Blog: The Passion of the Weiss

Well-trodden territory of crate-diggers, the Lafayette Afro Rock Band usually spring to mind in connection with "Darkest Light," the sample source for P.E.'s  Show 'Em Whatcha Got," Wreckx-N-Effects' "Rump Shaker," N2 Deep's, "Back to the Hotel," and Jay-Z's otiose first single from Kingdom Come. Off that alone, they're invaluable. A world where "Rump Shaker" and "Back 2 The Hotel," didn't own 1993 dance parties, is a doom-scenario only topped by a Pleasure Palace run by Biff Tannen or the Republican Party dominated by Rush Limbaugh. Darkest Light: The Best of the Lafayette Afro Rock [...]

• Lafayette Afro-Rock Band - Darkest Light
• The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Time Will Tell