Khia: Classic Or Dud?

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I got "My Neck My Back" off Filepile ages ago assuming it was some old classic and I loved it, and then I put it on a tape for Isabel and it's her favourite track of the year (pending Missy) and now I find it's apparently all over the place and becoming a big hit, and NOW I download another track by her ("Jealous Girls") and it's really good too, like L'Trimm grown up all skanky and hostile. So, yes, who is she, and classic or dud?

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 13 September 2002 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

My Neck My Back is an absolute classic -- I was very surprised at how poorly it did in the U.S. Haven't heard any others although I think the one you mentioned is the new single. She seemed almost too brazen in her sexuality combined with image leaning more toward 'hood rat' than, say, Lil' Kim or Foxy Brown, and it seems as if it caught a bit of a backlash. (that's the feeling I got from the admittedly small sample of African-American females I know -- all of whom seem to hate her and the song.) In those respects it reminds me of Adina Howard's "Freak Like Me."

― scott pl., Saturday, 14 September 2002 03:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not saying the record store where I work(ed) is necessarily a good barometer of how well records do in the U.S., but we sold a TON of copies of the Khia record there, which surprised me because I hadn't heard much about it. I'm not sure whether your assessment of "My Neck My Back"'s performance is based on sales figures, but if not my hunch would be that the numbers would surprise you.

― charlie va, Saturday, 14 September 2002 04:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Why does nobody else want to tell me about Khia???

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 14 September 2002 23:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't know about the new single, but I imagine "My Neck, My Back" is slightly hamstrung from a commercial-perspective by its bouncier-than-bounce production (which I love) - a bit '99 for current audiences? It's great anyway, and demands a Miami Bass or ghetto-tech remix.

Also, the suspicion that it's actually B.G. in a dress might be mildly offputing.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 14 September 2002 23:47 (twenty-three years ago)

The new single is really retro-bass too. There is a remix kicking around which slows it down and dirties it up even more and has an odd comedy-stoner sung interlude about pussy.

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 14 September 2002 23:56 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

Too $hort has responded to Khia Sporty Thievz style with "My Dick, My Sack".

― Honda, Friday, 11 October 2002 05:23 (twenty-three years ago)

ten months pass...

i saw the album today, does anyone have it and should i have it too?

― minna (minna), Sunday, 31 August 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I have it. It's OK, you can get it really cheap in some London places (like £2 new cheap). Apart from "My Neck" and "Jealous Girls" the only other really good track is "When I Meet My King" but it's all quite listenable.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 1 September 2003 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

This thread was too short-lived.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 February 2004 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Much like her career.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 February 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.traditio.com/comment/com0304e.jpg

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 February 2004 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.traditio.com/comment/com0304e.jpg

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 February 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

That was a Google image search for "nightclub comedian", btw.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 February 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Dammit, the only one's I've heard are "My Neck", "Jealous Girls" and "When I Meet My King", all of which are ace, so now you're telling me they're the only good ones?

― Nick H (Nick H), Friday, 13 February 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=41251292&blogID=373300476

― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 29 September 2008 12:24 (seventeen years ago)

THANK U FOR CONFIRMING DAT U'S A WEAK MINDED BITCH AND HAVE BEEN PUMPED AND INJECTED. AND NOW UR HAS DIFLATED.

― yungblut, Monday, 29 September 2008 12:48 (seventeen years ago)

Those songs listed above are not her only good songs- that "Kang Wang With It" song is awes.

― Drew Daniel, Monday, 29 September 2008 12:59 (seventeen years ago)

^ should've produced for her

― They're a '90s odd couple. And an odds-on choice for laughs. (blueski), Monday, 29 September 2008 13:01 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

what the hell is going on? Lil Kim, we need you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxvtA90R_kc&feature=player_embedded#!

― Blancminaj (Spinspin Sugah), Sunday, 25 April 2010 03:47 (fifteen years ago)

I do like that she continued the "My Neck, My Back" tradition of having the video have as little as possible to do with the theme. I mean, it's not quite as detached from its content as having a backyard barbecue or whatever was going on back in 2002, but I sort of appreciate not going for the utterly on-the-nose or too many cutesy innuendos or whatever. Beat is nice RZA-retro. Khia's not really doing much tho, gotta say.

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 25 April 2010 04:01 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

I love how that guy she is supposedly seducing in the video keeps giving a "not again" look to the camera.

― skip, Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:49 (fourteen years ago)

>>>>>>>azealia banks

― Sh1pley Gohard (D-40), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:50 (fourteen years ago)

classic obv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoW-HoxRruI

― I had to google gucci mane (The Brainwasher), Friday, 13 January 2012 02:52 (fourteen years ago)

ten months pass...

she released a new album this year and it's KIND OF AMAZING. she threatens to snatch a fake breast within a minute of it opening and there's a six-minute smooth r&b jam called "dickmatize".

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Saturday, 1 December 2012 21:51 (thirteen years ago)

the tempo-shifting "turn you out" is another highlight. SOMETIMES I FUCK LIKE A GIRL SOMETIMES I FUCK LIKE A BOY

so is the very freelancer-relevant "fuck a promo" in which she refuses to work for free

the "no one denies this pussy" skit is O_O

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Saturday, 1 December 2012 22:24 (thirteen years ago)

"lick me dry", brassy and cheerfully good-natured smut of the sort that you just don't get any more

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Saturday, 1 December 2012 22:31 (thirteen years ago)

this is what i was referring to when i asked for rap and r&b from this year that i could dance to btw

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Saturday, 1 December 2012 22:31 (thirteen years ago)

put your tongue in and out the back end
put it in deep, watch this pussy start snackin

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Saturday, 1 December 2012 22:33 (thirteen years ago)

gonna check this out

― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Saturday, 1 December 2012 22:47 (thirteen years ago)

"fall back" is a kind of exquisite autumnal jam that pretends to be wistful but of course it's not. the closing monologue!!!

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Saturday, 1 December 2012 22:50 (thirteen years ago)

seriously i didn't know she did r&b let alone did it so well

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Saturday, 1 December 2012 22:50 (thirteen years ago)

AOTY

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Saturday, 1 December 2012 22:51 (thirteen years ago)

"sit yo ass down" and "bullshitting" are classic khia rants

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Saturday, 1 December 2012 22:54 (thirteen years ago)

you've heard this, right lex?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i828rrzYf1k

― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Sunday, 2 December 2012 03:46 (thirteen years ago)

i hadn't, i don't like it as much as the original though. i think the main thing that stops me really loving ballroom stuff is that i can't stand the penchant to get stuck on one word or phrase over and over again, it's all stuck-record tension and no release

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Sunday, 2 December 2012 12:28 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KSQgVxe4Y4

THE DRUMS

THE GUITAR

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Monday, 3 December 2012 12:21 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaqweuT2blY

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Monday, 3 December 2012 12:31 (thirteen years ago)

this was not cool:

One-hit wonder rapper Khiaappears to have fired not-so-subtle shots at Odd Future crooner Frank Ocean after he set the record straight on his sexuality.

Last week, Frank bravely penned a powerful letter in which he revealed he fell in love with a man at the age of 19, putting to rest the rumours of his sexuality. Along with the rest of the music world, Khia has added her two cents in regards to the revelation but seems to have subliminally dissed the singer.

“Hats Off To Frank Ocean At Least He Finally Told The Truth Now All The Women He Fooled Can Finally Know The Truth!!” Khia wrote on Twitter.
“I Wrote A Book About It!! Be Sure To Get It Khia’s New Book Ignoring The Signs!!! LAWD HAVE MERCEY ON THEIR SOULS!!”

― U.S. State Department, Office of Rare Psych (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 3 December 2012 22:24 (thirteen years ago)

but hey, she talks about her vagina so that automatically makes her awesome

― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Monday, 3 December 2012 22:26 (thirteen years ago)

this was cool though:

https://twitter.com/QueenKhia/statuses/167883635180056576

http://i49.tinypic.com/dvkeap.png

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Monday, 3 December 2012 22:27 (thirteen years ago)

the misogyny of that post!

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 December 2012 22:27 (thirteen years ago)

*in that post, rather. "Let's make fun of this woman's statement by posting unflattering photo and using "ho" in url.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 December 2012 22:31 (thirteen years ago)

lol thank you for that clarification

― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Monday, 3 December 2012 22:36 (thirteen years ago)

You're welcome. Let's have milk and cookies.

http://rudeboys.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/cookie-butt.jpg

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 December 2012 22:37 (thirteen years ago)

i really expected more from bossip.com

― call all destroyer, Monday, 3 December 2012 22:41 (thirteen years ago)

lex have you heard "Chow My Box" by Diamond Escalade? i think you'd like it

― U.S. State Department, Office of Rare Psych (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 3 December 2012 22:43 (thirteen years ago)

eight months pass...

http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/948269-129/khia-song-love-miley-neck-music

― we run zings, zings don't run we (The Reverend), Thursday, 8 August 2013 20:49 (twelve years ago)

oh my god she is amazing

But that song transcended age, race, and nations. I’ve been to Greece, the Netherlands, you know, all over with that song. They don’t even know how to speak English, but they know how to say “Pussy” and “Crack” and “Neck” and “Back.”

― lex pretend, Friday, 9 August 2013 06:34 (twelve years ago)

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