Doo-Bop was jazz

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 innovator Miles Davis

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' final studio album, which would have marked the beginning of the artist's turn to hip-hop

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-oriented tracks. However, Davis died on September 28, 1991, at which time only six tunes for the album had been completed. To finish off the album, producer Easy Mo Bee

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 was asked to take some of the unreleased trumpet performances (stemming from what Davis called the RubberBand Session), and build tracks that Miles 'would have loved' around the recordings. The album's posthumous songs (as stated in the liner notes) are "High Speed Chase" and "Fantasy". A reprise

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 of the song "Mystery" rounded out the album's nine-track length.

The project stemmed from Davis sitting in his New York

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 apartment in the summer with the windows open, listening to the sound of the streets. He wanted to record an album of music that captured these sounds. In early 1991, Davis called up his friend Russell Simmons

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 and asked him to find some young producers who could help create this kind of music, leading to Davis' collaboration with Easy Mo Bee. The result of this collaboration, Doo-Bop, was released by Warner Bros. Records

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 on June 30, 1992, and received mixed reviews. The album won the 1993 Grammy Award

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 for Best R&B Instrumental Performance

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.

Side one

1. "Mystery"
2. "The Doo Bop Song"
   • contains samples from "Summer Madness" by Kool and the Gang and "La Di Da Di
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     " by Doug E. Fresh
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      and Slick Rick
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3. "Chocolate Chip" (Davis, Easy Mo Bee, Donald Hepburn)
   • contains samples from "Thanks For Everything" by Pleasure
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      and "Bumpin' on Young Street" by Young-Holt Unlimited
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4. "High Speed Chase" (Davis, Easy Mo Bee, Larry Mizell)
   • contains samples from "Street Lady" by Donald Byrd
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Side two

1. "Blow"
   • contains samples from "Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose" by James Brown
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      and "Runnin' Away" by Chocolate Milk
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2. "Sonya"
3. "Fantasy"
   • contains samples from "UFO" by ESG
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      and "Love Pains" by Major Lance
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4. "Duke Booty"
   • contains samples from "Jungle Strut" by Gene Ammons
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      and "I'm Your Boogie Man" by KC & The Sunshine Band
5. "Mystery (Reprise)"