team got to work. RELATED: DMX Had Major Issues With the Music Industry DMX got a $1 million for ‘Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood’įresh off his smash debut, record executives at Def Jam wanted to see DMX replicate his success for his sophomore effort. DMX | Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images