Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)

"Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)"
Single by Us3
from the album Hand on the Torch
Released	1993
Format	12" single, CD single, Cassette single
Recorded	1993
Genre	Jazz rap
Length	4:41
Label	Blue Note Records
Writer(s)	Herbie Hancock, Rahsaan Kelly, Geoff Wilkinson, Mel Simpson
Producer	Geoff Wilkinson, Mel Simpson
Certification	Gold (RIAA)
Us3 singles chronology
- "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" (1993) "I Got It Goin' On" (1993)

"Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" is a song by jazz-rap group Us3 from their 1993 album Hand on the Torch.

It features a sample of Herbie Hancock's song "Cantaloupe Island", and reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the group's only top 40 single.

"Cantaloop" was certified gold by the RIAA on March 25, 1994 for sales of over 500,000 copies.

Song information

The original song ("Cantaloupe Island") is a 16 bar repeated chart consisting of F minor for 4 measures, D♭7 for 4 measures, D minor for 4 measures, then F minor again. "Cantaloop" excludes the D minor section, uses the F minor section during the verses, and goes between the F minor and D♭7 during the horn riffs and trumpet solo. The featured soloist is Gerard Presencer.

The song makes notable mention of the Birdland jazz club in New York City in its opening line - "Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, we have something special down here at Birdland this evening: a recording for Blue Note Records." The line, spoken by Pee Wee Marquette, is taken from Art Blakey's first Birdland album A Night at Birdland Vol. 1.

There are recurring samples, particularly in the beginning, of two men saying "yeah!" and "what's that?". Both of these were taken from the intro to Lou Donaldson's "Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky (From Now On)"

The song is played in the opening of the 1994 film Renaissance Man (film).

Charts

End of year chart (1994)	Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	41