http://www.autopuzzles.com/mp3s/NTT5Pt3.mp3
Funky, huh?
I feel like I should be watching some kind of Blacksploitation film set in New York....
The scene, someone named Bill, with his rig in a playground of Brookland, maybe watching a pickemup game of b-ball. The scene changes to the game, then back to Bill, he's essentially caught between blowing his brains out or getting high on his smack. Kinda funky, but that's what I picture.
You know who this is, don't you? 
If you don't, you have followed the hints really well.
Essentially .
Very cool music, thanks for the clues and sharing the tunes.
Brooklyn Funk Essentials is an acid-jazz, funk, and hip hop collective featuring musicians and poets from different cultures. The band was conceived in 1993 by producer Arthur Baker and bassist and musical director Lati Kronlund. In the mid-1990s the group became a staple of the New York City club scene.
Their debut album Cool and Steady and Easy (1994) scored an underground hit with the rendition of Pharoah Sanders’ “The Creator Has a Master Plan”. The following album, In The Buzz Bag (1998), included Turkish folk music rythyms and instruments, recorded in consortium with the Turkish Laço Tayfa.
