(Mary Had A Little Lamb) But Not Like This!

Now That We Found Love - Heavy D

Here is a two-fer Friday post for the loyal readers of The Funk. I'm sure by now that if you have a TV, or a woman who has a TV, you have seen the ads for the new 'date' movie, Hitch, starring Will "Don't call me Fr-re-re-resh" Smith. (Side note: Even if he wanted to go back to using the Fresh Prince moniker it wouldn't fit, cause boy is the King!...just kidding. Seriously). You know the drill with these movies so I won't bore you to death, or at least paralysis, by giving you the details. However, you can find them here if you are so inclined.

But while watching Johnny Zero last week, I saw the trailer for this movie and in the back ground was today's Dance-Hop track, Heavy D and the Boyz' (is that the right punctuation? Do you treat the z the same as the s in plurality?) "Now That We Found Love". And in a millisecond, it took me back to the video and the conversation I would have with my man O'Lekan about it some years later.

My whole point was at the time of this song, most of the New Jack Swing groups of the day (Teddy Riley, Keith Sweat, Al B. Sure, etc) would do at least one video per album and that the videos all sort of had the same thing. Here is a recreation of that conversation:

B: Man, that new Heavy D video was terrible.
O: True. But the girlies liked it.
B: Yeah I know. But here is the thing I don't get. When they were thinking about shooting that video, why did they choose that motif?
O: Good question. It's like the director thought that the "street theme" would give Heavy D some cred in the rap community. Dude already had it. This is Mr. Big Stuff we are talking about.
B: For reals. Here is the director, "Okay, Heavster, you are in the streets looking hard and whatever you rap guys do, then POW!, dancers in bright colored jumpsuits jump out and you go into the routine. Oh and it's raining." I mean, what the f*%k?
O: F*&kin' bamas.

So that was basically it.
You can peep the video here (but beware, it's at MTV.com and their ads are atrocious!, and it's a clip, not the full deal)

And that's about it for Dance-Hop week. Thank goodness. Cause I can't keep letting yawl know that I have all of these songs in my collection. Ruins my street cred (Let's all sell our souls!).

We'll be back next week with a new theme and some new craziness in the world of all thangs funky.

Til then, take it easy.
Brother B