Throwback Thursday: Da Brat – “Ghetto Love” (featuring T-Boz)

Throwback Thursday: Da Brat – “Ghetto Love” (featuring T-Boz)

Birthdays make TBT selections a lot easier, and today just happens to be Da Brat’s 48th trip around the sun, so you already know what’s about to happen.

On “Ghetto Love” (featuring T-Boz), Brat raps her ass off about and to her incarcerated boyfriend who she’s waiting for on the outside. The song is hella romantical, but you might miss that quality because Brat was aggressive in her delivery, and her sweet words are commingled with lyrics about helping her man “keep the business runnin'” and wanting to harm his enemies. How’s that for passion and love?

“Ghetto Love” was released in early ’97 as the second single from Da Brat’s second album, Anuthafunkdafiedtantrum. Based on a sample of DeBarge’s “All This Love” and produced by Jermaine Dupri, the song possesses a certain kind of cool that we just don’t get to see anymore — a very ’90s kind of cool. You had to be there.

“Ghetto Love” would go on to become one of Da Brat’s biggest hits, peaking at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. Happy birthday, Da Brat!

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