singles from the So So Def Bass All-Stars series (+ Rhythm & Quad 166 Vol. 1)

One of the greats comps of all time but there can only be one winner here, surely

lol yeah, there is ONE CERTAIN SONG here that will definitely win but i am curious to hear what other songs ppl still like from these comps. i once read somewhere that "my boo" is the only one that has stood the test of time or something like that which is probably the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard

oh and the reason i included rhythm & quad vol. 1 is b/c it was along a similar vein: commercially viable combinations of bass beats and r&b vocals. i do love the overly optimistic "vol. 1" in the title as well.

lol yes

this is weird, i remember a lil' jon track being on this

yeah there was a lil jon song on rhythm & quad

lil jon produced a lot of the tracks on so so def bass all stars! (i believe the lathun track is one of his.) he was also a&r for the project i think.

ahh the vinyl has a different tracklisting:

1. R&Q Intro - Bonecrusher
2. Bass Is Lo - Carl Mo, Zae
3. Swing My Way - KP & Envyi, Mixzo
4. Let's Ride - Emperor Searcy, Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz
5. Shake for Me - DJ Smurf, MC Shy D, The Pop
6. Kissable Spot - Bme, Romance
7. Get the Party Crunk - Sammy Sam
8. MC Foul-Mout (Skit) - T-Storm
9. Don't Wanna Lose Your Love - Baby Doll, Carl Mo
10. Player Can't You See - A-Town Players
11. Bass Dealer - Emperor Searcy
12. Stationwagonpimpin' - Sammy Sam, Skinny Man
13. 1-800-ATL-Pimp (Skit) - T-Storm
14. R&Q 166 (Quadcappella) - C-Love, L-Rock
15. It's About Time - Envyi, Mixzo

voted 'player cant you see'

you think it's challops, think again

r&q 166 could possibly be my fave lp ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bvvUModhgs

It's not on this, but I want to link to the Carl Mo remix of SSMW anyway in the slim chance that anyone reading this thread hasn't heard it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPlQ9bYoVPs

^ both amazing

official CARL MO POLL (ghosttown djs, big boi, pastor troy, slimm calhoun, k.p. & envyi)

comedy poll winners hall of fame

Virgo - Apple Pie 0

i like this one a lot too

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where's "slick partna" in that carl mo poll

virgo
carl mo
so so
DAAAYYYYYYFFF

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wtf i would have voted in this. do-over.

lol oops this poll failed hard :(

my favs are

1) love you down
2) freak it
3) summertime summertime
4) my boo
5) swing my way

but honestly i love all these songs, it is hard choosing among them.

summertime summertime. i love the atmospheric feel to it. and that silly spoken word intro.

Voted for the winner.

yeah that version of "love you down" is pretty great

would've voted "summertime summertime" but man i didn't even see this poll :(

me neither :/

voted for Lathun, would do it again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p015tt6t

- Jermaine Dupri - I Got 2 Have It (Feat. Nas & Monica)
- Nas - Halftime
- Nas - Ain't Hard To Tell
- Nas - Nas Is Like
- Nas - NY State Of Mind
- Nas - Represent
- Nas - One Love
- Jermaine Dupri - Welcome To Atlanta
- Whodini - 5 Minutes Of Funk
- Jermaine Dupri & Jay-Z - Money Ain't A Thing
- Dru Hill - Sleeping In My Bed (So So Def Remix)
- Bone Crusher - Neva Scared
- Jagged Edge - Let's Get Married
- Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
- Kris Kross - Jump
- Destiny's Child - Jumpin Jumpin (So So Def Remix)
- Craig Mack - Flava In Ya Ear
- East Flatbush Project - Tried By 12
- Da Brat - What'chu Like
- Jagged Edge - Where The Party At
- J-Kwon - Tipsy
- Brand Nubian - To The Right
- Da Brat - Da B Side
- Da Brat - Funkafied
- Lil Wayne - Love ME
- DEVolution - My Friends
- Torqux - Blazin
- India.Arie - I Am Not My Hair

ah jag skills, embarrassing as ever

trev could do a better job of every one of his mixes the lazy sod

lol

i love that the final line of virgo's "apple pie" is basically the same as the opening line of "my boo". i only noticed this today after listening to these albums again throughout the past week or so.

BOY YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT

i love this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAn9VO7wlss

it has ludacris on it too which is pretty cool

also love this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mszg7dV4B8

(sorry i'm dumping random examples of this kind of music in here)

imagination remix is one of the all-time very best of these

i haven't stopped playing it since i found it, it's so great

oh snap I didn't know the Corina jam was a cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcurEoUvK-E

that it was originally a freestyle track makes total sense tho

totally. feel like around the time of these comps was kinda the last breath commercially for freestyle for many yrs which was too bad but is interesting in retrospect.

the original "summertime summertime" is great too :D

just gonna post this in here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3zBtOem79s

heard "freak it" multiple times on the radio when i was in miami over thxgiving, that song is so good

jealous

xxp r&b booty bass b-side remixes from the late 90s are one of my favorite types of music

and to bring it full circle! a freestyle remix of the Corina version by Carlos Berrios who produced a bunch of her older freestyle music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgPU9ybWZlM

oh shit, I guess Corina co-wrote the song in the first place so maybe not really a cover after all.

also I started this thread r&b booty bass b-side remixes from the late 90s are one of my favorite types of music

Mantronik produced the original! the web gets deep

my copy of corina's "summertime summertime" promo single (i tracked it down b/c i wanted a good-quality version of the radio edit lol) sez the original song was written by nocera and floyd fisher, and that corina wrote the spoken-word part at the beginning of her version (she also wrote the lyrics to her spanish version "es verano")

exposing myself as a dilettante here but idk who mantronik is :X

i heard a sample of some vocal ad libs from "swing my way" (pitched up) last night on the radio and was offended when i discovered it had been done on bryson tiller's boring music

and now here we are with a song using the same sample, but pitched/slowed down. plus an interpolation of the chorus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUn150OyOnE

Freak It is fantastic

once a year or so i'll randomly hear it out somewhere, which is always a pleasant surprise. not a super well known song by any means but something of a classic among those who know it, i guess

where have these been all my life?!?

To this day, it still puzzles me how So So Def got a hold of Corina's "summertime summertime." Since Albert Cabrera produced that track along with her other track "constant craving," which was featured on the Dance Trip 2000 compilation, which also contains quite a bit of similar sounding songs he produced, I figured the original version of "Summertime Summertime" should have also been on that compilation. It is pretty much the same exact production sound as "only love" by Brenda K Starr and "Runaway" by Lil Suzy. I figured the Spanish and spanglish versions of "summertime summertime" would also end up on some Latin Booty Bass compilations, but none ever did. Summertime Summertime was supposed to be So So Def's follow up to "My Boo," but it seems that that song wasn't as successful as "My boo" overall for a variety of reasons I won't get into here.

I also wonder why Inoj didn't have any songs on Dance Trip 2000, as I see her as someone who would have perfectly fit that sound as well. Virgo could have made a song on Dance Trip 2000 as well, especially under the "Virgo" name. Not sure why that name wasn't also used when she sang "My boo"....

Nowadays, it seems that "My boo" is the song that had the biggest success, although, most will never know Virgo's name due to the "Ghost town DJs" name being used for that particular track.

Inoj, I would say comes in second place when it comes to overall success since she had more than one song from her first album receive sufficient radio support in the US and overseas. Inoj had four releases from her first album, with two ("time after time" and "love you down") that had done very well in the US. In addition, there are two versions of "ring my bell" I heard play while in Phoenix, Arizona, between 1999 and 2009, during radio mixshow play on 2 stations (a video was made for the regular version, so I assume it was meant to be her third official single). The fourth release, "all I want," I never heard it play in the US, but it did play in the Philippines in a Magic 89.9 mixshow along with "My boo," and "do you miss me" (freefloor remix) by Jocelyn Enriquez. That was in December 2019. A year before that I saw one or two females in the Philippines putting "Inoj" as one of their favorite artists in theit Tinder profile, and the woman I dated there also loves the song "all I want" by Inoj (in addition to her two other main singles that made it big there).

Inoj still continues to make new bass music nowadays, but Lil Jon is no longer the producer of her songs.

Lil Jon himself has done an amazing job with not only production work on Inoj's album, but pretty much on ever bass remix of all the hit RnB songs he has remixed. Many of those bass remixes still occasionally get played in Atlanta, although, I do not hear the Planet Patrol ft Jazze Pha "Play at your own risk" remix by Lil Jon anywhere anymore (not including my radio station).

I occasionally mix some old school bass, electro breaks and freestyle. However, I focus mainly on the new school (current) Miami Bass, Booty Bass, Electro Breaks and Freestyle music of today.

If I had my vote, I would vote for "Summertime Summertime" by Corina, of course. I would also vote for many other songs that are similar to both "my boo" and "summertime summertime," such as:

Dana Harris - As we lay;

Inoj - Time after time;

Dj Uneek ft Gemini - Doctor doctor (party mix);

Tamia ft Ludacris - imagination (Lil Jon Bass Mix);

Liberty City - 24/7 (Dj Felony Bass Mix);

Usher ft Twista - Nice & Slow (Atlanta Bass Mix);

Carl Mo ft Babydoll - Don't wanna lose your love

Booty Girlz - Freak me (let me lick you up and down);

Virgo - slick Patna;

Corina - Summertime Summertime* ;

Brenda K Starr - Only Love* ;

Janelle Monae - Time will reveal;

Mc Shy D ft Pop - Shake for me;

Ciara - Body Party (Dj Mike D remix);

Taj - For lovers only (Booty Mix)

Brian McKnight - Anytime (Cibola Bass Mix);

Planet Patrol ft Jazze Pha - play at your own risk (Lil Jon Bass Remix);

Sylvia - Loving you;

Ciara - C.R.U.S.H.;

Ricky Bell - when will I see you smile again;

Xcape - My little secret (Lil Jon Bass Remix);

702 - Get it together (Bass Mix)

Christine - Lose control (Booty Mix);

Lil Suzy - Runaway* ;

Underdog Project - Summer Jam (original mix);

Supaquad - All I wanna say;

Inoj - love you down;

112 - Anywhere (Bass Mix);

Aaliyah - One in a million (Wolf D Big Bass Mix);

Lathun - Freak it;

Strawberri - Saddle you up;

Tightwork - can I holla;

Jocelyn Enriquez - Do you miss me (Electrobeats remix)* ;

Pinay - Everything (You'll be missing) (Rhythmic Soul Mix);

S.F. Spanish Fly - Tender Love;

IMX - My first time (booty mix)

Ciara ft Ludacris - Ride pt 2;

Nashay - Loving you (Mike D Remix);

Brian McKnight - Back at one (Cibola Bass Mix)

Mo Thugs Family - It's all good;

Stefanie Bennett - Ooh la la la (Jersey Bass Mix)

Divine - Lately (Cibola Mix)

> Those are mainly the uptempo R&B styled vocal bass songs in english with little to no rap that immediately come to mind. //

> I did not include the newer stuff (like "Visible" by Doc Nasty or "Always be my X" by Inoj, etc.) and I did not include my favorite electro-freestyle songs, as that is an entirely different list.

DJ KDM / CLUB KDM

Thank you DJ KDM!