Honey

Title	Honey
Artist	Moby
Album	Play
Release Date	1998-08-10
Description	“Honey” is the first track on Moby’s 1999 commercial breakthrough Play. It was also the first commercially released single from the album, released nearly eight months ahead of the full length. Like many of Play’s most notable tracks, “Honey” is based around an a cappella sample he originally heard on the Alan Lomax boxset Songs of the South; in this instance it’s “Sometimes” by Bessie Jones. Moby sets the Jones vocal (choosing only the lines that amplify the song’s sexual subtext) against a repeating piano line, a hip-hop drum loop, vinyl cuts, and a slide guitar. He said that the song is meant to “convey female sex.” Nearly two years after its initial release (and capitalizing on the juggernaut commercial success of Play) a second single was released featuring a remix of the track by Fafu which amplified its hip-hop DNA and featured a guest vocal by Kelis. Bessie Jones’s “Sometimes”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfbiIZ_Kh34 The official music video (directed by Roman Coppola): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVwDlkJoITU
Lyrics	[Refrain: Bessie Jones] Can my honey come back? (Sometimes) I want to rap that jack (Sometimes) I get a hump in my back (Sometimes) I'm going over here (Sometimes) Can my honey come back? (Sometimes) I want to rap that jack (Sometimes) I get a hump in my back (Sometimes) I'm going over here (Sometimes) Can my honey come back? (Sometimes) I want to rap that jack (Sometimes) I get a hump in my back (Sometimes) I'm going over here (Sometimes) Can my honey come back? (Sometimes) I want to rap that jack (Sometimes) I get a hump in my back (Sometimes) I'm going over here (Sometimes) Can my honey come back? (Sometimes) I want to rap that jack (Sometimes) I get a hump in my back (Sometimes) I'm going over here (Sometimes) Can my honey come back? (Sometimes) I want to rap that jack (Sometimes) I get a hump in my back (Sometimes) I'm going over here (Sometimes) Can my honey come back? (Sometimes) I want to rap that jack (Sometimes) I get a hump in my back (Sometimes) I'm going over here (Sometimes) [Verse: Bessie Jones] Get my honey come back (Sometimes) Get my honey come back (Sometimes) Get my honey come back (Sometimes) Get my honey come back (Sometimes) [Bridge: Bessie Jones] Way down yonder, get my honey come back Way down yonder, get my honey come back Way down yonder, get my honey come back Way down yonder, get my honey come back Way down yonder, get my honey come back Way down yonder, get my honey come back Way down yonder, get my honey come back Way down yonder, get my honey come Way down yonder back [Refrain: Bessie Jones] Can my honey come back? (Sometimes) I want to rap that jack (Sometimes) I get a hump in my back (Sometimes) I'm going over here (Sometimes) Can my honey come back? (Sometimes) I want to rap that jack (Sometimes) I get a hump in my back (Sometimes) I'm going over here (Sometimes) Can my honey come back? (Sometimes) I want to rap that jack (Sometimes) I get a hump in my back (Sometimes) I'm going over here (Sometimes) Can my honey come back? (Sometimes) I want to rap that jack (Sometimes) I get a hump in my back (Sometimes) I'm going over here (Sometimes) Can my honey come back? (Sometimes) I want to rap that jack (Sometimes) I get a hump in my back (Sometimes) I'm going over here (Sometimes) Can my honey come back? (Sometimes) I want to rap that jack (Sometimes) I get a hump in my back (Sometimes) I'm going over here (Sometimes) Can my honey come back? (Sometimes) I want to rap that jack (Sometimes) I get a hump in my back (Sometimes) I'm going over here (Sometimes)You might also like