Listen to Joi’s Missing You

I’ve been on this song hard for the past week or so. Man, this jammed. Joi is so underrated– and not in the generic way that people try to apply the term to their favorite artist who is not really underrated, but actually is just not that good.

Joi was way ahead of her time. Like seriously. It really sucks, because she’s so phenomenally talented. If you’ve never seen her live, you really should make an effort to do so. I remember my early years in Atlanta, back when Funk Jazz was all the rage. There was this chick on stage (who was a little weird, but super fly nonetheless) meowing, literally. For years that was the opening to her show, she’d, “meow! meow! meow!” all sing-songy, and then tell women to get their own steez and stop jocking hers. It sounds retarded the way I’ve just rehashed it, but it really was dope as hell. Anyways. That’s when I got hip to Joi. I was new to Atlanta and she really emboddied what the city’s culture was at the time for me. Or what it could be.

Then I remember when Tennessee Slim is the Bomb came out. I still have my burned CD, which was hand-written on by Joi, because we were doing an early review for Upscale. All the women out there who get all inspired and start feeling all pseudo-sassy while listening to Beyonce need to see how it is really done.

“I’M SO FAMOUS”

Anyways, Joi is great. I can’t wait for another album.

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