Mtume - Juicy Fruit (CD)

Pronounced em-TOO-may

By R.R  Mar 28, 2000

Although I didn't realize it at the time (I was only six years old), I grew up listening to many of these songs . Many are still favorites of Black radio , with title song Juicy Fruit often heard on many a "Quiet Storm" . The rest of the album is en...ergetic funk-pop , falling somewhere in between the hardcore funk of post-Parliament George Clinton and the "Punk-Funk-Rock" stylings of Rick James . Both were contemporaries of this ensemble . Many of these songs get heard in other ways : as samples in R&B and Rap . If you ever heard San Quinn's "Hitz I'm Makin'" you've heard "Hips" . If you've heard Biggie's "Juicy" , then you've heard "Juicy Fruit" . Unfortunately , there were only two more albums to come from Mtume , for reasons still unexplained . If you were under 30 in the early eighties , give Mtume , especially this album , a listen . Read more Less