Sadly Hathaway fell to his deah from a hotel window in 1979. Hathaway slowly withdrew from the music business in the mid-70s, although recorded a hit with his long-tine duet partner Roberta Flack with "The Closer I Get to You" in 1978. This "best-lineup-ever" recorded the hits "Daydreaming" and "Rock Steady". He was also played keyboards on Aretha Franklin's album Young Gifted and Black that teamed him up with Aretha on piano, Chuck Rainey on bass, Cornell Dupree on guitar, and Bernard Purdie on drums. He returned to Chicago, and released his solo debut album in 1970, Everything is Everything, an album that contained the hit "The Ghetto" and put him in a wave of Soul singer/songwriters that included fwllow contemporaries Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, the Isley Brothers" and Stevie Wonder who sought artistic control and direction of their music. Well, after further reading about him, I learned that he was born in Chicago 1945, and went to Howard University to study music. Where was this source of sorrow coming from in this man's music? It made me want to be alone while listening, for tears just might fall down my eyes. I imagined having a broken heart, with a tummy ache yet all you have is your voice. "Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-I love you in a place, where there's no space or time." The collection opened up with his cover of Leon Russel's "A Song for You". Yet, I had a completely different experience an experience of learning what pain meant through song. I didn't even find the funk or the breaks that I was hoping for, except for "The Ghetto" and "This Christmas," the best Xmas song ever. There were no liner notes bio to tell me about who he really was. It had no photos of him, just a portrait painting of his face on the cover. However, this compilation was nothing like I expected. Years past, and when I finally had money to buy my own CDs (16, believe it or not) I hunted any album I could find at the Barnes and Noble at Har Mar Mall in Roseville, and found A Donny Hathaway Collection. What you going to when you grow up, and have to face responsibilityyyyyyyyyy?" " Little ghetto boooooooooyyyy, playin' in the ghetto streeeeeeeeeet. The source comes from a song of the same name from 1972, but sounds as if Hathaway right there in the studio recording with Dre and Snoop and contained the most haunting vibrato I've ever heard up until in that point: His recording, including his vocal, was sampled on the track "Lil' Ghetto Boy", the last song Side A (I'd only had a dubbed cassette of Side A from The Chronic, so it was the last song of the album for me). Another name that is mentioned twice is Donny Hathaway. It was here that I could learn of Parliament-Funkadelic's influence on the album a group that I, regrettably, never heard of until that point. It was also the first time that I paid attention to an album's liner notes. Not only did Dre's and Snoop Dogg's hardcore attitude and style made an impression (toughened me up while scaring me shitless at the same time), the sampled and interpolated music hinted that there was life beyond the Thunderdome. Dre's The Chronic shortly after it was released, and it was the first album to make a big fan of music out of me. Now that’s classic.I was a big fan of Dr. Some facts remain totally unknown and to this day Dre’s late-night escapades and incidents of violence retain their mystique. This leads to the next logical answer, which is that he was sliced in the face during a street fight. Not unlikely when one considers Dre was a street n***a who probably got in many fights and had to be brolic to hold his own. Rumors say they may of occurred from steroid use and the subsequent acne problems related to that. But now in 2021, one would think that with all the information available on the internet through old articles, and even entire movies dedicated to his former group (N.W.A.), that we could find out, right? But, for some reason, no one is talking. Seemed pretty obvious it had occurred on the deadly streets of Compton. These sexual and violent lyrics went hand-in-hand with the scars on his face, and one could wonder what kind of combat the D-R-E had been through and how he had received his battle scars.
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