In addition to the fact that Cameo has been sampled out the ass, and members went on to produce for Outkast... there's an actual Miles Davis cameo in the video:
Heavy ass joint from a man most associate with funky upbeat, dance joints:
A black family cookout classic:
Along the same lines:
I feel bad for people who didn't grow up on the music that birthed the music. Not just in terms of samples, but in terms of what the adults were drinking, smoking, and dancing to. What we all lived to. It wasn't just about jacking samples; the early shyt was about cultural continuity. It was its own language in a way.
70s and 80s it was still cool for white and black music to overlap in a mainstream way that wasn't about "otherness:"
Miscellaneous classics:
And I'm not even doing any real digging in my library yet...