Genre : Rap Year : 1993 Album : Hand on The Torch Length : 03:49 Release Date : 17/04/2006 Musical Genres: Dance, Broadway Shows, Rap, Jazz, Movie Soundtrack Written By: EMI Blackwood, US 3 Styles:Dance, Hip Hop, Jazz, Male, mChor, Movie, oChor, R&B, Rap Us3 is a jazz-rap group founded in London in 1991. Their name was inspired by a Horace Parlan recording produced by Alfred Lion, the founder of Blue Note Records. On their debut album, Hand on the Torch, Us3 used samples from the Blue Note Records catalogue, all originally produced by Lion. "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" is a song by jazz-rap group Us3 from their 1993 album Hand on the Torch. It is a remade version of Herbie Hancock's song "Cantaloupe Island". It reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was their only big hit. "Cantaloop" is Blue Note's first gold single.