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Appreciation: DJ Towa Tei
For many white people, the first time they ever heard of Q-Tip was when Deee-Lite dropped that crazy infectious single in 1990 “Groove is in the Heart.” Tip dropped like an 8 bar verse and appeared in the video as a body-less head doing the rappin rappin.
I do remember feeling marginally superior to white kids for being down with the Native Tongues. But that Deee-Lite song did turn me on to another musical figure for the first time, and that was DJ Towa Tei.
Weird mix that group was. The vocalist was some kinda trippy white lady, and the two DJs kinda saw their “foreign-ness” played up a little. One dude was a Russian cat with like a ponytail thing and the other was Towa Tei, dressed like a Japan-by-way-of-New-York/art school/club kid/pre-hipster type.
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