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CLASSIC KRAVITZ

“MR. CAB DRIVER”

LET LOVE RULE (1990)

“This was a crunchy riff idea I had — very simple. I was trying to get to the studio one day, and I couldn’t get a cab to pick me up, because a lot of times, if you’re Black and you’re hailing a cab, and you’re going uptown to Harlem, or Brooklyn or whatever, they don’t want to take you.

“Anyway, I got to the studio after an hour of trying to get there, and I was just pissed off. I picked up the guitar and this song is

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