#Montell Jordan

[cozyaliensuperstar7]

WNBA Players 👑🏀

Stars came to see to watch the Chicago Sky vs Atlanta Dream games: Monica, Gail Bean and Montell Jordan 😊

[free-my-mindd]

Montell Jordan and Aaliyah

[djevilninja]

Contemplating what to do - Falling faster over you - But my heart and pride are out there on the line. I dial your number on the phone - A steady ringing, you’re not home. If you’re listening to this message, Girl I’m calling ‘cause I’m falling for you.

Montell Jordan - Falling

[soupy-sez]

Montell Jordan – This Is How We Do It (1995) [X]

[teayoungg]

Is the resemblance in the drums??? Cuz I can kinda hear it

Listen and you'll know what I mean (these are the drums of both songs below)

I guess Ming wasn't lying when she called them hip hoppers

[culturalappreciator]

Can I Get A Sample?!

Sample

Bob James- Nautilus (1974)

Sampler Link

Slick Rick- Children's Story (1988)

Sampler

Montell Jordan- This Is How We Do It (1995)

[hit-song-showdown]

Year-End Poll #46: 1995

[Image description: a collage of photos of the 10 musicians and musical groups featured in this poll. In order from left to right, top to bottom: Coolio, TLC, TLC, Seal, Boyz II Men, Real McCoy, Mariah Carey, Madonna, Monica, Montell Jordan. End description]

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This year we're seeing several movements in R&B. Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men are continuing their streaks from previous years, while groups like TLC are reaching their commercial peaks (if only their treatment from the label reflected that). Seal, a London-based artist who previously worked with funk, blues, and acid house, would cross over to both The States and the Billboard Hot 100 with the soul single Kiss from a Rose. 1995 also marks the debut of fourteen-year-old Monica, who would become one of the defining R&B artists of the decade.

Rap is also having its moment in mainstream pop culture. I talked briefly about the rise of G-funk and reality rap a few polls ago. Here, we're seeing more of that rise with the late Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise. We're also starting to see rap and R&B start to mix together. Nowadays, the blending of the two genres is incredibly common. New jack swing already helped to bridge the gap between the styles. But with artists like Montell Jordan providing both R&B vocals and hip-hop flow, to Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes' rap verses with TLC, to Gangsta's Paradise soul cover in the chorus, this blend is starting to become much more common. The Stevie Wonder sample in Gangsta's Paradise is notable for another reason. While hip-hop was built on the art of sampling, this specific style of vocal sampling would grow in popularity this decade, most notably from the work of Bad Boy Records and Sean Combs (F.K.A. Puff Daddy/[P.] Diddy). While controversial at the time, we will continue to see songs exemplifying this shift in the mainstream rap sound -- especially in the decades to come.

[tha-wrecka-stow]

[ptxweekly]

PTX + Montell Jordan

[blaylists]

old school rap

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

☝️☝️☝️☝️.

[narcobarbies]

montell jordan as johnson

the fighting temptations (2003)

[artistsonthelam]

One of my favorite annual events in my old neighborhood* is happening today. In its honor, throwback to Battle for the Eagle 2017. (And throwback to when all my videos were 10 seconds long.) Always loved sitting on the steps under the Monument and watching this.

(Also, spot the happy shiba inu in the crowd)

*Logan Square, Chicago

// (c) Jenny Lam

[djevilninja]

It feels so good in my hood tonight; The summertime skirts and the guys in Kani, All the gangbangers forgot about the drive-by. You gotta get your groove on, before you go get paid, So tip up your cup and throw your hands up, And let me hear the party say…

Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It

[scolioussy]

Me, fucking something up, and on the verge of tears, quietly singing to myself:

"this is how we do it"