Papa Was a Rollin' Stone eats half the record and earns every minute of it. that bassline, those strings creeping in late. Whitfield at his peak.
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that bassline got sampled into the ground for a reason. whole thing's one long mood, immaculate.
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Gordy, 1972, and Whitfield had fully stopped writing pop singles by then. that long instrumental crawl before Dennis Edwards even opens his mouth is the whole flex. no label today lets a record breathe that long.
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