RICK JAMES & TEENA MARIE HAPPY REACTION!

[@mofun5315]

When "Fire and Desire" was getting all the hype When I was in high school, I was listening to "happy".

[@TheImage3320]

Facts. Because I love you and Superwoman Overshined and overlooked classics

[@elgallorojo]

@@TheImage3320 YESSSSSSSSS! me too

[@tashaharper4090]

Happy was WAY BETTER

[@daaimdaanish7016]

RIGHT!

[@ericbuchanan4364]

They sung the hell out of that song!

[@elgallorojo]

Rick James is so UNDERRATED as a compser and arranger. PUNK FUNK is just a small part of who he was. This is my favorite song by Rick. I really appreciate you as a young person being open to explore. Salute to you!!!!!!!

[@tyroneamos8086]

This was when music was music. Their voices together was amazing 👏🏽

[@JeffreyGeimes]

The piano so great theyef work together so great miss this Queen and this king rest in peace you 2poerhouses WOW

[@deandrewilliams5318]

This song gives chills every time

[@meredithdanenberg3723]

Love this song and love both of these great artists!

[@mookeychase0907]

Im 57 heard all the greats but she is my fav Teena was different like she could cry and sing at the same time she made you feel her pain and emotions this is my fav song by them…

[@randycolvard8351]

Happy is the song they don't play on the radio no more that's crazy and was a big hit.

[@mstrgnrA8]

Lyrics , lyrics, lyrics a bridge and all natural vocals. Damn this move your soul.🔥🔥❤️❤️🔥🔥

[@darnelblanton2180]

If you want a reaction similar to Angela Winbush Angel, check out the live version of Lisa Fischer How Can I Ease the Pain.

[@rhonda-malcom]

both my all-time favorite

[@benquillajackson9835]

Yup!!! My favorite song by them 💯

[@kurtadams3021]

Classic soul at its finest ✌🏾

[@abelgandara9459]

They we phenomenal many soul R&B that were awsome but these 2 were sexually emotionally and spiritually intertwined with their music Lady T oooo weee Rick James with his soul piercing panty dropping funk , ballads and all around Soul grabbing music will forever live on

[@vry2116]

Oh, Teena did another duo with some man called “ You know we’ve got to stop meeting like this”. He isn’t Rick but he did a great job and Teena could make anyone sound good!❤

[@MsSecondchance2]

I grew up listening to Rick James & Teena Maria and never heard of the song 🎵HAPPY until now. GREAT SONG 🎵👌!!!

[@creditorclass6513]

Rick is such a sad story. The antics, the drug use, Chappelle Show, hatred of Prince all overshadowed what he was...a genuis. Dude could blow, he actually hung with Teena who in my opinion is one of the greats.

[@TrillEverything]

Nah. None of that above means anything. Rick was the man! Only his early death was the problem. Everybody loves Rick! Hip Hip killed Rick's run at the top, none of that other stuff

[@creditorclass6513]

@@TrillEverything By the time Rick did Glow in 84' he was on Princes label and wearing ruffles. The previous 4 years he was talking about Prince in any paper and magazine that interview him. He even injected Prince into his beef with MTV. Hip Hop was just another genre in the 80's not the everything it is today. By the early 90's when Hip Hop blew up Rick was already in jail.

[@TrillEverything]

@@creditorclass6513 I'm 60. I remember when there was no Rick James & I remember when there was no Hip Hip. I lived the beginning of both of them. Rick James demise started when Hip Hip boomed with Run DMC, LL, Dougie Fresh, Mantronix and electric drum machine music. Soul music & funk R&B sputtered and died.. It was over! Rap killed it by 1983. Only Michael & Prince survived, but as Pop Acts...not black R&P acts.

[@creditorclass6513]

@@TrillEverything Rap was just another genre in 83'. MTV didn't even have Yo MTV Raps on air yet. Sometimes we look back and think Run DMC breaking through meant RnB was dead but it didn't happen that early. Michael and Prince breaking through didn't mean they weren't still dominant on the RnB charts. Rick should have been around much longer and doesn't get the credit he deserves, that we both agree on. I think Rick's habits were actually developed in the 60's and early 70's and he felt that lifestyle was what it meant to be a star.

[@renayadams7470]

I agree

[@creditorclass6513]

Yes..we had that to listen to lol.

[@alfredatrawick649]

Speechless huh!

[@vry2116]

Love your reaction. They were the best duo ever.❤

[@erickthefantabulous1]

(Facts) Both are classics, but I like them almost equally

[@valerievelarde62]

They were so Great together!!🔥🔥🔥🔥 💗I Luv Your reaction!!😊👏🏼🌹

[@tboyosborne]

Spiritual Soulful Smile 😊

[@donniebrasco1364]

You were in such disbelief and awe when you heard the music and lyrics. This may have been the best song I heard by far.

[@mellotainment]

Such a beautiful beautiful song if I ever heard 1 I sing it all the time !!!!!!!!!

[@textbandit246]

It was sad that this song got just about no play on the radio. This song went under the radar so if you didn't have the album you never got to hear it.

[@thurmanjackson8026]

You are 1000% right. I remember, Happy did not get no air time at all. And to me it was Wayyyyyyy better than fire and desire.

[@donniebrasco1364]

@@thurmanjackson8026 Rick James is more influential than 2pac is. Blows Tupac out of the water. Shock G said Tupac rapped from the pit of his stomach. Well then Rick James must have sang from the pit of his embryo. Rick James by his song is telling pac to hold his beer.

[@thurmanjackson8026]

@@donniebrasco1364 What does Tupac have to do with Rick James???

[@mofun5315]

​@@thurmanjackson8026 Now I do know Eminem can't touch Smokey Robinson.

[@jonathanwhite1265]

@@donniebrasco1364 Facts!

[@HoopCITY76]

They were an item for a short while as Rick was launching Teena’s career.

[@adriancolon8435]

That speechless feeling at the end ❤😂

[@patriciafuller1340]

Have you heard their duet of fire and desire?

[@Andre-qe3dk]

Great song

[@kurtadams3021]

IMO there greatest duet ✌🏾

[@michaellogan6746]

Got Dammm Rick James "Spacey Love"🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@debbierobinson8712]

Music was really good back in the day. I am glad to have lived in that era. I appreciate your input coming from a young person.

[@aftonharris9645]

This the jam.. Tina Marie and Rick James will always jam!

[@randykinard2614]

You definitely need to listen to some Rick James and the Temptations Standing on the top

[@calmnrelaxed]

Teena was great, but so was Rick!

[@chefpfunk1]

LADY T, THE LITTLE WHITE GIRL WITH TONS OF FUNK EVER

[@andrealexander5210]

Great song. 👍 ❤

[@jnaught1358]

I’m a little late to your page.. If you want some raw teena.. allow me to recommend.. Dear lover, shadow boxing, stop the world, young love, Portuguese love, out on a limb, Shang-Ri La, ohh la la la la, De’javu, and Casanova Brown.. She slays them all 🙏

[@mookeychase0907]

This was late summer 1982 at the same time Luther and Cherly Lynn dropped if this world was mine

[@DesL488]

You got get with that song! ❤️

[@alfredatrawick649]

Spectacular huh!

[@brianmcclain5273]

sucka for luv rick and tina

[@amosemoike2558]

Please kindly react to Rafael Cameron - All That's Good to Me. This guy got many great 80's songs

[@colegio2239]

Can you react to Teena’s Square Biz?!!!

[@bluesguy6380]

Sang Teena

[@randycolvard8351]

You know some of these wasn't a true RICK JAMES fan every time a slow ballad all they know is fire& desire what about , Ebony Eyes,Glow,In the Ghetto, Dance with me,Col Blooded.

[@chefpfunk1]

I CAN SEE ON THE LOOK ON YOUR FACE YOU NEVER CHECKED OUT FIRE AND DESIRE BY THESE TWO. ALRIGHT YOU DID. RIGHT ON THE FUNK IS FOREVER!!!!!

[@elgallorojo]

But in some people's head Ray J and clowns from the other night can do this. R&B today does not have soul. Screaming does not mean soul. Thanks for this

[@donniebrasco1364]

Plus Rick James has a woman duet. LoL 😆 no r&b singer is doing that today.

[@darrelljones9973]

Hey how are you I'm much older than you I was born 69 so I came up before you these artist that you be playing Tina and Rick James they like that and trust and believe they did a lot of s*** together LOL but Teddy pendergrass my favorite artist of all time tough dude!!!!

[@freejfree9160]

Dying🤣🤣🤣🤣 I see you holding yourself TJ I see you holding yourself TJ they're both of the give you the stank face Rick James was that dude Marie caught myself Payson at home thinking about my teenage years like girl where I go wrong 🤣

[@terrenceball6439]

Do a reaction to Clarence Carter song Strokin...lol. The classic song is hilarious, I think you will like it.

[@itzjttvreacts7061]

I did already but if you want to check it out it’s still on my channel look it up lol

[@terrenceball6439]

@@itzjttvreacts7061 Just watched it, still 😂😂😂😂😂😂 can you do a reaction to Pebbles song Always? I think you will like that song.

[@dancefloor9032]

bissel heftig.

[@randycolvard8351]

Some of the other hits are uptempo

[@damonfisher5984]

You have to do "My Once and Future Dream" and "Call Me (I Got Your Number)"