>one word: Rockwell

LOL, I was listening to that song the night before I wrote that reply, which is why it came up. Then I remembered, they weren't the only ones. It was RFTW most famously as well. I had thought dude from the System was from the UK for a minute because he was doing that Prince-esque, monotone, British accent thing for a few songs.
>Wait. You dont drive the mofo? Does the price include Kramer
>to drive you around??

You can drive the car, it certainly has the engine, the means, and whatnot. But it's mostly used as a limousine than actually driven by people. Which I guess is a new level of "cool" to which to aspire, but if your idea of a cool car is one in which you are typically chauffeured. At least Bentleys, people actually got behind the wheel.

>Im totally not against experimenting with new sounds or
>expanding your stylistic pallette...take a song like Party All
>The Time...it has all the hallmarks of the Beige era--stuttery
>DX7 bassline, loud reverbed claps, canned drums--but it still
>has that distinctive Rick James flavor...its one thing to
>reach across the aisle, it another thing to jump over the
>aisle and run to the other side....Rick was just too Black and
>sexually threatening...one or the other was cool, BOTH at the
>same time was too much for White America at the time...Prince
>was sexually threatening but not aggressively Black or
>masculine...Michael's sexuality flew over the heads of White
>America because he was deemed harmless, but the females caught
>it and Mike tired to play it off with that "aw, shucks"
>shit...until the crtoch grab and the Panther seciton of the
>Black or White video(thus the visceral reaction from white
>folks)...actually I dont think there IS a brother in popular
>American culture currently who is Black, masculine, sexually
>forward and heterosexual...

I'm reaching for one. For a while I was thinking of Ving Rhames. Good point about Mike. The thing that was discussed (and ridiculed) the most after the "Black or White" video was the crotch grab... I mean, an hour's worth of discussion.