Part of what makes Ghostface's new "Back Like That" so great is Xtreme's incredibly classic-soul beat, most of which comes from this track. I don't know much about this album, other than that it's on Motown; in fact, this may be a 12" version instead of a version from this LP. Willie Hutch, who died last September in his hometown of Dallas (boo-yeah), was known mostly as a songwriter and producer in the Berry Gordy hit factory, especially for 5th Dimension, Smokey Robinson, and the Jackson 5 (he wrote "I'll Be There," one of my favorites). He also wrote the score for The Mack, one of the classic blaxploitation soundtracks up there with Isaac Hayes's Shaft and Curtis Mayfield's Superfly. He also was one of Motown's biggest solo artists in their mid-1970s slump, after the group-pop scene had fallen off, and continued carrying the torch for the label through the 80s and 90s, when Motown was pretty much irrelevant. This song, however, is the shit.
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