One of our WUSB hip-hop shows (possibly Eminent Audio) spun Greg Nice’s “Comin’ Thru’ With The Click” (2000) and, damn, that was hoppin’. Eventually I traced it back to “Rockin’ Chair”, Gwen McCrae’s best-known single. Five years earlier, Blahzay took a piece for his breakout golden-era hit “Danger! (Oh My God)”. Still, nothing like the regal original.
Please tell me who runs this turf,
Then I go out there and serve.
After all, what is it worth?
My favorite comedian’s Eddie Murph’.
When I was small, I played catch with a Nerf,
Skinned my knee on the AstroTurf.
Ain’t nothin’ better than a hug from a Smurf.
So who here caught this in New York City when Hot 97 aired it? Doing my due diligence of Nice & Smooth’s Greg Nice reminded me of a hip-hop remix he did for Lisette Melendez, also hailing from New York City. Six versions of this including the original were made, but -Nice’s version was the one that Hot 97 big-upped simply because; taking it away from its original house element and into a seriously hot hip-hop / R&B mix. There’s some personal sentimental value in it for me, too. That version was the one I dubbed from the FM onto tape and listened to it on my Walkman through many bus rides to-and-from rival schools. That’s the Brentwood-era wrestling team for ya’.
Tom's line about Shiv being selfish and "find[ing] it very hard to think about me" is actually so telling because while it's absolutely true that she rarely takes his position into consideration, Tom never once thinks about what he can do to help Shiv unless it also benefits him.
Every single time he makes a move or sacrifice that might help her, it's always something that he thinks will give him a leg up. He volunteers to take the fall for cruises, not for Shiv, who is in no way implicated, or even for Waystar, but because he thinks it'll ingratiate him to Logan, and the second it seems like he might have to actually follow through on that, he immediately tries to get out of it and even throws Shiv under the bus. Meanwhile, for all that Shiv disregards his interests, there are a number of things she does that only help him, and she's the one who actually sacrifices something and undermines her position with Logan to beg him not to let Tom go to jail.
It just makes it so clear that no matter how much he might love her (and I think he does, in his own compromised way), for him their relationship was always built on the underlying assumption that it's her job to prop him up, but it's not his job to help her.