We're athletically inclined like a gymnast flip, and rock n roll could never ever Hip Hop like this.
Before the legendary Price Paul became one of every critic's/nerd's favorite producers, he rolled with the original Hip Hop band, Stetsasonic. This joint came off the album of the same name.
The Greenwood, Archer and Pine Street Band. The long version from the single for this 1982 block party banger. Sampled by many, but my favorite off the top of the head is Shabazz the Disciple's use (beat by Supreme) for his "Die Trying" song back in the '90s.
Original member of Sunz of Man, when they were still known as Da Last Future, and one half of THUG Angelz with Shabazz the Disciple (also an original member), he recently changed his name to Heaven Razah. He's currently recuperating after suffereing a brain aneurysm on April 6 of this year.