Spring Again
Biz Markie
Biz Never Sleeps, 1989
My brother was responsible for my entire early music education: The Isley Brothers, P-Funk, Jimi Hendrix, De La Soul, Me’shell N’Degeocello, Pink Floyd, Special Ed, Eric Clapton, NWA, Steve Miller Band, Boogie Down Productions, XTC, The D.O.C. (many more) and yes…Biz Markie were imparted on me, one visit at a time, on his bedroom floor.
“Spring Again”, sent into motion and concluded by the Third World sample, anchored the horns that I would later find out were from “Back Together Again” by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway and the James Brown’s “Funky Drummer” drum loop, will forever be more than the sum of it’s parts for me. It’s the soundtrack to the high school dream summer that never quite materialized. The funny thing is that remembering listening to this song conjures up a similar feeling to how i thought my dream-summer-in-absentia was supposed to feel.
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