In a way this is just another golden era hiphop song about "gold diggers" but True Mathematics gets all philosophical about it: "When the material girl in you comes out will the lover in you see what the love is about?" And, crucially, the funk is sharp and bouncy as it could be. TM is Kenny Houston, sidekick on some Public Enemy albums. Surprised he doesn't rap more as he gives as good as he gets from the Bomb Squad: Carl Ryder (aka Chuck D), Hank Shocklee, and Eric "Vietnam" Sadler. I like the original but TM's version is popping; similar funk vintage to Young MC's "Bust a Move" (1989) or EPMD'S "You Gots To Chill" (1988). Hiphop or rap music is, basically, funk made with turntables, a mixer, a synth/sampler, a drum machine, and a rapping DJ or MC. If you like funky beats and pop hooks this cannot miss. In a classic hiphop persona, the disinterested observer of human relations, "some guys will use you/some guys will love you," TM raps, "But I'm neither one/just here to observe."
The original comes from Shalamar's 1980 album Three for Love:
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