She's mostly known for getting into these online battles on social media and Twitter. Azealia Banks is a New York born and bred rapper. So this track came out a couple of years ago. you know what's up, or don't you? Word to who made you. I'm going to go with the song "212" by Azealia Banks.ĪZEALIA BANKS: (Singing) I was in the 212 on the uptown A. I'm going to move into the current moment. What about you? Like, what's that one song that you have to have on this playlist that, like, gets you going in the dead of winter? I just want your extra time and your kiss. Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with. You don't have to be cool to rule my world. PRINCE: (Singing) Don't have to be rich to be my girl. Am I super lame to have to have this song on my playlist? Am I, you know, acting my age my and not my shoe size? PRINCE: (Singing)You don't have to be beautiful to turn me on. Everybody's moving around, not sweating quite yet. MCEVERS: All right, so, you know, so things are happening here. KING: I think it just got a lot of people really interested in house music 'cause it really was part of the movement from disco in the 1970s into house music, into a harder kind of aggressive beat. Did it spawn other songs besides C+C Music Factory? There's a (laughter) - I think the lights just went down in the studio. KING: That's another song that'll make you get up and dance. KING: Everybody dance now - going to make you sweat. MARTHA WASH: (Singing) Everybody dance now. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "EVERYBODY DANCE NOW") KING: Because a decade later, C+C Music Factory would borrow that melody for their classic. KING: So you probably recognize that melody. And it features Carolyn Crawford on those incredible lead vocals.ĬRAWFORD: (Singing) Get on up and dance now. Larry Levan, classic DJ, loved to play this song. ( SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LET'S START THE DANCE") So this track is a lot of hot, polyrhythmic, syncopated percussion. He was actually Stevie Wonder's drummer back in the '60s and then he backed up a lot of Motown acts. KING: This next track is from an artist named Bohannon. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LET'S START THE DANCE") But what if I want - you know, I'm kind of, like, slowly starting to move around. MCEVERS: Yeah, a little tropical goodness there. KING: But this is done Brazilian bossa nova style by a group called Groove da Praia. KING: The song, you'll probably know, because it came out in 1979 - Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff." It's from her "Bad Girls" album. I want some hot stuff, baby, this evening. GROOVE DA PRAIA: Looking for some hot stuff, baby, this evening. KING: Why don't we start with the first song that you might play secretly in your apartment alone when it's too cold outside to do anything else? I'd rather look fashionable, and I'll just be cold. Do you have any special gear or anything like that? Are you just - like, do Canadians know things that we don't know? But I don't think you can ever really get used to it. Well, I'm originally from northwestern Canada so I guess I should be used to winter brutality. He's the host and curator of I'll Take You There. MCEVERS: We decided one way to warm you up today would not just be this montage, but a playlist of hot songs for your walk to work, while you're shoveling the car, you know, whatever - for that personal dance party you might be having later with yourself. NELLY: (Singing) It's getting hot in here. UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: Sizzle, sizzle, pop. For the rest of you, we have a distraction, a little thing we're calling Hot Stuff. California, sorry, we don't want to hear any of it. It's still winter, and it's pretty cold in most of the country.
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