Showing posts with label BLACKSTREET. Show all posts
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Friday, January 24, 2014

THROW BACK VIDEO: NO DIGGITY BY BLACKSTREET


"No Diggity" is a song by American R&B group Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre and Queen Pen. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and in New Zealand, and number nine in the United Kingdom. "No Diggity" ended "Macarena"'s 14-week reign atop the US Billboard Charts. It ranked at number 91 on Rolling Stone and MTV: 100 Greatest Pop Songs. It sold 1.6 million copies in 1996, and won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals and was nominated forGrammy Award for Best R&B Song. It ranked at #32 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the '90s.

Between Blackstreet's sung verses are rap verses performed by Dre, Teddy Riley and Queen Pen. Despite the fact that some of Dr. Dre & Queen Pen's lyrics are censored, there are no "dirty" versions of the song. Also, there is a radio version that excludes both rappers and features Blackstreet only, tailor made for airplay on Top 40 Pop and Adult R&B stations.

The song's musical backing track is an altered sample from the beginning of "Grandma's Hands" by R&B hitmaker Bill Withers.
In the United Kingdom, the song climbed back into the top forty of the UK Singles Chart in March 2013, peaking at number thirty eight 16 years after its original release there.


Friday, November 8, 2013

THROW BACK VIDEO: I GET LONELY BY JANET JACKSON FEATURING BLACKSTREET



"I Get Lonely" is a song by American singer Janet Jackson from her sixth studio album The Velvet Rope. Released as the album's third single in late February 1998, it became a top five on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as Jackson's twelfth R&B chart-topper, also becoming successful in various territories worldwide.
"I Get Lonely" became Janet's eighteenth consecutive top ten hit on the Hot 100, setting a record for her as the only female artist to achieve that feat, surpassed only by Elvis Presley and The Beatles.

[1] The song received a BMI Pop Award for "Most Played Song" and a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, and was later included on Janet's second hits compilation Number Ones. Its music video is also infamous for its sex appeal, choreography, and artistic theme and imagery.

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