Tuesday, August 31, 2010

90s Jams #57: A Tribe Called Quest "Bonita Applebum" (1990)

The name Bonita Applebaum works phonetically and one gets the sense that she is a great looking woman. "38-24-37" effortlessly invokes fantasies of this "superwoman." That fact helps hammer home the sensual, light-headed feeling of intoxication. Q-Tip gets all of the rhymes here and using his trademark spacy though crafty Romeo act. For a genre who's hard heart was its calling card, "Bonita Applebaum" proved that finesse and melody could be just as captivating. - Allmusic http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:wpfexxy0ldhe

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