1984

Album

Keyboards

Anthony Marinelli

ARTIST  James Brown & Afrika Bambaataa Jackson

Producers  Afrika Bambaataa, Tom Silverman

LABEL Tommy Boy

About the Album

As a major architect of early hip-hop, Bambaataa was an innovator of the highest order. While many rappers would be content to sample and name check James Brown ad nauseam, Bambaataa collaborated with the Godfather of Soul himself on the sharp "Unity Part 1 (The Third Coming)."

In my opinion a classic example of what Hip Hop was and has gone so far away from. When Hip Hop was about showing moves on the dance floor. Unity was glorified and peace the ultimate purpose. No modern Rapper could understand the genius of Bambaataa and Mr. Brown with releases such as these because their direction in there ignorance, is here on earth, or a lateral direction, while this song "Unity" is an unmistakable direction upward. Bless these guys I miss these days very much. -DJMoses, Discogs.com

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