EVEN THE TITLE IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK! Like a lot of these slow bangers, this song starts with a tone-setting WHOOOOOOOOOOSH that knocks you flat on your back (into bed).įor a little while, Aaron Hall and R. I’m not saying it was a more innocent time, but maybe it was a more suggestive time, a time when a euphemism like “knockin’ the boots” could dominate your imagination without revealing anything. Making this playlist, I remember how embarrassed I was just to hear some of these songs on the radio with adults in the vicinity. Some fourth graders performed this at my elementary school talent show and it was SCANDALOUS. The sound of pleather floating through outer space.
The sound of a feather floating through outer space. This video is great, too: bubble baths, sex swings, patent leather booty shorts, and the only crooked cop anyone’s ever been excited to meet. Most people know Adina Howard from her hit “Freak Like Me,” but she has songs for days and nights (especially late nights). Here they are riding dirty over a sample of the O’Jays’ “Help (Somebody Please).” Their voices blend together in a way that sounds just shy of flat, which gives their sound character and creepiness. Kelly pioneered the R&B opera with the back-and-forth dialogue concept that he would later take to its furthest extreme with the Trapped in the Closet series. Probably the greatest narrative music video of all time that probably cost a lot of money to make. Featuring such ’90s music video touchstones as: blue filters, glass bricks, and satin clothes blowing in a wind machine. Let’s pour one out for the days of AutoTune-free vocoder-heavy R&B with this Sweat-co-written bang bus. Keith Sweat’s imprint label Keia Records gave us Kut Klose and Silk, giving Sweat a virtual monopoly over the baby-making jam game for a few years in the mid-’90s. Keith Sweat’s choice of stage name really says it all. Kut Klose and Pretty RussĪ plotty neo-noir music video I watched a hundred million times on MTV. The insane Hype Williams music video (featuring Snoop Dogg in the opening scene) is every bit as epic as the song. If this song doesn’t make you hump the floor, it might be time to take a Turing test. I can’t even write about this song, I just start singing it. Pour the wine, light the fire, and throw your clothes on the floor.
Here is a playlist of all-time classic ’90s R&B videos whose magic is just as potent as ever. Hark ye back to a world before smartphones, to a time when making a romantic playlist meant making an actual mixtape. Turn off your mind, relax, and float downtown to an era when R&B thrived on sultriness, silkiness, and taking it slow. In this world of ever-increasing BPMs, sometimes you just need your jams to be a little more “ Tempo Slow.” Nothing too fast - we’re trying to set a mood here. To wit, new single “ Every Moment“ serves their luscious harmonies with a sumptuous video that involves a white grand piano being played in the snow. Jodeci melded New Jack Swing with classic soul to create a dirty new genre that ruled the ’90s airwaves and my young immortal soul. And no group inspired more grinding or grinding-based panic than Jodeci, whose new album The Past, The Present, The Future marks a return to form for the onetime bad boys of R&B. Before there was twerk panic, there was grinding panic, the irrational fear that overzealous teens might dance too close and get their parts stuck together. You’ve been warned: Just reading this playlist might get you pregnant.
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