(From Fresh Mode EP; 1999)
How I learned to stop worrying and love this song: forget how annoying Ugly Duckling’s fans were and enjoy the song for its wholesome backpack-and-forth between Andy Cooper & Dizzy Dustin. It’s silly to let other people ruin an artist for you, but Ugly Duckling’s fanboys tended to be 4 Elements fundamentalists or “I don’t usually listen to Rap BUT…” guys, so that’s my excuse and I’m stickin’ to it. A pity, though, because I coulda used Fresh Mode as a Nice & Squeaky-Clean detox from Freddie Foxxx’s Part Of My Life and Juvenile’s U Understand back in 1999.
Mind you, I was absolutely right to hate Everybody C’mon back in ’99. If that song were a person then it’d be Wicked22.
