Ain’t Too Proud To Beg: 15 Of The Thirstiest Songs Ever - Page 14

We all love music for the feelings it evokes within us but sometimes singers and songwriters get just a little too desperate with the baby, baby, please begging and pleading for somebody’s love and affection. We’ve put these 15 songs in that category, but hey, like the Temptations say, these singers right here simply “ain’t too proud to beg.”

On Bended Knee

Obviously you’re not really begging for someone to stay until you’re down on bended knee begging. At least that’s the bar Boyz II Men set with one of the best – and thirstiest – joints of the 90’s.

Don’t Leave Me

“If you take your love away from me, I’ll go crazy. I’ll go insane.” Aside from begging this poor woman to stay forever, Blackstreet further shames her by telling her that if she does leave she’ll “take a center piece” of them and drive them crazy… how horribly thirsty.

Hot Boyz

On the 1999 hit “Hot Boyz” Missy Elliott’s thirst for a man with a Lexus Jeep is real. “Where you live, is it by yourself? Can I move with you, do you need some help?” I like hot boys with Platinum Visas as much as the next girl, but do you really have to move yourself into his house though?!

Cry for You

No song spells out thirsty as accurately as Jodeci’s “Cry for You” does. Not only are they torn up about a girl whose only been gone an hour, they also go so far as to admit that they’ll do anything to get her back. Umm, thirsty much?

I’m Goin’ Down

In 1994, Mary J Blige covered the somewhat popular 70’s song “I’m Going Down.” But to make it her own, she changed the title slightly (I’m Goin’ Down”) and threw her own bit of thirst into it – inspired by her personal experiences with K-Ci perhaps?

Breathe Again

This was Toni Braxton at her best. She made being obsessed with a man and unable to breathe without him sound about as beautiful as possible.

Crazy

Don’t let the backstory behind the video and movie (Save the Last Dance) fool you. This song is just as thirsty as the rest!

Please Don’t Go

After his wife/girlfriend finds numbers in his car, Tank begs her “pleaaase don’t goooo” in a high-pitched crooning voice solid enough to convince me not to go. You know those notes weren’t easy to hit.

Come Back to Me

On this 1989 hit, Janet somberly begs her lover to come back to her – telling him that she misses and loves him and has waited all her life to see his smile again. Then when the music stops and she begs him to come back some more: that’s the real thirst right there.

Refill

On this track, Elle Varner describes precisely how it feels to be love drunk and thirsty by comparing herself to “that” girl at the bar who’s been there too long and can’t stand up.

Twisted

There’s no shame in Keith Sweat’s thirsty game. In this song, he sings how twisted over a girl who did him wrong he is, and how he’ll wait for the day she comes back – whenever that day is.

Cause I Love You

This song doesn’t get really desperate until the music cuts and he throws in that little extra bit of commentary about seeing a car in the girl’s driveway and knocking on her door, getting no answer, going to bed and waking up cry-y-y-ying about her – until he meets someone else, thank goodness.

Ain’t Too Proud To Beg

“Ain’t too proud to beg, sweet darlin’. Please don’t leave me girl, don’t you go.” You already know this old school classic paved the way for later thirsty joints.

Baby Don’t Go

We don’t usually hear many rappers expressing thirst in their music these days, but that’s exactly what Fabolous does on the catchy “Baby Don’t Go” single from his fourth album From Nothin’ To Somethin’.