It had to happen: the Lil' Jon/Usher/Luda Quiet Storm

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Usher, Lil' Jon and Ludacris - "Lovers and Friends"
Something like a chopped and screwed and fucked "Yeah"... only less hygenic.
"Please tell yer lovers and friends / that Ursher, Jon and Luda hadta do it again"

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

GONG

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

This track inspires Alex-in-NYC levels of fury in me. I mean, shit, Luda, good for you that you get some - ACT LIKE IT.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, this is pretty bad excepting Luda's "Rudy Huxtable" and "your legs can go they separate... ways" line.
The Lil' Jon rap is downright painful.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Between this & "Splash Waterfalls", Luda should never be allowed to talk about sex on wax again.

You're right about the "Rudy" line, though. SHORRDAY.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

And that answers the question of how to spell that particular permutation of "shorty".

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i was merely underwhelmed by this til ludacris offered the pillow to bite. WTF?!?

― john'n'chicago, Friday, 4 February 2005 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

It's all in the phonics. SHORRDAY.

Every post in this thread should end w/ SHORRDAY.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and that fucking stupid "ah-ah-HOOO" that Ursher does before Luda goes into the "had to do it again" refrain. SHORRDAY.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 February 2005 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw you guys are no fun. I like it, and I think Lil Jon approaches a kind of genius here. I don't know exactly what kind, but some kind anyway. Maybe I just miss ODB. ("In the bathtub, rub-a-dubbin'"

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm somewhat conflicted because my mind tells me that this song is the aural equivalent of an open-ass sandwich while my heart is shouting "SHORRRDAY!" and giggling. It's like my Spice Girls reaction.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

FINALLY I GET TO HEAR THIS! THANK YOU! It's been killing me not to hear this despite it being a top 3 single without a video.

reaction to come.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

and the BEAT behind that section! it's like jr. high kids banging on desks!

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

this is a top 3 single?!?
I don't think this one is so bad, but I do tend to skip it on the album.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 4 February 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

this song has SKYROCKETED up the charts, despite no video and no promotion whatsoever.

I'm enjoying it so far, though it's a bit slow. But it's not like I say no to silly.

ok I just got to the pillow part. I am losing it.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

hjioasgr'oihjag'oijagrpojkgrkpowgfpkowefpkowfepokjwefoihwefoihjwefpjoiwefjpofew

lil jon just whatehjgejpoiwfepjko

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Redd Foxx is Smoove B!

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

SHORRDAY!!!!

― Li'l Jon (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, it's on the radio all the time, though! At least in Chicago. I like it a lot.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Tell me the video features Sherman Helmsey drawing a bath for 18-year-old twins in bikinis.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Every post in this thread should end w/ SHORRDAY.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

this is the most OMGWTFLOL song of the year. HAS to be.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Helmsley's gay, isn't he? not that it matters...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 4 February 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Er, huh? SHORRDAY

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

PLEASE tell your lovers and fr

seriously i am laughing so fhard i cant finish sentences my hands are shaking

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

He likes the Krautrock, Mr. Jefferson does. SHORRDAY.

Oh that fucking "PLEASE"!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

(shorrday)

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

you can bite......

....

THAT

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

SHORRDAY

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

it's best on the album with the Chris Rock intro: "I hate it when a girl tells me she wants to be friends. I wanna be the friend that's FUCKING YOU IN THE ASS!"

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

SHORRDAY

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://top40-charts.com/song.php?sid=12210
Anthony, I woulda thought you'd have been all over this; I'm proud that I could give you an aneurysm.
Shorrday.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

oh I want the ringtone SHORRDAY

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

the song is #5 this week, its peak was #3 but its up a spot from last #6. I'm guessing it will eventually hit #1.

THERE ARE ONLY FOUR SONGS AMERICA LOVES MORE THIS WEEK

Chris Rock, "Let Me Love You"
Demure bubblecrunk vixen #4343, "1, 2 Step"
Destiny's Child, "Dick With A Wallet Attached, Please Thank You"
Green Day, "When The Fuck Did We Turn Into Tonic"

That's it!

SHORDDAY

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

HAW! I love your top five recap, Anthony!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

They play this song like every goddamn morning on power 106. I just cant handle Lil' Jon trying to come off as sexy.

― Dude, are you a 15 year old asian chick? (jingleberries), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

you do realize there must be a very large group of people in this country who can listen to this song with no irony whatsoever

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Green Day, "When The Fuck Did We Turn Into Tonic"

What the fuck EVER. SHORRDAY.

Though I'm starting to think the song is great. This happened the 2nd time I heard it. I think it's just a phrase.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

OR A PHASE

WHAT?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

HYEAH!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

lil jon's verse reminds me of that scene in zoolander where the reporter is sandwiched between hansel and zoolander when suddenly the dwarf rises up from below the screen

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"the song" = Ursher, Jon & Luda, of course. SHORRDAY.

Dude, SHERPA.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

the space between "bite" and "that" is the musical equivalent of the bermuda triangle.

SHERRRPA!

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

you do realize there must be a very large group of people in this country who can listen to this song with no irony whatsoever

including me! no "irony" here, just a love of goofy-ass rich guys making a goofy-ass slow-jam for teenagers.*

*shorrday

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe Lil Jon's talking to a sherpa!

SHORRDAY

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

no one's gonna get pregnant listening to this song, but it might make a lot of young people crack up while they're smooching, which is totally sexy

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

no "irony" here, just a love of goofy-ass rich guys making a goofy-ass slow-jam for teenagers.*

Why you corrupter of the nation's morals you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

haha this song is great! I can't believe ppl are hating. It flips that basic R&B piano/beat into a strangely idiosyncratic single. And Lil Jon's singing is awesome! And the chant the end, "please tell your lovers and friends, that ursher jon and luda had to do it again" this song is fantastic.

Um why on earth would anyone listen to this "ironically," and what on fucking earth would the purpose of such an action be?

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

miccio the song clearly has a sense of humor about itself and i think that pretty much most people who love it "get" that its funny.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

also yr top 5 are hilarious.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 4 February 2005 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 24 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Nell Carter could NEVER be replaced by Jackee.
Bite your tongue!
bill cosby hitting phylicia rashad from the back
see also

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG Jasmine Guy & Lisa Bonet HOTTTTTTT

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

haha I just downloaded that track last night! fucking rules

(x-post)

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

or maybe sherman should show up to court the widow Ruby Dee now that they can be lovers instead of friends. With Luda watching from the window.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Two things:

1) The "bite (uncomfortable pause) that?" kills me because it sounds like he's reading the lyrics for the first time and can't believe someone actually wants him to say it.

2) Is the second line of Lil Jon's vers "but fuckin' never crossed my mind" or "butt fuckin' never crossed my mind?"

SHORRDAY!

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Sinbad and Martha Warfield embracing on the balcony of the villa in Ja Rule's "Wonderful"

WHY AM I NOT A VIDEO DIRECTOR???

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

With Luda watching from the window.
While he's frantically masturbating a'la "The Piano"?
(shorrday?)

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Urkel massaging a pregnant Laura's back while the camera zooms into her uterus, where a fetus with Usher's face is floating around singing A-ha HOOO a-ha HOO

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

While he's frantically masturbating a'la "The Piano"?

ew no, he's just admiring and curious

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Frenetic masturbation: how Luda got those huge forearms in the "Get Back" video

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

p.s.: the "buttfuckin' never crossed my mind" interp is GENIUS.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

We are witnessing the genesis of Anthony Miccio's ERASHURRHEAD.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

they haven't made a video yet! maybe I should pitch this!

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

your ass just got excelsiored THREE TIMES on ONE THREAD miccio, you are touching God...and it's a bad touch.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

What if it was about Lil Jon and Luda coyly courting one another while Ursher, clad in jerkin and tutu, balladeers their groundbreaking love?
There IS a premium on ass fucking for such a romantic track...

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

ya aint been NUTTIN but a friend to me

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Now that I listen to this with the concept of it being about a Lil/Luda tryst with a cherubic Ursher flapping above their writhing bodies, I suddenly find that I LOVE THIS SONG.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I think its clear that this thread is essentially a "100 reasons Lovers and Friends is great," except without the numbers.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I would like to go back in time and insert this song into the soundtrack of every teen TV show at the point where a character loses his/her virginity.

Could you imagine hearing this at the point when Donna Martin finally gives it up to David Silver? Shorrday?

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

there has to be a moment where, on Jon's porch, Luda reaches to take off Lil Jon's glasses. Jon pulls away a bit, and then gazes up lovingly into Luda's eyes, visibily awash in a feeling of acceptance.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I FEEL LOVE

(xpost?)

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"James at 15"

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin Lawrence's water-glistening-AWL-OVAH-YUH-BAAAAWDY "can I suck yah dick man?" routine to thread.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

And when those sunglasses come off, Jon's amazing long lashes are revealed; when he reaches up to hide them, Luda stops his hand and shakes his head gently and says "No more hiding behind the dark veil, sweet Jon..."

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, I'm out.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

SHORRDAY

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

to which Jon replies "YEAH!"

(x-post)

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 4 February 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

heres a remix ftr. Pittbull

― b b, Friday, 4 February 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

or here is http://s27.yousendit.com/download.aspx

― b b, Friday, 4 February 2005 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

wrong link.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

SADE

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

wow- straight daymaker... SHORRDAY!!!

― natlawdp, Friday, 4 February 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

one more time....

you can jump to it from here:
http://www.tvtrecords.com/messageboard/thread.jspa?threadID=34402&tstart=15

beat's about the same...anybody found anything else out there

― b b, Friday, 4 February 2005 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how they shoehorn Luda in there to recreate the "Yeah!" dynamic and shoehorn Jon's verse in there to justify it being on his album, if they hadn't squeezed those elements into it it would just be a mediocre Usher song. I mean, Lil Jon's verse is amazing, he almost sounds like he's crying, and then there's that couplet: "are you sure you wanna go this route?/let a nigga know before I pull it out"

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

He is NOT actually saying that. I get distracted by the SHORRDAY & don't bother listening to his part too closely. I like my versions better, anyway (but, then, I would).

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Al, do you not like the song?

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 4 February 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I like it. I don't switch the station when it comes on the radio, which I did with "Yeah!" most of the time.

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 5 February 2005 07:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Miccio's video pitch now has me imagining Sideways scored by Lil' Jon (or starring Lil' Jon in the Giamatti role - touring California's Crunk Juice Country).

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Saturday, 5 February 2005 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)

This song's OMGWTF rating is enhanced on the album by coming straight after that track with the Slayer samples!

― haitch (haitch), Saturday, 5 February 2005 08:31 (twenty-one years ago)

It's an... unexpected change of pace.

― haitch (haitch), Saturday, 5 February 2005 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

shawty!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 24 February 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

I would just like to reaffirm that this song is awesome.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 10 July 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

well, the THREAD is awesome.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 10 July 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

I don't love this song in the sense that I never seek it out. It seeks out me. And I always enjoy it. rudy HUXtable.

― deej.., Sunday, 10 July 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

I wish it was on Confessions! Though it would only be my fifth favorite single off that album (christ I need to buy that album already - I keep thinking I'll find it used!)

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 10 July 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

Just a reminder to miccio that he has to vote for this for Pazz and Jop.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hQ_CKIzJhg&feature=related

― Pompoussin (admrl), Monday, 30 May 2011 03:15 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

UP IN THE BATHTUB RUB-A-DUBBIN'
(SHAWTY)

― da croupier, Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:43 (thirteen years ago)

I just remembered this song for the first time in a long while. A period prolonged due to the fact that it's not on my ipod

― da croupier, Thursday, 13 December 2012 14:44 (thirteen years ago)

Okay, not even my gigantic levels of irony can stomach the visual of Sherman Helmsley mackin' on a corpse.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, February 4, 2005

didn't believe this then, don't believe it now.

― my dinner of butt (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 13 December 2012 15:38 (thirteen years ago)

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