Dustier Grooves: Early 60s R&B & Hip Hop
Friday, August 29th, 2008Hip hop has never had much time for soul music from the early sixties. If you looked in the crates of a hip hop producer, youd think that R&B started in 1966. With a few notable exceptions, Papas Got a Brand New Bag? springs to mind, no classic hip hop breaks came from the first half of the decade.
Slick Rick is an exception, but then he almost always is. “Mona Lisa” interpolates a snippet of Dionne Warwick’s 1964 number “Walk on By.” It’s the tell-off that ends the song, the…
