Arcee - Super Educated (2003) sampled Young-Holt Unlimited - (They Long To Be) Close To You (1973)

Artist:  Arcee
Song:  Super Educated
Year:  2003
Album:  Report On Business - 1st Edition Mixtape

I had to start this blog off correctly with a local Toronto artist.  Arcee is a talented lyricist and this is one of his better tracks.  The music is made up of three parts as described below.  There was also a sequel to this song with the same music featuring a West-Coast emcee named Encore.

Artist:  Young-Holt Unlimited
Song:  (They Long To Be) Close To You
Year:  1973
Album:  Plays Super Fly

Listen to this track at around the 0:34 - 0:40 second mark and you can hear the three sampled parts.  The lyrics in the Young-Holt Unlimited song are "THEY want TO BE, they want to BE CLOSE TO YOU, CLOSE TO YOU".  Arcee's arrangement starts with the "THEY", follows that with "BE CLOSE TO YOU, CLOSE TO YOU" and finally with "TO BE".  Good beatmaking.