Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)

"Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)"
Single by Us3
from the album Hand On the Torch
Released	2 January 1993
Recorded	1992
Genre	Jazz rap acid jazz
Length	3:42 (single version) 4:41 (album version)
Label	Blue Note Records
Songwriter(s)	Herbie Hancock Rahsaan Kelly Geoff Wilkinson Mel Simpson
Producer(s)	Geoff Wilkinson Mel Simpson
Us3 singles chronology
"Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" (1993) "Tukka Yoot's Riddim" (1993)
Music video
"Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" on YouTube

"Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" is a song by British jazz-rap group Us3, originally released in October 1992 by Blue Note Records as the lead single from the group's debut album, Hand On the Torch (1993). The song was recorded as a demo a year before the group's first release and features a sample of Herbie Hancock's song "Cantaloupe Island". Another sample, the announcement by Pee Wee Marquette, is taken from the Blue Note album A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1 by The Art Blakey Quintet.^[1] "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" did not chart in the group's native UK, but in the US, it reached No. 9 and 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100, becoming the group's only top 40 single. It was subsequently re-released in UK where it peaked at No. 23.^[2] The song was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 25, 1994 for selling over 500,000 copies.