This is how we do it.

Yes it is Usher. You don't even know...

Now if you visit this blog often, you know that old school jams are more often than not posted under the "Old School Funk for the True Funk Soldiers" headline. But sometimes old school joints are so good, so well put together, so classic to a brotha, [see Montell Jordan's This is how we do it] that all I can do is marvel at their goodness as they boldly play on and show us how's it done. This jam, presented below, is one such example.

So you know what album I listened to for a hot second today? [whispers. room fades to black and white like a perfume commercial. Drapes billow in the wind as the windows blow open] 8701... And when it got to track five, it took every ounce of strength in my extroverted body to not close my book and start singing along out loud, on the bus, like it was my music video. [Or that old school Coca Cola ommercial with Tyrese where he sings on the bus and shit, and people smile and look on in awe/with pride as if saying sit yo ass down and shut the fuck up! is not an option.] Seriously, put on U Got It Bad right now. Do it. Go on. Press play and get you grown man [or woman on]. Close your eyes, bob your head, and shout out real talk non-sequiturs as if homeboy is right in front of you singing it; "boy you ain't never lied", "I know that's right" and such. It's okay. U Got it Bad. We understand. Though I wouldn't advise doing so on a bus...



Damn. Remember him and Chili?

BONUS:

And you know what other Usher video knocks? This one: