THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

809-Montell Jordan-This Is How We Do It.

1995-Number 11 single.

Best Bit-At 0.12. Since recording this song Montell Jordan has become a born again Christian, so he probably doesn’t do it, like he used to do it.

Montell Jordan was born Montell Du’Sean Barnett Jordan, on December 3rd, 1968, in Los Angeles, California, United States. He was born in to a Baptist family, and as a child he attended his local church, where both of his parents worked as Deacons. After getting a bachelor’s degree in communications, at the ‘ Pepperdine University,’ in Malibu, California, in the mid 1980’s, he started work, helping to make commercials for a television company, and in an attempt to promote his career as a musician, he used the facilities, which led to him recording a ‘mixtape,’ which would eventually bring him to the attention of Russell Simmons, at ‘Def Jam Records.’ In the mid 2000’s Montell Jordan became a Baptist minister, he said he was told by God to quit the music industry. He can be seen regularly at the ‘Victory World Church,’ in Atlanta, Georgia, where he lives, and worships, with the church collective called,’Victory World Music,’ who in 2011 released an Album of Christian music.

The discography of Montell Jordan includes eight studio Albums released between 1995-2019, and 14 singles issued within the same time period. In America on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, all eight of his first single releases made the top 40, with ‘This Is How We Do It,’ spending seven weeks at Number 1, while in the UK, he has charted within the top 40 on five occasions, with ‘This Is How We Do It,’ peaking the highest at Number 11. In 2015, the Dutch music producer Joe Stone remixed ‘This Is How We Do It,’ as a ‘House’ track, with Jordan providing the vocals, and that version charted in the UK, reaching Number 17. In 2002, the British R&B girl group ‘Mis-Teeq’ released ‘This Is How We Do It,’ as a double ‘A’ side with ‘Roll On,’ which made Number 7 in the UK.

‘This Is How We Do It,’ was the debut single by Montell Jordan, and the first of three singles released from his debut studio Album of the same name from April 1995. ‘This Is How We Do It’ was co-written by Montell Jordan, Oji Pierce, and Ricky Walters, who is better known by his stage name ‘Slick Rick. The track was co-produced by Jordan, and Oji Pierce (1960-2006.) ‘This Is How We Do It’ samples the 1988 ‘Hip-Hop’ song ‘Children’s Story,’ by the ‘Rap’ artist Slick Rick,’ which in turn had sampled the 1974 instrumental ‘Nautilus,’ by the Jazz musician Bob James, because of this Slick Rick, (Ricky Walters) is given a songwriting credit.

Speaking about the songs initial success, and it’s longevity, Motell Jordan has said,’If you’re in China, this is how they do it here. If you’re from the ghetto, this is how they do it. If you’re from New York, you do it like this. I think the reason the song was such a big smash with everybody, was because everyone from different countries, gay, straight, whatever colour, everybody has their individual way of doing what they do.’ Jordan has also said,’You don’t have to be going to the club on Friday night to get your groove on to this song. This refers to whatever it is that you do,that could mean working out, fishing, anything that lights your fire.’

‘This Is How We Do It,’ is filed under the genres of ‘Hip-Hop Soul,’ ‘R&B,’ and ‘New Jack Swing.’ ‘New Jack Swing’ is a fusion genre of the rhythms and production techniques of ‘Hip-Hop,’ and ‘Dance-Pop,’ and the urban contemporary sound of ‘R&B,’ which was at it’s most popular between the late 1980’s, to the early 1990’s.The term ‘New Jack Swing’ (see also best songs 694 and 236) was coined in an October 18th, 1987, article in the American news and culture paper, the ‘Village Voice,’ in a profile of Teddy Riley, by the American writer Barry Michael Cooper. ‘New Jack’ is a slang term meaning, ‘Johnny-come-lately,’ which had been used in a song by the American Rapper ‘Grandmaster Caz,’ (see also best songs 17) of the ‘Cold Crush Brothers,’ and ‘Swing,’ was intended by Cooper to draw an ‘Analogy between the music played at the speakeasies (an illicit establishment that sells alcoholic beverages,) of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s (1896-1940) time, to the crack houses (a residence used in the illegal drug trade) of Teddy Riley’s time.The term ‘New Jack Swing’ describes the sound produced, and engineered by the ‘R&B,’ and ‘Hip-Hop’ artist, and producer Teddy Riley, (see also best songs 48) who is considered to be the inventor of the genre.

‘This is how we do it, it’s Friday night, and I feel alright. The party’s here on the West Side, so I reach for my 40 and I turn it up. Designated driver take the keys to my truck.’