Our 20th prompt comes from Aisha. She asks:
Peaches and Cream or Cupid?
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Aisha,
Welelelele, have a seat. I’m going with Peaches and Cream over Cupid all day, any day. There’s not even a contest here, lemme tell you why.
First of all, for all the heathens that are going “Huh? What is she talking about?” both these songs were done by 112, an R&B group that was one of Diddy’s (aka Puff Daddy, aka P Diddy, aka Sean Combs, aka whatever he’s calling himself these days) best signings at Bad Boy Entertainment. Slim, Daron, Q and Mike (my fave, swoon!) gave us classics like It’s Over Now, Dance With Me, Hot & Wet, U Already Know, What If, Only You and many others.
Lemme put this plainly – I dislike Cupid. A lot. It is a quintessential, rubbish R&B song. What are these lyrics? Girl, if I told you I love you, that doesn’t mean that I don’t care, and when I tell you I need you, don’t you think that I’ll never be there…Like, boy if you don’t stop it with that nonsense! Did they even read these lyrics before singing?
Baby, I’m so tired of the way you turn my words into deception and lies, don’t misunderstand me when I try to speak my mind, I’m only sayin’ what’s in my heart…GIRL. If this isn’t a fuckboy song then I don’t know what is. Cupid doesn’t lie, but you won’t know unless you give it a try, oh baby, true love won’t lie, but we won’t know unless we give it a try, give it a try…Breh, why must you coerce this girl? Leave her alone!
Girl, when I ask you to trust me, that doesn’t mean that I’m gonna cheat on you, cause I’m gonna never do anything to hurt you or mislead you, I love you…LOOOOOOL! Please.
I remember the first time I heard Peaches and Cream. It was a revelation. GIRL. That beat!! The way Slim introduces himself as “the S the L the I the M” gets me to this day. I was in class 7 when this jam came out, and we crip walked all over the damn school on the days we were allowed to come with walkman/discman/MP3 players because this song was always on repeat.
Heck, we didn’t even know what Peaches and Cream meant. I mean, we understood that we were listening to a deliciously filthy song. Let me tell you what I wanna do, let me show you that I’m feelin’ you, wanna freak, wanna ride with you, wanna taste, wanna put my lips all over you… but we didn’t understand what Peaches and Cream had to do with the whole thing. Like, I mean, do you wanna eat Peaches and Cream as you misbehave? (Laughs at 11 year old me). Why is it so serious? Peaches and cream, I need it cause you know that I’m a fiend, gettin’ freaky in my Bentley limousine, it’s even better when it’s with ice cream, know what I mean, peaches and cream….
We spent hours arguing about what we thought it meant. All of us were way off base. Then it didn’t help that this jam came out in the same year as Jagged Edge’s Where the Party At? GIRL. We could not be contained. We spent hours arguing about which jam was better (I still don’t know), and crip walking even more around school. This seeded the great imaginary rivalry (that we needed to exist) between 112 and Jagged Edge at our school. Like, even crushing on guys from both groups was frowned upon. LOL.
The fact that Peaches and Cream still goes hard (I will be caught C walking ANYWHERE whenever the jam plays) and aligns so well with my type of filth makes it an all-time favourite. 😀
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This post is part of a daily writing experiment that I’m running for a year. I’d love it if you took part! ?
Haha. I should have asked Peaches and Cream and Dance With Me. That’s a tougher choice. I like Cupid, reminds me of rainy afternoons chilling.
Imagine it’d still be Peaches and Cream!! But it’d win by a much smaller margin! ???