MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1 — Digable Planets, “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)”)

Released on this day…

back in 1992…

Digable Planets gave us their debut single…

“Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat).”

(Music Cut #2 — “Rebirth of Slick”)

And that unmistakable horn line…

has actually been around a whole lot longer than you might think!

(Music Cut #3 — Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, “Stretching”)

Recognize that?!

That’s jazz legend Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers…

with their song “Stretching” recorded back in 1978!

Digable Planets sampled it…

and turned it into a hip-hop classic!

(Music Cut #4 — Digable Planets, “Rebirth of Slick”)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“We be to rap what key be to lock. But I’m cool like dat” – Digable Planets, “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)”

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