Back on her only released album (from ten years ago!), she A-TTACKS this ballad about dumping a dude cause he’s got wandering eye and Static lets her run with her godgiven attitude.ĭestiny’s Child “Say My Name (Timbaland Remix)” This is the Remix (Columbia 1999) Her most prominent placements in the last four years have been: 1. Nicole Wray “Eyes Better Not Wander” 12-inch (Elektra 1998)ĭudes, young veteran Nicole Wray is the fiercest R&B singer out there, yet labels continue to play whoopee cushion with her album (dropping in Nevuary according to Wikipedia since 2004!). Static was a master of getting sexually explicit without ever coming off crass. It’s like ahhhhhhh vs He breaks/ Me down/ He builds/ Me up/ He fills/My cup/ I like/ It rough. It was worth a couple of Dr Dre’s millions to get the mesmerizing interplay between Lati’s ozone wail and Truth Hurts’ thuddy, twosyllable, 12-steps testimony. Truth Hurts ft Rakim “Addictive” 12-inch (Aftermath 2002)Īftermath got sued cause producer DJ Quik unclearedly sampled Bollywood diva Lati Mangeshkar for this Staticpenned hit. Palm trees and bonfires explode behind them. In the video they’re both dressed up in nice suits and taking on Vegas in a limousine, where they make out with girls and drink champagne. Static sang the hook on this weirdo Wayne single, serving as a good pop introduction to Suppertime, which also features Wayne. He was finishing up his debut solo album, Suppertime. Static passed away in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky this past February from complications during surgery. And in Playa, the mega-underrated R&B trio he headed, his own voice lilted as sweetly as those of the stars to whom he gifted words. In his collaborations with producers Missy Elliott and Timbaland, Static’s phrasing and pauses were fundamentally part of the beats-natural extensions of rhythm that mirrored how rappers mind their syntax.
Static was a verbal alchemist, taking what could have been the tritest sentiments and handling them with the deftest touch, rendering them ephemeral with melody. Not a “matter turns to nothingness,” vacuum-type of vortex, but a supernovaical vortex that housed and churned all the human emotions generated by their chemistry.
When songwriter Stephen “ Static Major” Garrett’s lyrics converged with Aaliyah’s voice it created a vortex.
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