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Come On Ride It (The Train) - Quad City DJs

Back in effect for the Naught-Five, that's '05 for those of you who are not up on your early (last) century slanguistics. Today, I went all the way down 95 south, to America's wang (according to Homer Simpson) to dig up this classic of classic Miami Bass/Booty Bass/Rap-Dance gumbo of a track.

This was like most of the tracks that we here at The Funk have featured this week in that it was meant for one reason and one reason only. To get your sorry arse on the dance floor. Mission accomplished.

This jammy had it's own dance, which was essential to club tracks at this time. The dance it self wasn't anything to beatbox home about, but it was simple. And that meant that drunk girlies and rhythmically challenged white guys could pick it up. But the kicker was that you needed a mass of folks to make it work. It was literally the ghetto conga line. To me, it looked like a frat routine that went around in circles. But man did it give you a work out. I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere, a step class in 1996 wasn't sweating to this song.

Released back in 1996, this song made it's way around the radio stations and video programs. The video was pretty unimaginative, simply cause it was a bunch of people dancing. But to the trained eye, this video is great. Here are the reasons:

1.) The Phallic looking spaceship that apparently is substituting for an actual train. Looks like a star cruise model for a "Star Wars Shot At Home" movie.
2.) The implementation of the aforementioned dance routine.
3.) You have the B-Boy, an MC, and a DJ. If they would have found a way to get a graf artist in there, it would have gone into "Fourth Element" mode.

In a strange way, the video is what would result if Club MTV with Downtown Julie Brown & a Soul Train episode at Elizabeth City State that was held in outerspace would be if they had youngins. (ed. note, does that make any kind of sense?) You can judge for yourself here.

Here is the Bio for the group:

The production team of C.C. Lemonhead (Nathaniel Orange) and Jay Ski (Johnny McGowan) met as high-school pals in Jacksonville, FL. Interested in the bottom-heavy sound of Miami bass, the pair began producing and worked with Icy J and Three Grand before creating the most popular bass anthem of all time, "Whoot (There It Is)."(I did not know that)Recorded as 95 South, the single went platinum three times over in 1993 and led to work with Dis-n-Dat ("Freak Me Baby") and for 69 Boyz, the double-platinum single "Tootsee Roll."(Didn't know that either!) As producers of "Tootsee Roll" and the subsequent album by 69 Boyz (199Quad), C.C. and Jay Ski picked up an award for Billboard's Best Rap Single of 1994 and placed in the top ten producers of that year. In 1995, the duo united as Quad City DJ's and produced another platinum hit -- "C'Mon N' Ride It (The Train)." The following album, Get on Up and Dance, hit the Top 40 and was certified gold.

Unfortunately, there isn't a real neato story that I have to tie this post all together. Well except for the shame I have to this day for buying their album when it came out. Gives me the heebie jeebies. But I wasn't really a dance freak so it wore off.

Thank goodness for file sharing.

Brother B. aka Minister of International Relations