Songoftheday 7/30/19 - We getz freaky in the studio late night, that's why the beats that you hear are comin' real tight...
from the album Don't Fight The Feelin' (1994)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #36 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 9
Today's song of the day comes from rapper Anthony H. Forté, who grew up in San Francisco, and started his music career adopting the moniker "Rappin' 4-Tay" (a play on his last name) in the late 1980s. After guesting on Too $hort's album Life Is...Too $hort, and a stint in jail, 4-Tay released his debut album Rappin' 4-Tay Is Back in 1991. But it would be three years later that he would have any breakthrough success. That came with the lead single from his sophomore effort Don't Fight The Feelin', "Playaz Club", which put a pimp-style narrative over a sample of the soul nugget "Private Number" from William Bell and Judy Clay from back in 1968...
"Playaz Club" became 4-Tay's first top-40 pop hit in November of 1994. The song also climbed to #54 (surprisedly muted for such a street-themed tune) on Billboard's R&B chart. Internationally, the single peaked at #63 (as the second single from the set) in the UK.
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The remix of the track transformed the song into something else entirely...
Up tomorrow: Another double, this time from a Grammy-winning soul sister who proclaims ownership.
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