We want July 2023 to be the coolest month on Wicked Guilty Pleasures ever. This is why we opened it with the absolute coolest song ever recorded.
The song was released as the debut single from the Digable Planets's debut album, and it was a Top 20 hit in the US and elsewhere. It remains their biggest hit to this day. More to the point, it is a Grammy-winning song and is considered to be the pinacle of the fusion genre known as jazz-rap. You hear the jazz, right? Well, that's "Stretching" by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, which they sampled for this track.
The Cleveland-based trio formed in 1987, and broke up for a bit in the late 90's, but they're back together and still together. All three of them have remained - no lineup changes.
And, as you can see from this 2016 live performance, they're still way cooler than I am.
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