Classic Summer Videos #8
Positive K - I Got A Man (1995)
It’s the annual tradition that everyone (i.e. only me) looks forward to every year! Where I share a few essential summery-themed hip-hop videos in celebration of the warmer weather heating up my cold Canadian soul.
What better way to kick off the 2011 set than with this classic cut from the underrated Pos K? Dude really seems to have gotten the short end of the stick career-wise (as brief as it’s been) but I’ll always have a soft spot for him and the entirety of his one major album (The Skillz Dat Pay Da Bills).
This song/video was of course his one “hit” and I never get tired of it. The video has plenty of the good-times imagery that has been covered in most of the videos I’ve posted in this series (series? Do I have right to actually call 8 posts in 3 years a series? Sure) - outdoor parties, bright colours, etc.
Personally speaking (the point of a tumblelog right?) this song is especially summer-soaked because the album that features it provided my Walkman-based soundtrack (along with The UMCs’ Fruits of Nature) during a summer long weekend road-trip to Minneapolis with my parents (we lived in Winnipeg at the time). The year would have been 1992 or 1993 it seems (based on when those albums were popular, or just getting to my ears). I remember listening to those albums constantly after buying them at the Mall of America (I surely picked up some cassingles too, which I was apt to do upon any trip into the States in those early teen years. I’ll have to cover those here some other time).
So, in summary, nostalgia is nice apparently. Who knew? - says the guy who lives much of his life filtered through a nostalgic haze.
Bonus Song Trivia!: That I’m posting this video this year is especially appropriate for me. I only recently learned this year that Positive K did both the male and female parts of I Got A Man (via some pitch changes in the studio). It is shamefully embarrassing that I didn’t know this essential info about one of my favourite songs until recently (I can’t remember what clued me in… might have been an episode of the Hypeman Podcast?). Surely I could have figured it out via the linear notes in the 18 years since first listening to it? Was there a mention of this in ego trip’s Big Book of Rap Lists that didn’t register with me? Shame on me. At least I now get to build a whole new level of appreciation for Positive K and this track/video.
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