Abstrac' - Right and Hype

[MeekMink]

This is my jam! Honey, I would get dressed to this my sophmore year; dating college guys and going out with the girls that had cars. Dancing at stop lights...it was a great time for me in the 90's! Thanks Abstract

[dogkelp]

Can anyone explain why the title is "Right and Hype" when the sound and context all seem to point to "Right Type"?

[arkansoul]

My senior year in high school...when life was so simple and innocent. Then came college and BILLS!!! Good times though...

[MrSexxxy20]

I just saw a vid of Topaz singing recently with a band. She hasn't aged one BIT. Still beautiful.

[MrSexxxy20]

Topaz was fine.

[betcamus]

I think I've said it before, but these women were visually and somewhat vocally, what En Vogue came to be. EV just took it further and perfected it. Good, tho'.

[RobReason1]

Hahaaaa Hell Yeah Shadina Mom ! Love from @REASONforWOMACK

[snowsbeau]

I remember working in the mall when this was released. It played on the wet seal video screens all day! Everyone in the store was always dancing to it when you passed by the store.

[tootieluvsmusic]

I was in my second year of college when this jam came out & we used to bump this all the time. Of course we watched the video too because they were all so fine!

[jayrbabyboy]

oowwwwww mwork it mama lol

[SuperJazzman10]

Havent heard this in a looooooooooooooooooooong time since the 90's

[oldschool1]

Oh no, I caught myself doing the WOP dance. Good memories. :)

[719kai719]

wow video music box lol! Haven't seen this video in many yrs,lol

[rappinreed2150]

Certainly an under-rated song

[IRON5]

A true new jack swing club banger!!!!

[1quirkykitty]

STILL A JAM! :-)

[MARKSMAN45ACP]

Yo, JellyBean2144 :):):), I remember those EXCORT GT's, hahaha.  Everyone wanted one. Let me bring you back some more. You remember those extremely small 13" rims dudes use to rock on the cars. They use to bow like crazy, but people LOVED them. An I KNOW, you remember when EVERYONE had "5-Star rims", like FITTAPALDI's? Those use to be SICK. Also, those gold or black BBS meshed rims that came on Beemers and Benzito's. Yo kid, those were some FLY times, PEACE!!!

[MARKSMAN45ACP]

These Sista's were MAD FLY, I was feeling this from beat one. I caught this jam on "Rap City" with the Major Chris, by accident back in 1989. I loved it from then on. I went out and bought the single cassette that night.  Ya'll remember when we use to buy cassette singles, and 45's? DAMN I miss those days. Everyone was "Hungry" in the music business, and you got the FULL & AUTHENTIC energy from the artists. Today, all you get are TUPPERWARE TALENTS, who can't even rap, muchless sing!!!

[yqw1mfk]

the 80's were so fun....what happened?

[JellyBean2144]

Dang!! I loved this group. I use to bump the heck out there music in my Escort GT, back in El Paso, TX back in the day. All Graders club!!!

This group could have been really good if the record labels push their music more.

[yqw1mfk]

@JellyBean2144 i know....Escort GT....LOL

[kvxz]

I didn't realize Teddy had produced this, but I can certainly hear it now. We had one of the few Pop stations that played this...it only got to #89 on the Pop chart, but I think it made about #22 on the R&B chart.

[KHALEELSMOMMIE]

@kvxz this is my mom group she the lead singer,,she didnt like the hair eitha lol

[lewis20002000]

@KHALEELSMOMMIE .....bro, I was in love with your mom...no offense. I don't know if I love the song because of her or loved her because of the song. Either way, your father was a lucky guy. peace.

[ronaldmcneil]

gosh i hated this damn video back in the day on video music box...it was the hair...lmao...

[williambrown007]

I remember watching the video way back in 89 even though i had not forgot the group's name (Abstrac') I sort forgotten their descriptions and style.

[OTIE1121]

Ooh...Thanks for posting this song!

I forgotten all about this...

This song is a classic!

[MPA2000]

I never saw this video, I don't think. Anyway I came across it in my album collection and decided to convert it to MP3 with the others.

[reggie583]

I remember coming home from school, watching this on Video Music Box while I ate Vanilla Wafers and grape Kool-Aid! Thanks for the memories. Big up to Topaz and Shadina!

[Eriqka33]

this was the jam...

[73KingDavid]

man i forgot about this......i used to come home everyday after school and play da shit outta this jam....TR is da man!!!!

[summerdays111]

im good friends with topaz,the lead singer..her daughter SHADINA IS SINGIN,,N SHES STILL SINGINGING TO,,,CHECK OUT SHADINA ON HERE...ALSO GO TO SHADINA MYSPACE PAGE..SHADINA1,,U WILL SEE PIC OF TOPAZ NOW..N SEE HOW MUCH SHES CHANGE SINCE THE EARLY 90'S. HER DAUGHTER IS ABOUT TO BLOW UP, BUT YEA LOOK IN SHADINA PICTURE PROFILE OR CHECK OUT HER VIDEO HER!

[MrDiamondcut]

TOPAZ!!! You are one of the sweetest people I've ever met. I only wish you success wherever you are. I remember a song you wrote for your daughter...it too was sensational. God Bless. ExPro-K

[Superplatanoman]

Anyone remember the R&B song called She's so FLY or Hype?

[herculeshernandez]

youre either referencing "Too Hype" by Entouch, or "She's Fly" by Tony Terry... check out either of those

[Superplatanoman]

thanks. entouch. that's it. i really appreciate it.

[nublackmusic]

video music box. king of the music video shows. We saw this when VMB first showed it. Teddy Riley is up there with the greatest producers ever!!

[tory2day]

SHE IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!

[yobba949]

wow flash back to high school

[nawlns]

wow...talk about taking a brotha back! i have the original CD and didn't think anyone remembered this group. NEW JACK SWING forever..

[ILoveEmilee]

New Jack Swing at its finest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[betcamus]

I can't believe someone actually found this video, WOW!! I always thought this group was pre-En Vogue, but lacked their overall polish and appeal. Still a noteworthy group, tho'.

[sexiazzchic2]

Topaz-orange

Marsha McClurkin-yellow

Mary Brown-green

I guess i got it right. LOL!!!! I,m only 12 so.

[taylor4660]

How did u know this? You are only 12?

[phistdom]

thankx for the OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL­LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL­LLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD­DDDDDDDDL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Brinah]

*GASP* NOOOOOO WAYYYYYYY.....!!!!

[QUEENBEE1911]

LOL!!! I was thinking the same thing. I totally forgot about this song!!!

[BigBlueBeast]

Man! I haven't heard this song since the 9th grade! Sniff! I miss this type of music!

[thejumpoff1]

Wow! I was dating my first real lover when this song was out, circa 1990. Wow, again!!! 17, almost 18 years ago!!!

[nublackmusic]

We remember seeing this when it first aired.

All praise in uncle ralph and video music box!

[georjec]

Topaz..the lead singer use to always come over to my house to watch videos when VCR's first came out. She's a sweet and sunshiny person. I haven't seen her in 10-15 years. YouTube is something else. !!!

[NativeMoon]

OMFG!!!!!! I still have my fuschia cassette single of this joint! Never realised that Teddy R produced it - but this is still tight!!! Thank you so much for posting - never got to see the vid back in the day!!!

[NativeMoon]

OMFG!!!!!! I still have my fuschia cassette single of this joint! Never realised that Teddy R produced it - but this is still tight!!! Thank you so much for posting - never got to see the vid back in the day!!!

[johnnyraysaravia]

I been looking for a hype, I been looking for the right guy. I need someone to talk to,I need someone by my side. They sing exactly what I am looking for. Who posted this song? Thanks!

[cutieepie31]

i remember this 1,it was tha shit

[MrSexxxy20]

I was a SHORTY when this came out but I remember this joint to, mostly the dancing in the video

[MsNellieNell]

how in the heck did I find this song?!! (lol)

[OQUENDO1968]

I've Been looking for this Jam for months!! Freshman year at Tuskegee (20) When this Jam came out!! Incredible!!

[changemonkey]

One of TR's finest... and after all these years still winds me up that I never could get hold of this on wax!!!

[RegCrowd]

I was looking for this the other day. Thanks!!!! Do anybody remember Teddy R's other group Deja?

[Califonza1978]

I remember the second single by them. I think it was party and fun or You got the party or u got the fun. I love dat track 2.

[LUVHYM]

The jam...A gene griffin group and a very good new jack album.

[m1ssthang]

OMG...this take a sista back...the 90's were a muthafucka...LOL

[Rasberry1028]

OMG!!!!!!!!! I can't believe this. I'm sending this to my sister right now. She gon' trip, lol.

[stakluva]

People just dont know how powerful New Jack swing was I was in my teens then and the impact of this sound could only be described as club banging. You could dance hard or just swing with it. The music was really fuller with color and energy that kept everybody on the floor. I Loved this beautiful sisters they had class and were on some high style ish. Big ups Abstrac. Get this album its a killer.

[mixedcutieyesyes1]

wow look at ma cousin mary

[stakluva]

If you look like one of these girls hit me up

[williambrown007]

which one is Mary, ur cuzzin?

[ninti99]

u no wen thay were wearin the colors well she had the green on

[williambrown007]

Oh ok thanks. I kinda figured that was her in the green top.

[isaiash9]

I was in my late teen early twenties when this came out. I am forty now and this song brings back great memories. Love it!!!!

[blackdahlia1979]

Oh my god ! I was singing this song one day and no one remembered it. this song came out when i was like 12 or 13 yrs old so many memories,thank u 4 this!

[nick7477]

I was 13 in 1990 when this came out. It's a shame that they didn't stay around for long. Who knows, maybe they would be right up there with En Vogue, TLC, and Destiny's Child.

[mocaorchid]

I was 19 when it came out...ur making feel old ove here (age wise only) I still drop it like it's HOT!!!  LOL

[nick7477]

We both came from the same era when it was real music. It ain't like I'm a teenager. I was in middle school, and we would have school parties. They didn't play this song, but they did play other New Jack songs.

[mocaorchid]

I am feeling on that - we are definitely from the era when music was REAL! It wasn't played at the parties I went to either...I had it on cassette back then and I will be downloading it to cd...and playing it my next house party!

[nick7477]

Wow. I only been to two house parties in my teenage life. One was my cousin's birthday party, and the other was our class of '95 party. Other than that, I was never a party type of person. I pretty much stay to myself. I only have one or two friends in my lifetime, but that doesn't mean that I didn't boogie back then. My friend and I would do the running man, the MC Hammer, and all that.

[mocaorchid]

LOL! I guess you could say I am mixture - I stay to myself as well and am quiet for the most part, but I can cut a rug and socialize when I am comfortable. I love music! Ole school and Jazz or my fav...check these two videos out - Bobby Caldwell "what u wont do for love" and Ray Parker - I don't think that man should sleep alone

[nick7477]

OMFG!!!!! I remember that song by Ray Parker Jr.!!!!!! I was 10 back in '87 when that song was out. I haven't heard that song since it first came out in '87. WOW!!! I love that song. I also love that Bobby Caldwell song, too.

[mocaorchid]

HEY! Have you viewed them yet? You have to watch all video versions of Bobby Caldwell's what you wont do for love...they are all off the hook! Ray Parker's video got me HOT all over again!!!

[nick7477]

Yes, I haven't heard that song by Ray Parker Jr. for 20 years, and when I saw that video hear, I was thinking to myself like, "This is a blast from the past!!! I haven't seen Bobby Caldwell yet, but I'm going to.

[mocaorchid]

Cool!

[mocaorchid]

I have been looking for this jam for years - thanks...I am over doing the Prep, the Wop and all kinds $#!t from that era.

[nick7477]

New Jack Swing 1987-1993

[Reg826]

Love this video, brings back a lot of memories. Does anyone remember a group similiar to this one named Mahogany Black? Three girl group with a new jack swing sound. Nostalgia, can't believe this video is about 17 years old, keep them coming.

[williambrown007]

Alright, thanks Hercules. Just abit curious becuz i would thought it ended after around late 96. I guess I thought wrong. LOL!!!

[williambrown007]

Hey do anyone knows exactly when the New Jack swing period ended?

[herculeshernandez]

It ended around '92-'93 when MJB, Jodeci, Toni Braxton, SWV, etc. were coming out. It was kinda like a transitional thing. It gradually faded out and was pretty much a wrap by late-'93. Great era though!

[svetaswan]

Interesting - while MJB, Jodeci, and SWV had a New-Jack-swing type of sound, Toni Braxton definitely did not. Are you saying that New Jack Swing ceased being a distinct, separate sub-genre b/c it basically became the mainstream style of R&B by '92/'93? Because what was thought of as "mainstream R&B" when New Jack Swing made its debut started becoming extinct as hip-hop-driven, New-Jack type of R&B took over the music charts. (Toni Braxton might have been the last big star of the former.)

[Malkalvia]

Just shut the fuck up asshole nobody cares what you say.

[marcusrob02]

And...who the hell are you, to jump into a PRODUCTIVE and ENLIGHTENING discussion between two other posters. I think YOU need to take your dumb ass and BUTT OUT. Hate ignorant people like yourself...try reading everybody's comments before shooting unnecessary garbage out of your mouth, stupid little punk.

[marcusrob02]

Even thought MJB, Toni, SWV, etc., all had New Jack Swing type-of-sounding songs, those artists also ushered in a "new" course/style of Urban music that progressed throughout the 90s, at least until the late 90s. MJB's "Real Love" is sort of "New Jack" sounding, as was Toni's first appearance on a hit single, in Babyface's "Give U My Heart", as that also had heavy New Jack Swing influence. But R&B mellowed out (and definitely became more "freaky" and sexual lol) as the decade progressed.

[marcusrob02]

I think Hercules meant New Jack Swing in general became a wrap by late 1993....and it really ended before then, as the sound on urban radio was almost totally different in 1994...it began incorporated a more "mellow", Zhane-type, West Coast "sound" (like Brandy's "I Wanna Be Down", Adina Howard's "Freak Like Me", etc.)...ya feel me. On a side note, although Riley IS the pioneer of New Jack Swing, I prefered Babyface's brand of the sound LOL.

[nick7477]

DAMN!!! I haven't seen this video since 1990!!! WOW!!!  I feel old!!!!

[straygypsy]

These gals were AWSOME! It's a shame that the only black artists you hear about are the ones that encourage drugs and crime!

[mortician06]

They just needed better management..

they came out of Baltimore,Md

[BDizzleNY06]

I haven't seen this video since I was 8 years old...thanks a lot.

FyI: did you know these were same girls that sang in the "Groove Me" video by Guy.

[Starrlite77]

OMG! I forgot about this song!

[starkid77]

thank you so much einahchild, you've come through again. i've wanted to hear and see this again for years!!!

[djladygee]

I loved this track since the second I first heard it, absulute jam of New Jack Swing! Thank you for posting the video.

[williambrown07]

Einah Child, you're the best. Thanks for bringing back wonderful memories. Tha Hype!!!!

[JellyBean2144]

Good looking out, EinahChild.

[briankh2007]

This jam is HOT!! Old school rules!

[newblackmusic]

hey thanks for that video.

The track and the video have stuck in my head all of these years.

We had so much style and class back then.

you brought back some great memories with this.

thanks.

[ILoveEmilee]

This song was the jizzam! I just wish these sistas had more movement in their legs though.

[williambrown007]

But when it right down to it I believe the woman in the green top is the mother, but i dont know, she look older than the lead singer plus my mom use to wear her hair the same way 17 years ago.

[williambrown007]

i believe they all our sisters not mother and daughters

[born2sing2theworld]

I believe that this was a mother and her two daughters... The thing about it is that you can't tell which one is the mom... Eitherway, this was a HOT song back in the day... Thanks for posting!

[honeegrrl]

The lead singer is the mother, she looks the oldest.

[born2sing2theworld]

Yep! I think that you are right but you've got to give her credit; she looks more like an older sister, not their mother.

[Quiggen1]

I never thought I would hear this song again! I had a 12" single years and years ago, and I LOVED this song. I had all but given up on ever hearing it again. Even though the sound is rough here, it is great to see.

[williamb4real2009]

Abstrac', I haven't seen this ole skool jam in over 17 years. Thank God I download the single from Limewire. I think these ladies were one of the best.

[Ruffrob]

Because it's Video music Box,the bass on the song is awful, I think I'll go to Yahoo Music (haha)

[Peter95111]

It's amazing the obscure you can find on this site!!!

[masculine31]

The good ole days! lol