![]() ![]() It’s the latest transformation in a life full of hairpin turns and stretches of international success. ![]() There’s a whole new level of notoriety, and people are reaching out.”Ĭandy J was taking a break from her current project, rehabbing beauty shops and houses as an interior designer. ![]() “Right now, she’s the talk of the town again, since Kanye stole the ‘Work This Pussy’ sample for Teyana Taylor’s new album. She’s from the streets, she’s from a penthouse, I don’t know what they think!” Vocal house pioneer Candy J, Sweet Pussy Pauline’s creator, was speaking over the phone in that unmistakable voice, breaking down the legend. Nobody had heard language like that in a house club, which was not only hilariously explicit, but centered black women’s sexuality in a way that was missing in the (mostly) man’s world of early house music.īut just who was Sweet Pussy Pauline? “People make up whole histories of who she is. But Sweet Pussy Pauline was something else. There are other classic bitch tracks like Frankie Fuentes’ “Tyler More Mary,” George Morel’s “This is My Party (Bitch Get Out),” and “You Used to Hold Me” by Ralphi Rosario and Xavier Gold. Its contemporary form can be traced to an improvised monologue delivered by Loleatta Holloway at the Better Days club in 1985, secretly recorded by DJ Bruce Forest, and transformed into a massive club a cappella hit by Vasquez called “My Loleatta.” (Sweet Pussy Pauline knew her history, too: The phrase “It’s what’s up front that counts” is a direct lift from Holloway’s 1976 track “Dreamin’,” just one of the live samples she wove throughout her scandalous output.) The form draws from classic soul chastenings like Shirley Brown’s “Woman to Woman,” raunchy R&B and early hip-hop diss tracks. ![]()
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