Kool and the Gang "Fruitman"

Another cut from this treasured 1974 LP"Light of Worlds" with the message of Islam which the group had a adopted.

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Music

Tags:

• fruitman
• kool
• and
• gang
• funk
• r&b
• 1974
• light
• worlds

[leecool1956]

I first heard this album in 1974 to this day it still inspires me.

[LamontCJ]

Me too! A great great lp that totally changed what music meant to me. I was a teenager in the 70's amid gang warring and this lp spoke truth with love and self respect which did it for me and alot of brothers finding their way. LOL

[munoz387]

tell me it ain't so! j dilla sampled this!

[LamontCJ]

I guess it's so if you say so. I don't lnow much about contemporary hip hop artists though I heard about J Dilla. He certainly picked a great sample from this cut.

[TheReason77]

That my friend, is what made the legend of J-Dilla. The master of perception vs. deception...

[geeman856]

I was 2 goin on 20 wen this classis came out. i still play it to this very day. wow my childhood was allllll dat lol.. my mom bless me with the realist music. i wish i can go back to 1974..

[rickydfcc77]

@Odawg96 I bought this LP as a 10th-grader in Philadelphia; "Fruitman" wasn't the party song on the album (Street Corner Symphony, Rhyme Tyme People, Higher Plane were), but if you had the album, you would dig deeper into it and every song was worth listening to. Remember, it was the fall of 1974 and everything you can recall since that time hadn't happened yet so it was the very latest thing. The anticipation of Kool & The Gang's fans waiting for this LP was remarkable at the time.

[Hallleberry]

dilla!

[mrpower328]

R.I.P. To Ricky West. He was a great talent for Kool & The Gang.

[vidastarradio]

@LamontCJ J Dilla (R.I.P.) always picked great songs to sample from. His beats are classic.

[wlltate]

This song brings back memories of being a teenager in San Diego, CA. Bell bottoms, tricked out vans,sunshine, pretty girls and Columbian Gold weed.

[jeffreybiderpdee]

@BLINGINLIKE3PO It's pretty much looped man don't kid yourself.

Looping is ok. I don't see anything wrong with it to me it's like remixing. We all know Dilla had serious skills but c'mon he would even admit he just looped this shit and filtered it a bit.

[SubliminalMinded2011]

interesting how we probably will not be able to sample ANYthing from today's music (quite simply, because today's music isn't sample-worthy).

We'd have to keep going back to the '60s, '70s and '80s to sample music.

[11kful]

U AND U WILL C THE DIFFERENCE...THINKIN BOUT SPRING & SUMMERS IN PHI & CMD WHEN FRUITMAN AND FISH TRUCKS WOULD SWING THRU AND OUR PARENTS WOULD OUT THERE, OR WOULD SEND US TO BUY UP HIS WHOLE TRUCK B4 THE NEIGHBROS GET THERE!! THRACK IS FIRE ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ADD THE AD-LIBBING GOING ON AT THE END OF THE SONG!