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    "comment": "The song's instrumental samples the drums and bass from \"Heartbeat\" by Taana Gardner and guitar notes from \"Hung Up on My Baby\" by Isaac Hayes. The Intro/Break “na na na\"s are from \"Land of 1000 Dances,\" most famously recorded by Wilson Pickett in 1966.\n--\n\"Kamoze is the son of a tough police superintendent dubbed \"The Scorpion\", and a factory worker mother. He was born in a seaside shack in Oracabessa, Jamaica. His mother, in a fit of anger over not hearing from his father, placed the infant in a cardboard box and left him at the gate of another female acquaintance (of his dad) in a Kingston ghetto called Jones Town. The woman, Miss Ette, still claims him as her little son....\"  Read an entertaining biography of this reggae artist: https://www.reggaeville.com/artist-details/ini-kamoze/about/",
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