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RAMP

Daylight

1977 · via A Tribe Called Quest

RAMP’s 1977 recording of “Daylight” is the earliest release on file. William Allen, Roy Ayers and Edwin Birdsong are credited as its writers. A Tribe Called Quest’s “Bonita Applebum” (1990) carries this song’s writers on its credit.

RAMP – Daylight
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"Bonita Applebum" runs on "Daylight," a song Roy Ayers helped write, and RAMP put it on record first in 1977. Play them back to back and you'll hear what Tribe built the house on.

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Credited writers: William Allen, Roy Ayers and Edwin Birdsong.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1977.

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A Tribe Called Quest’s “Bonita Applebum” (1990) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.

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