carameljimmy I think you're missing the point of this song because 1st and foremost Sly was already established well before this song and the only he was doing (as he stated) was coming in and having a good time..everything else took care of itself,and as far as the bass having too much chorus..I think Brown Mark and Jesse would've recognize this....the song was a hit
People seem not to be acknowledging the overarching, profound influence that Sly Stone had over Prince, M.Jackson, Jesse, and everyone else that came after him. If this is funky, it's because of Sly. Sly changed the face of popular music for at least 10 years straight, and ever after.
I feel, Jesse Johnson should be nominated for this year's "Life Time Achievement Award" at the 2011 Soul Train Awards. Let "R&B and Soul" rule, forever!
Prince was eating his heart out that Jesse got a duet AND a hit with Sly Stone, Prince's hero next to ...ahem... Larry.
So much so that Prince made a song called Shockadelica, after Jesse's album where Jesse didn't make song named Shockadelica AND Prince sampled Sly "wooowwwoooowww!" from this song on the 12 inch single '7 Minutes Mo' Quake' version of Housequake as Camille - Prince's long lost cousin... crazy creative stuff these guys.
@wendileona Prince came up with shockadelica right at the point where jesse was finishing this album, Jesse didn't have a title track for this album and Prince was like " how are u gonna have an album as good as this without a title track?" Jesse didn't take it because the album was basically finished. so Prince kept it and put it on what was going to be Camille which turned into Sing O' The Times. It sounds like a Jesse track, it would've been perfect for this album too.
@HypeRhymz I have a slightly different story that dates back to that time. Prince was like yeah, how can you not have a great song after such a great title and then makes his own for competitive kicks. It was written for Camille not for Jesse to use, its a total "Camille" song, hard dark Funk and too heavy for Jesse's slightly light Funk at the time. Prince and Jesse were sort of duking it out, listen to '7 Minutes Mo'Quake' for Prince's sampling of Crazy, that was Prince teasing and jealous.
@HypeRhymz Also, Prince's/Camille's Shockadelica was supposedly written, in slight jest, about and inspired by Troy Beyer who he was sort of seeing at the time.
@HypeRhymz Troy? Yes! Look her up...actress, she was in Sexy MF. Camille? Not a girl, fans twist that around, Camille was a long-lost cousin concept Prince came up again, for kicks.
My favorite Jesse Johnson joint! I saw him at the Ritz in the 80s. He tossed a pink stuffed teddy bear into the audience and I caught it! Still have it too. :-)
@perri6 Oh sh*t!!! I was at that show 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jesse killed it that night...he ended the show with "Red House" by Hendrix....and i remember his tour bus was parked right outside the show...homeboy came 2 NYC and burned the house down...then bounced 2 the next town..LOL
@ajuniis Snap. You remember how he ended the show?! Good for you. I'm trying to remember who opened for him. I did see Jill Jones at the Ritz, but I can't remember if she opened for Jesse or not.
Prince ate his heart out. Sly was his hero and Jesse got him.
Thus, Prince made a song out of Shockadelica... or at least his "long lost cousin" Camille did.
And if you listen to 7 minutes Mo'Quake - you'll hear Prince use Sly's wooo-ooohhhwwwoww as a sample he throws right in the mix here and there. It works!
But hey, Jesse claimed "Do Yourself a Favor"... who knows who came up with that. I think even Pepe claimed it.
Anyway, all that competition gave rise to a lot of great music then!
@ArmondoeCruze THE PROBLEM WAS THEY WANTED HIM 2B PRINCE 2.MEANING THE SEQUEL..PRINCE TRY'D 2 GET SLY 2 PERFORM WITH HIM HE SAID NO..JESSY ASKED HE THEN AGREED HE SAID JESSY NEEDED MORE HELP THEN PRINCE...HE WAS RIGHT.
WTF! This is a fuckin CLASSIC video! How could someone disrespect by posting a shitty quality of it! That's fucked up 2 do that! NOW, REPOST IT AND GET IT FUCKIN RIGHT!!! High quality MF!!!
@mzzvaughan Naw V, girl I just hate 2 see such a beautiful piece of art wasted & distorted like this. I mean this was a great song & the last original the world has ever heard from Sly. It should be treated like a picasso! Ya know what I mean?
@therealraybaby Since you're swearing at someone who posted this, do YOU have an HD version to post? If not, then deal with it, or request politely, like "do you have a cleaner copy of it? If so, please post it" and not "sheeet, man, yaknowwhutahmean, re-post dat muthafucka", unless, of course, you LIKE to perpetuate negative stereotypes...
FUNK IN ITS RAREST FORM!!!!! And check this out...in 1986 THAT WAS NEW SCHOOL vs OLD SCHOOL!!!!! CRAZZZZYYYYY!!!!! Can someone PLEASE post the ORIGINAL recording of this cut?
I remember this jam. I used to play along with this until I wore the record out. This is real FUNK, I can't stand the music of today....what happened to the FUNK? Was there a FUNK conspiracy? George Clinton warned us about SIR NOSE D'VOID of FUNK
Jesse deserved his shot, great talent man, happy to see he went for his...Saddens me to have never have heard a Sly Prince collab, I mean Im ok to if they never did any thing, but then for him to get on his religious kick and start with Larry Graham, just really upset me. Jesse gave Sly the respect and acknowledgement he deserved especially w/his influence all over their stuff.Salute.
Love this song! Also, if there was any justice in the world, the shoulder padded zoot suit with the cartoon sombrero (complete with tassles) would come back in style. Tomorrow.
Prince was so green about Jesse hooking up a HIT with Sly that Prince wrote Shockadelica AND sampled Sly's ddododooowwoooowoowooo in 7' Minutes Mo' Quake. Competition between the two was intense. Jesse's album is a favorite of mine from that time, great stuff! Interestingly Jesse's just dropped a seriously FONKY album recently, which gives Prince another run for his Funk money!
This song kicks ass! Listen to that bass man burning the place down. I always wanted to do this song, but the uptight, stodgy old ladies I worked with never wanted to do it.
Does anyone know who produced this song? Jesse Johnson was so damn fine! I'm from Minneapolis, and the only two I ever got to see from afar were Prince (at First Avenue), and Jimmy Jam when he was producing Johnny Gill's album (at anothe popular club we used to go to...I forget the name).
i had forgotten jesse had worked with the GREAT SLY STONE (of Sly and the Family Stone)..great song...great slap bass line...who played it/? God its the shit..just listen to it...DAMNN!!!
Jesse, looks, moves, dresses, sings, just like Prince, between weird stalker and cool.... not sure what to think of that ha ha, but's pretty cool and funky like i like it ;)
Jesse did a duet with Prince's hero. Oh man. Camille's Shockadelica unleashed...then Housequake...Funk Battle were being played out in 7 minutes Mo' Quake! Hear Sly scream through that one too!
And it was too cool. By the way, the 45/12 inch single artwork rocked. Sort of did inspire Prince's U Got The Look 60's look.
It's such a 'tight' video - so well produced. Has to have Sly's hand in the production. He says somewhere that he doesn't know how it happened, he just wandered in there one day. And it is about a good time - but it's SO well done. Typical of Sly's work; he's not capable of turning out anything bad.
Watch the videos "Make it Funky" on youtube, and The Story of Funk ??
Oooh man! The 1980's... The decade of the GREATEST creative free artistic expression ever! Gives me chills. Humanity is capable of so much yet music today is stagnant. What a decade! There will never be another!
Stevie WOnder was in the biz before Sly. Little Stevie stands on his own. Sly was the first coming of Prince along with a little bit of J Hendrix, James Brown, Beatles, G Clinton all of them. But nobody rocks it like SLy at his highest. Thankyouforlettinmebemyselfagain.
master,master,master,music at its finest!!!brings me back to the good old days,when music was fun and sexy,getting sweaty on tha dancefloor,and afther that ,in tha bed hahaha know what i mean
OooooooH the purple one! Who can deny the 80's electro funk. Appreciate Sly for what he is...a pioneer. Do not judge him by this track, allow your soul to be funkified by his past work and then be in a position to question The Maestro.....crazy for who?? Jump I say!!!
Thanks to this great song and video, I got my first real experience of Sly Stone. I started looking for his classic albums from the 60's and my musical life was taken higher! Jesse you were already the jam, but you did right by bringing Sly back to the radio. Awesome!
This song went close to the top on the R&B chart! but nowhere on the overall top 100. By this time Sly's white following had abandoned him. Jesse & Sly proved to be a great combination. It's too bad we weren't able to see more of them.
@kellyfrazetta(1 year ago) Jesse is still performing both solo and with The Time and he has a new album commingout in October of 2009. Look for it ! Its called Verbal Penetration. U know its going to be off the hook!
This is a take off of the zoot suit back in the 60's /70's. Just cause you wore that doesnt mean you was a pimp...If that was the case they would all be transexuals for what they wore in the 80's...its just clothes one of the many styles that we black people have...
If you old enough (judging by you comment i think not) then im sure you can remeber some haircut or dress style that maks you ask yourself "what the hell was I thinking back then" and the answer is: ????
That's not what they are projecting here you're commenting on the wrong time! That was one of the strongest times of artistic expression's. Songs were original and the images were too!
Just as so many took James Brown's innovations and did their own things-so did Jesse with what Prince created. True fans of the Minneapolis funk know that Jesse was superbad. I personally think he was one of the most exciting electric guitarists EVER and I don't say that lightly. Listen to the solos on the album "Every Shade of Love" and see what I mean. Jesse we miss you!!!
man....jesse don't know who he is in this video. he jacked prince clothes, dancers, song, guitar, and style and stage presence. he was more original with the time. i think when lost his own id he went down trying to be a prince copycat. i wonder if he jacked prince for his thong too.
swilliams he used to be with Prince's circle {the time} he was part of the Minneapolis Sound..famous line by Morris Day,,,Jesse,now jerome,oreo oreo oh...(JUNGLE LOVE )by the time
I remember when this song came out. I rushed out to get it on cassette. It was great to see Sly again and it really looked like these guys had a great time making this video.Great post very enjoyable clip.
What I meant was that it could pass as a Prince video ( the way they dress & perform like as if P on stage), not that it was a copy of a specific vid... dammit, Noveau! U know what my pimp-ass meant!
Geezus H. Christ....
I swear to god, this place is almost as bad as the org......
Thank you for posting this video! Such a fun, fun song - everybody was having a good time and Jesse, well, Jesse just did a great thing recording with Sly, and you could see the respect in this video. Props to the Master of Funk - Shadrack, Mesach & Abnedgo indeed.
Indiepop - you need to understand that Sly influenced this song -- not Prince.
Sly influenced Prince, and has influenced 80s music, 70s music, and 90s and 00s music. His influence is far-reaching, and enormous. Prince is just a disciple, or a student. You're accustomed to Prince's music, so you don't realize how much Sly has influenced it. Sly is an original.
Maleimage -- get your history straight. Prince was INFLUENCED BY Sly, not the other way around. Without Sly, there would be no Prince, no Michael Jackson, no Stevie wonder, well maybe there'd be a Stevie but he'd be different. SLY is a HUGE influence on music, enormous.
Let me intervene, I'm a huge Sly & The Family Stone Fan let me say that first,but it was James Brown that lead this way. Sly and George Clinton came about the same time. The are the true fathers of funk as we know it.
what Maleimage mean is that Sly Stone is doing the purple thing in here, Sly sound WAS very diferent then this.
So Sly, Brown, Clinton were some of Prince biggest influences, the irony is that they ended up going to the Minneapolis road just to be down with the 80s.
I AM SO MAD!!!!! I lookd thru my Favorite Videos and I had 2 remove sum videos because the user either had their accounts closed or suspended. User, teenspants had his/her acct closed and that user had MAD OL' SKOOL JAMZ. I am so disapointed in YouTube
Before there was Prince, there was Slyand the Family Stone.. and he's rocking it hard on this ...this song could easily be danced to not only in the '80s and '90s but even NOW.
I am so glad that I got to see Sly in my decade! He is awsome as hell!! I remember hearing this song, but never knew who it was. I knew who Jesse Johnson was, but never heard of Sly. But once I did, I fell so in love with his music Right on. Props to Jesse and Sly!
This is a great song. Sly and Jesse are a good duo in funk music. Too bad that Sly didn't have his act togehter cause they could've had some great hits. Jesse kind of sounds like Prince. Maybe since Sly is back out he could do this song again with Jesse and more. Thanks for posting.
I used to have the CD. Check out some used record/cd stores. It's either from Jessies "Shockadelica" or "Every Shade of Love" album. I think it's about 1988
carameljimmy I think you're missing the point of this song because 1st and foremost Sly was already established well before this song and the only he was doing (as he stated) was coming in and having a good time..everything else took care of itself,and as far as the bass having too much chorus..I think Brown Mark and Jesse would've recognize this....the song was a hit
edennard1 1 month ago
does anyone have this video in higher quality?This song and video are the shit
nancyhoralia 4 months ago
Greg Proops sent me.
jenzahara 4 months ago
This song is bad ass!
DSherinian1111 4 months ago
Jesse looked sharp, liked that jackets & Hats.
rickames 5 months ago
People seem not to be acknowledging the overarching, profound influence that Sly Stone had over Prince, M.Jackson, Jesse, and everyone else that came after him. If this is funky, it's because of Sly. Sly changed the face of popular music for at least 10 years straight, and ever after.
universalradio 8 months ago
The quality of this video SUCKS!!!!
ty7388 9 months ago
I feel, Jesse Johnson should be nominated for this year's "Life Time Achievement Award" at the 2011 Soul Train Awards. Let "R&B and Soul" rule, forever!
Fithitkit 9 months ago
I Love You Sly...
cherrrianna 10 months ago
Funky !
angelle5000g 10 months ago
I wonder what'd it be if EnVogue covered this? That'd be a blast!
Larrymh07 10 months ago
The vocals that Sly lets fly on this are show stopping.
lithiumjimmy 11 months ago
The 10 people who dislike this are crazy.
bigdumbclown 1 year ago
Prince was eating his heart out that Jesse got a duet AND a hit with Sly Stone, Prince's hero next to ...ahem... Larry.
So much so that Prince made a song called Shockadelica, after Jesse's album where Jesse didn't make song named Shockadelica AND Prince sampled Sly "wooowwwoooowww!" from this song on the 12 inch single '7 Minutes Mo' Quake' version of Housequake as Camille - Prince's long lost cousin... crazy creative stuff these guys.
wendileona 1 year ago
@wendileona Prince came up with shockadelica right at the point where jesse was finishing this album, Jesse didn't have a title track for this album and Prince was like " how are u gonna have an album as good as this without a title track?" Jesse didn't take it because the album was basically finished. so Prince kept it and put it on what was going to be Camille which turned into Sing O' The Times. It sounds like a Jesse track, it would've been perfect for this album too.
HypeRhymz 9 months ago
@HypeRhymz I have a slightly different story that dates back to that time. Prince was like yeah, how can you not have a great song after such a great title and then makes his own for competitive kicks. It was written for Camille not for Jesse to use, its a total "Camille" song, hard dark Funk and too heavy for Jesse's slightly light Funk at the time. Prince and Jesse were sort of duking it out, listen to '7 Minutes Mo'Quake' for Prince's sampling of Crazy, that was Prince teasing and jealous.
wendileona 9 months ago
@HypeRhymz Also, Prince's/Camille's Shockadelica was supposedly written, in slight jest, about and inspired by Troy Beyer who he was sort of seeing at the time.
wendileona 9 months ago
@wendileona Thats a girl right?
HypeRhymz 9 months ago
@HypeRhymz Troy? Yes! Look her up...actress, she was in Sexy MF. Camille? Not a girl, fans twist that around, Camille was a long-lost cousin concept Prince came up again, for kicks.
wendileona 9 months ago
LOVE IT!!!!!! Classic dance song........need to hear it more often.
TiggerWalker 1 year ago
My favorite Jesse Johnson joint! I saw him at the Ritz in the 80s. He tossed a pink stuffed teddy bear into the audience and I caught it! Still have it too. :-)
perri6 1 year ago
@perri6 Oh sh*t!!! I was at that show 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jesse killed it that night...he ended the show with "Red House" by Hendrix....and i remember his tour bus was parked right outside the show...homeboy came 2 NYC and burned the house down...then bounced 2 the next town..LOL
ajuniis 11 months ago
@ajuniis Snap. You remember how he ended the show?! Good for you. I'm trying to remember who opened for him. I did see Jill Jones at the Ritz, but I can't remember if she opened for Jesse or not.
perri6 11 months ago
RICK JAMES HAD A OUTFIT LIKE THAT..
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MrAiden3121 1 year ago
Prince ate his heart out. Sly was his hero and Jesse got him.
Thus, Prince made a song out of Shockadelica... or at least his "long lost cousin" Camille did.
And if you listen to 7 minutes Mo'Quake - you'll hear Prince use Sly's wooo-ooohhhwwwoww as a sample he throws right in the mix here and there. It works!
But hey, Jesse claimed "Do Yourself a Favor"... who knows who came up with that. I think even Pepe claimed it.
Anyway, all that competition gave rise to a lot of great music then!
wendileona 1 year ago
86 kingfish
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Thats Rocky on drums. Kickin drummer. Ok triggers I meant lol.
witchman1 1 year ago
Thats Rocky on drums. Kickin drummer.
witchman1 1 year ago
Jesse was was underated as a Solo artists
ArmondoeCruze 1 year ago
@ArmondoeCruze THE PROBLEM WAS THEY WANTED HIM 2B PRINCE 2.MEANING THE SEQUEL..PRINCE TRY'D 2 GET SLY 2 PERFORM WITH HIM HE SAID NO..JESSY ASKED HE THEN AGREED HE SAID JESSY NEEDED MORE HELP THEN PRINCE...HE WAS RIGHT.
buttascotchbro1 1 year ago
@buttascotchbro1 Maybe Prince wrote this song for them to do. Just be like Prince.
IRONMANHONDO87 1 year ago
I'm with therealraybaby. And where is Sylvester's Someone like you and Angeligue
Kidjo's Batonga.
cherrrianna 1 year ago
That's REAL music
QueenEiliYAH 1 year ago
I only seen this video one time and that was on Friday Night Videos
ILoveEmilee 1 year ago
I haven't heard Sly record nothing since this. After this i think he went Crazy....Thank the minneapolis sound to the great Sly Stone!
jojoledet 1 year ago
I liked Jesse's hats in this video.
rickames 1 year ago
OMG I LOVED this song!!! Still got this video on VHS via Video Soul!!!
QUEENBEE1911 1 year ago
that's right SLY FIRST THEN THE REST
machai400 1 year ago
lol, why do all the minneapolis sound artists look like mutts
MUN7001 1 year ago
The J-sette work that number back in 87
lpage87 1 year ago
WTF! This is a fuckin CLASSIC video! How could someone disrespect by posting a shitty quality of it! That's fucked up 2 do that! NOW, REPOST IT AND GET IT FUCKIN RIGHT!!! High quality MF!!!
therealraybaby 1 year ago 19
@therealraybaby WELL DAMN! WE PISSED ARENT WE! LOL! I Feel ya though!
mzzvaughan 1 year ago
@mzzvaughan Naw V, girl I just hate 2 see such a beautiful piece of art wasted & distorted like this. I mean this was a great song & the last original the world has ever heard from Sly. It should be treated like a picasso! Ya know what I mean?
therealraybaby 1 year ago
@therealraybaby Yea! I know Exactly what you mean! It should be treated like the Picasso it is!!! lol
mzzvaughan 1 year ago
@therealraybaby say it man preach
bigkeezo 1 year ago
@therealraybaby hahaha...really tho!
lisafizz70 1 year ago
@therealraybaby With the oldness of the video, we're lucky somebody was nice enough to upload it period.
TheGemini90 1 year ago
@therealraybaby HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAH 4 REAL THOUGH
buttascotchbro1 1 year ago
@therealraybaby Such language. But I understand the reasoning.
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MrAiden3121 1 year ago
@therealraybaby Since you're swearing at someone who posted this, do YOU have an HD version to post? If not, then deal with it, or request politely, like "do you have a cleaner copy of it? If so, please post it" and not "sheeet, man, yaknowwhutahmean, re-post dat muthafucka", unless, of course, you LIKE to perpetuate negative stereotypes...
shmuli9 11 months ago
One of my fave's....Just plain rotten....funky...
MrDwalker813 1 year ago
I FOUND IT!!!! THE ORIGINAL!!!
tlover1062 1 year ago
FUNK IN ITS RAREST FORM!!!!! And check this out...in 1986 THAT WAS NEW SCHOOL vs OLD SCHOOL!!!!! CRAZZZZYYYYY!!!!! Can someone PLEASE post the ORIGINAL recording of this cut?
tlover1062 1 year ago
I remember this jam. I used to play along with this until I wore the record out. This is real FUNK, I can't stand the music of today....what happened to the FUNK? Was there a FUNK conspiracy? George Clinton warned us about SIR NOSE D'VOID of FUNK
phillybass101 1 year ago
Love this song, and Jesse bringing back thee man, Sly.
shag112002 1 year ago
this sh-t is one of the hottest funk songs ever made. sly stone is a bad motherf-cker
blkstikbig 1 year ago
Jesse deserved his shot, great talent man, happy to see he went for his...Saddens me to have never have heard a Sly Prince collab, I mean Im ok to if they never did any thing, but then for him to get on his religious kick and start with Larry Graham, just really upset me. Jesse gave Sly the respect and acknowledgement he deserved especially w/his influence all over their stuff.Salute.
kingofdaundaworld 1 year ago
One of my favorite songs from Jesse Johnson and Sly.
RussellAthletics 1 year ago
Love this song! Also, if there was any justice in the world, the shoulder padded zoot suit with the cartoon sombrero (complete with tassles) would come back in style. Tomorrow.
nitrobreeze 1 year ago
Prince was so green about Jesse hooking up a HIT with Sly that Prince wrote Shockadelica AND sampled Sly's ddododooowwoooowoowooo in 7' Minutes Mo' Quake. Competition between the two was intense. Jesse's album is a favorite of mine from that time, great stuff! Interestingly Jesse's just dropped a seriously FONKY album recently, which gives Prince another run for his Funk money!
wendileona 1 year ago
Jesse Johnson is so cute! Sly put the stank on this song!
SexyAzzHell93 2 years ago 2
sly was sexier
eazye07 1 year ago
This song kicks ass! Listen to that bass man burning the place down. I always wanted to do this song, but the uptight, stodgy old ladies I worked with never wanted to do it.
Larrymh07 2 years ago
Haaaaaa! Love this track!
dominoize 2 years ago
Wow, I have not heard this since 1986, and the days of "New York Hot Tracks." Thanks for posting.
witchman67 2 years ago 7
rocky who!!
ulistrat75 2 years ago
TaiBlaq.....Oh hell yeah..he's doing that Larry graham Slappin and popin!! Me being a bassist myself, I'm loving it!
Shield1751 2 years ago
whats wrong 80's? 80"s pumped out some hot joints like this!!! wish we could go back here!!!! imagine charlie wilson back on this for the 2000's
TaiBlaq 2 years ago 3
omg its soo 80s....
Paddykahn 2 years ago
And thats Rocky on the drums.
witchman1 2 years ago
this jessie johnson song makes you want tolive the 80s over again can you dig it
kinzjo 2 years ago
Does anyone know who produced this song? Jesse Johnson was so damn fine! I'm from Minneapolis, and the only two I ever got to see from afar were Prince (at First Avenue), and Jimmy Jam when he was producing Johnny Gill's album (at anothe popular club we used to go to...I forget the name).
lique2u 2 years ago
JJ himself.
witchman1 2 years ago
I remember the club...it was the Riverview Supper Club. Every Saturday...Fun, fun, fun....I miss those early 90's.
lique2u 2 years ago
only the purple rain look. prince changed his style every single year
giugnhgbvinierngvb89 2 years ago
i had forgotten jesse had worked with the GREAT SLY STONE (of Sly and the Family Stone)..great song...great slap bass line...who played it/? God its the shit..just listen to it...DAMNN!!!
Shield1751 2 years ago
jesse played it himself
unseenlab 2 years ago
@Shield1751...yo U hear dat bass huh?!!! CRAZY!!!!!!
TaiBlaq 2 years ago
Classic for 23 years!!!!!!! Too funky!!
ibtnm25 2 years ago 3
Jesse has/had outfunked his mentor Prince with tune. nuff said.
Mabus69 2 years ago
Jesse, looks, moves, dresses, sings, just like Prince, between weird stalker and cool.... not sure what to think of that ha ha, but's pretty cool and funky like i like it ;)
webmustang 3 years ago
I had this song on a 45 when it was new. Does anyone remember 45s ?
darladanice 3 years ago 2
The Jam!
roberthelms 3 years ago
I know that's right!!! This is FUNKY JAM ain't it??? It just makes you want to say CRAZY, crazy for U!!!LOL...Jesse Johnson was a bad boy too!!!
forever4always4luv 3 years ago
Jesse did a duet with Prince's hero. Oh man. Camille's Shockadelica unleashed...then Housequake...Funk Battle were being played out in 7 minutes Mo' Quake! Hear Sly scream through that one too!
And it was too cool. By the way, the 45/12 inch single artwork rocked. Sort of did inspire Prince's U Got The Look 60's look.
GazamYT 3 years ago
It's such a 'tight' video - so well produced. Has to have Sly's hand in the production. He says somewhere that he doesn't know how it happened, he just wandered in there one day. And it is about a good time - but it's SO well done. Typical of Sly's work; he's not capable of turning out anything bad.
Watch the videos "Make it Funky" on youtube, and The Story of Funk ??
Vociferor 3 years ago
wow!!!!!!
kamraun 3 years ago
It's better than the lyrics today.
86pimp3 3 years ago
Jesse had em' all workin' on stage just like P would, still groovy.
slaxl 3 years ago
Oooh man! The 1980's... The decade of the GREATEST creative free artistic expression ever! Gives me chills. Humanity is capable of so much yet music today is stagnant. What a decade! There will never be another!
Tomei1 3 years ago
Still funky
briandonald 3 years ago
The lyrics to this song are quite.. well.. weak. If you really give them a listen... they really suck.
SoulPowerful 3 years ago
just like tons of other tunes, it's all about the groove!
richie649 3 years ago 2
ya u can't over-analyze songs like this...it's just about a good time....
just how it should be
ZebZachary 3 years ago
Stevie WOnder was in the biz before Sly. Little Stevie stands on his own. Sly was the first coming of Prince along with a little bit of J Hendrix, James Brown, Beatles, G Clinton all of them. But nobody rocks it like SLy at his highest. Thankyouforlettinmebemyselfagain.
fadarrell 3 years ago
master,master,master,music at its finest!!!brings me back to the good old days,when music was fun and sexy,getting sweaty on tha dancefloor,and afther that ,in tha bed hahaha know what i mean
sosomaniacs 3 years ago
Two master funkateers at their finest. I love this video.
37Nlat101Wlon 3 years ago
The Bridge On This Trak Is SICK
asapsodef 3 years ago
Funky Ass Song !!! Nuff Said.....
illwitdapill67 3 years ago
OooooooH the purple one! Who can deny the 80's electro funk. Appreciate Sly for what he is...a pioneer. Do not judge him by this track, allow your soul to be funkified by his past work and then be in a position to question The Maestro.....crazy for who?? Jump I say!!!
wardenance 3 years ago 2
Sly + Jesse = a killer combination.
Too bad the Sly album that jesse was gonna produce after this never came to be.
Beauvoir666 3 years ago
what was the story behind that
cwelchgrape 3 years ago
Thanks to this great song and video, I got my first real experience of Sly Stone. I started looking for his classic albums from the 60's and my musical life was taken higher! Jesse you were already the jam, but you did right by bringing Sly back to the radio. Awesome!
ronbo11 3 years ago
This song went close to the top on the R&B chart! but nowhere on the overall top 100. By this time Sly's white following had abandoned him. Jesse & Sly proved to be a great combination. It's too bad we weren't able to see more of them.
Cch092775 3 years ago
gr8 to c sly still at his best tanx jessie
denisdeepspace 3 years ago
Jesse Johnson was a badass. I wish this guy was still putting out music.
kellyfrazetta 3 years ago
@kellyfrazetta(1 year ago) Jesse is still performing both solo and with The Time and he has a new album commingout in October of 2009. Look for it ! Its called Verbal Penetration. U know its going to be off the hook!
ayabtiyah2004 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Look at the way that they are dressed. This is
why we are characterized as pimps and whores
as black people...CLOWNS.
carameljimmy 3 years ago
carameljimmy this song was in 86 you are lame
5291791 3 years ago
This is a take off of the zoot suit back in the 60's /70's. Just cause you wore that doesnt mean you was a pimp...If that was the case they would all be transexuals for what they wore in the 80's...its just clothes one of the many styles that we black people have...
If you old enough (judging by you comment i think not) then im sure you can remeber some haircut or dress style that maks you ask yourself "what the hell was I thinking back then" and the answer is: ????
newton3010 3 years ago
That's not what they are projecting here you're commenting on the wrong time! That was one of the strongest times of artistic expression's. Songs were original and the images were too!
Unlike this limited & GOD Forsaken time in rap.
yasrom 3 years ago
There is just toooooo many people on stage,
there is too much chorus on the bass, and
this is a very bad attempt to resurrect sly.
carameljimmy 3 years ago
Jesse is my dad
Muffindawg11 3 years ago 2
jesse is one of the baddest mofos on this earth! what a beautiful guitar player!
kabukilenore 3 years ago
Just as so many took James Brown's innovations and did their own things-so did Jesse with what Prince created. True fans of the Minneapolis funk know that Jesse was superbad. I personally think he was one of the most exciting electric guitarists EVER and I don't say that lightly. Listen to the solos on the album "Every Shade of Love" and see what I mean. Jesse we miss you!!!
fridaymiles 3 years ago
This song is called "Crazay" and Prince sampled it on the "7 Minutes Mo Funk" version of "Housequake".
chj2 3 years ago
The 80's synths dont help too much. Guy still needs either a bigger dose of GoD or RehaB.
spottedliver 3 years ago
man....jesse don't know who he is in this video. he jacked prince clothes, dancers, song, guitar, and style and stage presence. he was more original with the time. i think when lost his own id he went down trying to be a prince copycat. i wonder if he jacked prince for his thong too.
swilliams1969 3 years ago
swilliams he used to be with Prince's circle {the time} he was part of the Minneapolis Sound..famous line by Morris Day,,,Jesse,now jerome,oreo oreo oh...(JUNGLE LOVE )by the time
exnewsanchor 3 years ago
SHOCKADELICA
themoon1 3 years ago
should have been released....
Crander1962 3 years ago
It was released - this is the video for it, the single was released and it's on the Shockadelica album!
NouveauDance 3 years ago
If someone could please post "Baby Lets Kiss", I would be forever greatful. The guitar solo on the video version is AMAZING!!!
spyderj1999 3 years ago
this here is so funky!!!!!!!!!!
broncofangj 3 years ago 2
I remember when this song came out. I rushed out to get it on cassette. It was great to see Sly again and it really looked like these guys had a great time making this video.Great post very enjoyable clip.
wyzard214 3 years ago
How does Sly keep changing clothes so fast?
dextermcgrubbin 3 years ago
awesome!
5/5
best wishes
jesse L
JesseGuitar07 3 years ago
great song
2muchclazz 3 years ago
I really like Jesse & this song,
but mann....
this looks exactly like a Prince video.
themightycelestial 4 years ago
What Prince video does it look like?
They're just performing on a stage, that could be anyone! LOL!
NouveauDance 3 years ago
good question i'm a huge prince fan and don't know that 1
themoon1 3 years ago
What I meant was that it could pass as a Prince video ( the way they dress & perform like as if P on stage), not that it was a copy of a specific vid... dammit, Noveau! U know what my pimp-ass meant!
Geezus H. Christ....
I swear to god, this place is almost as bad as the org......
themightycelestial 3 years ago
WHOA*****
dabomb67 4 years ago
Thank you for posting this video! Such a fun, fun song - everybody was having a good time and Jesse, well, Jesse just did a great thing recording with Sly, and you could see the respect in this video. Props to the Master of Funk - Shadrack, Mesach & Abnedgo indeed.
875090211 4 years ago 3
thanks for posting this! The actual record is hard to get.
myjazzvibes 4 years ago 2
Every single member in this band jamz!!!
knuckles626 4 years ago
Indiepop - you need to understand that Sly influenced this song -- not Prince.
Sly influenced Prince, and has influenced 80s music, 70s music, and 90s and 00s music. His influence is far-reaching, and enormous. Prince is just a disciple, or a student. You're accustomed to Prince's music, so you don't realize how much Sly has influenced it. Sly is an original.
Vociferor 4 years ago 8
@Vociferor THERE U GO! TEACH EM!
mzzvaughan 1 year ago
this is the most pimped out stage attire of all time. I'm gonna get u sucker!!
childkiss 4 years ago
Maleimage -- get your history straight. Prince was INFLUENCED BY Sly, not the other way around. Without Sly, there would be no Prince, no Michael Jackson, no Stevie wonder, well maybe there'd be a Stevie but he'd be different. SLY is a HUGE influence on music, enormous.
Vociferor 4 years ago 4
I think what Maleimage meant was how this song (and how popular music in the 1980's) was heavily Prince-influenced.
indiepop 4 years ago
Let me intervene, I'm a huge Sly & The Family Stone Fan let me say that first,but it was James Brown that lead this way. Sly and George Clinton came about the same time. The are the true fathers of funk as we know it.
johnpgod62 3 years ago
what Maleimage mean is that Sly Stone is doing the purple thing in here, Sly sound WAS very diferent then this.
So Sly, Brown, Clinton were some of Prince biggest influences, the irony is that they ended up going to the Minneapolis road just to be down with the 80s.
There's nothing wrong with that.
thefonkykid 2 years ago
herculeshernandez- If u don't mind me askin' y did YouTube suspend or close ur account??
kheir01 4 years ago
I AM SO MAD!!!!! I lookd thru my Favorite Videos and I had 2 remove sum videos because the user either had their accounts closed or suspended. User, teenspants had his/her acct closed and that user had MAD OL' SKOOL JAMZ. I am so disapointed in YouTube
kheir01 4 years ago
woooow- thru all the removals and account suspensions that have taken place in the last year or so... this damn video has SURVIVED, haha.
And I still love watching it. Props, Sonic.
herculeshernandez 4 years ago
Before there was Prince, there was Slyand the Family Stone.. and he's rocking it hard on this ...this song could easily be danced to not only in the '80s and '90s but even NOW.
ltbrownhue 4 years ago
People sometimes forget how much Prince has effected music!
Perfect.
maleimage 4 years ago
this was the jam,two legends sly& jesse crazay is a badd song.
fonkhead 4 years ago
Great Collaboration!!!!
karameldreem 4 years ago
Are they Doing the SUPERMAN OR WHAT?
1Icuasur 4 years ago
Giiillll wanna make you mine..lol.
brrevsit20 4 years ago
this song is so funky love it such a great pair !!!!!
broncofangj 4 years ago 2
sweet
ftribe1 4 years ago
Jesse is still one of my fav's! The 80's were great! I miss hearing Jesse perform live.
I'm glad to see many disography's are giving Jesse credit for the giant contribution he has made to the music/recording industry.
Sly Stone is legendary! Great Collaboration!
PreGrammyCommittee 4 years ago
Pregrammy - What happanaed to Sly Stone?
dowling1981 4 years ago
good question
blackaneeese 4 years ago
he snorted his millions and is livin crazay, somewhere in SoCal..
pnp2k6 4 years ago
pnp - Did Sly take illegal drugs?
dowling1981 4 years ago
Awesome!!!!
KingDragonstar 4 years ago
I am so glad that I got to see Sly in my decade! He is awsome as hell!! I remember hearing this song, but never knew who it was. I knew who Jesse Johnson was, but never heard of Sly. But once I did, I fell so in love with his music Right on. Props to Jesse and Sly!
almidas1 4 years ago
Jesse and sly are cuzsin........That's why sly did the this song with jesse.
sicilianwop 4 years ago
This is a great song. Sly and Jesse are a good duo in funk music. Too bad that Sly didn't have his act togehter cause they could've had some great hits. Jesse kind of sounds like Prince. Maybe since Sly is back out he could do this song again with Jesse and more. Thanks for posting.
funkdivaucanttouch 4 years ago
I remember my dad playing the hell out of this tape. I haven't heard the remix since about '86. Does anybody have it?
enique1103 4 years ago
I used to have the CD. Check out some used record/cd stores. It's either from Jessies "Shockadelica" or "Every Shade of Love" album. I think it's about 1988
dalvarez247 4 years ago
i think it was on shockadelick...look on the djangos site.
blackaneeese 4 years ago
black - I am afraid I am not familiar with that website. Was it portained by Voltar?
dowling1981 4 years ago
that site is a good place to find cheap cds...ive been shopping with them since 2001. they have just about EVERYTHING
blackaneeese 4 years ago
black - Did you buy any Mortiis albums at that website?
dowling1981 4 years ago
mortiis? did you mean morris day? yes they have them listed
blackaneeese 4 years ago
i just looked on there and see a lot of cds by "mortiis" no i dont have any of them.
blackaneeese 4 years ago
black - What did you think of the Mortiis albums when you heard them?
dowling1981 4 years ago
i didnt hear it...that site sells cds, you cant listen to them though.
blackaneeese 4 years ago