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Author: chrisglein

_drafts/2025-02-23-Music-Education-New-Jack.md

@@ -5,38 +5,43 @@ tags: music
 series: Music Education
 ---
 
-### Wild Thing - Tone-Loc (1988)
-<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0gljI0CtjpdZK6ecidfxto?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="352" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
-
-"Wild Thing" was a breakthrough hit for Tone-Loc and one of the first rap songs to achieve mainstream success. The song's catchy beat and humorous lyrics helped pave the way for the integration of hip-hop into popular music. Its success marked a significant moment in the acceptance of rap music in the mainstream. "Wild Thing" remains a classic example of early hip-hop's crossover appeal.
-
 ### Poison - Bell Biv DeVoe (1990)
 <iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/6m59VvDUi0UQsB2eZ9wVbH?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="352" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
-
+- New jack swing
+- Was a love letter to ex girlfriend
+- More sung than spoken
+- So identifiably by my generation, one day later song was quoted
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_(Bell_Biv_DeVoe_song)
 
-New jack swing
-Was a love letter to ex girlfriend
-More sung than spoken
-So identifiably by my generation, one day later song was quoted
-
 ### I Wanna Sex You Up - Color Me Badd (1991)
+<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/3px156RqKPoqmxq44b3pSD?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="152" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
 - _AI Generated_
 - New jack swing hit with a provocative title
 - Featured in the movie New Jack City
 - Controversial for its explicit lyrics but became a massive chart success
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wanna_Sex_You_Up
 
-### End of the Road - Boyz II Men (1992)
-- New edition reference, kicked out Bobby Brown, source of Bell Biv DeVoe 
+### Motownphilly - Boyz II Men (1992)
+<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/4LxIGAVfcQIw0zAQRyFhU8?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="152" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
+- Band name is New Edition reference, kicked out Bobby Brown, source of Bell Biv DeVoe 
+- Origin story
+- New Jack swing - r&b over hip hop
+- Audition with Biv, alongside Will Smith, Kid n Play, others at show in Philly 
 - Beat Elvis for hop 1 for 13 weeks
-- Motownphilly
-  - Origin story
-  - New Jack swing - r&b over hip hop
-  - Audition with Biv, alongside Will Smith, Kid n Play, others at show in Philly 
-- Styled as preppy, more chaste
-- End of the Road for movie Boomerang, retroactively applied to album
-- R&b slow jams 
-- Jodeci Freakin' You 
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motownphilly
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_the_Road_(Boyz_II_Men_song)
+
+### This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan (1995)
+<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/6uQKuonTU8VKBz5SHZuQXD?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="152" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
+- _AI Generated_
+- Party anthem blending R&B and hip-hop
+- Known for its smooth vocals and catchy hook
+- Topped the Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_How_We_Do_It
+
+### Return of the Mack - Mark Morrison (1996)
+<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/3jDdpx9PMlfMBS5tOBHFm9?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="152" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
+- Slick Rick and shaker back scratch 
+- This Is How We Do It
+- Fantasy remix with Mariah from Genius of Love
+- Rap influenced r&b 
+- One hit wonders
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Mack

_drafts/2025-02-24-Music-Education-U-Cant.md

@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ tags: music
 series: Music Education
 ---
 
+### Wild Thing - Tone-Loc (1988)
+<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0gljI0CtjpdZK6ecidfxto?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="352" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
+
+"Wild Thing" was a breakthrough hit for Tone-Loc and one of the first rap songs to achieve mainstream success. The song's catchy beat and humorous lyrics helped pave the way for the integration of hip-hop into popular music. Its success marked a significant moment in the acceptance of rap music in the mainstream. "Wild Thing" remains a classic example of early hip-hop's crossover appeal.
+
 ### Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice (1990)
 <iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/3XVozq1aeqsJwpXrEZrDJ9?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="352" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
 
@@ -13,7 +18,6 @@ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Ice_Baby
 Stolen vs. sampled
 
 ### U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer (1990)
-
 <iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/1B75hgRqe7A4fwee3g3Wmu?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="352" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Can%27t_Touch_This
@@ -24,7 +28,6 @@ clothing item
 Stop...
 
 ### The Humpty Dance - Digital Underground (1990)
-
 <iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0YEC3pNS0uIKvZb5u4lgsu?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="352" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humpty_Dance

_drafts/2025-02-26-Music-Education-Hot-Peppers.md

@@ -5,7 +5,14 @@ tags: music
 series: Music Education
 ---
 
-### Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers (1992)
+### Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers (1989)
+<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5arVt2Wg0zbiWwAOZef2Nl?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="152" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
+
+### Give It Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers (1991)
+<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/1p9MMNzukuxDBtyrtBAwwI?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="152" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
+
+### Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers (1991)
+<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/3d9DChrdc6BOeFsbrZ3Is0?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="352" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
 - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
 - No shame, immature, dancing naked in socks, vulgar and pornographic 
 - Flea, legendary bassist
@@ -17,9 +24,15 @@ series: Music Education
 - Mellowship Slinky
 - Under the bridge doing heroin
 - Trying to get clean while new guitarist and bassist are bonding over weed 
+= ["Breaking The Girl"](https://open.spotify.com/track/0cG9ocYqYOIVtgiWTmTe3g?si=e362d1af073d4508)
+- ["Dani California"](https://open.spotify.com/track/10Nmj3JCNoMeBQ87uw5j8k?si=7cb572ae0a354047) in 2006, Rock Band
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Bridge
 
+### Soul to Squeeze - Red Hot Chili Peppers (1993)
+<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/3arKRnq9OUd7yq6LRwVW8I?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="152" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
+
 ### Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers (1999)
+<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/2QOMGq8wVTZbLmh7McrvgF?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="152" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
 - _AI Generated_
 - Grammy-winning track from the album "Californication"
 - Known for its introspective lyrics and melodic guitar solo

_drafts/2025-03-15-Music-Education-Nuthin-But.md

@@ -5,13 +5,25 @@ tags: music
 series: Music Education
 ---
 
+### Can I Kick It - A Tribe Called Quest (1990)
+<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/1gSDTZHemEViEBiXysrlo0?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="152" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
+Samples ["Walk On The Wild Side"](https://open.spotify.com/track/5p3JunprHCxClJjOmcLV8G?si=f9292cc4092b41da) from 1972
+
 ### Scenario - A Tribe Called Quest (1991)
-- Can I Kick It Lou Reed
+<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0301nLjG0ti26rx5ZmfqtP?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="152" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
 - Q-Tip and Phife
 - Posse cut (compare to Make 'Em Say Uhh!) by tonight Lil' Kim, Flavor in Your Ear 
-- Bonita Applebum rap love song
+- [Bonita Applebum](https://open.spotify.com/track/5N5fp1lYSORdZbWanACki9?si=aaf8f859f4da4dff) rap love song
+
+### Fuck Tha Polica - NWA (1988)
+<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5n8Aro6j1bEGIy7Tpo7FV7?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="152" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
+- NWA gangsta rap: Ice Cube, Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, more; *Boyz-n-the-Hood* produced by Dre
+- NWA hit *F*** the Police*
+- *Straight Outta Compton*
+- NWA breaks apart for diverging interests
 
 ### It was a good day - Ice Cube (1992)
+<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/3dN0re4Ux685ZzJdBjM4Wq?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="152" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
 - Giving up the nappy dugout, crude
 - NWA 
 - Footsteps in the dark
@@ -26,24 +38,20 @@ series: Music Education
 - Yo-yo on cube record
 - 1991 change in scan sales tracking showed rap and country dominance
 - No gasoline, homophobic anti antisemitism
-- “You can do Jack swing on my nuts“
-- “You see the anger, but you don’t understand the anger ““
+- "You can New Jack swing on my nuts"
+- "You see the anger, but you don’t understand the anger"
 - Song “it was a good day” was about how uncommon it was to have a good day 
 - Blogger deciding that the day was Jan 20th
 - Reality rap, not gangster
 - Made it for black kids, white kids are “eavesdropping“ 
 
 ### Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang - Dr. Dre (1992)
+<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5Tbpp3OLLClPJF8t1DmrFD?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="152" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
 - *The Chronic*
 - Snoop Doggy Dogg
-- NWA gangsta rap: Ice Cube, Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, more; *Boyz-n-the-Hood* produced by Dre
-- NWA hit *F*** the Police*
-- *Straight Outta Compton*
-- NWA breaks apart for diverging interests
 - Many allegations of violence against women and more, look up details
 - Joins Death Row Records, co-founded by Suge Knight, former bodyguard for Bobby Brown
 - Moog synthesizer
-- "Bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay"
 - March 3, 1991 Rodney King police brutality followed by acquittals, then riots
 - G-funk, rap music for subwoofers and low riders
 - Dre doesn’t like his voice, wants to be recording not recorded
@@ -52,31 +60,24 @@ series: Music Education
 - Introduced suburban households to gangsta rap
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuthin%27_but_a_%27G%27_Thang
 
+### Gin and Juice - Snoop Dogg (1993)
+<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/39QBkWKnap8wRSW4WB9OK0?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="152" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
+- ["Who am I"](https://open.spotify.com/track/0eO8MW9YSTK3CjdaTYKlhF?si=17fc0b6ebe3e4af4), "Bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay"
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_and_Juice
+
 ### C.R.E.A.M. - Wu-Tang Clan (1993)
+<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/119c93MHjrDLJTApCVGpvx?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="152" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
 - Group named after an 83 kung fu movie
 - Staten Island, referred to as Shao-Lin
 - 9 member crew, hip hop avengers
 
-### Gin and Juice - Snoop Dogg (1994)
-- _AI Generated_
-- West Coast hip-hop classic from Snoop's debut album Doggystyle
-- Lyrics about partying and carefree living
-- G-funk production with a laid-back vibe
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_and_Juice
-
-### Fantastic Voyage - Coolio (1994)
-- _AI Generated_
-- Funky hip-hop track sampling Lakeside's 1980 hit of the same name
-- Lyrics about escaping life's struggles and enjoying good times
-- Became one of Coolio's early hits
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Voyage_(Coolio_song)
-
 ### Gangsta’s Paradise - Coolio (1995)
+<iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/1DIXPcTDzTj8ZMHt3PDt8p?utm_source=generator&theme=0" width="100%" height="152" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" loading="lazy"></iframe>
 - Wild thing was a Van Halen sample
 - Asthma, book worm, then criminal activity and crack, religion
-- Fantastic Voyage 
+- ["Fantastic Voyage"](https://open.spotify.com/track/5vpDsiVqiZLRwKAzQO708k?si=425e7fc9ea3f4afe), samples [Lakeside "Fantastic Voyage"](https://open.spotify.com/track/6lFQTBeL6VQcQ1ztAYPekp?si=37c6bdcd05c44d2c)
 - White savior Dangerous Minds
-- Pastimes Paradise, Stevie Wonder, no swearing, 95% of production?
+- ["Pastimes Paradise"](https://open.spotify.com/track/4Gn4b1qJ12rowCNRw5DHM9?si=d8eb80d341854f23), Stevie Wonder, no swearing, 95% of production?
 - Biggest song of 95. First for rap song. 
 - Amish Paradise, Coolio didn’t actually give approval, not happy with it
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangsta%27s_Paradise