The song heavily sampled the Fatback Band’s 1975 funk-jam, “(Are You Ready) Do the Bus Stop.” “Chaka Khan did a remake of ‘Bus Stop,’ and that really opened up the doors again for me ...

The Fatback Band is also thought to have released the first rap record in hip-hop history with its song “King Tim III (Personality Jock),” which was released five months before the Sugarhill ...

The Fatback Band were the grittiest of the US club bands that mixed jazz with funk and dominated dance in the mid-1970s. They prefigured disco, were at the beginning of rap – their 1979 rap ...