At the beginning of Tony! Toni! Toné! and DJ Quik’s “Let’s Get Down” DJ Quik says:
‘You didn’t think we could flip it on ya ass huh…something for the dance floor’
And then they interpolated the prechorus from Nirvana’s “Smell’s Like Teen Spirit” on the hook and made it a bop.
Stevie Wonder recording "As" during the making of Songs in the Key of Life, 1976. A song about unconditional love, and one of the most transcendent recordings of his career.
10 years ago today, D'Angelo performed "Sometimes It Snows In April" by Prince alongside Princess (Maya Rudolph & Gretchen Lieberum) for a Prince tribute on Jimmy Fallon
Inside King Tubby's studio in Kingston, 1981. Scientist at the mixing desk, Kelvin from Musical Youth in the vocal booth. The bathroom where dub was born, the heir to Tubby's throne behind the board. From the BBC documentary Musical Roots.