Dissect DJs - Positive K - I Got a Man

Episode Date: October 4, 2024

We're going back to the 90s with another classic review of this 1993 throwback jam that might not be what you thought you've always heard, it's Positive K - "I Got A Man".We dive d...eep into how it was put together, discuss approach game, 90s hip hop, and a thorough breakdown of the back and forth rap convo in full dissect mode as we do. Positive K is NEXT! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Man, I can't fucking believe this. The same shit happened to the same guy twice. It's the dot set. Hey, yo, sweetie, you're looking kind of pretty. What's a girl like you doing in this rough? We're talking it back. We're getting positive up in here with a little positive K. But first, I'm your boy DJ MC.
Starting point is 00:00:56 Jag. And of course, what up, Steve? DJ Castle, because we are the DJs that like to spin it, mix it, throw. it back and dissect it and this is one that I've been wanting to do probably since we started it's right just it's always been like on the chopping block of like all right well we could do positive K I got a man and then we end up going with the other one so it's about time we finally got this one in here from 1992 actually no it at 1993 I took a guess as I was looking for it but uh it's a good yeah feels like a night three jam yeah so I
Starting point is 00:01:33 Out the gate, I just want to say that in this song, always thought that the girl singing was a girl from TLC, left eye. Definitely. Definitely doesn't sound like left eye. No, you never thought that? Well, no, I mean, I saw the video, and that's clearly not left eye. I didn't watch videos. This is where we always had this dilemma of,
Starting point is 00:01:52 he was a video watcher, and I just kind of had him on in the background while I was doing whatever I was doing. Yeah, girl in the video is a classic, like, it's very early 90s. Who was she? I mean, I just assumed that Positive K was a guy and a girl in a group. Oh, okay. That's always what I thought. As I'm looking at the photo album of Positive K, it's just a guy. And his name, well, the producer says is Easy LG.
Starting point is 00:02:21 I don't know the guy's name. I assume that's him, though. It's just always, anyway. One of the reasons I want to do this song recently is because I saw a recent TikTok video, of which they explained that Positive K is actually both. the man and the girl in this song. What? A little known fact.
Starting point is 00:02:38 Did you not know that? Yes. And as I look it up on Google, in quickness, it says, in creating the song, Positive K provided not only the man's dialogue, but also the woman's dialogue by raising the pitch of his voice using studio technology. So he is both the guy and the girl. And I heard it done. What they did was they slowed the song down a lot.
Starting point is 00:02:57 And then he just wrapped over that. And then when they sput it back up, he sounded like, you know, he had the female type voice. that's kind of genius and I can hear I mean I can her voice does sound like maybe that's what's happening but I also have seen them perform live and maybe it was just they got a girl to like fill in for the role there just do that part they didn't have the pair for the recording part and actually making the song yeah I could see that because like what I always felt like with her voice is like she kind of has an annoying as fuck voice but it works for this song like it just it works with that
Starting point is 00:03:31 beat. It works for that 90s feel. Yeah. It works for the way, the song, like what the story of it is. Like, it all just works for some reason. But I wouldn't want to hear her on any other track. But in this one, it's fire. Yeah, I got you. And then, of course, we've got the actual story of what's actually happened,
Starting point is 00:03:47 where positive K is talking to. We'll just say it is a girl that he's talking to, even though he does both versions, which makes it really weird. Let's call her negative K. Negative K. K-A-Y. And he's trying to get her to just hang out with him, even though she's
Starting point is 00:04:01 clearly and being very respectful by letting him know hey I got a man and he doesn't care he is not trying to hear that he's like what's your man got to do with me what's your man got to do with me I mean a lot because you're trying to hit on her and she's letting you know that he's there's being real she's being honest you're trying to push right past that it sounds quite disrespectful in my opinion so far I mean yeah he's coming in a little aggressive on this one no there's a lot of story I think that we can we can we can dissect up in here let's crack this boy open and start trugging through the lyrics because there's an
Starting point is 00:04:36 actual story taking place here a yo sweetie looking kind of pretty what's a girl like you doing in this rough city you should do the the girl lyrics oh okay let me pull that up i'll just let you so she says i'm just here trying to hold my own ground the way she says it yeah i'm just trying to hold my own ground yeah i think i gotta sound what you say we get to know each other better that sounds good but i don't think i can't let you i don't know oh that's me that's the dude now i don't know is it so do you get a kick out of telling brothers no no it's not that see you don't understand how should i put it i got a man which is a very contradictory sentence right there on its own because it's like you don't understand although it's incredibly easy to understand
Starting point is 00:05:26 it's literally probably the most basic thing to understand if you're trying to talk to a girl and she's like no we can't really talk I can almost see why he's pushing past it like she's being real like you don't understand see it's like yeah she's like not even happy about having a man so he's like
Starting point is 00:05:46 okay you don't like him clearly this song could have been ended in like two lines if she was just direct more not trying to you know beat around the bush trying to be like I got a man. Stop talking to me. Sorry, I got a man, actually. But she's like, you don't understand.
Starting point is 00:05:59 See, how should I put it? Well, I got a man. Eventually, if you say that like that, they're going to be like, nah, I don't really buy it. I don't buy it for sure. So now I understand why he's approaching this the way he is. Yeah. Now, maybe once she says it a couple times, he should back off. But at this point, it's understandable.
Starting point is 00:06:16 We're like, what's he got to do with me? And honestly, he hasn't said anything about like get hooking up. We're just like, let's kick it. We can hang out, you know, which obviously, you know. know where he's that's going on. But what does that sound? Yeah. What was that sound? So he says I'm not trying to hear that C. I'm not one of those girls that go ripping around. I'm not a duck, baby, so don't play me like a clown. And here's the thing. I never actually understood what that meant. And I felt like maybe I just was misunderstanding when he says duck. But now I'm reading the
Starting point is 00:06:51 lyrics and that is what he said so what does a duck and a clown have to do together you got duck on yours i'm not a duck baby so don't play i got i'm not a dog baby either one doesn't make sense i'm not a dog baby so don't play me like a clown you wouldn't play a dog like a clown or a duck neither of them have anything to do with the duck could pull as a clown you could pull a duck out of a hat or something like some maybe i guess you could also you could do shit with a dog too i don't know yeah so there is such an easier way he could have like She could have... He could have had, like, any word right there.
Starting point is 00:07:26 Yeah. That, like, is an instrument used by a clown. I'm not a scarf, baby, so don't play me like a clown, you know? Scarf? Yeah, because the scarves are, they're always like... They're, like, pulling a bunch of scarves out of their fucking, like, or their mouth. They're like... Not a scarf.
Starting point is 00:07:40 Oh. Or they're like, oh, what? Is there, do you see a... There's more scarf in the sleeve? It just keeps coming. What? There's more scarves. I don't know with them.
Starting point is 00:07:49 There's more scarf to go. Yeah. So I don't know. So what scarf? That's just off the top of my head, positive, K. I thought that is better than duck. Duck doesn't make sense. Or dog.
Starting point is 00:08:01 Here's dog. It sounds cool, though. It sounds like, it's a good line. I love the back and forth. I feel like I've talked about this before, but I always love when hip-hop does, like, a good back-and-forth between two people. I think one of my all-time favorites was Jay-Z and J-Z doing money and a thing. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:16 The Karari and Jackwashed switching four-lane. Top-down, streaming out, money and the thing. Bubble hard in a double law Flash the rings With the window crack Hollop back money ain't a bang I don't like it if it don't gleam In the hell with the price
Starting point is 00:08:30 But the money ain't a damn Put it down hard for my dogs That's locked in the bang When you hit the bricks New whips money ain't a thing Come on. The whole song back and forth And it was just like
Starting point is 00:08:38 That's all you need sometimes Just fucking bounce back and forward This guy hits that line That guy hits that line Let's hear positive K and negative K Who really is just positive K Doing both of them Let's hear him go back and forth
Starting point is 00:08:49 Real quick Let's see you go I like how you kick it Now you're talking, baby, dast the take it Wait, man, she just said, I like how you kick it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so wait, wait, rewind. You jumped in in the middle of that line. Let's go back, here, listen to it.
Starting point is 00:09:05 She's just, she's keeping this going. Yeah, she's playing it along a lot. I'm not going to lie, I like how you kick it. You just gave him the door. You opened the door. I'm not going to lie, I like how you get. What? The way she's answering is very undevoted to her man,
Starting point is 00:09:20 and she probably should just be like, you know what? I'm going to call my man and break up with him because I'm not into it and I'm down to in your you know, you know what I'm saying? She is absolutely thrown out the keys to a test drive
Starting point is 00:09:34 with that line right there. Like you know a guy like this. You know this kind of guy, right? He's coming in hard. This is probably like the third or fourth girl. He's like tried some shit on today. And honestly he'll back off. If you kind of give it, he'll give one, two, maybe three tries.
Starting point is 00:09:48 He gets rejected a lot. It's part of his game. He'll walk away. He's a quantity guy. But if he gave him this kind of in? But you give him the little bit, well, I mean, I like, you kick it. He's like, oh, say no more, girl, let's go. Oh, man, this motherfucker, let's go.
Starting point is 00:10:04 And he says, now you're talking, baby, that's the ticket. Exactly. Let's hear him say it. Now you're talking, baby, that's the ticket. Now don't get excited and chump you. Okay, so that's where she finally, like, I think she clicks in her head that she's like, you know what, I got a man. I literally just had to say this on repeat, no matter what this guy throws at me. Yeah, yeah, I got it.
Starting point is 00:10:37 Okay, no, you know what? I said the wrong things already. I fucking blew it. You know, just I got a man. No, I got a man. I might have led this one on a little bit. Yeah, I messed out. I did tell her.
Starting point is 00:10:45 I shouldn't have spoke. I got a little high or I had a shot and my truth. Truth bug coming out of me. But I snapped into it. So you got to be proud of him for snapping back into it. Like sometimes you, I mean, yeah. She's a hit and repeat on I got a man over and over again. He's just trying to push through, but he keeps trying to push through.
Starting point is 00:11:03 But she opened the door like three seconds prior. This is a real thing. I think any girl out there that has been out and like had guys approach them will tell you this is a real thing. There are these guys who you could give them six ways of Sunday that you're not interested, but they're just going to be like, no, but like, no, you just, I haven't said the right line yet. I got to crack that code. I'm not trying to hear that C. And he's going to keep going.
Starting point is 00:11:29 That's where we're at. I think she busted it. Let's see what she got to say. Okay, nice little back and forth there. Great back and forth. She wasn't being too rude about it now, but she's clearly, like I said, she mentally crossed it. Like, you know what? No, no, no.
Starting point is 00:12:35 I got a man. And then so now she's kind of having a little rude kind of things back to him. Like, you must be a chef because you're making too much soup, which I don't even know what that means. It's because that's not what she says. Oh, what she said? I got a question to ask you, Troop. Are you a chef? Because you keep feeding me soup.
Starting point is 00:12:51 Yeah, that's what I mean? What's soup? You said something like, because you have too much soup. It didn't make sense where you said it. Yeah, but she's feeding him soup. So what does soup have to do? What does, I don't understand what? Because it rhymes with Troop, which she also didn't need to say.
Starting point is 00:13:02 But I like how it's worded. It's good. Are you a chef because you keep feeding me soup? I don't know. I guess it's just because he keeps like feeding her bullshit. He keeps feeding her lines. That's the idea of the soup right there. He's just kind of like he's got a line for everything she's saying back,
Starting point is 00:13:18 which honestly, at a certain point, probably just stop feeding lines back to him. Yeah, she's, you're playing into this a little bit. Now I will give you credit that your lines mostly are I got a man. But like at a certain point, you're like, you don't, like, that's been made clear and you could probably just take like five steps that way. Go silent on him. Go silent on him. Tell the security guard.
Starting point is 00:13:37 Be like, hey, that guy's bothering me. He won't stop. Like, yeah. I've already let him know I got a man like 16 times. So, yeah. I'm not sure what else I'm supposed to do. And he's just like, yeah, baby, sure you're right. Let me break it down.
Starting point is 00:13:47 I'm going to do whatever I got to do. I'm telling you now, I got eyes for you. Creepy, bro. It's like, kind of creepy. So all he keeps thinking is like, I haven't said the right thing. So I got to keep working at it. Once I do, it's on. And then he goes.
Starting point is 00:14:03 Persistence does pay off in many respects. Let me tell you, I many years ago worked as a security guard at like a bit of a nightclub spot. and there were times I remember seeing like man this guy is just not giving up he's just going to keep trying like they've I've seen them make so many movements that suggest like no like we're okay and I would never fight through that much like defense being like okay this girl's saying that making an emotion and not being interested and it just keeps trying and I've seen multiple times where eventually just warbed down and like wow now he's like full on like grinding up with her and now it's like it's crazy it does yeah you know I hate to inspire others to try such a game plan because I still will go against recommending it because 90% of the time if that's the case, it's probably not going to work out, but I've seen the 10% where it does. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:56 I've seen the cry work. I've seen the cry work. What's the cry? You know, the guy's like, why did you like me? I've seen that. I've seen that done. No name drops. I know here you're thinking.
Starting point is 00:15:07 I know you're thinking, but I don't know. See that done? Yeah, no. So, they all work. They just, you know. Persistence in its own way, can I guess. But one line is that he drops the old. So when I blow up, don't try to kick it to me later.
Starting point is 00:15:22 So. I'm saying with that one. Like, I'm not even having reached where I'm going to be. So like, don't try to hit him up. I mean, Positive K himself, whose name I thought I had earlier, but like I want to get it right by the end of this. He must have loved when this one dropped because now he can fucking use that line to the fullest. Because I got a vibe. that this is just positive K being positive K, you know?
Starting point is 00:15:44 And he calls it positive because he thinks he's being positive because that's what he considers persistence. But yeah, man, he's a worker, man. He will, once he gets after it, he's not going to stop. And in the video, he goes from, like, wearing 90s workout gear to, like, and then he's, like, wearing, like, one of those, like, baggy 90s, like businessman suits. So he's, like, trying to, like, portray all the different, like, am.
Starting point is 00:16:06 Yeah, yeah. Let's keep it going. What else he got to say? So, mate, that just came on from jail, sweating you for a date. I don't want no beef. I just wants to get together. On how you talking? Psh, whatever.
Starting point is 00:16:18 We can't have nothing. It all depends. Well, if we can't be lovers, then we can't be friends. Loving, I guess it's nothing. So he's not taking her out? Is that basically what you said? Like, oh, your man, because I don't go that route. I'm good, dude.
Starting point is 00:17:05 Oh, wait, he takes you out and shit? Oh, wait, he takes you to dinner? Nah. Yeah, keep him. He's a keeper. You should probably go. We were going to watch MTV. my grandma's basement but that's that's a whole thing I'm not I am not willing to do that you cross the
Starting point is 00:17:18 lightweight that okay he beat me there at no point did he actually say anything about how he's gonna like spend money on her he's all about I'm clean cut and dapper that's what I'm about when he found out that the other dude was like spending money and like taking her out he's all talk he's a lot of talk oh what oh he did what oh okay well yeah you should definitely choose him yeah I don't want no beef I just wants to get together. Yeah, like literally all his lines of trying to prove himself are literally just like, no, I'm trying to get with you. I'm trying to get with you though.
Starting point is 00:17:51 That's it though. Like, she's trying to say the things like, yeah, my man says the same except for he's sincere. He writes me letters. Yeah, yeah. He's like, I'll talk sweet on the phone. I'll talk sweet on the phone. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:06 This guy, first of all, the boyfriend sounds like, first of all, he's either one of two things. A big old bitch or he's like, pretty old bitch. or he's like Prince Charming and like the best man ever because he's doing everything Write her love letters Takes her out I guess that's just What you're supposed to do as a boyfriend right?
Starting point is 00:18:22 That's like just regular boyfriend shit I'm like I should be writing letters Sorry babe, I'll write you a letter Well this is the 90s That was that was one of the still Just text her Prime form of communications back then But hey a good written letter is excellent
Starting point is 00:18:38 You know that's an excellent strategy I would recommend all guys do that right now write a letter at the end of the day. You know why? Because they'll save that. They'll keep it in like a shoebox and they'll keep it forever. Negative K's guy gets that. At least she says he does.
Starting point is 00:18:51 I don't know. It's hard to say. It sounds like she's building him up. What are the odds that she's just making this up the whole time? Because she's honestly, and I think maybe he's trying to, that's his game plan. It's like he's like trying to call her bluff. Like there's no guy. If she's just trying to like, at which point I'm going to wear you down with all my efforts right now.
Starting point is 00:19:08 So, okay, maybe she was doing this. Like with everything she was saying that her man would do, She was hoping, okay, I'll do that. And so she was getting all a bunch of checks marks. Okay, you're going to write me letters? You're going to write me letters? You're this. And then the moment she got to, you go and buy me dinner and take me out, he was like, uh-uh.
Starting point is 00:19:21 Yeah, you keep you, man. I'm not going to go to that right. Fuck all that. No, yeah, I was doing everything else. I got what I called you and shit, but. I was going to call you at night and talk dirty on the phone. I was up for that. That part I was game for.
Starting point is 00:19:33 But you want to go out to dinner and shit? Sizzler and shit? I never understood what this line meant. And it's the kind of thing. where I've never actually read the lyrics, but I've always heard him. So again, I'm like, I was wondering. Well, she says, again, she's giving just enough room to where, like, she's making it sound like there's a possible thing.
Starting point is 00:19:54 He says, we can't have nothing. It all depends. Well, if we can't be lovers and we can't be friends, well, then I guess it's nothing. Well, hey, I think you're bluffing. Well, I'm going to call my man. Well, I can get ragamuffin. What is ragamuffin? What does I mean?
Starting point is 00:20:08 Yeah, I don't know. Look it up. Let's see. Can you look up ragam-ma? Can you look up the name of positive K while you're looking shit up? Yeah, ragamuffin. And then he says Big Daddy Longstoke. He throws that in there.
Starting point is 00:20:19 He's like, talks shit on her, man, real quick. He goes, I'm Big Daddy, Long Stroke, your man's Pee-Wee Herman. How much would it suck if you were, like, known? Like, you're Paul Rubens, right? You play Pee-B Herman. And your name is being referenced in a song as, like, the guy with a little dick. You're literally being known. Oh, they name drop you in a song.
Starting point is 00:20:40 a rap song that's cool yeah what was a reference yeah they they drop your name to suggest the guy has a tiny penis so yes sorry your tiny penis guy that's what everybody's gonna look at when they look at your weird little red bow tie and your ill-fitting gray suit little penis they're thinking little penis that's it sorry guy sorry guy but you had to know that when you pick the name pewie herman as like a stage act but anyways all right the answer to what is a ragamuffin is it's very simple typically a person, typically a child, in dirty clothes. Okay. Well, I don't know why he'd be calling that.
Starting point is 00:21:16 I also don't know why there's references to crab. There's multiple references to crab, at least according to the lyrics here, he says, what am I some crab inmate, just got home from jail sweating you for a date? I don't want no beef. I just want to get together. That's how you talking. Whatever. And then later, he says,
Starting point is 00:21:36 Wait, wait, wait, we'll go back to there real quick. I don't want no beef. I just wants to get together. Yeah, what's wrong with that? Oh, that's him saying that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, what you're talking? Whatever.
Starting point is 00:21:48 Yeah. And he says then, you better catch a flashback. Remember, I'm not crabbing it. You know my style and I'm not having it. Why is there multiple references to crabs in this song? You don't want to be a crab. Crabs are bad. You don't want to be crab.
Starting point is 00:22:03 You don't want to be puremen. You got to get like a moisturizer and some type of antibiotic. stuff and yeah I guess I've never had them but I've heard from head so anyway last thing we heard
Starting point is 00:22:20 was this dude was straight done with her because he found out that the man she has takes her out he says you got a what let's see where he goes from there there's a lot of girls out there let me used to
Starting point is 00:22:47 I kick in like a turbo booster you won't love and you don't have to ask when you man's a headache I'll be your ass I feel like you could have let that song fade out a little bit. It's only because on Spotify, I had it on the thing, and it was already starting to blend to the next thing. It's okay. Explanations aren't necessary.
Starting point is 00:23:36 I actually do like it when that song ends right at, but your man ain't me. That's a good place to stop, be honest. I'm fucked up, boy, fucked up. I mean, now you didn't. This is fine. Don't, fucking do this. Have you ever heard of another song called I'm not having it by Positive K?
Starting point is 00:23:52 Positive K is absolutely at the top of list of 90s one hit wonders, which I kind of feel like somebody correct me if I'm wrong. I feel like 90s was the era of one hit wonders because for some reason in the 90s, a song like when it came out of nowhere with an artist you didn't know, it had the ability to get bigger, I think, than anything, than in any other era and also put that person out there, you know? Like there's an endless number.
Starting point is 00:24:22 So he would go across the country just singing this one song. Yeah. And then they would disqualify. I just feel like when I think of one hit wonders, the first ones that come to my head are all in the 90s. And Positive K has got to be like in that top 10 range because this song, at least to me, was one of my favorite songs of the 90s. It's got a unique sound. It's got a rap that works, a story, a good back and forth flow, a girl whose voice is kind of annoying, but it works in this song. And there's, I actually am wondering if another Positive K song has her in it. And now you're
Starting point is 00:24:54 telling me that it wasn't even a girl the whole time. So did he keep the gimmick? going? Did he keep it alive? I don't know. Let's get like two other songs a go here. How the fuck would you know is one of them? Let's see. That's the name of the song. Why, look the cronigas always crossing over something, huh? Who's the matter, huh? Can't see our faces.
Starting point is 00:25:14 Man, first we build up a strong cross over audience, then we can come out strong. Cross only nothing but a double cross. And once you lose an audience, we'll never go get them back. Fast forward in the middle. I think we got it. Yeah. Totally different sound. Totally different sound.
Starting point is 00:25:53 Basic, basic underground kind of beat to it. I did like how the beat came in in the beginning, though. But I could tell, it was one of those songs where I could tell, like, once it, like, settled in. I was like, this is what the song is. I could tell. And one more.
Starting point is 00:26:03 Pass the mic. Yeah, see? It's super, like, you know, 90s beat. Very 90s. Rapping behind it. So the only one that had the uniqueness was him to think of, hey, I could sound like a girl, too, and you, it was a success. It must have been a mind-funk.
Starting point is 00:26:23 Yeah, he must have been like, dude, wait, I don't care. I want to how they came up with that. Is that a weird concept to even come up with? And then it starts playing. And then you almost got to live the charade of being like, okay, I need to pretend like this other girl is actually a real person that's in the song. And I got to find somebody that sounds like it. And it's a very unique voice.
Starting point is 00:26:41 So it's not an easy thing for like to find a girl that can do that. And then that's the main song. Everybody's going to want you to do the whole time. You'd almost have to like wrap both sides on stage if you're him. Yeah, right. And you can do it. Clearly, I guess you could do it. Well, no, because he had to slow down his voice.
Starting point is 00:26:55 Like he didn't do his voice. They slowed down the song. the rest of the song was like what's your man got to do with me and then he was like I got a man he's saying like a regular person at a certain point though I'm sure he got a ability to make his voice on stage sound like the girl in some form I don't know I don't know I got it I doubt it did this is the most I actually kind of almost like want to like stop this and do my own research and find out exactly what you're talking about but I believe I believe you stop and do your research I don't we stop at any point and then try and jump back on and you'd be like all right so I did it
Starting point is 00:27:26 I'd rather talk about how what the reason that this song really works is because the 90s beat is fucking epic. Phenomenal. And it starts with a little SWV sample, which again, another one of my favorite songs in Missouri. And I remember I first knew Positive K's song before I knew which song it came from. But I remember hearing that little and I always wanted to know, dude, I love that beat. Like, what is that from? Because I wanted to hear a song with that. And then I finally found this SWY song called Anything.
Starting point is 00:28:00 And that's as far as I know where the song comes from. So I'm going to play that right now. Yeah, that's going. Right? And then you showed me recently. This is the original actual beat comes from what, a taste of honey, correct? Is that?
Starting point is 00:28:27 I did. So then there's the song that they made that beat from. So one thing that happens a lot when it comes to like hip-hop, especially in the 90s is years after you've been listening to a song, song you come across the original version that took place like 10 years earlier and you're like that's where that all came from so that just happened to me with this song like in this past year and i added it to uh my spotify throw a way back playlist so now i listen to this song all the time but it's called a taste of honey the band's called or the group it's called taste honey song is called
Starting point is 00:28:58 rescue me and it goes a little something like this don't think i've ever heard that song i know i hadn't either but i'm going to start playing it what a joy it was for me to learn that and again I've said this so many times during the Diocese DJs, but this is when music's at its best. Just like when you discover something that had always been there, that song's from 1986, by the way. You discover, I just discovered in 2024. And all of a sudden, it's like,
Starting point is 00:30:26 I've been loving positive K, I got a man since my childhood, and it was heavily because I'd always love that beat. Then you're like, this is where it came from. Now I can enjoy that sound in a completely different manner. And it's how it was originally meant to be. I respect the producers. They're able to find that. it out and find a new way to play it and I respect the original artists who were able to put
Starting point is 00:30:47 something like that together. Music is awesome and that's why we devote our entire dissect podcast to appreciating some of the best music that there is and then some of the weird music that people come out with now because sometimes people want to make songs about being a work of art and being a Leo and being a Libra but identifying as a cancer and actually and being in the Torah, the Koran, and the Bible, all at once somehow, but being the rain, but also the sun. And still slap the shit out of... And slap the shit out of Chris Rock.
Starting point is 00:31:21 Because he's an asshole. Check her last episode for reference. Slaps and snaps of... Positive K, I got a man. I got a man. Hit it. Four out of five slaps. Yeah, all right, I can see that. That's pretty good. That's where I thought it would be.
Starting point is 00:31:42 And you know what else? What? A little Z snap. Oh, shit. A little Z snap because that... That's a female's response after telling the guy roughly 348 times I got a man. And now let me tell you something. Girls, I appreciate it if your response to a guy is I got a man.
Starting point is 00:32:03 That's a good thing. You should let him know upon first hitting on. After, I don't know, three times, four even. You don't got to talk to him no more. You walk away. You really don't need to keep entertaining them. And especially if after 15 I got a man's, you then hit them with a, Well, I admit, I like how you kick it.
Starting point is 00:32:22 Just know, that guy is not. He's fighting your socials. He's sliding in your DMs. He's going to find somebody that has your number. He's going to figure out where you live. A guy who's this persistent, you give him an inch. He's taking every mile he can, you know. So just be aware of that.
Starting point is 00:32:38 Just be aware. And, you know, don't complain about it when suddenly this guy's doing some stalker shit. Because positive K, you should just call him stalker K. We called her negative K. As I'm going through it, I'm like, she's like slightly leaning in K. He's stalker K. Hey, yo, sweetie. You look a kind of puny.
Starting point is 00:32:58 What's the girl like you doing in this rock city? I'm just here, try. Did you just do that yourself? Yeah, I was trying to slow it down. So I did the thing. You went the wrong direction, I think. Yeah, I'll try it one more time. Because the voice.
Starting point is 00:33:13 I'm soaking your man's pee, Herman. I got a question to ask you true by you and chef, because it keep feeding me. Oh, hey, it is him. Isn't that crazy? Do it again, do it again. So can your man's pee-wee-Herman? I got a question in the action.
Starting point is 00:33:30 By you and chef, because it keep me... I think you went too far in that one. Why does it slow down? Can you keep it at like a certain pitch, like a certain speed the whole time? Let me see, let me see. I got a question in the action. What about here? Give me a second.
Starting point is 00:33:49 Let me try something here. I'm going to drop some beats here. I got a question to ask you true by you and chef because it keep feeding me suit. I got a question to ask you true by you and chef because it keep feed me soon. I got a question to ask you true by you and chef because it keep feed me soon. Well, you got to let the girl play. That's her. Oh, that is the girl.
Starting point is 00:34:12 You're right. Yeah, yeah, sounds just like them. You're right. Put the pitch back up. Feed me suit you know what I got a question to ask you true by you and chef Cause it keep feed me suit you I got a question to ask you By you chef because it keep feeding me suit So yeah
Starting point is 00:34:31 All right crazy you know what positive K way ahead of his time nowadays we're so in There's so much more AI that's like taking these effects we have to like manipulate what you can you have a Tame Impala A of one of my favorite music acts Tame Impala is one of One guy who records every part of the instruments, and he often puts different effects on his own voice. They make amazing music,
Starting point is 00:34:59 but it's really just one guy who performs as an entire group, and he just records himself playing the different stuff. And it's awesome, but that's an example of somebody kind of modern day utilizing the skills that we have to be able to make music by just throwing down different layers on it. Yeah, Tim Impala's got some good shit. So as you can see, he puts his own, like, effects on his voice and the music he does, but he does all that. So he literally just goes and lays it down. He'll perform with something on guitar.
Starting point is 00:35:44 He'll do on the drums. And then it's just, like, create the music, like, in audio program, right that. And I'll just, like, manipulate stuff and make it better. You could do that nowadays. I actually respect it if they did. So positive K way ahead of his time. And that's pretty awesome. So he figured out a way to be like, I don't even need to get the, maybe the key,
Starting point is 00:36:03 I wonder if he, like, auditioned a few different girls. rolls for the part and he's like you know what I can do this myself I can just fuck with the pitches probably he was like yeah I don't sound like it's supposed to sound no and I agree with you same slap same snaps as do it you have to slap it out no I just I just agree with you it's like those two quotations that you put under something like make copy it down you know yeah you know like punctuation and shit where you put it under and I want to hear the slap there is that so hard that's a hard good song classic always remember it and And let's be honest, it's just one of those one-hit wonders that you don't mind hearing.
Starting point is 00:36:39 Now, I probably won't hear to listen to the whole thing, unnecessary, but just the main verse, you're down to hear it during the 90s set. Like, what's your man got to do with me? And now that I found out it's both to him, it makes it even more unique, because I'm going to be saying that every time the song comes on. But, hey, did you know? Like, it would be that guy. But it's okay, because I didn't know that.
Starting point is 00:36:53 So I'm guessing other people wouldn't know that. And I get to be that guy for the rest of my life. Hey, did you know that the- You know? Did you know? By the way, you know. Positive K is Daryl Gibson. Merrill Gibson. American MC songwriter from the Bronx, New York.
Starting point is 00:37:08 So he kind of came up at the early days of hip hop being, you know, it was like born in New York, and he was kind of a part of that scene. So he was aware for that. So a bit of a pioneer in a lot of ways in Hipsop. And I'm glad that we could dissect this and give him his flowers. But hey, she's got a man. Nick! She does.

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