SKULL SNAPS

Skull Snaps was a mysterious funk group that released one eponymous album on the small GSF label in 1973 before disappearing. They were in fact the group originally known as The Diplomats who had released numberous singles between 1963 and 1970 with middling success. Skull Snaps' main claim to fame is not its quality, but that the drum breaks on it have been sampled numerous times on rap and hip-hop records; the familiar opening drum pattern of It's A New Day (sample (help·info)) can be heard in songs by well-known acts such as Ol' Dirty Bastard and The Prodigy.

Its A New Day