Legendary rapper Doug E. Contemporary recorded and toured with Prince, and he reveals that the Rock & Roll Corridor of Famer agreed to provide stay album for him earlier than passing away in 2016.
“After I was touring with him, he liked go-go,” the “Human Beat Field” tells HipHopDX. “So based mostly on him loving go-go, he was going to provide my stay album earlier than he transitioned.”
Contemporary was featured on the Purple Rain star’s 1998 tour with Chaka Khan and Larry Graham, and he recorded two songs on The New Energy Technology‘s Newpower Soul album launched the identical yr. Additionally in 1998, Prince, Khan, Graham and Contemporary taped the Lovely Unusual live performance video at London’s Cafe de Paris.
In the meantime, the 2014 BET Hip Hop Awards Icon honoree lately launched his first album in 26 years, This One’s for Chuck Brown: Doug E. Contemporary Salutes the Godfather of Go-Go.
Grammy nominee Brown is called the main pressure behind the go-go music created within the Sixties in Washington, D.C. In 1979, his signature track, “Bustin’ Unfastened,” remained at primary on the Billboard R&B singles chart for 4 weeks. The pulsating monitor has been used as a theme track for the Washington Nationals baseball crew, Washington Wizards NBA crew and Washington Capitals hockey crew.
Brown died from coronary heart failure in 2012 on the age of 75.
“Simply from a cultural perspective, Chuck Brown is a tradition icon, however not simply from the tradition of go-go music, extra like what he represents,” Contemporary says.
This One’s For Chuck Brown: Doug E. Contemporary Salutes the Godfather of Go-Go, launched September 24, contains the final verse recorded by the late Biz Markie, who handed away July 16 on the age of 57.
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