Sure I grew up on Tea for the Tillerman, sure my chilhood was very Harold and Maude-esque, and sure I have always loved Cat Stevens. He was popular right about the time that many moms and pops record collections were being absorbed and raided to form the building blocks of hip hop. And yet the general consensus is that this Cat is not Funky. Just like 60-70's contemporary Neil Young, Yusef (nee Cat)was not the sort of guy to be pigeonholed. Izitso is Cat's Trans, an exploration of the electronics available at the time by an artist generally associated with traditional folk/rock instrumentation.Anyhow the track I have here is the only song ever sampled by the Hip Hop nation in Mr.Islam's catalog. That is according to the "sacred text of breakbeats":http://www.the-breaks.com/Is it funky enough?Don't be afraid to tell me no. I can take some abuse even. In part 2, I will present my final arguments in this case.
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