Clarence Carter, Strokin’ | Midnight Heat 🕛 🔥

In the 5^th edition of Midnight Heat 🕛 🔥 (2023), we explore the naughty, sexy vibes behind “Strokin’” by Clarence Carter. 

When I start makin’ love / I don’t just make love / I be strokin’…” Ah, bring on Midnight Heat 🕛 🔥! Wait – it is not usually hot at midnight! Well, it is steaming hot 🥵 at midnight when it comes to this naughty, innuendo and sex-laden column featuring songs intended for nighttime. Yeah, we are talking about that after dark, bedroom boom $hi†, ya dig? These unapologetic records often raises both eyebrows and temperature alike. Woo! In the 5^th edition of Midnight Heat (2023), we explore the naughty, sexy vibes behind, 🎵 “Strokin’” by 🎙 Clarence Carter. 

Versatile R&B and blues musician 🎙 Clarence Carter is best known for his hit, 🎵 “Patches”, which peaked at no. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.  Of course, at times, the blind musician has also shown himself to be unapologetic 😈. 🎵 “Back Door Santa” does NOT feel child appropriate, for example – Santa is one bad motherf – SHUT YO MOUTH. Far worse, however, is the unquestionably sexual 🎵 “Strokin’”. Mr. Carter informs us, “I stroke it to the east / And I stroke it to the west / And I stroke it to the woman that I love the best / I be strokin’.” Wow! Clearly, the strokin’ is a euphemism for a sexual act.  Most of the time, it seems Carter is referencing to intercourse.  Still, if we are even more perverted, it doesn’t seem far-fetched if he at least mentions a solo act as well, if you catch my drift.

Carter asks several questions about sex (making love) regarding time and place on this highlight from 💿 Dr. C.C..  That, my friends, is just freaky! A prime example is when he asserts, “Have you ever made love on the back seat of a car?  I remember one time I made love on the back seat of a car / And the police came and shine his light on me, and I said: ‘I’m strokin’, that’s what I’m doin’, I be strokin’.” Jesus! Carter, for good measure, also makes references to “Make it hard, long, soft, short” (😏), and saying his name thanks to the orgasm, presumably (“She’d say: Clarence Carter, Clarence Carter… ooh shit, Clarence Carter”).  My, my, my! Cringy, hilarious, and raunchy, 🎵 “Strokin’” is truly one of a kind.

🎙 Clarence Carter • 💿 Dr. C.C. • 🏷 Koch • 🗓 1994

 Clarence Carter, “Strokin’”: Midnight Heat 🕛 🔥 No. 5 (2023) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; Koch; Ash via Pexels; Clker-Free-Vector-Images, Dorothe, Stefan Schweihofer via Pixabay]