Line #34 Music/DooBop


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Just kickin' that Doo-Bop sound.]]
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4	''Doo-Bop'' is a jazz-rap[=/=]acid jazz album by Music/MilesDavis. Released on June 30, 1992 on Creator/WarnerBrosRecords, it was the last studio album the legendary trumpeter worked on prior to his death in 1991.
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6	While staying in New York during a particularly hot summer, Miles typically had his apartment window open, and frequently heard teenagers blasting HipHop, particularly the music of Creator/DefJamRecordings, out of their boomboxes, but none of his music. Miles then decided he wanted to make an album that captured the sound of hip hop; though that decision isn't too surprising if you knew that one of his favorite albums at the time was ''Music/PaulsBoutique''. Calling up his friend and Def Jam owner[=/=]co-founder Russel "Rush" Simmons, Miles asked him to find some young hip-hop producers to help him create the sounds he wanted. Simmons proceeded to send Miles a stack of beat tapes from some of his best producers, including [[Music/PublicEnemy Chuck D and Flavor Flav]], but the standout among them was a relatively-unknown producer by the name of Easy Mo Bee, who was also part of a group called "Rappin' Is Fundamental".
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8	Davis and Mo Bee recorded and produced the majority of the album between January and February 1991, with Mo Bee and his R.I.F. bandmates providing their "doo-hop" sound to the album by contributing both rap and doo-wop influenced vocals, which inspired the album's eventual name of "''Doo-Bop''". Davis took a break from recording to tour and perform, including a performance at the 1991 Montreux Jazz Festival that would become ''Miles & [[Music/QuincyJones Quincy]]: Live at Montreux'', but [[DiedDuringProduction died from a stroke later that year]]. At that point, only six tracks had been finished during the recording sessions, so Warner Bros. gave Mo Bee some of Miles' unreleased "[=RubberBand=]" recordings (which, according to [[WordOfGod Mo Bee himself]], came from unreleased sessions Miles had with Music/{{Prince}}) to make two more tracks "Miles would have loved" to finish the album.
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10	''Doo-Bop'' was released posthumously in 1992, and was mostly received negatively by critics, but nonetheless managed to win a Grammy for "Best Instrumental R&B Performance" in 1993; netting Miles his seventh and first posthumous Grammy. As for Mo Bee, he would continue to build his name by producing for future legends [[Music/WuTangClan RZA and GZA]], before breaking into the mainstream as the main producer of both Music/TheNotoriousBig's ''Music/ReadyToDie'' and Music/CraigMack's ''Project: Funk Da World'' in 1994. Davis would see one more posthumous album release with ''Rubberband'' in 2019, 27 years later.
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12	!!Tracklisting:
13	# "Mystery" (3:56)
14	# "The Doo-Bop Song" (5:02)
15	# "Chocolate Chip" (4:41)
16	# "High Speed Chase"* (4:40)
17	# "Blow" (5:07)
18	# "Sonya" (5:32)
19	# "Fantasy"* (4:38)
20	# "Duke Booty" (4:56)
21	# "Mystery (Reprise)" (1:26)
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23	[=*=] = Tracks that were made posthumously.
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25	!! Just tropin' this Doo-Bop sound!
26	* BoastfulRap: And unlike most self-referential examples of this trope, the raps are centered around Miles and his trumpet skills.
27	* GenreMashup: The album meshes jazz with rap, NewJackSwing and {{Doowop}}.
28	* InstrumentalHipHop: Zigzagged - While the ''are'' pure instrumentals throughout the album, there's also three songs that contain vocals from Easy Mo Bee and his group Rappin' Is Fundamental.
29	* JazzRap: Miles was the first jazz artist to create a full-on hip-hop album, and ''Doo-Bop'' actually predated more ambitious jazz rap projects; like Guru's ''Jazzmatazz'' series, and the supergroup Buckshot [=LeFonque=].
30	* PosthumousCollaboration: What ''Doo-Bop'' unfortunately became, since Miles died before the sessions could resume. "High Speed Chase" and "Fantasy" were the two tracks built from previously-unreleased recordings from Miles.
31	* {{Portmanteau}}: The album's title is derived from both "Doo-Hop" (Mo Bee's doowop[=/=]new jack fusion), and bebop.
32	* {{Sampling}}: ''Doo-Bop'' was the only time Miles himself sampled other peoples' music in his own. Music/JamesBrown, Music/SlickRick, and even Music/GangStarr are among the artists sampled throughout the record.
33	* SpecialGuest: Easy Mo Bee's Rappin' Is Fundamental bandmates J.B. and A.B. Money show up on the title track, singing the hook and providing guest raps. Mo Bee himself is a subversion, as he produced the album with Miles.
34	* SpokenWordInMusic: Miles himself can be heard speaking during "Blow" and "Duke Booty".
35	* AWildRapperAppears: Because the album is largely instrumental, Mo Bee's verses serve as this.
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37	-> ''"Easy Mo Bee and Miles Davis gon' blow! Gon' blow!"''

Context Music / DooBop