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Shirley Caesar gets a Detroit jit remix
November 22, 2016·By BLAC Editorial
Now you can officially start Thanksgiving.
November 22, 2016
A little late to the party – this video was posted on November 17 – but we’re still happy to share some straight up Detroit sh*t in the form of this jit mix of Shirley Caesar’s “Hold My Mule.” If you’re black and spent any time on the internet in the last week, I don’t even have to explain why you know that specific part of Caesar’s spiritual. You already know. Please feel free to turn this up at ignorantly high levels on Thursday. YOU NAAAAAAME IT!
If the original beat sounds familiar, it’s the old house classic “Taxi Cab,” released back in 1994. See below, and relive those memories from Club Network:
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