Songs You Didn’t Even Know That Turned 20 This Year

Ever Find yourself Bumping to a Jam or Catch A Classic On The Radio and told your self ” I Haven’t Heard This in a While ” Well you haven’t.

Here is a List of Songs that first Premiered 20 Years Ago , Sheesh.

Some tracks contain explicit lyrics.

“You’re Makin’ Me High” Toni Braxton

Four-minutes-and-27-seconds of sensual ’90s R&B with a fitting amount of baby-baby- baby-baby-babys in the lyrics. And the “high” in the title did not refer to height. Comely singer Toni Braxton stands 5-foot-1.

C’mon N’ Ride It (The Train)” Quad City DJ’s

A perfect example of ’90s “Jock Jams” material. This top five hit from Florida combo Quad City DJ’s (the apostrophe after “DJ” is intentional) is based on “Theme from Together Brothers,” a 1974 disco-ish instrumental by Barry White’s The Love Unlimited Orchestra.


Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check” Busta Rhymes

Back when he attended Brooklyn, N.Y.’s George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School, Trevor Smith would battle-rap schoolmate Shawn Carter. A few years later, Smith would become known as Busta Rhymes, a name bestowed to him by Public Enemy’s Chuck D, and Carter would go by the stage appellation Jay Z.


“Pony” Ginuwine

Slow jam, anyone? Washington R&B moaner Ginuwine’s Timbaland-produced track “Pony” penetrated the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 and spent two weeks atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

“Killing Me Softly with His Song” Fugees

Many music fans know Fugees’ R&B/rap hybrid (which benefitted greatly from Lauryn Hill’s sultry-soulful vocals) was aped from Robert Flack’s chart-topping 1973 version (and goosed with A Tribe Called Quest’s “Bonita Applebum” sample), but fewer know folkie Lori Lieberman released the song, co-written with Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel, a year before that.


“What I Got” Sublime

Sublime singer Bradley Nowell never got to know how successful his reggae-rock band’s song “What I Got” would become. He died of a heroin overdose before the song was released on Sublime’s self-titled third LP.


“Elevators (Me & You)” OutKast

A metaphor for fame’s ups and downs, from now-iconic Atlanta rap duo OutKast.


“Virtual Insanity” Jamiroquai

Stevie Wonder should have sued comically hatted Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay for vocal identity theft on “Virtual Insanity.” History remembers the track more as a music video than an actual song.