On a recent flight, Apple Music randomly surfaced from deep in my Library this album, Unity 2’s 1989 debut, What Is It, Yo?! The album (and artist) are nowhere to be found on Apple Music itself. Other than my Library, the only place I found it was on YouTube. The conceit behind Unity 2 was a pair of interracial rappers—Sean “Cavo” Dinsmore and Lionel “Nene” Bernard—performing “funky ragamuffin hip-hop,” a reggae/hip-hop fusion with ska influences. It’s not the finest example of late-’80s hip-hop, but I loved the reggae/ska/hip-hop/jazz/soca mashup. Despite seemingly bombing—I’m guessing approximately zero of you reading this will have heard it before—it was big amongst my Brooklyn crew. Hearing it again for the first time in years was a delightful way to spend an hour in flight.

(For the full throwback effect, here are the music videos for their best-known single, Shirlee, and the title track. Yes, this is legit late-’80s New York City stylin’—something I could never pull off, alas.)