Dissect DJs - Us3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)

Episode Date: February 18, 2021

We got another personal request to jump on and toss it back to the short-lived smooth jazzy hip hop era of 1993, dissecting Us3's jazzy gem straight from the Birdland Room - "Cantaloop" (Flip Fantasia). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, we have something special down here at Birdland this evening, a recording for Blue Note Records. Me too. I want to get high now, too. Wait, that what she says right there? Yeah. I thought she always said like, how about a big hand? I want to get a high now. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

I can't believe you actually cut out before. Well, no, you don't have to, because I always expect you to know what you do it. I will now. Now we're talking about it, so we have to do it that way. No, you don't have to do it. Now, we just restart. Let's restart. All right.

Let's replay that last part. All right. Just go into that real quick so we can hear it smoothly go. Wait a minute. Oh, I won't wait a minute to get hot because I'm high as hell every day when I'm with Steezy because we're in the dice. DJs we back. What up, Stoze? You're not even going to let it play groving.

No, no, we can't. You had to stop, but else it goes too far into the song, we can't. I don't know. At least we could have faded out on that. No, I needed. No. Again, I could have done that in the post edit, but now that we're talking about it, I've Yeah, no, we have to lock it in.

But I always love that part because she just comes in talking about what she, I want to get high now. You don't know how. She wants to get high, whether it's through dancing. Oh, wait a minute. Boom. Genius lyrics to the rest of you because I'm looking at them right now. And it says, funky, funky. And then, how about a big hand now?

Wait, wait a minute. I'm gonna go ahead. I'm gonna go ahead and say that's bullshit. Castle was right the whole time. If you read to listen to it. Genius lyrics is the most trusted lyrics on the web. Find some lyrics that say differently. Listen to it.

All right. Let's listen to it. All right. I'm gonna do it just because thing and you record it later and shit. There we go. I want to be high now. I've let a big hand now. Are you shitting me?

How the fuck are you not hearing? I want to be high now. That's all I've ever heard. And you're a moron. It says I want to be high now. I'm the moron. They just couldn't. It just couldn't.

fucking write that because they don't want to talk about people getting high but she literally says that. I'm not going to pull up shit. I'm letting you know that that shit says she wants to get high now. Let's just go one more time. I've heard the same thing my entire life. I want to be high now. We're never going to agree with this. It's 100%. I'm right. Last time we did this, I was 100% right. And I'm going to

disagree on that one too because it doesn't sound like that and it's wrong because the lyrics on karaoke. I said it wrong. I guarantee if we look at the karaoke lyrics and it says, I want to be high now. I want a big hand now. What the fuck she want a big She doesn't even doing anything yet. Because you want a big hand now. You haven't done she yet. How many times have somebody brought somebody on stage?

I'll be able to give a big hand for my next guest right now. And then he's going to tell her to stop. Wait a minute. No, she wants to get a high. And he's saying, no, wait a minute. Before you get high, that's groove a little bit. Look, we're starting this episode with a bad squabble. And it's not a good look.

It's not a good look. I disagree with genius lyrics. I'm sorry, even saying it wrong. I doubt what was wrong. Both of those are wrong. It does it matter because you're wrong. It does matter because it is. the dissect DJs, and we're back for the first time at about a month.

We got a fresh record, and I'm so stoked to be back with y'all with episode 53. We're on the turn of the half century now. Turn of something. And we are approaching 500K listens in just the next week or so. So thank you everybody for our audience. Sounds better when you say we got almost a half a million. Half a million views, y'all. There's almost a little bit better.

The K million. You throw a million in there. It makes it sound legit. And we are back with a absolutely epic jam. from, what is this, 1993, I want to say, 1990, oh, you know what? Blue Note is actually the original sample, Herbie Hancock's Canloup Island, 1964. So there's a little fun fact right out of the gate for you.

But this song was made when? 1993, just like I said. You called it. And it is another dissect request from one of our favorite listeners, my main man, Amiz Salazar, who I go way back with, me and him used to write on a website together. called powerwrestling.com, which was actually picked up by Fox Sports at the time. And that goes back to how I want to say like 2002, 2003.

And we've just been great homies ever since. And let me tell you something about Ahmed. He's one of the realest truth tellers that you will ever see. Anytime I go to IG and I look at the stories, the first thing I look for is see if he's got anything up top because he's got some serious truth that he's got to speak. In fact, he used to write for my website back in the day. He was my sports writer on Castle Entertainment.com.

And his column was called A Moment of Truth with Ahmed Salis. Salazar because he speaks savage truth. Oh, man. He sounds like somebody I'd fucking hate. No, I mean, is that not your style right there? No, I don't like it. I don't like it. Don't call me on some shit.

Go fuck yourself. Who, Salazar, hey, thanks for this request. But go fuck yourself. Because we're back, baby. It's the Dajs. Dude, don't do that. What? I don't have to talk shit on my home.

You're right off the bat. It's okay. Talk shit on my homie if I ever do a shitty request. But he's like you. I don't get it. Yeah, that means we'll probably fucking hate each other. I fucking hate people. People like me.

Are you kidding me? Fucking dude, I don't like you. You don't like me. It's all good, bro. It's all good. He loves you, dude. He always hits me up, buddy. Every year on his state.

Oh, you like me? Yeah. Every time you're on the story, he's like, oh, my man's always getting it when you're like getting it. So he always responds. I'll rebuttal. Yeah. Now, you know what, fuck that.

Fuck that shit. Because I like saying that shit. All right. I'll rebuttal. I'll rebuttal. Because Castle's giving me a weird look because I'm talking about a friend that I don't know. But thanks for giving my back, dog, and glad you like me.

But I just feel like if you and I were to meet, we might like each other, but then again, we might fight. I'm gayos. I got a black belt. It's not an actual karate black belt. It's just a black belt you wear for suits, but I'll fuck you up. It's not even leather either. It's fucking, I don't know what it is.

Wack-ass Burlington Coat Factory. Yeah, but it's Timberlin. It was Timberlin discount. Point is, you like to spit some savage truth that you know a lot of people these days are like probably getting offended by, but we need real talkers out there like, I'm a man, med. So, you know, check him out. But when he told me he had a request, I was like, I know you're going to spit a jam right now,

and he did not disappoint with Cattle Loop by. Is it a Cattle Loop or Cattle Loop? It's Caterloop. It's like a loop when you do a loop when you're DJing. In parentheses, Flip Fantasia by who does this song? It doesn't even say the artist. Us Three, man. What?

Us Three. By Us Three. That really what they're called? Us Three. Us Three. So let's go ahead and get into it. And Roshan and Gerard. Prince or who, I don't know.

He said produced by Jeff Wilkinson and Mel Simpson, for those keeping score. If you guys want to know about all the names, we have them here, because we got new out research now, ladies and gentlemen. 53 episodes in, we finally figured out. We finally got a producer credit on that. And I got to be honest, Cassel, I know I said, as a kind of a joke,

but I honestly always thought this song was called cantalope, and I never understood why. But then the song doesn't really make sense because it's just a cool, groovy song. I was like, I guess they just came up with the random fruit, but they want to do it. Because, as I said at the top, the main sample comes from Herbie Hancock's Canelope Island.

Can we listen to that real quick? Blue Note, 1964. Want to pull it up? Let's listen to it real quick. I do want to hear it. I do want to hear it so we can actually. Usually what we do is we act like we're going to do something and then we don't play and then Castle Edits it in later.

But since we have actually never heard this song, we might need to. It would help to know exactly. Because this could be a pit bull situation. Maybe they didn't really even change. No, because they had such a dope rap, you know. I hope. They might have done a direct. I didn't even realize Herbie Hancock went all the way back to 1964, so that's,

a trip, but yeah, it sounds like something you'd hear at a jazz club back in the 60s, so I... All right, let's hear it. Candleupe Island, you said, right? Yeah. Let's hear. Got you. All right, so I see what they did. If you did the direct sample, split it up significantly, and then put some dope rap lyrics

behind of it. See, that is how it's done, Pitball. Yeah, fuck you, Pitbull. If you want to actually make a dope sample, you take a dope jazz beat from the 60s that has a cool bass line and a nice trumpet. You speed it up to be. make it a hip-hop beat, you still keep the trumpet, and then you add some dope flow, not just your dog shit, pit bull lyrics on there and shit.

Mr. Willow! Mr. Willow! Get the fuck out of here. Fuck you, Pipple. And you know what we didn't even touch on with Pipple is all the other times where he actually joins an artist on their already done track, and it literally is the exact same song, but then he just adds his stupid little words, little sounds at the beginning and then does his one verse of dog shit. But I don't, I'm not even going to like talk shit on that because the artist that brings him in, they're responsible. for that. So whatever. Make your money on that pit bull. Fuck you guys. Still, he's still

episode 50 is still spilling over all the way to episode 53 and it's probably going to bring up a lot more. Sorry. So yeah, let's go ahead and get into that intro. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm imagining it like a woman, like a flappers club. Yeah, it's not an older woman. Yeah, yeah. Kind of like bringing somebody out and you know.

We got something special down to the birdland this evening. I'm recording for Blue Note Records. And Blue Note Records is who actually put out Kirby Hancock's Canelope Island. So a little nod to them as well. So I also, hey, Pippel, take notes.

They're actually giving props to the people that, you know. Out the gate. Actually, he did do it on that one where he's like, 24th Brazil Street. We're going to call this guy Ocho. So he did do it on that one. All right, I'll give it a props. Let's stop making this about Pipple.

God damn it. Fuck that beat up. All that beat back up. What else does she say there? That's about it. And then she says, what's that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Funkie, funky.

Then she says, how about a big hair now? I want to get high now. If you could pull up any lyrics that say that's what she said. And then it's off and running, right? Let's off and run. Wait a minute. Groovy, groovy, jazzy, funky, pounce, bounce, dance as we dip in the melodic sea. Rhythm keeps flowing and drips the emcee.

Sweet sugar pop, sugar pop, rocks and pop. You don't stop till the sweet beat drops. I show and prove as I stick and move. Viby poems recited on top of the groove. Smooth. My, floating like a butterfly. Instead of floating, song like a lullaby, brace yourself as the beat hits ya. Dip you, dip in a taintip.

Yeah. Yeah. What's that now? Dizzy-dibobob. Yeah. Yeah. Funky. Yeah.

This song just has such a sway to it, such a certain, yeah, funk, lack of better words, but just a certain... It just flows. Flows. It has a good beat. It feels easy. you can just enjoy it. You don't want to get up a dance, but you can dance, but you can sit, you can relax and just enjoy it, you can get up and break

down to it. It just has that great feel to it that I appreciate immensely. And the horns kind of do it for me. I always love. I know you love it. I know you love some horns. Yeah, and let me, uh, we told Pippel to take notes. Let me throw another segment of the population that needs to take notes. How about modern day

hip-hop? How about rappers nowadays? You want to hear how not only to use a great sample and to bring it in to make it a modern hip-hop song, but how to just flow with it. This guy's not trying to overpower it. He's not trying to just get some certain sound over. He's literally like letting the beat carry it,

and he's just smoothly gliding around every single beat, just making it work. He's making his rap dance with the song. It's genius rapping. You know, like, we could break down the lyrics. It doesn't even really matter because it's a lot of just groovy, groovy, jazzy, funky, pounce, bounce,

dance as we dip in the melodic sea either for the key flow and jips to MC. Sweet sugar pop, sugar pop, sugar pop, you don't stop, a bit of the beat drops. Like, you know. Sounds dope,

but, like, yeah, he's not even saying anything there. It's basically like scatting rap style, you know? He just makes it at work. He's not telling a story, but he didn't need to because the beat carries it

and he's going to let it do so. And you know, my favorite part is, besides the horns, is the random guy in the backwards going, yeah. Yeah.

What's that about? Diggy-bogie-bibum. Diggy-bub. Like, this is, It's red. Ponger. I love that guy. That's the only guy I know of this.

I never know the rap. I've never known the rap. The whole time I've ever heard, I'm like, here he goes. And then here comes my part. Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, it's just a guy vibing, right? I can imagine the guy being on stage with him, and he's just, like, getting it.

He's probably like. He's on the side. Just kidding. Yeah. He's, like, got his, like, dark shades indoors. And he's got one of those hats, you know, that he used to wear in the 90s, a little jazz club kind of hats, you know, a little brim kind of thing. Fedora, but kind of that.

Yeah. Yeah, but a little bit, yeah. And he's kind of got like a fly suit. Maybe it's like a bright color or something. A vest, definitely a vest. Definitely a vest. One of those like bright, like jungle color vests that he's wearing the 90s all the time. Matching shoes.

Yeah. Shoes are going. Oh, man. Like, you want to talk about something. It's a whole vibe. It's this one right here. And we're literally one verse in and like you already like know exactly. Like you got a visual at the Birdland Club, you know?

There's a whole jazz orchestra. There's probably some people dancing. And some other guy going, yeah. It's some old folks just kind of nod in their head. Just some of the scene. This reminds them of their. club back in the day. Biggie, biggie bump.

Gip, drip. Flip Fantasia. Dude, to an infinite hype, to the rum of a hardcore. Here we go. Off I take ya. Dip check. The Fantasia. Like that.

Dude, this song just keeps flowing with just pure into the mood. Whatever mood it is, you want to be in. You can be in it with this song. It sets the mood. You can set any mood. You can chill with this song. You can get hype with this song. You can, like, want to rap with this song, or you can just enjoy the fucking instrumental beat of this song.

This song is very unique. And it hits many different chords as far as different emotions. at the same time. Right, and because it's a samma from like the 60s. It's one of those songs that like you could almost like vibe with your grandpa, your dad. Yeah, and they'll be like this song. And they'll be like, yeah, I like this beat. And you know what? As I'm going through the lyrics, like the lyrics... Is it like the lyrics that

stands out like a storyline going on at all? It's literally just explaining how this song is just vibing with the... Feel the beat drop. Jazz and hip hop. Dripping in your dome makes his own end bop. Funk infusion. A fly illusion. Keeps it coasting on the ribbon you're cruising. Up down.

Round to round. Rhym's profound. but nevertheless you That's just hard to read Yeah Whenever the less you Gets to get down Fantasy freak

To the beat So unique You move your feet You sweat from the heat Back to the fact I'm the Mac That you know that The way I kicked the rhyme

So I don't even know I don't even know how they would say that But this part right here Is actually the part Where he would actually At all be telling a story He says the way I kick the rhyme Some would call me a poet

Poin steady flowing Growing Showing I don't even know how he says that So I don't want to like Get it wrong Because of the real story He's just talking about how groovy the song is and how he's talking about how he's a poet caught in the groove in

fantasia i'm found which is like okay can we discuss fantasia like what is that like that's is that he's talking about the original disney movie he bring up flip fantasia a lot i'm not sure what he's flipping or who fantasia is or why he want to flip fantasia he described in that last sentence like it was a city caught in the groove and fantasia i'm found and they tripped the tour upon the rhymes they soar to an infinite height to the realm of the hardcore here we go off i take ya trip trip flip Tasia. So you know what? It's almost like this song is not meant to be broken down as a story.

Like, hey, you don't need to read between the lines on this. We're basically scatting this rap to go with this beautiful jazz club, to go with the entire, yeah, the vibe. You can play with any age group, any rap, and it feels new, still old school. What are you very unique? I dare somebody to tell me they don't like this jam, man. Serious. Yeah, at least, like, say you don't like it. Now I can understand not being your.

favorite. But for you to say, no, turn that off. That sucks. Hey, what is that song? Turn up. Like, I will throw that man out of my house. Yeah. Us are. Through the window. I'll fucking put us three in your ass. I'm going to stick with a throw him through the window part because I don't know where you just took this.

Yeah, mine got a little weird. Sorry on that. Can you just kick the third verse? Jump to the jam, boogie-wuggy jam slam. Bust the dialect. I'm the man in command. Come flow with the sounds of the mighty mic. Myt mic. Mastin on the mic. I'm bringing up because disaster. Buku ducks, but I still rock Nike with the razzle-dazzle.

A star I might be scribble, jibble on the microphone. I babble as I fix the funky words into a puzzle. Yes, yes, yes, on and on as I flex. Get with the flow. Birds manifest. Feel the vibe from here to Asia. Dip Trip. With Fantasia.

All right, let me hear you break down the verse three, because I've tried the first two. And as we've established, this is a hard song to go over because this dude flows. The sad thing is we don't actually know who Us Three's rapper is. to figure that out because this dude kills it. All right. You ready for me to try to build this shit? I'm ready for it. Rishon Kelly.

I just figured out. Rassan Kelly. I'm going to go a little slower just because I feel like it's a little hard to do, but I'm going to try to karaoke skills and try to pull this off. Try it. All right. Here we go. Jump to the jam.

Boogie-woogie jam slam. Buster. The dialect. I'm the man in command. Come flow with the sounds of the mighty mic master. When I rhyme on the mic, I bring a suck of disaster. Yeah, you're right. That's a weird word.

Buku bucks. Hey. What? Buku bucks, dude. Buku bucks and I still rock Nike. With the razzledazzle star, I might be. Scribils cap on the microphone. I babble as I flip to the funky word into a puzzle.

Yes, yes, yes. On and flex as I flex. Get on the flow words manifest. Fill a vibe with a hear to the Asia. Drip, drip, trip, flip Fantasia. Yeah. Yeah. Dund, dun, dune.

Yeah. Yeah. Biggie, big, bum. Yeah, man. It's definitely a difficult. lyric and I probably messed that one up too because I didn't have the beat down. I just wanted to take some part of the right, man. Scribble, dribble, scrabble, scrabble on the microphone of babble.

That was the one like that. Scrible Scrabble, I'm in the microphone of my babble. You jumped, you skipped one of the drabbles and I just had to be like, yeah, you got to go back and correct that. That's good. Scribble, scrabble, scrabble on the microphone, I babble. Yeah, that's going. So yeah, this one's just flowing, throwing in likes, but he did two Buccoo bucks, which makes him like him, like, I love this guy even more.

but it still doesn't explain who Flip Fantasia is. Is that actually the word that you've been saying that whole time? Yeah, Buku dollars. I've never heard that word. Buku, dude. I'm looking at it. Yeah, I've never seen it written down. I told you, dude.

I told you. I told you. It was in Fentation in 1993. B-A-U-C-O-U-E. No, I wouldn't have spelled it that way, but it definitely that's been Buku dollars. Buku books and he's still rocking Nike. I mean, he's making bottles. Yeah, but Nike's expensive, isn't it?

So, like, no, but not as expensive as like, you know, fucking the next level shit. I mean, Nike has a range. They got some cheap sets. They also got the highest. But yeah, man. Dope-ass Mike. But the rest of this beat just kind of rides on. So let's listen to the bash of this beat because it's fucking...

But they slay it. This thing just slays from beginning to end as far as the lyric... The music behind it. Oh, I can play the instrumental with this all fucking day. So let's let that happen. Let's play it all day. I'll be honest, Steve, I don't know who the fuck was on that fucking saxophone. That's a trumpet.

But he... Trumpet, whatever the fuck that is, he was pissed. He was making it sing. And he was doing things on a trumpet that I ain't never heard before. He's making a squeal. He said, What is this man? Dude, the last 30 seconds of that song just went absolutely bonkers on the trumpet, man.

What amazing. Just amazing what he was able to do and make that trumpet just sounds so fantastic. I think there's nothing quite like watching somebody like bust a solo on any instrument where you just know that their skills are so next level that they're almost just like fucking around with it now. Like, they're really just trying to be like, all right, how can I fucking slay this instrument now where I'm almost like doing it in a different position and I'm making it like just like do different sounds than you've ever heard it to? Just because like I'm like having fun with it now, you know? There's that one part that was like, I didn't make it do it justice. But like how do you do that on a trumpet?

I don't even know. Yeah, like it only has like three little notes there. Like how do you made it made that work? It's kind of like watching like Eddie Van Halen solo on the guitar or something. Like he's like the Eddie Van Halen of trumpets. It's like he's literally just like, all right, I'm this much head and shoulders above everybody else. So now I'm just going to start showing off. And he just starts playing with it, you know?

Just be like, I've been practicing so much that let me show you all the different ways I can actually make this thing saying. I mean, that's one of those things that can't be taught, man. That man is trained and just practiced and put in so many years to be able to play an instrument like that. That just made me. You got to appreciate it. So who the hell is doing the trumpets, man? Because the guy is slaying the trumpets. All right, I got the trumpet.

I know. I got the trumpeter. Okay, dope. We dissect. We dissect and give you all the information by this point, ladies and gentlemen. Again, genius lyrics with the... Ambrosius, stop calling you. Ambrosius over here trying to fuck up the recording.

She's so cute, but super needed. Very needed right now. The trumpeter is a guy named Gerard Presenser. Presenser. The trumpet player named Gerard. And also, the vocals, we got to give props to him to. That is Rishon Kelly. Wait, you're talking about the guy who goes...

Yeah. I mean, I assume he's the guy doing all the rap because that's the only... Biggie, biggie bump. No, his vocal... Fon. Fon. It says vocals. Rassan Kelly.

That's the only name that give... Actually, it might be Rassan Kelly. That's him. Rassan is the guy that goes, Fonker, Fonke, Fon. No, no, no. He's the guy that says, bump to the bididoo bump. Oh, whatever.

Whatever. I would like to know the name is Fonke, Fonke, Fonke. Whatever. Jeff Wilfenson. I don't know. He's part of the record. Awesome. Shout out to the trumpet player.

Shout out to the vocals. Shout out to the rapper. And shout out to Herbie Hancock for putting the original one. Put the original beat together. Wait back in 1964. I didn't know that Herbie went back that far. Herb. Man.

You're doing it for a minute. The cock in the building. He's still. The Hancock. He's still actually putting out shows like today. So that's literally, it's like 70 years ago. That man has his hand on his guy. No, it's like 50.

I don't know. Math is hard sometimes. Anyways. Let's go back to whatever. Cock in hand. Please stop talking. Also, when I go over Rassan Kelly's name, a baby logo pops up.

It's weird. He's the only one that does that. I don't want to be talking about cock and hand. Yeah, I mean, I think we've reached the end of this fantastic song. Really, lyrics don't say much. It's really just a big flow of a lyric kind of talking about how he rocks the mic and he's cool

and life is great. But beyond that, the fucking instrumental let's ride and it just keeps you going for the entire four and a half minutes. And they really, they definitely, they really flip Fantasia. And they don't even describe who Fantaia or flipping or what that even means, but they like to add DipTrip. Flip Fantasia. Yeah.

Brum, brum, burn it. What's that now? Diggin'a, big of it. All right, go ahead. With your turn, I would do it first. What do you give in there as far as slaps and claps? No, that's not what it is. It slaps and snaps.

What are you slapping this out, Steve? I'm going. Dibibibibit bop. Funky. I want to begin! I like that. So you put funk in between the snaps and slaps. I mean, if we want to do the math that up, I believe it was four slaps, four snaps,

and a little bit of a bitty bitty bump. It was. And a couple funkies. It was. But the fact that you intertwined. They made me do that. It was good. It brought it out of me, you know?

What you got? What are we giving flip fans? Antasia. Yeah. Just one, yeah? Fonkey. All right. I want to get high now.

Wait a minute. Yeah, that's line right there. So you get four claps. No snaps just because I didn't feel like snapping. How does this song that make you want to snap? I don't know. It just didn't want it. But he got four, you know, four is almost up there.

And then it just, you know, he goes. She wants to get high. And I always appreciate that about people. Let's get high on life, people. Especially because that's not even what the lyrics here. Whatever. Yes, it did. It does.

It absolutely fucking what you're talking about. This is the, once again, I wish I could remember which episode it was that we did that at, where we had the dispute as to what the words said. It was pony. It was the episode number eight. Oh, that's right. It was pony. Yeah, and I still agree, and I'm agreeing with this one that that she says, I want to get high now. It's the golden white dress versus the blue and black dress of the ears. Yeah, except it was, what was that. We had that. It was Laurel versus Yanni. Remember that?

Yeah, I never knew what that was. This one is way more clear. This one's obvious that she wants to get high now. How about a big hand? Now. That's how you would intro somebody in a song. What are they saying? I mean, it's a fine sound bite if you,

if it was the words, but, uh, they, you know what, dude, I'm tired, I'm tired of arguing with you. I'm tired to argue with you.

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