Jimmi Diggin’ Cats Lyrics

[Bridge: Jimi Hendrix, Butterfly, Ladybug & Doodlebug]
The song is by some groovy cats
If you can dig the cats, you can dig the song

Yo, the Black Panthers woulda had their own cartoon, right?
I know and eight-track Walkmans, right?
True, The Jackson 5 woulda had dreads
Word, my man Tito would look fly, right?
Word, and Jimi woulda dug Dig Planets for real, word

[Verse 2: Butterfly]
Planets busting out of this L7 square
Check out the wares, check out the hairs
Sweetback chills with Shaft on the ave
Jimi's digging cats and that's just the half
Where'd they find the stuff to freak it like a wizard?
Slick just like a lizard, really weird, or is it?
It's just the logic from how we rocks it
Pop shock picks it up and drops its
We, the synthesis of then and now melts
Channeled to the masses by a DJ and some felts
Long-haired hippies, afro Blacks
All get together 'cross the tracks
Because when we shows up, rhythm rolls up
Funk cannot be measured while the pleasure grows up

Life ain't what it seems, life is but a dream
Planets wreaking havoc is as constant as the rain

Yeah

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Genius Annotation

“Jimmi Diggin Cats” is Track 8 off of Digable Planets' debut album, Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space), which was released in September of 1993.

The main sample for the beat is 70’s funk-slash-jazz act Kool & The Gang’s “Summer Madness”.

Despite the misspelling of his name, the song is a tribute to Rock legend Jimi Hendrix.

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Where does the sample come from?
Genius Answer

This song contains a sample from Kool and The Gang’s “Summer Madness” from the band’s fifth studio album, Light of Worlds, which was released on September 1, 1974 on De-Lite Records.

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