Let Your Backbone Slide

Let Your Backbone Slide

"Let Your Backbone Slide" was a 1989 single by Maestro Fresh Wes, from his album "Symphony in Effect".

It was the first hip hop song by a Canadian rapper to reach No. 1 on "The Record" singles chart, in April 1990.Fact|date=May 2007 As of early 2008, it remained the best-selling Canadian hip hop single of all time. [ [http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/M/Maestro_Fresh_Wes/2000/11/29/747320.html "Hip hop comes of age in Canada"] , "Toronto Sun".]

It samples "The Champ" by the Mohawks.

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