Funky fresh instrumentals week h-h-h-its your Thursday! Here's you a landmark hip hop break beat throwdown courtesy of long respected jazz pioneer Herbie "Fingers" Hancock.  This was the very first popularly recognized single to feature hip hop turntable scratching, courtesy of GrandMixer D.ST.  Ask anybody of a certain age who works the wheels of steel, and they'll point to this tune as a major influence.

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At the 1984 Grammy Awards Hancock laid down this jam: .

So, please now to enjoy the 1983 video, complete with it's at the time controversial use of robots, bedsheets and dancing pants. So weird that it had to be your-

-K-101.7 SONG OF THE DAY!

 

 

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