The co-creators of sketch show “Sherman’s Showcase” break down what it takes to follow up “Drop It Low For Jesus” and a “Black History Month Spectacular (in June).”
—which we could have never predicted would have the relevance it had when we recorded it. Suddenly we had Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats taking a knee, wearing kente cloth. 2020 was a weird time.
The fact that it's such a huge hip-hop sample too, I don't think people realize how many hip-hop songs have been sampled from it. So I think little stuff like that.Look, I think if you've been following pop culture, specifically Black culture, in the last 30 or 40 years, there are so many Easter Eggs for people.
There is a specificity that I think really adds to the flavor of the songs and continues in this season.Really, the music is where we have the most fun, because music can be an obscure reference. We were talking a lot about the Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican sort of like... I didn't come up with this name: There's a genre, cocaine-salsa sound.