James Mtume

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James Mtume (born James Forman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a jazz and R&B musician (primarily a percussionist) and a radio personality. Mtume is perhaps best known for his hit song of 1983 "Juicy Fruit", recorded with his group of that period, Mtume. "Juicy Fruit" was sampled by The Notorious B.I.G. in the song Juicy (The Notorious B.I.G. song). The song was also sampled for the Jennifer Lopez song "Loving You" from her This Is Me... Then album, and the beat has been sampled by Warren G on the track "Do You See" from the Regulate... G Funk Era album. More recently, portions of the song were sampled by the band Say Anything on their song "No Soul" from their album In Defense of the Genre. Mtume is the son of jazz saxophonist Jimmy Heath, and also worked with Miles Davis between 1971-1975. Mtume is currently an on-air radio personality at New York's KISS 98.7 FM.