Season 1 · Episode 42 · Mar 11, 2020 · 35 min
OutKast
“Ms. Jackson”
vs. The Brothers Johnson "Strawberry Letter 23"
Originally titled “Ms. Jackson is OUT of Strawberries”
From the Riffs archive First aired Mar 11, 2020. The show was music-first back then — it has grown into a conversation about everything else since.
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Truth be told, there is a bit of confusion about what exactly was sampled from Shuggie Otis' "Strawberry Letter 23” to help create Outkast’s “Ms. Jackson”... But one thing that isn’t up for debate is that both of these songs are hits and there’s no time like the present to discuss these artists and their impact. Join Joe and Toby as they wind through the connections between these tracks.
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