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Rapper Oddisee remixes Marvin Gaye’s ‘Aint That Peculiar’

by Kyle Harvey | May 10, 2012 at 11:39 AM
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Reminiscent of rapper Erick Sermon’s hit song, Music, another emcee has called upon the services of the late Marvin Gaye. Up and coming rapper Oddisee dug in the crates to put a creative spin on a song from the Motown singer’s catalogue. Oddisee took Gaye’s “Aint That Peculiar”, found the vintage footage of him performing it live, and mashes it in a way that it matches the remix’s up-tempo boom bap. After two verses of Marvin singing, Oddisee then joins him on the track to spit a bar about love and affection to make the duet complete. Scheduled to appear on Oddisee’s EP Odd Renditons May 15th, we can only hope we hear more updated classics like this from the DC emcee.

CHECK OUT ODDISEE’S ‘AINT THAT PECULIAR’ REMIX FEATURING MARVIN GAYE

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Filed in: Entertainment, Top Stories, Video | Related Topics: Aint That Peculiar, Erick Sermon, Hip Hop, Marvin Gaye, Mash Up, Music, Oddisee
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