U know it!!!

Forever forever 🙏🏾❤️RIP Lady T

We could trust her to throw/host the cookout with NO issues and know it would be tight! Spades, bones, etc. included.

And I would’ve eaten her potato salad. LOL TEENA!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

@@msbrandymo 🤣

A MUST DO!!!!!!

Word up🥰✊🏾💯🔥

YES!!!

Get the seat belts ready gentlemen... Fire and desire is gonna take you for a ... RIDE!!!🙆‍♀️🙆‍♀️🙆‍♀️🙆‍♀️👌👌👌👌

This is a must

I thought so because I can't remember any others at that time. In fact there wasn't really a lot of male r&b acts doing it either. Rap music wasn't being fully accepted then and a lot of radio stations didn't like playing music that had rapping in them. And she dropped 3 verses on a record that was already close to 7 minutes long.

@@artdogg50 Correct! Teena was a true trailblazer in more ways than one.

YES!!

Debbie Harry may have been the first female to rap on a record on "Rapture." Love Teena Marie!!!!

Heck yesss!!! She got my vote

Allen McGrier played bass for most all her recordings...he co-wrote this song also

And I think this was the first rap ever in an R&B song, as Motown was trying to compete with rap after "Rappers Delight" came out 2 years earlier....

@@MrRealbrotha she played bass when she sang it live.

@@katyas-mom Allen McGrier wrote and recorded most of her basslines and she played guitar congas and keys not bass

Uhkaay !!!!

Absolutely! A genuine one at that!😁

She sure was. Her, Michael McDonald, and Hall & Oats. Soul on 11

Yes. And I’ve been requesting this one. It’s great to see them digging up the old requests. 🙌🏾

1000%!!!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾💥💥

🔥🔥🔥

Uhkaay!!!

And don’t forget the guitar 🎸

She was absolutely amazing. Still Listen to her albums.

Aka these days as...REAL TALK

gone too soon? are you saying she passed away?

@@JoanneDunham yes. She died in 2010 at the age of 54. She had been struck in the head a few years before by a falling picture off a wall causing seizures and she died in her sleep presumably from one of those seizures.

Okay!!! I was getting ready to give the definition but you gave it 100! I use to use that phrase back in my day🤣🤣

@@Kim-427 and she definitely gave Rick James the square biz on My Once and Future Dream, AND she killT Star Child on her Star Child CD.

@@frankieburks1179 Yes indeed! I loved Portuguese Love and Young Love.She was just a bad girl and I think her daughter does music.

Thanks I didn't know what it meant either!😂

@@frankieburks1179 Yaaaas!

I love that song! Her voice was always so pretty.

Oh Yesslllll definite lunch

Omg I forgot all about that song until you posted it. Thanks for the reminder of that jam!

Yesssssssss

Yep. Like when the youngsters say "facts" and "truth"

Let me translate it for the youngsters, Teena is saying "I'm keeping it ONE HUNDRED" (that is , if young people still say that, that might be old school now for all I know!!!)

He reacts to these old school jams exactly the way we did when we first heard them back in those days, you get ugly in the face like Dayyumm!

@@Lovejazz01 Man it ain’t a HIT unless you get The Who farted in Church face!!!!!! It really gives Me life watching these young Kids listening to songs I grew up and actually enjoying them

YES!!! ANYTHING FROM LADY T!!!💖

That bass is gonna kill them!!! ♥️♥️♥️

Facts

Love her ... epic voice.

The horns in that song are LIT AF!!

Yes!!

Facts!!! Got a chance to see her right before she paased away. She was amazing!!

@MufarosButifulDawtrs You say it your way and I say it my way.

@MufarosButifulDawtrs If you don't like it, that's just to bad.

Yes she did.

Yeah it seems like they should be able to figure that one out, just like I figured out what it meant when youngsters always say "facts" or "truth"

Absolutely 🥁🪘!!! 💯

@@sharians-bluesky 👍👍

Your missing out if you don't do Sheila E

Agreed. They will love Sheila E

Definitely need a reaction to the original video with Sheila on the drums!

Facts

@@paulettebrown3427 what?

Square biz is still used in Texas

Yep mine too

🔥🔥🔥

I still listen to her. She's on my playlist. Liver girl was my favorite ❣️❣️

Generation X in the house. 😁

I love the Solid Gold show. We got to see all our favorite performers. I miss those days.

Her guitar on Lovergirl!!! Yasssss!!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾♥️♥️♥️

Rick james and her met in an elevator and he heard her song then worked with her

Yes a long time comin!

Young love is a definite cut . I heard it for the first time a couple of years ago and it is one of my favorites from Tina.

Facts!

So true!! Love Lady Tee; always and forever!!❤

You're talking square biz here!

🎯

She had super star talent!

Gone way too soon.

Wasn’t aware of her passing. What a loss to family, friends and fans.

@@jennifertrimper8275 Yeah, she died the day after Christmas in 2010. 😢💔

omg she did pass away,wow thats sad

YAAAAAAAASSSS. And love bizarre

Sheila's father & uncle played with Santana.

Prince wrote Glamorous Life! His demo is amazing

Growing up on Old School Soul/R&B and knowing the genre inside out, I can say for sure Teena was [and still is] well respected in the R&B/Soul circles. Black people over 40 got this thing with music, it's kinda like, if you can come in, and make us bob our heads and groove, and just be true to your self (as opposed to being phony like Vanilla Ice), then we'll accept you, music before skin color. We had that mindset with some other talented white artists like Hall and Oates and the mostly white Average White Band, and some others. Teena was simply a very talented, not just singer, but musician. Funny thing about my perspective with Teena, I find her stuff still sounds good to me today, but when I listen to Rick James, though he was my boy back in the day, I'm not really feelin' his stuff in 2021.

@@dxwallace55 "music before skin color" - Preach it, Brother!! The world needs more of that now - anything authentic and from-the-heart before skin color. And in both directions.

@@thebordernow Truth!!!!!

Right! Her lyrics were masterful!!!

Growing up on Old School Soul/R&B and knowing the genre inside out, I can say for sure Teena was [and still is] well respected in the R&B/Soul circles. Black people over 40 got this thing with music, it's kinda like, if you can come in, and make us bob our heads and groove, and just be true to your self (as opposed to being phony like Vanilla Ice), then we'll accept you, music before skin color. We had that mindset with some other talented white artists like Hall and Oates and the mostly white Average White Band, and some others. Teena was simply a very talented, not just singer, but musician. Funny thing about my perspective with Teena, I find her stuff still sounds good to me today, but when I listen to Rick James, though he was my boy back in the day, I'm not really feelin' his stuff in 2021.

@@dxwallace55 wow Im 30 and I completely agree with everything you said. I grew up with my mom playing funky music religiously and thats all I play now. I feel that era so much that I feel like I understand it on a whole nother level compared to other ppl my age.

@@CostMusic Other ppl your age. Don't ask why but that's kinda funny to me. ME being and old school Playa' in his 50's. I wonder what music in your era are they gonna be dissecting when you get in your 50's

Yes she will ❤️.

I second that!

Not again! I’m so tired of hearing this song on YT lol they have other duets smh 🙂

@@salwashabazz7329 I hear ya, but I'll bet The Twins have never heard it, I suggest it because no one should ever NOT hear that song. One of the best of all time IMO!

@@Tulane682 : Yea I get that lol...but no one ever asks these YT “reactors” to check out her DUETS with Rick James then list them. It’s always, “Fire & Desire” and that’s it. They should hear some variety in these two legends; not just radio hits. Imo 🤷🏾‍♀️🙂

Square Biz means the truth. So she's talking the truth to him about how she feels about him😍

Me too!!😂😂😂

Me three!! Yes now I need some more Teena!!!

Good one!!!!

Uhkaay !!!!

Females were rapping back then. One example is "Funk You Up" by The Sequence, released one year before "Square Biz."

@@Ilovewbd rapping but not hitting

Are you saying "Funk You Up" wasn't a hit? You must not know your history. Rolling Stone magazine quoted that this song was a "nationwide smash, serving as the first rap hit performed by women." It was also the third rap song at that time to hit the top 50 Billboard charts. I Love Teena Marie, but she shouldn't get "OG" status for being the "only woman" rapping at that time, as she definitely was not.

Opps

@@gness4782 Not an oops. Just a learning experience. 😉

Right! Me - sitting waiting for it to drop and blow their minds...👀 💣

If I'm correct, her lil' rap in Square Biz was the first rap ever in an R&B song (not talking about rap from a real rapper like Kurtis Blow or Sugar Hill Gang). As I understand it Square Biz came out in 1981, the first major rap cuts (from Sugar Hill Gang and such) dropped in 1979-1980, Motown had zero rappers signed and had to do something. So Rick and Teena threw it in n this song and Barry Gordy liked it.....

@@dxwallace55 AHH, Kuritis Blow; THE BREAKS!!! 🥰 When Rappers Delight first came out, I was fortunate enough to see the Sugar Hill Gang perform it at my Roller Rink in Brooklyn; what a memory!!! Definitely the first rap in an R&B song; as far as the first female, I don't know who came first; Teena Marie or Blondie in "Rapture"; she was hanging out with Fab 5 Freddie at the time and even mentions him in her short rap at the end of her song. God how I miss those days; keep it alive in my car though, lol! ❤️

@@jacqueline4514 WOW!! I was a fan of Blondie and I remember that "Fab 5 Freddy" rap. So we have to give it to Blondie for first rap in a rock record and Teena Marie, first rap in an R&B record. Strange that both accolades go to white women LOL!!! I'm from Chicago, and the first one we ever heard was "Rapper's Delight". Those were the days, cold pizza and cheap beer in college (I'm dating myself!!), best of times. When I wanna remember those days I watch "Brown Sugar" with Taye Diggs and Sanaa Lathan!!! "When did you fall in love with Hip-Hop" ?

@@dxwallace55 Hi Doug! Funny about the white women respecting it and incorporating it into their music, isn’t it? 😄 I was always into music; even as a really young child; parents had me very young and had great, broad music taste, so heard Motown, Sly and the family Stone (live outdoors at like age 6, lol) to Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones. Then, from about 11 and up I was hooked by Disco & R&B, Funk; NYC had great radio then, I lived in the Bronx and then Brooklyn; and I listened to the “black/urban” stations as they were called then; we had 3 great ones; once hip hop/rap entered the scene, it got airplay, so I was listening from the beginning; we all were, unless you were one of the “rock only” kids that always struck me as angry; outsiders of sorts; Always loved to dance, too so music such as Africa Bambaata really fit the bill! By the time I was about 20, I could not get enough Public Enemy, Eric B. And Rakim, EPMD, KRS-One, and really never stopped until the music started to lose it’s feel of authenticity; the mass produced Trap and Mumble of today doesn’t have the Bass, the hooks and the messages that I feel are necessary; maybe I’m getting old, lol.

Growing up on Old School Soul/R&B and knowing the genre inside out, I can say for sure Teena was [and still is] well respected in the R&B/Soul circles. Black people over 40 got this thing with music, it's kinda like, if you can come in, and make us bob our heads and groove, and just be true to your self (as opposed to being phony like Vanilla Ice), then we'll accept you, music before skin color. We had that mindset with some other talented white artists like Hall and Oates and the mostly white Average White Band, and some others. Teena was simply a very talented, not just singer, but musician. Funny thing about my perspective with Teena, I find her stuff still sounds good to me today, but when I listen to Rick James, though he was my boy back in the day, I'm not really feelin' his stuff in 2021.

Lol 😆 too funny

*Also means real talk*

That was a cut, as well as "Portugese-say Love"

Let me translate it for the youngsters, Teena is saying "I'm keeping it ONE HUNDRED" (that is , if young people still say that, that might be old school now for all I know!!!)

Square biz= no cap 🧢 😂

Tina Marie -out on a limb~ check it out. Square biz meaning~ letting you know what’s up~. Tina never got the accolades she deserved because of how shady the music business was. It’s nice to see generations later she finally recognized . Her vocal range is out of this world. She was Portuguese decent.

What year was that concert?

I think that concert was in 1982. Teena fell off the stage when they were singing Fire and Desire. She got up and continued.

*Check out "Funkin for Jamaica" for a woman singing funk*

My first concert was Rick without Teena

I love this so much!! ❤ Long live Lady T! I used to have the fisher price record player, which wouldn’t let us play these jams yet hahahaha

Behind the groove is a jam

Yes to Fire & Desire! 🔥

Me too!

Yup and she was only under appreciated because she like the Brothers!

Yes! I remember singing Dear Lover as a kid (not realizing what I was even singing about.) 😂

Aladdin's Lamp, Deja Vu, I'm a Sucker for Your Love, Now That I Have You, We Got to Stop, Young Love....Whewww! Her collection of hits go on! She was amazing. Unique fiery voice, lyrics...Love and miss her. Did get to see her LIVE and it was so unforgettable!

Deja Vu,. I Can't Love Anymore, Happy with Rick James, Young Love, Aladdin's Lamp

Out on a Limb is My Favorite.

That's the jam there I'm going to have to go listen to that myself 👍

My favorite too Michael💜

My favorite, plus lover girl. Ooh la la

Portuguese Love made me fall in love with her voice. She had such a great catalog of deeply felt songs. Incomparable.

I agree! I would place Tina Marie at the top of the "blue-eyed soul" female artists. And yes, the Twins should listen to "Portuguese Love" and "Irons in the Fire". They are not upbeat like "Square Biz" but definitely great, well sung songs.

No doubt!!!

Did you mean a Song...was 5 to 7 minutes long ? 😊

@@lorisanford8515 Why are you being petty?So you had nothing positive to add to these great memories like everyone else?

@@lorisanford8515 she was right when she said record. Record=song

@@Kim-427 Your right, I apologize 💗

Soul music isn't about colour you're right. Music in general crosses all barriers. When I listen to music I don't think about the colour of the artist. It's the music that gets to me.

@@mysikind8076 I agree. I believe Ray Charles said it best: "There's only two kinds of music; good & bad."

😥💐

@@moanman1776 l like that lol.

Yes Motown didnt know what to do with her at first. Thats why they didn't put her picture on her first album. A white girl singing funk?

We were also skating to her in York Pa also back in the day!! Great times