Tom Browne - Funkin' For Jamaica

Is this classic 1980 funk track from jazz trumpeter Tom Browne really a song about Betty Boop? Let it get into you and you will know it's Jamaica funk - that's what it is. The song is a memoir about growing up in Jamaica, his hometown neighborhood in  Queens, New York. This timeless groove has long history of selling records - it's been sampled by N.W.A., EPMD, Mariah Carey, Erykah Badu, Snoop Dogg, The Black Eyed Peas and many others.