They have one platinum and two gold records, and one grammy award. From the view point of house music they are priceless gems and by those i mean 6. And rollerskates girl meets boy on thursday night boy was high, girl fly like kite they hold hands until next day boy then lets go, hit his way. It featured a wealth of material that criticized the violent, careless direction that hip hop was heading in at the time, though it still managed to maintain a light, absurd sense of humor. They are best known for their eclectic sampling and quirky, surreal lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz hop subgenre. The album was produced by prince paul, whose work on 3 feet high and rising was highly praised by music critics. Hgun labs a rollerskating jam named saturdays on vimeo join. Qtip and vinia mojica sampled chicagos saturday in the park. Listen to both tracks on whosampled, the ultimate database of sampled music, cover songs and remixes. Listen to both songs on whosampled, the ultimate database of sampled music, cover songs and remixes. They are best known for their eclectic sampling, quirky lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres.
They bring in vinia mojica to provide vocals for the chorus and they once. They are the best known of the early alternative hiphop acts. A roller skating jam named saturdays lp version featuring uncredited. Its saturday, saturday saturday, its saturday saturday, its saturday saturday, its saturday ay is the word, is the word, is the word pos. Qtip and vinia mojica contains a sample of another track. Rollerskating jam named sundays by nautilus, released 20 september 2019 1.
Afro connections at a hi 5 in the eyes of the hoodlum 5. A roller skating jam named saturdays and rollerskates and rollerskates and rollerskates. And rollerskates girl meets boy on thursday night boy was high, girl fly like kite they hold hands until next day. It was a dazzling form of freedom, a transformation of bygone tone, archeologically dusted off and. Girl meets boy on thursday night boy was high girl fly like kite they hold hands until next day boy then lets go hit his way boy rules butt brags to his boys erection brings bad boy joys boy thinks of that big fat back big black fat love big black fat girl calls boy to stand him up on saturday. Now as you pump your fist i reminisce to a bounce, rock, skate, roll fess to impress hey, pretty diamond, do you like the way im dressed cool, keep the faith and be my mate cause all we need is feet. Russell simmons came through to shoot his part at the top of the track, that was big. Welcoming dublin based djproduce george feely with his 3 track discofunky house e. A roller skating jam named saturdays lp version featuring uncredited qtip 4. We shot this video at laces roller rink on long island.
Qtip and vinia mojica discover this songs samples, covers and remixes on whosampled. The group have sold over 5 million albums in the us. The three formed the group in high school and caught the attention of producer prince paul. The swirls of styles and sounds that made up their music that were initially intimidating, suddenly all made sense on saturdays.