Jack White Ft. Q-Tip “Hi-De-Ho”

Rock legend Jack White reunites with Q-Tip on their latest collaboration, “Hi-De-Ho”.

On the jazzy and rock-infused record, White floods the mash-up with his electrifying strings, while Q-Tip kicks a verse with a distilled voice.

“Hi-De-Ho” samples a track by jazz artist Cab Calloway. “I just heard that Cab Calloway song on the radio in the kitchen one day and I thought, ‘I love that song, and it’s just so powerful,” White told Rolling Stone. “I said, “You know what would be great? It’d be great to sample that scatting that Cab Calloway does on there and have that scatting go along with a drumbeat.”

“So I sampled it and then just played a drumbeat that seemed to go along with it and then I grabbed a bass and I wrote a bassline for that drum beat and on and on it went. And then pretty soon I thought, ‘Man, this is so interesting. I wonder if Q-Tip would find something interesting about this?”, he continued. “Five minutes later, [Q-Tip] sent me back his own scatting on top of it. I love synthesizing different moments, different areas of music, different time periods. The best part about it all is everybody I played to kept thinking that Cab Calloway was me. And I thought, ‘No, it’s obviously not me. Do I actually sound like that?’ So that was bizarre.”

The track is off White’s forthcoming album Fear Of The Dawn. The two previously collaborated on A Tribe Called Quest’s 2016 chart-topping album, We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service.

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  1. El Jim chapo guzman says:

    Damn jack white is a goat!!!

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