Let's do it

This was a huge record in Bay rap clubs for most of the 90s:




Jamal-Ski the Bead Master: "Let's Do It in the Dancehall" (TNT Hip Hop Mix) (Sam, 1990)

Originally the song was released in 1990 as a b-side on a reissue of a great but relatively obscure 1980 disco/rap tune, Convertion's "Let's Do It". Two of the remix versions draw heavily from the Convertion song and add a corny ragga-fied chorus, but the third one ditches Convertion altogether for a great Headhunters "God Made Me Funky"/Wilson Pickett "Bumble Bee" pairing. Although the hip hop remix is credited solely to NY reggae don dada Bobby Konders, I suspect Salaam Remi was probably responsible ("additional beat programming by Salamm" (sic)).

The hip hop mix wasn't really a chart or mainstream radio hit but it was popular in clubs for so long that four years later, Columbia signed Jamal-Ski and re-released it as "Jump, Spread Out."

Kinda related:



Bobby Bennett: "Bumble Bee (Sting Me)" (Philadelphia International, 197?)

This is a great and mostly slept-on single by a singer who was a member of James Brown's Famous Flames throughout most of the 60s, along with Bobby Byrd & Baby Lloyd Stallworth. Both this song and the b-side, the searing ballad "Days Go By", were recorded in remarkably similar versions by Wilson Pickett on his 1970 In Philadelphia album; if only Bennett had released a version of "Get Me Back On Time, Engine Number 9", too. "Days Go By" appears on the recent Conquer the World compilation and is worth seeking out.