Black Steel

Name: Black Steel
Uploaded: 1996-01-01
Duration: 3 min 38 s
Description: Tricky's cover reimagines Public Enemy's 1988 hip hop track, originally written by Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Eric Sadler, and Hank Shocklee. The original song tells the story of a conscientious objector making a prison escape and is built on a high-pitched piano sample from Isaac Hayes' "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic" from Hot Buttered Soul.

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1996 90s

Tricky's cover reimagines Public Enemy's 1988 hip hop track, originally written by Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Eric Sadler, and Hank Shocklee. The original song tells the story of a conscientious objector making a prison escape and is built on a high-pitched piano sample from Isaac Hayes' "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic" from Hot Buttered Soul.