This song was the first song on the biggest selling album of all time. It announced Michael Jackson's coming as the Greatest Entertainer and helped usher in his two year stranglehold on the pop charts. This song is a true introduction it set the table for the masterpiece that followed and wet the appetite for the musical meal that was and is Thriller. It displayed Michael and Quincy's brilliance for crafting symphonic onomatopoeia pop funk(trademark pending). By the end of the song we listener's were raptured into an African chant that we still can't decipher nearly 30 years later but it feels good. Say it with me mamma say mamma saw mamakusa. Hee hee.
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The Kweli intros you mentioned were spot on. In an earlier piece on here I spoke about Busta Rhymes' series of Y2K-driven albums that were some of the last (thoughtful) "concept" albums that I can recall - I dug all of their intros.That said, I'm not going too far out to mention my favorite intro that's by some little-known rapper. One of my favorites jump offs for a disc was the intro and 1st song for ...I Am by Nas. The haunting sounds of the intro followed by the solemn tale of a group of eight friends going down their respective life paths in NY State of Mind Pt. 2's first verse... timeless. Man, then that brings to mind the intro to ...I Am's predecessor, It Was Written. Good work. 1.
You are dead on with that Nas Intro I couldn't remember which one was fire. Like I said I spent an hour and a half trying to select some those Busta's also slipped by me good looking out and thanks for checking in.
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