3/21/2021 0 Comments Jodeci Album Covers
Now its rumored theyre looking to make another RB group-based film, this time about the classic 90s male group Jodeci.In anticipation for their comeback album, song No.
Checkin For You, has arrived in full. On the ballad, the veteran group members deliver heartfelt lyrics about taking care of home. The song is about the body-shaking certainty you are being misled by the person you love. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story Jodecis Unplugged Lately Was Its Pinnacle. In 1993, the RB group performed on an MTV Unplugged devoted to Harrells Uptown Records. K-Ci Hailey of Jodeci on Uptown MTV Unplugged, the most memorable performance of his career. By Jon Caramanica May 12, 2020 In the most memorable performance of his career, K-Ci Hailey is shirtless, wearing a backward baseball cap, two earrings in each ear and blue boxer shorts mushrooming out over low-slung black jeans. The pendant dangling from the gold chain around his neck bears the logo of his group, Jodeci. Its early 1993, and Jodeci is performing Lately as part of an MTV Unplugged special devoted to Uptown Records. Uptown founded by Andre Harrell, who died last week was the first label granted an Unplugged special of its own, and the lineup was stacked: the budding soul siren Mary J. Blige, fresh off her debut album, Whats the 411; the buoyant hip-hop group Heavy D the Boyz; the irrepressibly smooth rapper Father MC; the irrepressibly smooth singer Christopher Williams. But they all felt like humble opening acts for the robust, audacious RB foursome Jodeci, at that point still floating on the success of its sterling 1991 debut album, Forever My Lady. The Unplugged franchise was predicated on the erasure of artifice, a way to see superstars without the pylons that hold them up and the glaze that makes them pretty. There wasnt much of that to start with when it came to the prodigiously talented Jodeci, a group brimming with raw sexual gusto and pinpoint vocal harmonies kiln-fired in North Carolina churches. This head-rush-intense recording of Lately is, on some days, my absolute favorite piece of music, a pinnacle achievement. ![]() Not likely. Jodeci was made up of two sets of brothers K-Ci and JoJo (Cedric and Joel Hailey), and DeVant Swing and Mr. Dalvin (Donald and Dalvin DeGrate) though at times it could feel like a one-man band, with K-Ci as the tempestuous alpha. Throughout the groups performance (which also included the hits Come Talk to Me, Forever My Lady and Stay ), JoJo, Dalvin and DeVant are painting luscious watercolor scenes. K-Ci, meanwhile, slinks among them doing Jackson Pollock, Isiah Thomas, Wile E. Coyote. A vocal dynamo at the peak of his power and sometimes beyond it hes notionally on the same plane of existence as everyone else, but really dipping in and out of different dimensions, an alien and a conqueror. The calmest he gets is during Lately, performed by just him and his brother. JoJo, the placater in the family, with a pager clipped into his right jeans pocket, introduces the song almost sheepishly. K-Ci revs into gear with some vamps, but JoJo takes the early reins with sugar-sweet coos. He gets four lines in like this technically precise, tender, heavy with the sense of regret just around the corner. The piano offers up a little march-like flourish, then cedes the floor. There arent many human parallels to the way K-Ci enters the song here: a bugle blaring the Reveille, the pink sun nudging over the horizon. He is skinny but not slight, all sinew and boxed-up energy, a spring waiting for the bounce. He leans into the microphone just a bit, his head vibrating under the sheer intensity of his singing. They go back and forth every few lines K-Ci detonating bombs, JoJo spreading rose petals.
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