Motion picture soundtracks usually have songs from artists that contributed to the film’s message, and this was certainly clear when 8 Mile opened in November 2002. But Naughty by Nature’s song “Feel Me Flow” isn’t on the first soundtrack from the movie. Instead, it’s featured on a follow-up album called, More Music From 8 Mile. Fans wanted more music that defined the characters during the pivotal week in the life of an up-and-coming hip-hop star. In the life of this hip-hop artist, the week happened in 1995.
Naughty By Nature is a bonafide hip-hop superstar trio that significantly influenced hip-hop’s popularity during the 1990s. Thus, Naughty By Nature should be part of any hip star’s rise to fame, notably because they were hip-hop recording artists living success in real-time. While songs like “Feel Me Flow” were background songs not included on the first soundtrack, Artists like the trio Naughty by Nature help tell the broader story behind hip hop.
Naughty by Nature is from East Orange, New Jersey, a hardscrabble city not unlike Detroit. Anthony “Treach” Criss, Vincent “Vin Rock” Brown, and “DJ Kay Gee” Keir Lamont Gist met and started hanging out together in the early 1980s. Naughty by Nature might represent the evolution of rap music into hip hop, particularly given their original name, The New Style. Any story about hip hop isn’t complete without knowing about Naughty by Nature and songs like “Feel Me Flow.”
Naughty by Nature Fun Facts
- “Feel Me Flow” was released in February 1995 as a single from their forthcoming album.
- Poverty’s Paradise was the name of the album that many up-and-coming hip-hop artists listened to for cultural guidance.
- “Feel Me Flow” reached the number 3 spot on the Hot Rap Singles chart and 17 on the Billboard 100 chart.
Lyrics
You ’bout to feel the chronicles of a bionical lyric
lyrically splitting dismissing
I’m on a mission of just hitting
now it’s written and kitten hitting wit mittens
I’m missing wishing man listen
I glisten like sun and water while fishing.
Bust the move and then swerve
Serve words with nerve embedded I said it word
Damn, you nerd man, you heard
Coming from the town of Illy and alleys are
full of Phillies and Rallys suckers get
Silly as Sally then found in alleys, I’m rowdy really
So here we go now,
Holla if ya hear me though, come and feel me flow
Never mixing with tricking brothers bitching
Over fixin’s that ain’t fitting to be hitting.
On nothing splitting things that’s bitten
And getting written off
Like a fatter bad bladder boy ya pissing me off
Before you even started so what
So long see you fly by my try how else
Could I say it when you play it try boom bye bye.
So here we go now,
Holla if ya hear me though, come and feel me flow
So here we go now,
Holla if ya hear me though, come and feel me flow
The flow pro poetical with skills only
A vet’ll know better know where’s
The wetter flow that’s on point like
Decimals manhandling new crews
Partying with the Zoo Crew
Looking for the pink in poo poo.
I thought you knew too stone style is of stamina
Jamming ta while we planning ta jam
We bust plus we’re the party
Amateur damager managing damaging mics
Men and even mannequins.
You’re a fan again now I want to know whose the man again?
Naughty’s back like vertibrates word to hey-a-ho
The way I show you pray I flow
Steady breaking to the boogie so bang time
To slang bang and watch all the poo tang tangs hang
So here we go now,
Holla if ya hear me though, come and feel me flow
So here we go now,
Holla if ya hear me though, come and feel me flow
Play and Kay’ll break the body of a beat
The beat the break into boogie
Firm and fully chase bass lines like bullies
All we want to know is if your body want to party
It’s ‘nough poo tang tang for everybody
So hip up and split up get up
Get up your wit up souped up put your dukes up
No guts set up for sit ups flip up watch us rip up.
Shakes shows until they fizz up
Rizz up like your with us if not zip up
You lip up whip up.
Hits with ransom’s foul styles get and ones
We come back cause we heard
Hip hop needed another anthem
Black like Noah in fact and for ya
If we was back in the days with the Drifters
We would’ve been known as the Flowers
Bevin these since the seventies
Find me so we went crazy in the eighties
So we won’t kiss heinies in the nineties
Oops the Naughty’s troop in sections of forties
So clap your hands and hold your shorty I’m Naughty.
So here we go now,
Holla if ya hear me though, come and feel me flow
So here we go now,
Holla if ya hear me though, come and feel me flow
0 Comments