Harold Stallworth saw it like Dionne Warwick.
Spring is the season of jiggy, the sweet polygamy of wind chimes, wave-kits, oversized blazers and ‘80s R&B. In the late ‘90s, the conventional wisdom was that rappers were to never go full-on, unapologetically jiggy. Even the jiggiest acts of the shiny suit era, the Will Smiths and the Puff Daddies and the Harlem Worlds, occasionally tried their hands at aggression and introspection. When sandwiched between a song featuring DMX and a song featuring Maya Angelou, jiggy is jarring—but as a singular sound and quasi-sub genre, it has its merits, to be sure. It’s a tragedy that we never got a purely jiggy full-length album. This seasonal mix, curated by my alter-ego, DJ Jiggy Azalea, does its best to approximate such an album.
Download: Spring Mix: Harold Stallworth
01. Akinyele – Ak Da Hoe
02. AZ – What’s The Deal
03. Cru – Loungin Wit My Cru
04. Foxy Brown & Method Man – Ill Na Na
05. Half-A-Mil – Thug Luv
06. Mic Geronimo – Street Life
07. Foxy Brown & Nas – Hardcore
08. Noreaga – Closer (Sam Sneed Remix)
09. Prodigy – Stop Stressing
10. Rell & Jay-Z – Love 4 Free
11. Royal Flush & Noreaga – What a Shame
12. Will Smith & Camp Lo – Yes Yes Y’all
