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A: Give the Drummer Some / B:Moe Luv’s Theme
The late engineer and producer Paul Cs fingerprints are all over this single from Ultramagnetic MCs, perhaps the defining release of their career. While earlier records gave notice of their strange and unique talents, they were loveably messy affairs. This, however, is the real deal, as polished as their early sound would ever be.
Give the Drummer Some grabs a fistful of different elements from James Brown, Dee Felice Trio and James Brown but bends them to its own purpose. This is a song with a momentum of its own and endlessly quotable lyrics. One of which, of course, was sampled by The Prodigy huge hip-hop fans for Smack My Bitch Up in 1997. The now hugely rare 7 of Give the Drummer Some edits this out to make it more radio-friendly, but this reissue reverses that cut, giving you the original lyrics. If anyone knows why Kool Keith also changes the word rappers to monkeys for that edit, answers on a postcard
The brilliant B-side harks back to the time when every group had a song dedicated to their DJ. Moe Luvs Theme sees Kool Keith at his most straightforward, singing the praises of the turntable skills of Moe Luv. It would be throwaway were it not for the effortless repurposing of Jackie Robinsons oft-sampled Pussyfooter. That and the presence of one of the worlds great MCs at the height of his powers elevates it far above a footnote.
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