The Travels of Jungle Fever.

Long, long ago, even before Wesley Snipes, there was a thing called Jungle Fever.


Before black man/white woman and PAWG's there was Jungle Fever. There's a part of this song where you can hear a woman's voice moan. It's so dirty!


At first she says no... repeatedly, but then sways over to the side of pleasure and lets out a moan that will make a teenage boy's pee-pee hard.


It's just a song. A dirty, nasty, funky song that is almost like a sex provoking chant. Summoning the sweat made during sex to rise up from one's pores it fills the air and makes the room HOT! Jungle hot! Fever hot!


The song Jungle Fever by The Chakachas was probably in the ears of both my mother and father more than once before I was born. Predictably more my mother than my father, but I doubt he would have asked her to change the music if it were on during the time of my conception.


I first heard it sampled back in '89 by 2 Live Crew. 'Put her in the Buck' was the song off of their ever so controversial classic album 'As Nasty As They Wanna Be'.


I had NO idea this swanky beat was a song made back in 1972. Now let's begin...


"What do we get for Ten dollars?" a vietnam soldier asks. "Every-teeng you want!" replies the hooker. A scene from Full Metal jacket directed by the late Stanley Kubrick was to be reworked and sampled by 2 Live Crew for their song 'Me So Horny'.


Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe this album spawned the invention of the parental advisory sticker. As young as some of us were at the time back in the day, this cassette tape (Yes, cassette tape - Google it) was dubbed for me.



I doubt my parents would have bought this for me even if I did know who The Chakachas were! I had the full on uncensored As Nasty As They Wanna Be, and let me tell you... It was Nasty! I thank Luke of the crew they call 2 Live, for all his infinite sex ed. knowledge and class in advanced booty shaking bitches, for in the Sixth grade apparently I had such a need for all of this info.


Well it wasn't until ma mere started buying disco hits of the 70's cd's (Yes CD - Google it.) that I heard this beat one Saturday morning back in the early 90's.


Saturday morning's were for cleaning house. Music sped up the process and more effectively out of my Dad's huge Sansui XP-7000's.


Coming home from a rave one late Friday night/Saturday morning, I awoke to the dirty beat that was Jungle Fever...


To my dismay I was surprised to learn that this was not 2 Live Crew shaking the entire house. I sprung out of bed to hunt down the origin of this nastiness and found my Mother headed towards the stereo to crank this shit up louder!


Clad in her usual 'Mom's in her cleaning attire' get up (which was usually a frump ass extra long blouse thing and/or some house shorts that were previously sweats) she did that 'mom's dancing around the entire house and cleaning at the same time' dance. Ohhh it was bad! As she relived the 70's, I tried to avoid eye contact and also accept that it was because of the infamous 2 Live Crew that I knew this dirty beat.


My mother who was transported back to the 70's for a few cd's every Saturday morning had known nothing of Luke's 'Now Put Her in the Buck'. I couldn't decide whether to throw up or erase this song from my memory, or ask her not to dance in front of me again. Being that it was her house and she made the rules, I'm sure asking her not to dance would have been a guaranteed loss.


It was too funky of a song to not like though. I had to remember that before there was I, there was a disco queen who danced the night away. There was a man who was in love with this woman, and together their love led to an unplanned, well... me. This song was also on the Boogie Nights Soundtrack, so in '97 when Marky Mark was Dirk Diggler, that song came back to fill the air of our house once again.


So every time I hear either Luke screaming "Now Put Her in the Buck!!!!" or the original Chakachas version with the woman screaming "no... NO... NO!... AHYY... AHHYYY!" I get a little confused.


Don't get me wrong, I like both versions. I heard it first from 2 Live, but always give respect to the origin of the sample being that real hip-hop has always been a part of my life since RUN-DMC. So after my run today while in the shower that dirty nasty beat just popped into my head and would not go away. Thank you Luke.


Mom: Thank you for the music lesson.

Chakacha's: Thank's for that timeless classic.

1970's: Thanks for all the disco nastiness that led to a big baby boom all because of that disco beat and drug induced unprotected sex. Without you I would not exist.

1980's: Thank you for blank cassette's.

6th grade: Thanks for friends who had moms' that didn't care.

Luke: Thank you for teaching a little man how to 'put it in the buck'! And Luke, my auditory senses will always juxtapose these two songs where ever they may be heard.