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“Footsteps in the Dark” is a 1977 slow jam recorded by The Isley Brothers as an album track featured on the group’s double-platinum album, Go For Your Guns. It was the B-side to “Groove with You”, which reached #16 on the R&B singles chart. While the song didn’t chart on either the pop or R&B singles chart, it still garnered popularity initially for its laid-back grooves and the solemn lyrics (the song discussed infidelity) and later would be the basis of a sample years later first by rap group Compton’s Most Wanted on their album Straight Checkn ‘Em on the track “Can I Kill It?“ and rapper Ice Cube, who used the musical instrumental of the song for his breakthrough hit, “It Was a Good Day”. Both “Footsteps in the Dark” and ““ were featured on the... Read on...