Labi Siffre built himself a long and illustrious soul career with classic songs and great beats that live on.
This was the opening track of Siffre's 1975 album, Remember My Song. It is probably the song for which he is best known.
However, it was never a hit song on his own.
Nope, it was a hit because Emimen sampled it as a singificant part of his song, "My Name Is", in 1999. Siffre was initially not allowing this song, which he wrote and performed, to be sampled, as the original Eminem track contained a lot of derrogatory language againsts women and gay people (Siffre is openly gay). Eminem changed his lyrics and submitted a clean version, and the sample was approved. (Eminem DID release the other version as well, as a dirty version).
The song, however, was pretty great as is, even if it was a bit obscure. Here. Enjoy it.
Since then, the song is no longer obscure, even getting use in an episode of Better Call Saul.
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