This song is still one of my favorite R&B/Hip-Hop collabos of all time from Mary's Whats The 411? Remix album. Absolutely flawless and they ripped this live performance (crazy that I still remember watching this as a yungin and have it on VHS lol). Mary just exemplifies that 90s around-the-way-girl steez on here (peep the big hoops, Jodeci boots and Cross Colours hanging off the shoulder lol). I'm shocked nobody's remade this cut.

And besides being a dope rapper, Grand Puba (from the group Brand Nubian) is without a doubt the most underrated trendsetter in rap history. Its almost 20 years later and we're still rocking trends that he started (he also started the word "skins," which is slang for...umm..."gettin female affection" lol).

Grand Puba is the man singlehandly responsible for popularizing Girbauds & Tommy Hilfiger clothing popular by constantly namedropping & rocking them, which made baggy preppy clothing cool with the hip-hop generation in the early 90s. In fact, on the album version of this song, he says "Girbauds hangin baggy/Tommy Hilfiger top gear" but switched it to Polo because that was what he was rocking on this performance (I'd still kill for this Alpine Polo rugby).

Here's a quote from a 2004 article from the NY Times that shows how huge Puba's influence on the fashion industry is:

"In the early 1990's, at Kennedy Airport, as Mr. Hilfiger and his brother Andy were returning from a business trip, they saw a group of young men sauntering through the terminal, wearing monstrously large versions of Tommy's clothing line. Andy Hilfiger, a former rock musician, introduced his brother to Maxwell Dixon, a rapper known as Grand Puba, who was one of the group.

Mr. Hilfiger remembers that he was delighted with the way they wore his clothes, and started making some clothes bigger and brighter, and some logos immense."

Puba also was hip-hop's first "backpacker" and the man behind wearing high-end backpacks. Kanye got his entire College Dropout dress style from what Puba started over a decade before.  So let this be a lesson to all you yungins that nothing is new, its just recycled and repackaged for a different generation!