{"id":13244,"date":"2005-02-11T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-11T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2022-01-18T15:09:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T23:09:01","slug":"prepare-for-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/?p=13244","title":{"rendered":"Prepare for Valentine's Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

No column entry this friday, but there will be two next week, I believe. Yeah, things are a tad tricky. But, you’ve got three days left to get ready for Valentine’s Day, should you care. I wrote a rather sappy joint a few years ago about Valentine’s Day. I find it to be an irrelevant holiday, but you learn to deal with it when your woman loves it, assuming you like to see her smile. If her grill’s bad and you don’t wanna see her teeth, it’s a different ballgame.
\nBut, some of you have people and want to impress them with the music you choose. Some of you are at the crib, lonely as hell, and need something to either thwart or enhance that loneliness. So, that’s where me and Luther come in…
\n
\nSo, I’ve got a few lists for you to consider for the holiday. Luther has his own list (he’s such an angry guy). So, here we go.
\nGuaranteed<\/strong>
\nThis list is money. Female tested, dude approved. If you play any combination of these songs and get nothing, you never will. It may be her, or it may be you. But if this doesn’t work, it will never be on.<\/em>
\nPrince \u2013 Adore
\nIsley Brothers \u2013 Voyage to Atlantis
\nArt of Noise \u2013 Moments in Love
\nSilk \u2013 Lose Control
\nMarvin Gaye \u2013 Feel All My Love Inside
\n112 \u2013 Now That We\u2019re Done
\nJanet Jackson \u2013 Any Time, Any Place
\nCurtis Mayfield \u2013 Give Me Your Love
\nR. Kelly \u2013 The Greatest Sex
\nPrince \u2013 When 2 R In Love
\nTeddy Pendergrass \u2013 Turn Off the Lights
\nMinnie Riperton \u2013 Inside My Love
\nMassive Attack \u2013 Weather Storm
\nBoyz II Men \u2013 50 Candles
\nBob Marley \u2013 Turn Your Lights Down Low
\nTony!Toni!Tone! \u2013 (Lay Your Head On My) Pillow
\nKeith Sweat \u2013 How Deep Is Your Love
\nIsaac Hayes \u2013 The Look of Love
\nBarry White \u2013 Never Gonna Give You Up
\nQuincy Jones \u2013 Secret Garden
\nOut the Box<\/strong>
\nPeople wouldn’t think off top that these songs would set the mood, but they all tend to do a good job. More importantly, you might be able to play this list and it not look like you’re trying to get something cracking. That’s fantastic for those of you that operate on some stealth shit.<\/em>
\nDevin the Dude \u2013 Briar Patch
\nEightball and MJG \u2013 Space Age Pimpin
\nFunkadelic \u2013 Maggot Brain
\nJimi Hendrix \u2013 Bold as Love
\nJodeci \u2013 Freek\u2019n You (remix, with Ghostface and Raekwon)
\nLil Jon and the Eastside Boyz \u2013 Ohh Na Na
\nThree 6 Mafia \u2013 Sippin on Da Syrup (brilliant Marvin Gaye sample)
\nOutKast \u2013 Funky Ride
\nLovage \u2013 Sex (I\u2019m A)
\nGlutton for Punishment<\/strong>
\nThis is for all you suckas for love. So, you’re at the crib and wish you had someone to snuggle with. You don’t want anyone to make you feel better. You want to wallow in your misery. This is for you. And if you really wanna snap out of it, this should make you get a fuckin grip and man up. No one likes someone pathetic, pimpin. No one.<\/em>
\nLenny Williams \u2013 Because I Love You
\nDerek and the Dominoes \u2013 Bell Bottom Blues
\nPM Dawn \u2013 I\u2019d Die Without You
\nManhattans \u2013 (Let\u2019s Just Kiss and) Say Goodbye
\nBoyz II Men \u2013 Lonely Heart
\nJodeci \u2013 Cry for You
\nAl Green \u2013 damn near anything, but How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
\nSimply Red \u2013 Holding Back the Years
\nHarold Melvin and the Blue Notes \u2013 I Miss You
\nAretha Franklin \u2013 It Hurts Like Hell
\nTemptations \u2013 I Wish It Would Rain
\nDru Hill \u2013 In My Bed
\nLenny Kravitz \u2013 It Ain\u2019t Over \u2018Til It\u2019s Over
\nBill Withers \u2013 Better off Dead
\nPrince \u2013 Still Waiting
\nRose Royce \u2013 I\u2019m Going Down
\nPrince \u2013 Gotta Broken Heart Again
\nCarl Thomas \u2013 Emotional
\nMacy Gray \u2013 I Try
\nNatalie Cole \u2013 I\u2019m Catching Hell
\nStevie Wonder \u2013 Never Dreamed You\u2019d Leave in Summer
\nJackson 5 \u2013 Never Can Say Goodbye
\nRecorded Courage<\/strong>
\nSo you want your woman back, ha? But you don’t have the fortitude to go win her love back? Put these on, jack. That should get you ready to go knock on her door and get it crackin. But, before you do that, let’s make sure of a few things.
\n1. Are you sober? Never make such a decision drunk.
\n2. Is she on a date? Last thing you wanna do is give this speech to an audience. Beyond simply being shamed, that nigga might try to whoop your ass.
\nSo, proceed with caution.<\/em>
\nOtis Redding \u2013 Open the Door
\nLuther Vandross \u2013 I\u2019d Rather
\nBobby Caldwell \u2013 What You Won\u2019t Do for Love
\nStevie Wonder \u2013 We Can Work It Out
\nFreddie Jackson \u2013 Rock Me Tonight
\nJackie Wilson \u2013 To Be Loved (only because it worked for Prince Akeem)
\nWilson Pickett \u2013 In the Midnight Hour
\nSpinners \u2013 Workin My Way Back To You
\nSly and the Family Stone \u2013 If You Want Me to Stay
\nJodeci \u2013 Come and Talk to Me
\nOtis Redding \u2013 I\u2019ve Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
\nTemptations \u2013 Since I Lost My Baby
\nAl Green \u2013 For the Good Times
\n(S)he Ain\u2019t Shit No Way<\/strong>
\nIt’s Luther D., baby. Look, If she quit you, you don’t want that heifer no way. Can’t be lettin them put you through hoops and shit, man. So, you need to man the fuck up and recognize that she ain’t nothin’ but drama. Put this on. Matter of fact, put this on and go somewhere she might be that night and just shoot her ugly looks. Works great.
\nBut really, if you play this list, chances are you’re talkin more shit than you mean. At least this’ll help you save face. Better to be like this than like those Cap’ns listenin to Bo’s lists<\/em>
\nDr. Dre \u2013 B*tches Ain\u2019t Shit (optional, based upon your personal decency)
\nTony!Toni!Tone! \u2013 My Ex-Girlfriend is a Ho
\nSpin Doctors \u2013 Little Miss Can\u2019t Be Wrong
\nAfter 7 \u2013 \u2018Til You Do Me Right
\nBobby Womack \u2013 If You Think You\u2019re Lonely Now
\nIdeal \u2013 Get Gone
\nLou Rawls \u2013 You\u2019re Gonna Miss My Loving
\nPrince \u2013 I Hate U
\nTeddy Pendergrass \u2013 I Don\u2019t Love You Anymore
\nMarvin Gaye \u2013 Is That Enough? (works best if you\u2019ve got an ex-wife)
\nJaguar Wright \u2013 The What Ifs
\nJefferson Airplane \u2013 Somebody to Love
\nOhio Players \u2013 I Wanna Be Free
\nCounting Crows \u2013 Holiday in Spain
\nPhil Collins \u2013 I Don\u2019t Care Anymore
\nAnd just for you…<\/strong>And just for a different you…<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But, you’ve got three days left to get ready for Valentine’s Day, should you care. I wrote a rather sappy joint a few years ago about Valentine’s Day. I find it to be an irrelevant holiday, but you learn to deal with it when your woman loves it, assuming you like to see her smile. If her grill’s bad and you don’t wanna see her teeth, it’s a different ballgame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-13244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-boblogs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}