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Where is the love for Pretty Ricky?

I like the new single "Your Body" even more than "Grind On Me," with its amusing verses and fabulously indulgent chorus.

I bet there's someone around here wondering where the love for Young Jeezy is too. His album went to #2 on the charts, folks!

― deej.., Friday, 5 August 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

uh that should be "Grind With Me" obv.

― deej.., Friday, 5 August 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

Hey yall,

This is your boy Kanye, what's good? I noticed Diamonds Are Forever ain't getting the play it should on your chat room here. I talked to PR and they said take it to the source, so what how yall feeling me on that one?

Also, I'm auditioning the hottest ILMers for my upcoming video -- it will be for the third single off the album. Please send pics.

That's your boy...

Kanye

― Kanye West (Rob Uptight.), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

At some point the 'it's popular = we MUST talk about it' construct falls down.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

it does, ned?!?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Well, you know.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

R-r-r-rrr-rrrr-rrr-(keels over from stoke).

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

I really dislike that Pretty Ricky song. (grind w/me)....it irritates me. I kinda just resent R&B slow(ish) jams in general, cuz it clogs up my local blazin' hiphop and r&b station.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

I also really like "Slow Wind," Kells new single which is being unfortunately overshadowed by his operatic opus.

― deej.., Friday, 5 August 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

"Bounce" by Fatty Koo is EXACTLY what I needed to hear on the radio

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 August 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

okay I was talking about it, but the fattykoomania ends there.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 August 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

You're a Jamaican Queen
I'm an American King
You're a Jamaican Queen
I'm an American King
You're a Jamaican Queen
I'm an American King
You're a Jamaican Queen
I'm an American King

― successs N lyfe, Saturday, 6 August 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

think u forgot some oh yeses. i have shit to say abt jeezy soon as i get a chance. slow wine

― 006 (thoia), Saturday, 6 August 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was slow wine when i first heard it but google search for slow wine = no results for kells!

― deej.., Saturday, 6 August 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

i seem to recall the love for pretty ricky being on another thread where u said it sucked deej?

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Saturday, 6 August 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

I don't remember saying that! I did think "Grind W Me" sucked at first but its chorus wormed its way into my heart, like heartworm.

― deej.., Saturday, 6 August 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Turns out there was a pretty ricky thread! My bad. I said 'this sounds sub-ave.' the first time i heard it. First impressions and all that. Oh well, talk about young jeezy or something.

― deej.., Saturday, 6 August 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

(Your Body >>> Grind W Me)

― deej.., Saturday, 6 August 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Well, there's always stuff like "Summer Nights" by Lil Rob and "Baby I'm Back" by Baby Bash and "Pretty Girl" by NB Ridaz. Not that I have anything to say about them. (Well, I do, actually, which is that this is the stealth movement on the reggaeton stations, this relentlessly pleasant r&b that barely registers as "Latino" to non-Latinos. And that all three being in the Mega 95.7 Top Ten is at least two too many.)

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Sunday, 7 August 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

I also really like "Slow Wind," Kells new single which is being unfortunately overshadowed by his operatic opus.

-- deej.. (ei...), August 6th, 2005.

is "Slow Wind" seriously the next single? that shit is garbage!

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 7 August 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

In Praise of... Pretty Ricky

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 7 August 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

also Hillary wrote some more about them on her blog around the same time and I think 3 interviewed them.

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 7 August 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

but you're right about the absence of Young Jeezy discussion on ILM, I ran a search the other day and there were only 11 results, half of which were people saying "jeezy creezy" or saying something in "fo sheezy my neezy" type talk.

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 7 August 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

Yeah Frank I love "Summer Nights" i think i'm the only one (til now) who even mentioned it on ILM, if i remembered to. I wrote about it on my blog and got lots of comments like "this song is wack" or "this song is ok, but not representative, really lil rob is a GREAT RAPPER" sorts of things.

Al I'm surprised you don't like "Slow Wind"! I thought it was really sexy when i heard it on the radio.

How about that LIL KIM single that i don't think i've seen mentioned, or it was mentioned and i forgot about it (like pretty ricky). I think its terrific.

― deej.., Sunday, 7 August 2005 06:45 (twenty years ago)

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