Which 3 artists are you currently listening to the most?

Sunday afternoon, McCoy Tyner on the platter, nothing else needed.

The Best-Selling Soul Albums of All Time

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Common's "The Light" was a love letter to Erykah Badu, his girlfriend at the time. J Dilla built it on Bobby Caldwell's "Open Your Eyes", played a hair faster, with Detroit Emeralds drums.

It became Common's first Billboard Hot 100 hit (#44) and earned a Grammy nod.

Nathan Watts's bass on "Sir Duke", note by note.

Stevie wrote it as a tribute to Duke Ellington and the swing-era greats. The famous unison run has Watts doubling the horn section note for note, one of the hardest bass parts in pop.

52 years ago today, Barry White's "You're the First, the Last, My Everything" was released as a single.

How Parliament Put Funk in Space: The Making of “Mothership Connection”

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Q-Tip made the "Electric Relaxation" beat in Phife Dawg's grandmother's basement. She'd given him a key.

Phife came home, heard Ronnie Foster's "Mystic Brew" drifting up from below and ran downstairs without even saying hi to grandma: “Yo, what the hell is that?!”

26 years ago today, Outkast's "Ms. Jackson" was released as a single.

54 years ago today, Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" was released as a single.

Happy 53rd birthday to Madlib!

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