Jesse James
We’re here for all the unlikely collaborations, and today we get just that. Rock legend Jack White is back with some new music, pairing up with hip-hop legend Q-Tip for a brand new song. The jazzy, rock-infused track is called “Hi-De-Ho,” adding another impressive entry to an incredible catalog for both artists. “Hi-De-Ho” samples a track by jazz artist Cab Calloway, which provides the perfect backdrop for both artists to do their thing.
Mr. White recently opened up about the single with Rolling Stone. He stated: “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 went on to add, “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.”
He then spoke about creating the instrumental, saying, “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?” Well, after sending the track over to the wordsmith, the two knew it was something special. Jack said, “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 the latest single from White’s forthcoming album Fear Of The Dawn. Check out the track “Hi-De-Ho” in the stream below and look for more from Jack White coming very soon. Be sure to keep it locked with The Culture Curators for more outstanding music coming very soon.
