![]() It was an incredible loop to use with that type of song.” With the “Passin’ Me By” beat swapped in, “Stutter” gets faster and more hectic, and its vocal manipulations become increasingly freaked-out - an effect that only becomes stronger when Mystikal shows up.įor some very good reasons that we’ll get to, Mystikal no longer has much of a reputation in rap music. That’s where the idea came from, to merge what was an old school track from years ago for Quincy Jones, and then the Pharcyde used it. In Fred Bronson’s Billboard Book Of Number 1 Hits, Joe says that the “Stutter” remix was his idea: “Sitting in a limo one night, I heard a beat on the radio, and I started singing along to it. On the track, Hamilton and Riley edit Joe’s voice, making it skip and hesitate, but the track itself is lush and spacey, full of acoustic guitars and cascading windchimes. It’s not clear whether he’s imitating her or whether he’s nervously angry enough that he stutter becomes his. But when Joe sings about it, he stutters himself. When she tries to tell him where she was last night, she stutters, and Joe takes that to mean that she’s lying. Joe’s narrator suspects his girlfriend of cheating. The original version of “Stutter” is a relatively slick R&B number. Joe recorded the track with Roy Hamilton and Teddy Riley producing. Calder liked the song, and he suggested it for Joe. Roy Hamilton played the “Stutter” demo for Jive Records founder Clive Calder. Riley wanted to record the song with Blackstreet, but the group didn’t have an album in the works at the time, so Hamilton kept shopping the song around. At the time, Riley was leading Blackstreet, a group that’s already appeared in this column. ![]() Hamilton put together a track for the song, and he and Dixon finished it and brought it to Teddy Riley. During a drive between New York and New Jersey, Dixon had the idea for a song that featured stuttering, and he came up with a verse and a hook before the drive was over. ![]() The idea for “Stutter” came from Ernest Dixon, who’d met Hamilton when the two of them were working for R. As for Roy “Royalty” Hamilton, he’d gotten his start working with new jack swing innovator Teddy Riley.
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