I miss MTV’s Unplugged. Just vocals and real instruments, no auto tune or other help. Unplugged made it very easy to determine who could actually sing vs smoke and mirrors. I miss 80s/90s R&B with a passion.
Kci grew up as a gospel singer when he was a child. He was a child prodigy. He sounded a lot like Michael jackson as a child and called him the Michael jackson of gospel. Look up little Cedric and the Hailey. He’s little Cedric. Tank the singer talked about this. They were successful in gospel but as teens they wanted to do rnb. Another fun fact: fantasia the singer is their first cousin.
They were the first swag. RNB group and BoyzIIMen were the last of the Boy Scout image of RNB. I'm so glad I was raised in the 90's witnessing the switch in real-time. Everyone on the radio right now owe their careers to Jodeci.
Not the first. I credit New Edition/Bobby Brown/BBD with that. JodecI definitely leaned even more into the street swag and had better vocals and basically kicked off the last R&B group renaissance of the 90’s
@@littledc100 jodeci were def the first. They were nothing like any rnb group at the time. No black musicians were rocking tats and piercings before jodeci. Everyone wanted their style/swag. Even rappers didn’t wear tats and piercings back then, mostly rock n roll musicians did that. New edition and Bobby didn’t dress street, they mostly wore suits or dress clothes, maybe they were urban at times, like bbd they looked like guys from like an hbcu lol. But they never wore like halter tops or took off their shirts or sagged their pants. Even in regular clothes they were all still clean cut. Jodeci literally dressed like they had just walked from a corner store or community basketball court with prison looking tats all over their arms and chests when they first came out, that’s what caught everyone’s attention, while they were singing ballads, they didn’t look like ballad singers or even rappers. And they cursed a lot and said provocative things you just didn’t hear rnb singers say. Gotta love was their first song and when Devante rapped “I gotta give a Fck about sex, drop your panties and I want to hit it raw” it was like what did he just say lol. Rnb groups didn’t blatantly say things like that in their songs, not even bbd or bobby. And soooo many singers and rappers copied some of their style even pac got a nose ring and thug life tatted across his stomach and started rapping about sex explicitly. He didn’t look like that in the beginning or rapped like that. That is why people say they changed the image of rappers and singers, and rnb/hip hop. It’s hard to see now because everyone has tats/piercings and dresses like whatever they want but jodeci def started the street style and really explicit songs (for singers). Now boys ii men came out at the same time as jodeci. Jodeci didn’t end anything . They still wore/wear very clean cut polo looking clothes lol. They were both the top rnb male groups at the time, other male groups either copied jodeci (mostly) or boys ii men (it was so obvious too). So the clean cut era was still strong even with jodeci around. Jodeci just brought something new. Thanks for reading my musical history lesson 😅 if you’ve made it this far in my comment.
I love the many stages of young folk hearing real "sanging"...the stank face, the Mrs. Sophia from the Color Purple rocking and swaying and need to hold themselves, the blank wide eyed open mouth stares, etc. Only to end with a new descriptive term of today...FIRE, LIT, etc. Teach them babies real music so it doesn't die.
Your asking about his shirt this is a full show. This is one song of several. Which the full show " Uptown Unplugged" it's the labels best artist Mary J Blige Heavy D Christopher Williams etc🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
They are brother but opposite personalities. See JoJo covered head to toe and K-Ci half dressed. That was their image. K-C the wild loud one . JoJo the quiet button up one
My kids mom cheated on me a couple years ago and I ended up forgiving her and letting her come back . But here lately I been finding things and getting that same old feeling, hearing this song just now broke me because it's exactly how I feel.
Jodeci sold sex and bad boy image, that’s why KCi wasn’t wear a top. The girls were falling at their feet. Loved that u enjoyed it. Still one of their best renditions. I prefer it to the original by Stevie Wonder.
React to jodeci singing lately on Martin! This is the end of their set, he took it off earlier when they were performing and moving around lol and didn’t put it back on.
P Diddy signed them in the 90s.These two are still some of the best R&B vocalists in a long list of singers. Check out Stevie Wonder's original song though.
Yessss! I love that song! Dino was such an incredible singer! Sadly, there's no live video of the performance only the live audio😢Actually I've always wondered if he was actually performing it live at all...could the claps have been inserted to make it feel like it was live?...Either way. It would be a great song to see a reaction for.
That was kind of a thing that a lot of black R'n'B / Hip-Hop artists did in the 90's (taking their shirts off).I personally reckon K-Ci sort of copied 2Pac, being that they were boys & ofc Pac was the epitome of cool so why not? But there's no real deep seated reason behind it other than showing off if you have a good body! Just off the top of my head i can think of LL Cool J, Rick James, Bobby Brown, Blackstreet, Dru Hill(Sisqo) MC Hammer, Full Force, Treach, Pac, DMX,Usher, R Kelly, Nas, Outkast(Andre), 50Cent, The Hot Boyz (Lil Wayne)& the list goes on...
Thats the best r&b performance ever........
Jodeci are goated
The people in that audience got the performance of their lives that night
This performance was so iconic..I was in high school when this was shown on MTV..it was played on the radio for months when afterwards
K-Ci always takes off his shirt! :D
I miss MTV’s Unplugged. Just vocals and real instruments, no auto tune or other help. Unplugged made it very easy to determine who could actually sing vs smoke and mirrors. I miss 80s/90s R&B with a passion.
Me too
K-Ci and Jojo have a gospel background! They're real talented soulful singers!❤
1990s: There's a thin line between Gospel and R&B.
2010s: There's a thin line between Rap and R&B.
We had music like this in bunches back in the 90’s
Goats
Jodeci SWV Boyz II Men TLC En vogue and Destiny’s Child are my favorite groups of all time. KCi and JoJo killed this performance just 🔥
I don’t think ppl realize how hard it is to sing that song and give it justice, they were absolutely sublime
this is what your so called favorite artists have to be able to do no auto tunes
Kci grew up as a gospel singer when he was a child. He was a child prodigy. He sounded a lot like Michael jackson as a child and called him the Michael jackson of gospel. Look up little Cedric and the Hailey. He’s little Cedric. Tank the singer talked about this. They were successful in gospel but as teens they wanted to do rnb. Another fun fact: fantasia the singer is their first cousin.
By the end of this video,she knew why K-Ci didn't wear shirts 😂😂😂
That's just one of the ways R&B artists sing back then now they sing with rap flow.
They were the first swag. RNB group and BoyzIIMen were the last of the Boy Scout image of RNB. I'm so glad I was raised in the 90's witnessing the switch in real-time. Everyone on the radio right now owe their careers to Jodeci.
Not the first. I credit New Edition/Bobby Brown/BBD with that. JodecI definitely leaned even more into the street swag and had better vocals and basically kicked off the last R&B group renaissance of the 90’s
@@littledc100 jodeci were def the first. They were nothing like any rnb group at the time. No black musicians were rocking tats and piercings before jodeci. Everyone wanted their style/swag. Even rappers didn’t wear tats and piercings back then, mostly rock n roll musicians did that. New edition and Bobby didn’t dress street, they mostly wore suits or dress clothes, maybe they were urban at times, like bbd they looked like guys from like an hbcu lol. But they never wore like halter tops or took off their shirts or sagged their pants. Even in regular clothes they were all still clean cut. Jodeci literally dressed like they had just walked from a corner store or community basketball court with prison looking tats all over their arms and chests when they first came out, that’s what caught everyone’s attention, while they were singing ballads, they didn’t look like ballad singers or even rappers. And they cursed a lot and said provocative things you just didn’t hear rnb singers say. Gotta love was their first song and when Devante rapped “I gotta give a Fck about sex, drop your panties and I want to hit it raw” it was like what did he just say lol. Rnb groups didn’t blatantly say things like that in their songs, not even bbd or bobby. And soooo many singers and rappers copied some of their style even pac got a nose ring and thug life tatted across his stomach and started rapping about sex explicitly. He didn’t look like that in the beginning or rapped like that. That is why people say they changed the image of rappers and singers, and rnb/hip hop. It’s hard to see now because everyone has tats/piercings and dresses like whatever they want but jodeci def started the street style and really explicit songs (for singers). Now boys ii men came out at the same time as jodeci. Jodeci didn’t end anything . They still wore/wear very clean cut polo looking clothes lol. They were both the top rnb male groups at the time, other male groups either copied jodeci (mostly) or boys ii men (it was so obvious too). So the clean cut era was still strong even with jodeci around. Jodeci just brought something new. Thanks for reading my musical history lesson 😅 if you’ve made it this far in my comment.
The 90s and mid 2000s soul music
He was the one in the group (Jodeci) that always took shirt off while performing.
Classic!
I love the many stages of young folk hearing real "sanging"...the stank face, the Mrs. Sophia from the Color Purple rocking and swaying and need to hold themselves, the blank wide eyed open mouth stares, etc. Only to end with a new descriptive term of today...FIRE, LIT, etc. Teach them babies real music so it doesn't die.
That song describe me, I was that was me! I thought I did everything right , but I guess I didnt
Your asking about his shirt this is a full show. This is one song of several. Which the full show " Uptown Unplugged" it's the labels best artist Mary J Blige Heavy D Christopher Williams etc🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Them dudes was cold man! 🐐
I suggested it and I'm glad you enjoyed it
Yes indeed
Before your time , Real R& B
They are brother but opposite personalities. See JoJo covered head to toe and K-Ci half dressed. That was their image. K-C the wild loud one . JoJo the quiet button up one
My kids mom cheated on me a couple years ago and I ended up forgiving her and letting her come back . But here lately I been finding things and getting that same old feeling, hearing this song just now broke me because it's exactly how I feel.
Oh wow
Me too brother
Stay strong.
This is Stevie Wonder Song
this is when we had real male music artists not little boys trying to be grown
Omg very very true. This little nasal sounding boys lol We had grown men singing 🤣
Jodeci sold sex and bad boy image, that’s why KCi wasn’t wear a top. The girls were falling at their feet. Loved that u enjoyed it. Still one of their best renditions. I prefer it to the original by Stevie Wonder.
You might this very moment by them.
The original song was by Stevie wonder you never seen the Martin show when they was on there? that episode was so funny
If you like lately by jodeci check out Lisa Fischer how can I ease the pain live performance
You have to do ki-c and Mary J Blige omg that was so 🔥
Fun facts younguns want to hear them when they were kids ? Look up little Cedric and the Hailey singers .... you're welcome
Please react to Luther Vandross "A House Is Not A Home" live at the NAACP awards. It's mind-blowing.
Man that’s definitely gonna be something to see,
They had just finished a hype song before that song , that’s why he had his shirt off
React to jodeci singing lately on Martin!
This is the end of their set, he took it off earlier when they were performing and moving around lol and didn’t put it back on.
K-Ci didn't wear shirts... They made him look fat..😂😂😂
Awesome Reaction! Check out U Send Me Swingin' by Mint Condition. It's Mad Lit!✌️
Have you ever heard Never Too Much from Luther Vandross? Iconic, legendary song
Yes I actually did that one
@@Sheraytv another song that came out around this time was Shai Baby I'm Yours..their whole first album is so good
😎 I actually did that one too 🤣
I just heard Lately by Tyrese. He can sing.
Yassss
P Diddy signed them in the 90s.These two are still some of the best R&B vocalists in a long list of singers. Check out Stevie Wonder's original song though.
Andre Harrell signed them not P. Diddy.
KC is crazy as hell,that's why his shirts off,,lol
😂
Check out H town Pink sky it's a live performance before the lead singer Dino died
Yessss! I love that song! Dino was such an incredible singer! Sadly, there's no live video of the performance only the live audio😢Actually I've always wondered if he was actually performing it live at all...could the claps have been inserted to make it feel like it was live?...Either way. It would be a great song to see a reaction for.
@@jbmilly always thought if I got married it'd be to this song
@@jbmilly I thought it was live htown doesn't come off as that type of group to fake something
Fantasia is there cousin
Check out kci and jo jo of jodeci song called life
Please please react to Lisa Fisher live in Japan how can I ease the pain, you won’t regret it
#steviewonder sang the original
That was kind of a thing that a lot of black R'n'B / Hip-Hop artists did in the 90's (taking their shirts off).I personally reckon K-Ci sort of copied 2Pac, being that they were boys & ofc Pac was the epitome of cool so why not? But there's no real deep seated reason behind it other than showing off if you have a good body! Just off the top of my head i can think of LL Cool J, Rick James, Bobby Brown, Blackstreet, Dru Hill(Sisqo) MC Hammer, Full Force, Treach, Pac, DMX,Usher, R Kelly, Nas, Outkast(Andre), 50Cent, The Hot Boyz (Lil Wayne)& the list goes on...
Black Men do love and hurt too
The shirt's off for y'all ladies
This how you got here.
And that why he had his shirt off.
Ya, get it now youngin?
🤣
S Nation While you laughing, you'll get your own first born off this? 🤣🤣🤣❤️🙏
Stevie wonders dont get it twisted
Can you do a reaction to Deetah-Relax