right so in a few other posts i've made it clear that i'm not going to be one of those bloggers who constantly rant about bad music. i think there are too many of that extent, but then again there are a big amount of people on the other side of the coin but i'm going to try to be on the glass half full side for as much possible.
however it does grind my balls when i hear good things turning into bad and it was exactly what happened when i heard this song on the radio. from the initial drums i thought, nice "right here (human nature mix)", but sadly i was mistaken. chris brown's vocals came on instead the swv's.
that pissed me off sort of since i still don't like chris brown ever since the rihanna incident, the fault is that he got off too easy. that also came as a problem since i really like "look at me now" because i don't support chris brown but busta rhymes' verse is amazing. lil' wayne's verse is great as well, even though i don't like weezy either but for other reasons.
but then i came to my senses and thought fuck it, this is going to run it course and it's probably going to get a whole new generation hipped onto teddy riley's human nature mix of "right here". that song along with "anything" and "weak" are 90's r&b classics and they are awesome.
this song had a lot of remixes and it's initial run the remixes were different since the original does not have the human nature sample. it's sort of new jack swing and the versions from funkyman (lord finesse), g-man (whoever that is) and one or two others were kind of harder and hiphop/new jack swing based.
then came teddy riley which did his version completely based on mj's ballad "human nature", this version became even a bigger hit. the additional versions of "right here" now incorporated the mj sample. there were a couple of versions but none gave me a bigger "oh snap" moment than the "back to black mix".
reason being that this version has a rap by none other than pharrell williams who was a protogé of riley at the time. i think i was listening to the song one time and thought "that voice sounds familiar". williams sounded a bit younger but i had a hunch it was him and then i read somewhere that pharell is the one saying that famous "the s-s-double-double-u and the v" hook.
then it fell to place. and sure enough, looking at discogs later, it was confirmed. a similar thing happened also when i heard the sly & robbie version of the fugees' "fu-gee-la". there on the end of the song you have an (then) unknown and uncredited toaster at the end. it's no other than akon.
anyhow the back to black mix who was done by chris cuben-tatum (unknown name to me but discogs claims he's a producer that's done a few productions) and he regrooves the track into an even mellower groove. he adds a guitar and some nice bass and overall does a really good version.
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also well recommended is the beatless version called the "back to nature version" which expands the atmospherics but removes the rap by pharrell
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