…Goes out to all the Playaz in the Hood…
I was studying for my coming exam when I caught ‘R&B Selector’ on Traxx FM last night… It’s a radio show dedicated to all R&B and Soulz related music ranging from the 60’s right up the the 90’s… It was my first time listening to it and I’m telling u right now… I’m glad I did….
Slowly but surely the music they play on the show brought me back memories of yesteryears…. particuarly the mid 90’s… to be more precise… the show transported me back to Nov 95 till August 96 in the last decade… It was the time when the ONLY place to be nocturnally is the legendary BOOM BOOM ROOM... The time when the appropriate attire all night long was an Armani collored tee with Union Bay or Cerruti pants (worked at Cerruti… go figure)…
The time when we’ll be having breakfast after the sweat session at Bangsar till the Subuh call for prayer (azan) sounded….
Hahahah…. zaman jahanam time….
Back then I listened to lotsa kind of music… Almost everything… To the extent that Azan (the person… a good fren ) and I had to coin the term ‘UNIVERSALIST’ to potray our diverse musical inclination… Be it metal (Sepultura, Godflesh, Napalm Death etc)…the British Indie movement(Ride, Suede, Adorable etc)… the local scene music (Carburetor Dung, Langsuir, Sil-Khannaz (godz) etc )… I listened to it all… But when it comes to the endless sleepless night (we slept during the day…hooray) it was R&B surely for most of us… It was Mark Morrison, the Fugees, Nas and the ‘hustler’ of them all… KEITH SWEAT…. Black music… Soul music…
Now back to the R&B Selector… It was blasting out yesteryears R&B favourite from Marvin Gaye, Groove Theory, New Edition and so forth when suddenly… out of oblivion… after a long hiatus… out came Johnny Gill’s My My My song…. Now people… please take note… This song is special… It is a fine example of R&B at its best… Back in the 90’s listening to this song make everybody wanted to be a ‘playaz’… Everybody wanted to have girlfriends… Everybody wanted to buys nice stuffs for the girl… To listen to it on the radio last night was really a pleasant experience.
Kudos to Thraxx FM..
As for the flashbacks… Kudos to all who made the experience worthwhile… Namely… KYPM Cheras clan, the Dsara clan, to all the chicks, the one from Hartamas, the table spinners at the Boom2 joint, my beloved kak long Nina (hardcore party-goer) and also the "kakak-kakak lain" all under the same roof there in the Room.
By the way, R&B Selector is on Monday nights, 8pm till late, on Traxx
