Awoke yesterday to the accented two-beat heard in alternating bars of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?" (not the original single mix, but the album version). What I always thought was a sonar pulse is in fact a conga shot, presumably run through the attic echo chambers of Motown's 2648 and 2652 West Grand residences. Took a while to figure this out, helped along in no small part by Henry Weinger and Questlove's conversation on the making of this most incredible song.
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