Explicit Hip-Hop 1996: Akinyele, LL Cool J & Lil' Kim

In this Black Music Month episode, DJ Sir Daniel and Jay Ray dive into three of 1996’s most explicit hip-hop tracks—Akinyele’s Put It In Your Mouth, LL Cool J’s Doin’ It, and Lil’ Kim’s Not Tonight—rating them on a 1-to-5 scale while unpacking the cultural context, sample histories, and industry politics behind each record. They explore how these songs sparked conversations about female agency, body shaming, and who gets credit in hip-hop, offering listeners a deeper look at the era’s impact on what was considered acceptable on the radio. The discussion is candid and historical, with personal memories, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and a call for listeners to share their own 1996 explicit playlist picks.

Listener discretion advised. This episode contains explicit lyric discussion intended for mature audiences.

June is Black Music Month, and DJ Sir Daniel and Jay Ray are rolling out their Summer of Sex series, pulling out three of 1996's most explicit hip-hop songs and rating them on a scale of 1 to 5 — 1 being "I could play this in front of my mom" and 5 being "absolutely not, change the station." The songs are 30 years old now, but the conversations they sparked about female agency, body shaming, and who gets credit in hip-hop are still very much alive. Sir Daniel and Jay Ray break down the full cultural context behind each track, the sample histories, the industry politics, and the moments these songs hit the radio and changed what was considered acceptable. This one is for the music heads who remember exactly where they were when they first heard these records.

THE BREAKDOWN

  • Akinyele ft. Kia Jeffries — "Put It In Your Mouth": The Atlanta sample chain nobody talks about: The song that rated a unanimous 5. From Brick's "Fun" to India.Arie's "Video," Sir Daniel and Jay Ray trace the full Atlanta sample lineage, and both hosts revisit their first, floor-dropping reactions to this record.

  • Is "Put It In Your Mouth" still shocking in 2026? Thirty years later, Akinyele and Kia Jeffries showed back up on Cadillac Chronicles. Sir Daniel makes the case that culture has moved so far that what felt jaw-dropping in '96 barely registers today.

  • LL Cool J — "Doin' It": The underground 1988 original most people never heard: "Doin' It" is essentially a remake of 2 Much’s "Wild Thang", a record that ran late-night on DJ Red Alert's mix show before LL ever touched it. Sir Daniel breaks down the full pre-history, from Warlock Records to the Native Tongues connection to the Grace Jones sample.

  • Lil' Kim — "Not Tonight": Storytelling, Jermaine Dupri, and a KFC theory: Not the "Ladies Night" remix — the original Hard Core cut. Jay Ray calls it top-tier storytelling and a master class in female perspective. Sir Daniel drops a theory about the hook that connects Jermaine Dupri's production to a 1980s Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial, and it holds up.

  • Final Rankings + Your Turn: What's on your 1996 explicit playlist?: "Put It In Your Mouth" holds the top spot at a combined 10. "Not Tonight" locks in at 9. "Doin' It" sits at a comfortable, barbecue-safe 4. The hosts open the floor and ask listeners to name their own 1996 picks, with a playlist on the way.


Chapter Markers

00:00 Disclaimer

00:14 Intro Theme

00:31 Show Intro & Summer of Sex Premise

02:01 Growing Up With Explicit Music

03:36 The Rating System: 1 to 5

04:21 Transition

04:21 Song 1: "Put It In Your Mouth" — Akinyele ft. Kia Jeffries

12:20 Is "Put It In Your Mouth" Still Shocking in 2026?

13:57 Transition

14:04 Song 2: "Doin' It" — LL Cool J ft. LeShaun

21:00 LeShaun, Body Shaming & Being Erased from the Video

23:45 Song 3: "Not Tonight" — Lil' Kim

31:46 Outro & Call to Action

33:08 Outro Theme

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Disclaimer

[00:00:00]

Jay Ray: What's up, y'all? This episode of Queue Points discusses sexually explicit song lyrics in detail. It is intended for mature audiences. Listener discretion is advised.

Intro Theme

Show Intro & Summer of Sex Premise

Sir Daniel: Greetings and welcome to another episode of Queue Points podcast. I am DJ Sir Daniel

Jay Ray: My name is Jay Ray, sometimes known by my government as Johnnie Ray Kornegay III. And Sir Daniel, we were here for the time when suddenly our radio got just a little bit more expansive in the way our artists behaved

Sir Daniel: I like how you put that, expansive. You know another [00:01:00] word that starts with E? It became explicit.

It became like e- everything that was done in the back room or done, you know, behind a curtain or was put into a paper bag was now on Front Street. And so we are talking about music, songs that are sexually explicit, and this is part of, Jay Ray, this is part of our Summer of Sex

series here on Queue Points because June is Black Music History Month, and it's also the summertime.

And let's face it, y'all out there hunching, y'all are out- outside, and we've been outside for a very long time as the elder statesmen in the room. And so we know that people are outside having fun and doing adult activities, and Jay Ray, sometimes you just have to have a soundtrack to go along with that

Jay Ray: Yeah. Uh, it's interesting that you, um, talk about having a soundtrack [00:02:00] because, um, I will,

Growing Up With Explicit Music

Jay Ray: I will confess, and I think I've talked about this on the show before,

I, yeah, like, we've had a, like a, like a I'm about to do a thing mixtape, but the interesting thing about the, the, the sexual mixtape is, I think, one, we grew up with, um, a lot of different music from a lot of different genres that could end up on that tape,

and you ended up with songs on that tape that we learned later as adults were sexually explicit

and fit really well into the canon. But growing up as kids, we didn't always know, and I think what's unique about 1996, that's the year we're gonna talk about, so these songs are 30 years old,

is we were firmly in, "Oh, we're just, like, saying the thing," and they are playing that on the radio, and

that was crazy.

Sir Daniel: You know, and sex, [00:03:00] sexual topics, sexually, um, sexual content in rap music has been around for a minute. You know, it, '96 wasn't the beginning.

You know, th-

Jay Ray, do you remember, um, what the, the acronym Adidas stood for? Stood for All, All Day I Dream About Sex.

I mean, we were, we were a bunch of horn dogs as kids, and that, and that's just a natural thing.

And of course, do you remember that one person that had the older brother that brought that magazine to school But, um, so get back to the music. We... There are a couple songs,

The Rating System: 1 to 5

Sir Daniel: a few songs that Jay Ray and I selected from 1996 that we are going to rate on a scale of one to five, um, one being, "Eh, I could play this in front of my mom," or five as absolutely not.

This is way too disgusting for that lady to hear. As a matter of fact, I'm gonna start blushing if I if I listen to it in front of her[00:04:00]

Jay Ray: Yes. Now, ooh, Sir Daniel, so this is, uh, um... And you know what? This will come up in conversation because, like, all of these songs that we're about to talk about in some way, shape, or form,

remix or, remix or otherwise did show up on our radio dials. So I feel like we should just kind of jump into, um, the song, and let me tell- Why am I starting here?

Song 1: "Put It In Your Mouth" — Akinyele ft. Kia Jeffries

Transition

Jay Ray: And

The first one on my list is Akinyele's "Put It In Your Mouth". We're going all the way

Sir Daniel: Before I met you. Wow

Jay Ray: featuring, what, was her name Kia?

Sir Daniel: I believe her name was Kia Jeffries

Jay Ray: Kia

Jefferies. Uh, Yes

Kia Jefferies. And this song has an Atlanta connection. So, um, uh, so this song samples Brick's song called "Fun".

Brick is, of [00:05:00] course, famous Atlanta-based band.

"Dazz" is their song that they're mostly known for, but of course, one of the lead of, of, of Brick was Sleepy Brown's dad.

So this has a strong Atlanta connection, so the foundation of "Put It In Your Mouth" is, uh, "Fun" by Brick.

Sir Daniel: So to further the Atlanta connection, Jay Ray, years after "Put It In Your Mouth" became a smash hit in the streets, India.Arie,

took the same sample and flipped it for her song "Video", which is a completely different subject matter, and I think she did that on purpose because India.Arie is super intentional about what she, about her music and the message that she puts out.

So I, "Put It In Your Mouth", I think, Jay Ray, for me, I discovered "Put It In Your Mouth" on a cassette sampler given to me, I believe at, could've [00:06:00] been Earwax. I think it was Earwax. Jazz or one of the fellas up there, um, put it in my bag after I purchased something else and gave it a, uh, gave it away because I think it was a part of like a, a Loud summer '96 sampler, 'cause that was on Loud Records, right?

And I popped it in not thinking of anything, just listening to the song. And the way it comes on, Jay Ray, Keya Jeffries is singing her face off. It sounds like they're in a juke joint, the piano's playing, and she's... It sounds like she's, she's the opening act for Suge Avery, and she's just g- singing her heart out, and then she whispers...

Not whispers, but then she starts wailing, "Put it in my mouth. Jaw on the ground. I mean, literally floored, like, "Wait a minute. What's happening here? Where is this going?" And then [00:07:00] it goes into a full-fledged the beat drops, it goes into a full-fledged tirade from Akinyele about his desires for oral pleasure and her d- his, both his desire to give and receive, and hers.

Her part, let me tell you something. You know what? Let, I'ma, let's pace ourselves. I'ma pace myself 'cause I'm getting ahead of myself. But yes, so that was my initial reaction, Jay Ray, when I first heard the song. Where were you, and how did you come across the song, and, and what was your initial reaction?

Jay Ray: I do not remember how

I first heard the song. And, you know, I was taking in so much music at the time. It could have been on a mixtape. It could have been on late night hip hop radio. But I must say, [00:08:00] of all of the songs that we're going to discuss today, " Put It In Your Mouth" stresses me out. And I'm

gonna tell you why. It literally, even at my big age, this song is stressful because Akinyele does a couple of things in this that are crazy. He is talking about chapped... I, I'ma just say the words. We getting explicit. He's talking about chapped d*cks He literally says in the song, and this is crazy, c**ming down your throat like chloraseptic." That is the craziest

Sir Daniel: With the

gargling noises?

Jay Ray: Yes, bruh, I remember listening to this song like, "What in God's name?" There's no God in this. "What

is happening

Sir Daniel: is not, God was not pleased. God turned his back and was like, "What are y'all

Jay Ray: are y'all talking about? [00:09:00] So I don't remember where it was when I first heard it, so of course I, I, I remember... I knew there was a clean version.

Sir Daniel: Mm-hmm

Jay Ray: It had to be on the radio first, 'cause I heard the clean version first. Um, which is crazy that this song played on the radio even in its

clean

form.

Sir Daniel: yeah,

Jay Ray: Right. And when I heard the explicit version, like the original, um, I was just, like, out of my mind, uh, floored. But also, uh, fascinated because Black people, we just so creative.

Sir Daniel: I was like, "Oh." And so to your point, as we get as after Akinyele gives us I think a couple bars,

then Kia starts singing her bars, and that's where it got, I don't know if stressful was the word for me. At this point, I am, I'm thoroughly amused, and, and [00:10:00] not, and not in a bad way. I am literally just caught off guard by the whole song.

But then when she starts singing, "Well, l*ck it l*ck it you can flip it, you can taste it. I'm everything..." you want, you can waste it," And

the way she just goes in and, and, and talks about her desires as well. It just, the whole format of it with her singing kinda threw me off, and I just found the whole thing hilarious. But at the same time, I'm in the car like head '

Jay Ray: cause it's a b- like, it's like,

yeah.

Sir Daniel: In my little Ford Taurus, my little '96 Ford Taurus, I am bopping along to this song.

And Jay Ray, on a scale of one to five,

Jay Ray: Oh

Sir Daniel: absolute- I mean, uh, without s- for, for certain, without any kind of, um, thinking, this is a number five. Absolutely no way could I play this in front of

Jay Ray: But no, no, no, no, I absolutely agree with you. This was [00:11:00] definitely a five on my list. So this song gets 10 points on the freakiness scale because even if this song came on the radio today and it ... First of all, if this song came on the radio today and my mother was in the car, that means they're playing it during the day, and that is

just crazy work. But if this song came on the radio and my mom was in the car, I'm literally changing the station. Even at my big age and

her big age,

I would be embarrassed

to play this song. Like, "Ooh, I'm so sorry. We have to switch it."

Sir Daniel: We gotta switch it up. And so this song has come up again on people's radars because Akinyele and Kea were recently featured in Cadillac Chronicles. Did you catch that? Did you catch that?

Jay Ray: I didn't ... Oh, here, here's why I didn't catch it. I

caught the clip on

Sir Daniel: Okay.

Jay Ray: and I literally said, I said this to Kipper. I said, [00:12:00] "Why was they out in the street singing "Put It In Your Mouth"?" Like, they're, they're ... This is like a open air car

thing.

Sir Daniel: Cadillac, yeah

Jay Ray: And I literally said, "That's how much this song stresses me out."

I was like, "Are they really out there singing this song in the streets?"

Sir Daniel: But put, but to that point, Jay Ray, I think in 2026, 30 years

Is "Put It In Your Mouth" Still Shocking in 2026?

Sir Daniel: later, I really think that song is tame these days. That song, because of what, not just because of music, the way how far music has pushed things, but just media in general has pushed things to such a, uh, an extent that we're not... things like that don't really shock us anymore.

We're exposed to a lot now. That I don't even think with the drop-topping, with the music playing loud, I really don't think people would even bat an eye, one, because the song it's it's a classic. It's a classic for all intents and purposes.

And two, I think that we are, the world is such a [00:13:00] crazy place right now that that song is, is a nursery rhyme right now to, in comparison to the things that we are going through at, in humanity right now. So

sha- shout out to Akinyele and Kia Jeffries. And that, and that's, and I don't think it was... Well, it could've been, it was a BMG mixtape, so BMG, whatever labels was under, 'cause I think that album was under Stress Entertainment, so whatever labels were under the BMG umbrella was featured on that mixtape, so

Jay Ray: Yeah, and I remember the, so the album cover for this had the raspberry, the

dripping, with the dripping raspberry juice on the fork.

Sir Daniel: Yeah

Jay Ray: It's a lot going on. I don't even remember, I don't remember any of the other songs on that, that,

that EP actually

Sir Daniel: after that was, um, so the clean version was called Love Me For Free,

Jay Ray: Will you love me for free?

Transition

[00:14:00]

Song 2: "Doin' It" — LL Cool J ft. LeShaun

Jay Ray: So next on my list in front of me is Doin' It by LL Cool

J. And Sir Daniel, in a second I do want you to really give us a little bit of, 'cause there's a interesting history of this song that you

are uniquely positioned to talk about. But I do wanna set folks up for D- LL Cool J is a fascinating character in hip hop who has had many eras of his career. So there's, like, '80s rap battle LL.

There's, like, early '90s pop culture phenomenon LL. And then there's, like, mid-'90s, uh, uh, ladies' man LL, and this is in mid-'90s ladies' man LL [00:15:00] era. And Doin' It, uh, came at that point in time when L was just kind of, uh, leaning into his hit song hip hop bag, but also being the ladies' man, so Doin' It is kinda that. Also accompanied by a, a very popular music video that includes a lot of models and, and, and go-go dancing, et cetera. But, um, this song uniquely samples, but more than samples in a lot of ways, very famous hip and I think that is a really interesting history, Sir Daniel, that I feel like we need to get into talking about Doin' It

Sir Daniel: So on the topic of rating these songs And I'll say this at the beginning, I know we save it to the end, but LL's version of Doin' It is actually, in my opinion, very tame in [00:16:00] comparison to, uh, to the original version by Wild Fame, um, lead vocals by LeShaun, AKA Almond Joy. Shout out to LeShaun, 'cause I know sometimes we follow each other on Instagram, and she catches some of my, uh, the mixes and whatnot.

And, um, yeah, so if my grade for LL's Doin' It is a two, like

that could def-

Jay Ray: Okay.

Sir Daniel: it could definitely be played at the family barbecue, 'cause guess what? My mama and your mama are going to sh- shimmy their shoulders just a little bit to it because it, it's, it's a groove. It just is. It just is. It's a bop. And, um, and doing It" and doing It" and doing It", well, it's just something that people automatically will remember and start repeating over and over again.

So the, the history for, for those of you who know and for those of you who don't know, especially my Columbus, my Christopher Columbus generation kids, LL Cool J's Doin' It is a remake of a 1988, as [00:17:00] Jay Ray said, um, underground hip hop song called, uh, Wild Thing by a group at the time called W- um, 2 Much, which featured a rap artist by the name of LeShaun, AKA Almond Joy, and her DJ, DJ Shortcut at the time.

They were p- um, affiliated with the Native Tongues Posse.

Um, the record came out on, um, Warlock Records. Um, and I became familiar with that record by via DJ Red Alert because he used to, it used to ring off every Friday night. When it got a little later, DJ Red Alert would drop this song by, by the, at that time she was 16, um, LeShaun, and the song samples Grace Jones', um,

Jay Ray: Mm-hmm. Oh, uh, my, My

oh good, my, my

Sir Daniel: my

Jamaican Guy. And so it's a very mellow, smooth track. And LeShaun, [00:18:00] her rap matches the smoothness of the track. And so immediately this song is explicitly, implicitly about, um, sex, sexual encounters with, um, her love interest at the time. And it's explicit in the sense that she's very, um, very intentional about her desires, which was not, which was very forward-thinking for a, a female MC at that time, especially at her age.

She was very upfront about her desires, her wanting it as much or even more than the guy,

and just describing h- where and how they were gonna do it. And so the song keeps going, and at that point, this is really, this is, this is like hot stuff for 1988 eight.

And we are like, you know, and that's why it wasn't played until after a certain time on the, um, Red Alert mix show.

And so the, the song, Jay Ray, [00:19:00] the climax, literally the climax of the song is Almond Joy, aka LeShaun, giving her best. And I think, didn't we do a, a episode about, um, songs that contain orgasms

Jay Ray: We did.

Go back and watch our orga- our show

about orgasms. Mm-hmm.

Sir Daniel: We- listen, we cover everything here on Queue Points, you hear me? We not scared at all. So the, the climax of the song is LeShaun, um, having an orgasm, and the last thing you hear her say is, "Wow Fame."

So for- fast-forward, fast-forward seven years later, LL Cool J is, to Jay Ray's point, he's in his, in his Fly Boy era, and he drops this. He drops "Doin' It."

It's an immediate hit. It's an immediate adds and, um, sp- rotations on the radio. The video is a hit. But to my ear, I'm like, "Oh, that's LeShaun [00:20:00] on the hook

Jay Ray: the, on the actual hook, yep

Sir Daniel: On the actual hook, which was out- to for me, you know, your female rap ambassador, for me, I'm like, "Oh, this is so cool that he

Jay Ray: a good look for

Sir Daniel: back to her and brought her up and said, 'Hey, I know this was your joint,' and acknowledged her and put her on the record."

But then when the video dropped, there was no sign of LeShaun whatsoever, 'cause I was excited to see what she was gonna look like and, you know. And maybe this was going to be a new start for her because she had a lot of false starts

in the industry. She had an album that was supposed to drop. We were, we were ready for the album.

That didn't happen on Tommy Boy. Then she was a part of the Flavor Unit, and so we thought something was gonna happen with Flavor Unit. So there were a lot of false starts to the actual, uh, a full, for a full album release from LeShaun. And, and if you were a fan of hers, that was disappointing. And for her not to show up in the video, that was also [00:21:00] disappointing.

LeShaun, Body Shaming & Being Erased from the Video

Sir Daniel: And so that caused a little bit of controversy for LL Cool J, and people were, the media was s- was asking, "Well, why, why, why? Where is LeShaun?" Because hip hop heads knew who she was and knew that this was her song. And so when that came to a fever pitch, I think she appeared on a couple of performances,

um, like on MTV or BET, um, some live performances.

But then when the time came for touring

and for other videos and whatnot, she still was not there. And I believe at the time she may have, she, uh, had either just had a baby or she was pregnant.

And so that of course brings up the whole, you know, women being body shamed,

especially if you are, if you are pregnant, just had a baby, and weight comes into the equation.

And so they've both talked about it ad nauseam about both of their experiences. But LeShaun, of course, [00:22:00] is the person that fully experienced it, and I believe you should go to her Instagram. She's talked about it numerous times and how she felt about it and, you know, whether or not she felt like she was treated fairly.

Um, and yeah, I think you, you should, she definitely deserves that recognition for setting that song off because without her, all of y'all know her voice on LL's "Doin' It." All of you know her verse. And so I just think it's a very, that was a very important time in history for female rappers and for, um, you know, that was pre-Lizzo and, you know, people being concerned about body shaming and accepting, um, b- body acceptance. So it w- she, of course she was, um, she was leading the way and be- being a trailblazer from the very beginning. So shout out to LeShaun for, um, for making our number two song on this list Even though the [00:23:00] LL version is quite tame. I

mean, you

Jay Ray: much so

Sir Daniel: put doing It" up against, uh, putting It In Your Mouth"? Please. You could, you could play that at somebody's baby shower.

Hell, you could play, you could play that at the church function next time

Jay Ray: Oh, yeah, those songs, I grade these songs by, like, would it play on, like, daytime It" all the so. And, um, my mom wouldn't care about "Doin' It", I would play the song. I could leave the radio on, and I would be to "Doin' and she would just be like, "Sure."

Um, I would not be embarrassed. So we rate that a four. So right now, "Put It In Your Mouth" is still number one, 'cause that was like a straight 10 for

me and Sir Daniel. The last song, and we'll d- we'll talk about, uh, we have some other ones we'll add in ourselves. But

Song 3: "Not Tonight" — Lil' Kim

Jay Ray: our last official song that we wanted to talk about is a song that we talk about a lot, but we also talk about the remix of this song, and that is the original version of Lil' [00:24:00] Kim's "Not Tonight", which was produced by Jermaine Dupri,

who is on the song weirdly.

And, and Sir Daniel,

I, I think this is like... Right, I think a thing that we do is we think Jermaine Dupri is saying, "JD, y'all," because that's what he always said. But that's not what he's saying. He's saying, "JM, y'all," which is his name, too. He's Jermaine Dupri Maldin, but he's saying JM on this song, which is very interesting, because of course, we know him as JD. But, um, produced by J- uh, Jermaine Dupri. Samples, uh, George Benson's Take Your Love, uh, Turn Your Love, uh,

Turn Your

Sir Daniel: your love around. Do,

Jay Ray: Around. I had to sing it.

Sir Daniel: do, do, do, do, do, do.

Jay Ray: And, um, song for me is top-tier storytelling. One of the things that

we forget about with Lil' [00:25:00] Kim is Hard Core is really just like a master class in, uh, women storytelling. Um, and I think "Not Tonight" is just like a fun song for her to, like, get her stuff off about these men that she's interacted with, and she's having some sort of sexual interactions with. But typically, and I don't know if you'll agree with this, Sir Daniel, is typically, uh, as a, uh, way to get things, so there's like a reciprocation. Um, but there's also an enjoyment in, uh, so these men are kind of giving her money or giving her things, and she's giving them h**d or whatever else, right? But it's just kind of the story, uh, within "Not Tonight". And, um, yeah, it's a joint that we don't talk about, at least the original version. 'Cause we talk about the remix, Ladies Nite, all the time.

So

Sir Daniel: All the time. And again, shout out to the Christopher Columbus generation for [00:26:00] make this song again has become, this version of the song has become popular again because of social media, because of a TikTok dance that a young man, um, has put together who's, who's also, um, upset with Lil' Kim because he hasn't been recognized her- by her for creating this dance, but that's a whole nother story.

Uh, you know. But, um, so yeah, so "Not Tonight", the original version, um, I didn't even think about that, but yes, he was saying, I, I believe he was saying JM because for Junior Mafia.

Jay Ray: Oh, that makes more

sense. Junior Mafia.

Sir Daniel: Mafia. Because this was, I'm pretty certain, and you know, when things get produced, they don't always...

It's not linear like what we think is produced and put out and given to you. A lot of these things are produced and set to the side because at that time, Lil' Kim and Junior Mafia were a thing.

And so it could've been part of the Junior Mafia project, or we didn't know if it was gonna be part of the Lil' Kim project.

[00:27:00] So I believe that's why he was saying JM, y'all. But anyway, so I, I will push back a little bit on you. I think what makes this song so titillating and so, um, and so, uh, intriguing is the fact that I think that Lil' Kim is withholding, even though she... The whole hook of the song is, "I don't

want

dick

Jay Ray: d*ck tonight," my p**sy

Sir Daniel: it's...

Oh, oh, and I have a very funny theory about that hook, uh, so bear with me real quick. So the she, uh, the song is about withholding sex until you get what you want out of these dudes, right? Because, uh, the, uh, my favorite lyric is, uh, "Could he come over right fast and f**k my pretty ass?" I know we gonna have to bleep the hell out of this episode, but, "Could he come over right fast and f**k my pretty ass?

I passed, nigga, the d*ck was trash. If sex was record sales, you would be Double Glass." You know, that, I think that was one of the [00:28:00] hottest lines on that song because it clearly spelled out like, yo, you really, this is the, the ladies, the ladies of the '90s, especially the late '90s, have a clear, a clear, um, concept of what it means to be a woman and how to navigate these relationships with men that clearly just want sex. Well, if you just want sex out of me, let's make this transactional. I need money. I need, you know, you're a drug dealer out here. I know you got it, so you need to put s- spend a little dough in order to have a good time. And so, okay, so my theory about the hook, Jay Ray, the hook is, "I don't want d*ck tonight.

Eat my p**sy right." Okay. Jay Ray, do you remember in the early '80s the Kentucky Fried Chicken commercial We do chicken right

Jay Ray: Oh, yeah.

Sir Daniel: Eat my p**sy [00:29:00] right. So

I, I'm thinking that that is an interpolation of,

Jay Ray: Yes. That

makes sense

Sir Daniel: correlating eat my p**sy right with we do chicken right. Which

Jay Ray: for real. I

Sir Daniel: I love. Jermaine Dupri, the genius that you are. I love that. And, and the ladies are singing to the top of their lungs on that song. But yes, so if we were gonna rate that song, I think because

Uh, explicit? Yes. Um, you know what? A five. I'm gonna give it a five. I'm gonna give it a five. It's-- I was thinking it's, it's not as, as ba- and I don't wanna use the word bad, but it's not on the level of r- it's not raunchy,

Jay Ray: No

Sir Daniel: of. ""Put It In Your Mouth"" is raunchy on steroids. ""Not Tonight"" is, you know, the moral of

Jay Ray: Yeah[00:30:00]

Sir Daniel: the story is this. You into getting this? You into sticking this? You know, the, it's still explicit about sexual acts, but that little sliver of raunch isn't there, if that makes sense. Does that make sense?

Jay Ray: It does make sense. Um, I think, so I would rate this one a four.

Sir Daniel: Okay

Jay Ray: in my case, because this song has that whole, like, real storytelling angle,

I think I can separate it from, like, the raunchiness of "Put It In Your Mouth", where I just think it's, like, explicitly describing, like, sexual acts.

This is more like this woman describe- uh, uh, telling stories that

involve sex, and I feel like that's a little bit more passable for me. Now, would I turn off the radio still if [00:31:00] the original version of "Not Tonight" shuffled up? Unless there was some clean version that shuffled up, I probably would skip it, because my mom would be like, "Now, what is this girl talking about?" And, you

Sir Daniel: What she said?

Jay Ray: "What's she saying?"

Sir Daniel: Eat what?

Jay Ray: e- what- But I do think, like, I see this, this is top-tier storytelling for me.

Like, it reads like a m- like I could see these being like little vignettes, which is not a

bad idea, Lil' Kim. If you took "Not Tonight" and kinda broke these stories down

Sir Daniel: Ooh

Jay Ray: like... That would be masterwork

So "Not Tonight" is, got a score of nine. So right now, still at number one is Put It In Your In Your Mouth. Number two, "Not Tonight". Uh, a distant number three is, um, Doin' It.

Outro & Call to Action

Jay Ray: Let us know, y'all, so y'all have listened to us talk about some songs from 1996 that were explicit and rate them. What are some songs on your list that we did not talk about? Let us know [00:32:00] what the song is and what your rating for the song is, and why you rated it that way.

Um, 'cause we'll pull together a playlist, and we might just include your song on there. Um, but we appreciate y'all, uh, tuning in to Queue Points and always supporting us. If you can see our faces and hear our voices, go ahead and hit the subscribe button. We would appreciate it. Visit our website at queuepoints.com.

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We love y'all.

Sir Daniel: Absolutely, and like I say in every episode, in this life you have a choice. You can either pick up the needle or you can let the record play. I am DJ Sir Daniel

Jay Ray: And my name is Jay Ray, y'all

Sir Daniel: And this is Queue Points podcast, dropping the needle on Black music history. We will see you on the next go around. Queue Points coming. Queue Points coming.

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Jay Ray: Hey. [00:33:00]

Sir Daniel: coming. Queue Points coming. Queue Points coming.

Jay Ray: Don't y'all be raising the roof out here this

Sir Daniel: Please don't. Don't don't do that.

Jay Ray: Peace, y'all.

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