James Pants - Crystal Lite (feat. Deon Davis)
Initially when I heard of and saw James Pants, I wrote him off. I mean, look at him. Who would have ever guessed that such a dork, well let me not say dork, someone with such dorky tendencies could ever be one bad ass producer? I guess I should have known though. He’s on Stones Throw Records and we already know their history when it comes to producers.
So when I finally decided to listen to his debut album, Welcome, I immediately fell in love with the lead single, Crystal Lite. Pants’ production is not like his Stones Throw counterparts. This is not head nodding music. This is 80s funk, synthesizer thumping dance music. When you throw a joint like this on, wall flowers get trampled over and bodies get to vibing. The vocals added by Deon Davis definitely set this track off. There isn’t much information known on Deon but his providing vocals throughout Welcome keeps you wanting more from the mysterious vocalist. With a voice that seems to be the offspring of Cameo and Prince, Deon rocks this song.
I highly recommend James Pants’ album to any lover of dirty funk beats and soulful vocals and don’t judge this slightly awkward producer by his cover. Or his clothes.
Lyrics
Baby why you tripping on me? You know I’m tryna build a church.
We’ve been together so long (so long), We’ve been broke for so long (so long).
Don’t you want to put diamond cubes in your lemondade?
Got me singing, Oooh baby baby, Oooh baby baby, Oooh baby baby, Oooh baby baby.
Got me singing, Oooh baby baby, Oooh baby baby, Oooh baby baby, Oooh baby baby.
Why you tripping on me? You know I’m tryna build a church.
We make the people pay our way (our way).
So we can have a brighter day.
Don’t you want to put diamond cubes in your lemonade?
You got me singing Oooh baby baby (9x)
Hey, hey hey, Hey hey
Girl, why you tripping on me? You know I’m tryna build a church.
- michi
