Dry Kids: B-Sides 1997–2005 Times" and a live cover version of Eminem/D12's "How Come". "Dry Kids" reached No. 129 in the UK chart. Dry Kids: B-Sides 1997–2005 Dry Kids: B-sides 1997–2005 is a compilation album of b-sides by English band Embrace, released on 31 October 2005. It features 18 tracks from singles and EPs across their entire career, including a version of "Blind", an early live favourite which was omitted from their debut album "The Good Will Out", as was their Otis Redding-influenced "The Way I Do". Much time is given to b-sides of singles from the band's fourth album "Out of Nothing", including
How Many Licks? and a bling accessary". Lil' Kim and Sisqó also exchange pick-up lines during the song. The chorus refers to the advertising slogan for Tootsie Pops ("How many licks does it takes to get to the Tootsie Roll centre of a Tootsie Pop?"), and ties sexuality to consumerism according to media studies professor Scott Wilson. For the track's remix, Lil' Kim associates her rapping abilities with oral sex: "Ya neva seen this stroke of genius / [I] put tha cleanest, meanest lips on ya penis!" She is also noted to popularize the word "gangstress" which she had previously used in "Spend