Love Rapby Spoonie Gee and The Treacherous Three

This was actually the B side to their 7". The A Side being "The New Rap Language". Spoony G, aka Gabriel Jackson was born in Harlem, New York City, receiving his 'Spoonie' nickname as a child because the spoon was the only utensil that he used to eat with. His mother died when he was twelve years old, and he went to live with his uncle, the record producer Bobby Robinson (Gladys Knight & The Pips, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Doug E. Fresh, etc.), in whose apartment he began to practice rapping. Spoonie Gee has been described as "the original gangster rapper". He then recorded for Robinson's Enjoy! Records, his first release for the label being the similarly minimalistic "Love Rap" (on which he was accompanied on Congas by his brother Pooche Costello), issued on the B-side of the Treacherous Three's "New Rap Language" (on which he also featured), leading to his early nickname of 'The Love Rapper'. Spoony was a founding member of the Treacherous Three, along with L.A. Sunshine and Kool Moe Dee. The group added Special K as a member when Jackson left to record his first single. In 2008, "Love Rap" was ranked number 65 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.