When the band Count Basie was touring with fell apart in Kansas City, leaving him penniless and stranded, he got a job playing piano scores at a local silent movie theater, eventually fronting his own band which would achieve worldwide recognition.

“You could find the Abstract listening to hip hop / My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop / I said, well daddy don’t you know that things go in cycles / The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin like Michael” – “Excursions”, Tribe Called Quest, 1991

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