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  • I ALWAYS THOUGHT THIS WAS BLACK WOMAN

  • Rick James took only one autograph (sign) from artist in hos life. It was signature of  Teena Marie. Rick James know what this woman present in vocal!! Ricj James Bitch!!

  • The firm made good use of this sample

  • she is soooooooo freakin awesome

  • No, it doesn't really matter if she's black or white. But sometimes people need a little flick on the nose and to be told to knock it off. She sounds black. Check out Rick James & Teena Marie - Fire and Desire

    MMMHMM!

  • does it really matter if she is black or white,shit she could be barney purple as long as u enjoy the music

  • I think to say that she doesn't sound like a soulful/black singer is a little silly, but I guess that varies from person to person. Maybe she was TRYING to sound black, but she had me fooled, that's for sure - I imagined her as black when I was a kid. It's not like we all can't hear the difference between black and non-black singers.

  • @mymanicsundial Thats true, my 8 year old heard this really soulful song by elvis one time and she told me that he sounded black! I didnt even know she could tell!

  • I don't know where you guys are getting this from but she does NOT sound black. She sounds exactly like what she is....a white woman trying to sound black. There is nothing wrong with that I guess, but she doesn't sound black by any means

  • heeyyyyyyyy always loved this jam she's missed as well my family played this round the house back in the day alots

  • Rochelle's song! :D

  • @MrRepolho1

    LOL!

    LOLOLOLOLOL...

    and she was singing it hard too.

  • Love that music

  • "I'm a Black artist with White skin"

    -The Late Great Teena Marie

  • Yes, I always thought this was a black singer....She died last year, I think.

  • she was a complete artist. she was a composer, singer, mixer, she would make her own arrangements, play some of the instruments. PLUS SHE COULD RAP!!!

    LOVE YOU VANILLA CHILD, ALWAYS WILL!!!!!!!!

  • Make that 14.

  • YESSS!!!!

  • Don't usually care for her voice. It often sounds so inauthentic ( like she's doing her best impersonation of a black R&B singer). I love how she sings this song though. The arrangement and musicians certainly don't hurt!

  • @dbabraham don't listen u hater

  • @dbabraham she sounds white singing r n b.she was good.i was never put off by her inflections.these days i dont know how you can tell when someone is authentic with much of a dam thing when its all copycat robotics in the first place.you're going to sound black when singing r n b, or you're not singing r n b.,you're going to have a drawl when singing country music lest you be an idiot from n.y.c.

  • Imagine If a Young Attractive White woman would come along now with a voice and soulful sound like Teena Marie's. How much would she be worth? She'd be a gazillionaire.

  • @missjerseyz2008 called amy winehouse

  • @swiftbass1 neither amy or adele have the pipes that Tina had.

  • @missjerseyz2008 adele <3

    

  • @missjerseyz2008 adele is attractive.but she fat with a panass.she needs to hurrup and 'jenny craig' with jennifer hudson, and nickki menage that panass into a woooooow!for the crowd.

  • @ohmphthschwrhu wtf does that have to do with her singing?

  • @missjerseyz2008 im jus' saying theres your gazzillionaire.its a superficial world babybubba!

  • @ohmphthschwrhu Adele is fat but she can sing good. A lot better then Nicki and all that other crap coming out recently.

  • @Securitron343 yes she can sing,yes everybody loves her.she got a sexy face but not a sexy ass.nikki knew the deal,she added some silicon to her ass its beautiful.she has to do this if she wants to be a gazzilionare.remember beyonce with yey amont of money whenshe was A CHURCH GIRL.then she did boodielicious and boom she's a gazillionare.thats just how it go.

  • @ohmphthschwrhu I personally think fake breasts and asses are disgusting. But hey, sex sells.

  • Man! this was my cut. TRUE FUNK ! Reminds me of rid'in 4 deep in a drop top Buick 225 on high school swing out June 1981. We had a case of 40's in the trunk ! CRAZY SH_ _ ! LOL.

  • beautiful music!!

    

  • EVERYBODY GET UP!

  • Slap the hell out of that bass!

  • im only 27 an i love this song. my mom listen to her.

  • @zariyahki im only 17.......... and i love this song :D

  • @zariyahki GOOD MUSIC KNOWS NO AGE,,, I LUV 'D IT AT 17 WHEN IT WAS RELEASED.. PEACE.......

  • i love being a 70,s baby this was the good music

  • like if Baby Boy brought you here

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  • Thumbs up if are you here because of Rochelle of Everybody Hates Chris !

  • @sombra258 I'm here because of that! Right now! I'm watching that episode right now! =D

  • o Teena Marie, how amazing you are

  • BEAUTIFUL WOMAN , BEAUTIFUL VOICE

  • It's been a year since the beautiful Teena Marie went 2 heaven 2 hold it down 4 those who've been called Casper, Shorty, Little Bit, Vanilla Child & other things!! I bought this classic on 45 Gordy Imprint 2x cuz the first one skipped! This classic brings a flood of great memories. :( RIP Teena Marie & Thanx 4 getting an 8 year old girl into spirituals, rock, Sarah Vaughn, Johann Sebastian Bach, Shakespeare, Maya Angelou, & Nikki Giovanni just to name a few! RIP Diva! You were one of a kind! XO

  • ole skool...damn 80's werent all to bad for clubs. tight upload!

  • "I'm talkin' square biz to ya baby..square square biz.." never really knew this woman at all nor her music, but this song has to be the only song I've fell in love with once I heard it on Pandora radio: Old School Jams and Today's R&B station. LOVE! I never knew you Teena, but RIP! Beautiful voice <3

  • tina was a great performer god keep her daughter in his careand tina will live on in all of our hearts thank god for the time he lent her to us

  • RICC JAMES' LIL RAG DOLL RIGHT HERE HAHA!

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  • Love that pic of her!

  • iam gunna hip it to the t !! t for me flash bang whos that !!!! .......luv it to the bone , awsome !!!

  • Teena was so far ahead of her time it's unbelievable. The way she carried a record and even was rapping in 1981 is nuts. 30 years later this record is still great. She was well loved, received and appreciated mostly by the black community but this woman was phenomenal and deserves a place amongst the all time great singers.

  • i get goose bumps and teary eyed when i listen 2 her songs its almost been a year and its still so hard to except she's gone! she will live on forever through her music! RIP TEENA

  • We love you and miss you Teena. 

  • Has anyone noticed that this song hardly has anything playing on the one?

  • This white girl had soul i got goose bumps whenever i heard her sing still do & she"s no longer here RIP Teena

  • This was when the park would be full on Sunday they called IT CHUNKY SUNDAY....FLORIDA HAD IT GOING JUST LIKE THAT......NO FIGHTS GOTTA SAY THEY PINED OUT BACK THEN BUT IT JUST PUT A NICE AROMA IN THE AIR...TIME MACHINE PLEASE....

  • 13 PEOPLE NEED TO BE BITCHED SLAPPED

  • @ROTTYLUV4ME I would like to be the one bitch slapped them.. Where do I sign up? ;-)

  • @ROTTYLUV4ME 14 people need bitchasness slaps

  • @ROTTYLUV4ME 14

  • I can never get over the fact that she was about three inches tall and belted out a voice as powerfully as she did. I've seen her live performance recordings on here too. Never heard a bum note. Just perfect timing and energetic performances every time. What a talent. What a sad loss to music.

  • Oh boy... this is the jam right here :)

  • Damm never knew -guttedf, sweet Teena has departed from earth but her soul lives on -RIP

  • Rest N Peace, Ms. Teena Marie.

  • And I LOVE YOU Teena ... in a class all by herself ...no one sounds like her ... she is unique and I miss her so much ...Lord, if we only had singers like HER today ... xo

  • She was a white goddes with a great voice. R.I.P. Teena.

  • When I was younger, I never knew what she was talking about. Thank goodness for wisdom when you get older.

  • Fat beat. Bobby Caldwell ran into the same presumptions about who could make soulful funky music. Soulful is a way of life, an attitude, not a skin color, ya heard!

  • O I love this song. I'm 27 and  this song go hard. My kids love it too they are 8 6 and 5! Miss u Teena luv u R.I.P.

  • Can't qet enuff of dis sonq!

    " I'm talkinq square biz to you Baby! " <3

  • we miss and love you

  • im already 34 and i just heard this now and i love it lol

  • Teena was so amazing! She changed the typical expectations of what a woman can be in the industry. Not only an amazing singer, but also an incredible musician and writer. And yes...still a LADY while she played the bass, guitar, piano...whatever. She rocked!! I've been blessed with the opportunity to sing and pay tribute to her and will always feel a connection.

  • this is my song !!!!! i lovee it and im only 15 !

  • I am 11 and I love this song

  • R.I.P. we miss you

  • Washington D.C 1982 nation's capitol, I heard this woman-man what balls! I have been all around the world since then-hey square biz fella! I heard she she liked a guy named sebastian. peace always.

  • RIGHT!!! thtz reallll gooood

  • one good thing about music..when it hits you,you feel no pain

  • @scruffyrunkin Could not have said it better!!

  • @scruffyrunkin My ears feel pain when I hear Bieber

  • LOL i want a cookie

  • I love the rap part.

  • I LOVE this song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • R.I.P teena

  • This a "BLOCK PARTY JAM" ya'll!!!

  • I met my 1st love on this cut!

  • THIS SONG WAS ME AND MY VERY FIRST REAL LOVE SONG, WE USED TO CRUISE AROUND LISTENING TO TEENA MARIE. R.I.P. TEENA

  • Oh this is great!!!! makes my crappy mood today a little bit... brighter.

  • Yeah Lady Tee bust that hot 16 on them!! CLASSIC!!

  • honestly i like the music of today, yesterday, and even before that. They're just different and if you're gonna be like that then you're missing out.

  • RIP TEENA !!!

  • the 12 dislikes must be republican conservatives  lol

  • @coachwgw2 ROFL

  • @coachwgw2 wrong only soulless socialist democrats couldn't dig this baby

  • My mom got to see her last concert at the Fair

    .....i thought she was mexican

  • You are not going to sit still & listen to this

  • 12 people dont have people to talk square biz to

  • regardless of her background....this Sista could sang!

  • this is my jam i rember my big cuz singing this song all the time

  • this is the shit!!!!! music today aint got nothing on this!!!! R.I.P. TEENA MARIE!!!

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  • RIP TEENA!

    

  • I wish I had a chance to meet her!!!!!!! OMG....RIP TEENA MARIE<3

  • Boston Puerto Rican showing love for TEENA ... MY IDOL!!!

  • I love you Teena!!!! RIP never forgotten always loved!!!

  • I love this song, I'm black!

  • Teena Marie is not a white singer, she is mixed with Portuguese, Italian, Irish and Native American.

  • @diamondrmp How do you Know? Please, I'd like to know your source.

  • @diamondrmp which makes WHITE

  • @diamondrmp Who cares? The "B" was Baad!!

  • @diamondrmp lmao! u are stupid! Portuguese, italians and Irish are considered to be white dumb ass! Where do you think white ppl come from??? They are descended from other countries just like everyone else in america smdh lmao! And a lot of american whites has some native american admixture. ur stupid. lmao i cant believe u wrote that and swore u knew what u was talking about lol

  • im 13 and i sound just like her i sung this for a n state talent show and won

  • I know people use to jam back in the 80s

    RIP Tina Marie

  • we love and miss teena marie!!!!

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  • real talent! I wish there was still artists making songs like this today! I miss you Teena! RIP...we love you!

  • I Heard She Didn't Wana Put Her Face On Her Album Cause She Was Scared It Wasn't Guna Sell..

  • When I first heard this song, I thought she was black.

  • I love Teena.I'm 13 and dancing to this song.I've done my homework.She should've got more credit when she died.I mean c'mon Tee had talent...

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  • @rallotubbs1 wgaf? about 21 people loser,stfu.HAVE A NICE DAY!! ;)

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  • @rallotubbs1 haha,your such a loser..you're arguing with a 13 year old,,GET A LIFE TUBBS! (and yes,i WOULD like a cookie) ;)

  • @MusikJunkie4EverMBJP I'm 12, so that makes you a loser. Fucking faggot, think you're cool because you are 13. Get the fuck out of here

  • @MusikJunkie4EverMBJP i love this song too! n im the same age! u can truly say that the old skool neva dies!

  • @Lilmamaentertainment 4 real! nice to know someone else my age sees teena the way i do!!

  • @MusikJunkie4EverMBJP lolz! right!

  • @Lilmamaentertainment haha! lol..that was kinda dumb to say..lol

  • Spell it out ! Lady T. The Best! Square Biz!

    I will always love Teena Marie!

    Thank you

  • Spell it out ! Lady T. The Best! Square Biz!

  • brings back a lot memories, square biz was tight

    

  • Lady T is the Queen of R&B! Her voice has no match to any other Black Lady Singer!!!

    We will always Love You Lady T!!

  • @luvbentley50 Let's not get excited now....She's good, but there are hundred's of black singer's who are better....

  • Everybody get up and dance! Have a great time!

  • I love this song teena R.I.P

  • This song is OVA ! Tina is a legend! work it out if you will. Friday night jam.

  • has any other person in r&b ever used the word kismet in lyrics?

  • smh,she was rapping in 1981!!nobody ever gives her credit for that..this song is the funk!

  • I loved this artist!!!

  • THAY NEED TO DO A TINA MARIE MOVIE ASAP BUT WHO WOULD PLAY HER

  • @Tyty2151977

    sandra bullock?

  • @Tyty2151977 christina aguilera would play tina marie

  • @SHAWNLAKESMUSIC I agree SHAWN, Christina could blow this song just like Ms. Teena!!!!!!!!!

  • @SHAWNLAKESMUSIC I agree Christina would be perfect or I think even Pink would be good playing her.

  • @BlaqueReign25 pink would be a good 1 also. i wouldnt have thought about her

  • @SHAWNLAKESMUSIC I think Pink would be good cause she is really soulful, Christina would be good for the same reasons, they have so much soul in their voices, even though they tend to be placed in the pop arena a lot they are really soulful and I think both would do the Ivory Queen of Soul great justice.

  • HEY BABY LOVE WHAT'S YOUR NAME?

  • Hey! You , the " dislikes" KISS MY ENTIRE ASS!!!

  • R.I.P. Teena <3

  • If there are any White women out there like Ms.T I am one Black man crying my heart out to hold you in my arms. I'm surrounded by ghetto wanna be down hood rats that drop nbombs all day. They are bad for my health so I stay away. I want a classy soul sista in Vanilla flavor.

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  • this woman had it going on, this song is one of the first thing one i select when iam listing to my oldies. your miss very much.

  • God Bless Tina Marie!The girl can sing her ass off!

  • @sukafreecity That is the truth.

  • one hell of a song

  • It was used in Hollywood squares was it not?

  • @Jerseysson27 It was, though they used customized lyrics & called the song "Hollywood Square Biz". Not sure if Ms. Marie sang that version, but if not, they got one hell of a sound alike.

  • i jammed to this when i was 8 years old and now my 8 year is dancing to it.....r.i.p. rick james and teena marie i miss u both.....

  • She has had a Ghetto pass from the start R.I.P. I love you Teena

  • @buckweet08 She wasnot ghetto. She was high class soul.

  • Italians have some color ;)

  • miss you girl!!

  • YO MEL THIS IS DJ SLAM WHAT UP WIT CHA?

  • I had that 45 record! Those were great times!!

  • RIP, Girl I've followed your music for many years not to mention the all time Rick JAMES, you are beloved and your music will carry on for many years and generations I will make sure of that, promise!!!!!! xoxo

  • R.I.P. TEENA!!! WE WILL MISS YOU

  • @MrHeartbreaker452 WE SURE WILL!!!

  • Just got word that Teena Marie and Bobby Womack recorded With you I'm born again. It's coming out the end of September. Teena recorded the duet a few months before her passing. Can't wait to hear it and get my hands on it as well. Teena might be gone but at least she left us with something new. Miss you Lady T!!!