Well, as everyone knows, I'm a massive fan of the funk group The Time, which if you don't know was a project Prince put together (producing and writing all the songs under an alias, publicly denying that it was him) in the early 80's in order for him to be able to release more music.
The first two albums by The Time are stone-cold funk classics. The self-titled one had jams like "Get It Up" - which was sampled by 'Pac on "Iz It Cool 2 Fuck" and covered by TLC for the Poetic Justice soundtrack. Their second album 'What Time Is It?" had tracks like "777-9311" which 'Pac again used for "Whatz Ya Phone #".
The original line-up of The Time split after the second album. Keyboardist Jimmy Jam and bass player Terry Lewis were fired by Prince for missing a show (they were in Atlanta working on what would be their first hit as producers, 'Just Be Good To Me' by the SOS Band).
As I'm sure some of you will know, Jam & Lewis went on to produce many hits, including becoming Janet's longtime producers. They are arguably the greatest producers of all time. (and were voted as such in a recent poll, beating out Quincy Jones, Dre, Premier, Teddy Riley, Gamble&Huff, Phil Spector and more).
Anyhoo, if you saw the Grammys last Sunday, you'd have seen the original line-up of The Time reunite and perform Jungle Love with Rihanna. This seems like good timing, because....
My second favorite jam of the first Time album, which I was blasting all day yesterday, is a jam called "Cool".
And I've just heard that a cover of "Cool" is to be Snoop's second single from Ego Trippin' and it's supposedly produced by Teddy Riley.
This is gonna be the hot shit
Here's the video to the original song if anyone is interested:
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb6Emdoij4U[/YOUTUBE]
The first two albums by The Time are stone-cold funk classics. The self-titled one had jams like "Get It Up" - which was sampled by 'Pac on "Iz It Cool 2 Fuck" and covered by TLC for the Poetic Justice soundtrack. Their second album 'What Time Is It?" had tracks like "777-9311" which 'Pac again used for "Whatz Ya Phone #".
The original line-up of The Time split after the second album. Keyboardist Jimmy Jam and bass player Terry Lewis were fired by Prince for missing a show (they were in Atlanta working on what would be their first hit as producers, 'Just Be Good To Me' by the SOS Band).
As I'm sure some of you will know, Jam & Lewis went on to produce many hits, including becoming Janet's longtime producers. They are arguably the greatest producers of all time. (and were voted as such in a recent poll, beating out Quincy Jones, Dre, Premier, Teddy Riley, Gamble&Huff, Phil Spector and more).
Anyhoo, if you saw the Grammys last Sunday, you'd have seen the original line-up of The Time reunite and perform Jungle Love with Rihanna. This seems like good timing, because....
My second favorite jam of the first Time album, which I was blasting all day yesterday, is a jam called "Cool".
And I've just heard that a cover of "Cool" is to be Snoop's second single from Ego Trippin' and it's supposedly produced by Teddy Riley.
This is gonna be the hot shit
Here's the video to the original song if anyone is interested:
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb6Emdoij4U[/YOUTUBE]