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What about the tag team gold on Ma$e's "Jealous Guys" (off of Harlem World)? It holds up as well as Ma$e's high notes.

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Puffy: "As I said before, I go by the name of Puffy Daddy

And I'm a Scorpio and I'm not a jealous guy


Come on sing for me Mase"

Ma$e: You see if we had more pimps,

it wouldn't be no jealous guys


See me, I live by the four pimp rules


Number one, you control the situation


You get in they head before you get in they bed


And number two, girls run like buses, you may miss one


Catch another one every hour on the hour, promptly


And number three, what that girl ain't willin' to do


You got a hundred more girls more than willin'


And number four, is a new rule to the new pimp testament


You can't be a playa and hate the playas


That don't make no sense


I don't wanna see no more jealous guys at the end of this song ya'll


I really don't wanna see no more jealous guys after this song ya'll


So can ya'll sing along with me


I mean put your hands together, sing along ya'll , sing along everybody

@Cam/ron: Who can forget Jello Biafra sounding like a slightly more annoying version of Fred Schneider from The B-52s?

"What were you thinking? You don't mess with the Juice!"

@slowburn: Word.

Any list of spoken-word interludes that neglects the entire Bobby Womack oeuvre is no list at all.

best spoken interlude ever:

"But when his drinking and lusting and his hunger for power became known to more and more people, the demands to do something about this outrageous man became louder and louder!"

from Rasputin by Boney M

Who can forget Jello Biafra's hammy impressions of televangelists, MTV hosts and Rambo in Dead Kennedys songs?

@heidiho: that was one of the questions too!

Dare we forget Britney's "Oops I Did It Again?"

"But I thought the old lady dropped it into the ocean at the end."

"Well, baby, I went down and got it for you."


"Awww... you shouldn't have."

To this day, I swear that is Jim Carrey's voice.

More Oran "Juice" Jones: "I missed you so much I followed you today/That's right/Now close your mouf, cos you cold busted." I mean, really, it's unfair to pick just a line or two.

You haven't lived until you've dropped the needle on Oran "Juice" Jones' "The Rain".

"How bout that fo'ty thousand dolla lynx coat I bought ya?".

Len's lead singer was supposedly involved in the founding of Vice, though there's no mention of it in their own biog stuff, just his. Hey Maura are there still enough $1.99 copies of Can't Stop The Bum Rush at P-Rex to cover an entire Chelsea loft from floor to ceiling?

I enjoy the interlude in "International Lover" by Prince, the back and forth in Rick James' "Fire & Desire" and of course, every Barry White interlude/intro ever.

I particularly treasure Jill Jones' feverish oratory at the beginning of "All Day, All Night" (from her amazingly wonderful and cruelly out-of-print debut album). To wit:

"Oh, what a beautiful morning

Oh, what a beautiful ass


Darling, this is my final plea for love


Take me now or witness the slow and horrible death of your white fox


My time is running out, I can wait no longer


I watch as you make love to others


Disgusting as it seems, it intoxicates me


You might say that I'm amused to the point where my blood increases, my heartbeat accelerates and my mouth waters uncontrollably


For I know that no woman will ever love you like your white fox


No woman will ever kiss you in this lifetime or the next the way you and I kiss tonight


Take me now as I am, for I am becoming confused to what I stand for and desire


Tell me, darling, who I am, who I am, what I am, what am I?


WHAT?


AM?


I?"

Have You Seen Her - The Chi-Lites, which is part of the Hey Soul Classics collection.

"Is he a good dancer?"

"Whaddaya mean is he a good dancer?"


"Well how does he dance?"


"CLOSE. VERYVERYCLOSE."

Shangri-Las songs >>>> all others. Obviously.

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I thought you loved me, but is seems you don't care.

Do spoken-word interludes not count if they're at the beginning of a song? 'Cuz I've always loved the spoken intro to X-Ray Spex's "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!"

The (kind of) spoken word interlude in "Clone High Theme (Extended Version)" by Abandoned Pools, aka the greatest television theme song ever, which features a series of snippets from the show in the middle.

@kiteless: Or his spoken word in "Liar" for that matter.

What about Henry Rollins spoken word piece in the middle of Tool's "Bottom" off of Undertow? That was back in the days when both of those artists were fairly likeable.

Prince's filthy free-association towards the end of "Let's Pretend We're Married" still slays me.

Brilliant but underrated: "Hard Times" by Baby Huey & the Babysitters. Talkin' bout eatin' Spam and Oreos and drinkin' Thunderbird, baby.

Also unforgettable: Beck's corny/sleazy Barry-White-soul plea in "Debra". "Girl, I only wanna be down with you...cuz you got something I just got to get with".

"Aw Dave, gimme a break."

"One break, comin' up!"

So, does "No Sex in the Champagne Room" qualify?

Don't forget Boyz II Men's awesome "That restraining order isn't
worth the paper it's printed on" interlude in "End of the Road."

My top three (in no particular order) would have to be "Are You Lonesome Tonight" (laughing or non-laughing version), "Panama", and anything by Lou Rawls.

Needs more "Nights in White Satin"

KISS's "Christine Sixteen" has a lovely spoken-word interlude...

"I don't usually say things like this to girls your age, but when I saw you coming out of school that day, I knew I've got to have you. I'VE GOT TO HAVE YOU."

Klassy!

Far as I'm concerned, spoken-word parts of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes' "I Miss You" and Clarence Carter's "Making Love (At The Dark End Of The Street") are absolutely sublime, yes, sublime in the strict Kantian/Burkean sense.

Also: weren't the spoken word bits in "Steal My Sunshine" from that ravesploitation movie the song's in? Was it Go?