Between the Sheets

Amani, what was your experience with the Isley Brothers?

I'm trying to remember how I initially... discovered them i know it's probably through my dad and i'm pretty sure the song was between the sheets between the sheets that was a song and then so many good songs just like uh choosy lover that's another one voyage to atlantis footsteps in the dark so that was kind of that era where i discovered them and then you kind of rediscover them or get reintroduced once you hear I think it was Big Papa, right? That was the one that...

Yeah, yeah, Big Papa was the...

Big Papa, that one.

Then three years later, because they release an album every year, two of them, Winner Takes All, and there's a live album, and Go All The Way, not really confirmed.

Grand Slam, gold.

inside you 83 num didn't they didn't they didn't get it certified yet 83 between the sheets platinum but like like oh my gosh and that's relatively 10 years so in 10 years they did one two three four five six seven platinum albums in 10 years

and in those like that was at a time When it was really hard to go platinum.

Mm-hmm.

And I may come back out of it back into the back end of Between the Sheets during that kind of bridge or outro aspect of it.

And while that was not unheard of, that was not a regular thing on campus, because once again, we're talking about music that came out in the late 70s, early 80s, et cetera, versus just rocking the hip hop joint.

So bringing the samples back into a lot of the songs we were listening to at the time was something that, once again, I was not the only one to do on campus, but really became something uh a stylistic choice that i made very intentionally was not always um wasn't always uh received popular yeah but but people still once again once they kind of understood what i was doing and recognized and realized it it became received a bit more uh uh favorably because once again i was trying kind of changing up a lot of the things that had been the norms Um, but once again, I know that's a very long answer, but to your question, I couldn't just know the hits or I couldn't just know what was, was hot on, you know, see this world or hits from the street or anything else that was on BET MTV, as far as kind of, um,