"Same Beat"Fred Wesley & The JB's

[uniquechild68]

i am somebody! i love it...bad band

[undergroundmoe]

yeah this is the band

[SG6100]

Top Choon!!

[soularmin]

I love this music and the video one still in 50 years will regard, because that is history!

[brahmin21]

you are a master at the mash up video......!!!!!

my total respect....awesome video for a billy bad ass awesome track.....!!!

[antG831]

some real damn funk. bad ass vid. props.

[asyouweresir]

all day long,ssseeeen,irish world

[robocop207]

I used to blow that shit in my 65 Dodge Dart , funkin to the same beat with my 8 track player under my mutha fuckin drivers seat! don't forget about my big box stereo speakers sittin in the back seat. Do you feel me!

[max1xxx]

@robocop207 most def.........Ride on bro

[4evernate28]

Don't take five...

[MrKrime]

what woulda been dope as hell is if u inserted Jesse Jackson's I am somebody vid in here too. Overall, dope ass vid though

[FreonPete]

took two showers and a long bath, turned this on and I'm still feeling funky !

[VoodooUprising]

phaaat ass beat, slap dis shizzle to no return

[swaggkiller94]

Smell that? Stank Funk!!!!!!!!!! 

[MissJackieM]

This jam is sick,sick,sick!!!

[SlickFunker]

Funking great.

This is much better than the original version on Damn Right I'm Somebody. I woinder why they decided to edit the track for the album?

I could understand editting it for a single version, but it seems insane that you would cut Maceo's solo from the album track.

[BensonBee]

Fat back ,Big hats, and long Cadillacs!!!

[BensonBee]

im 41 grew up wit hip hop, but A REAL HIP HOP HEAD knows its roots.If I had to listen to only 1 band 4ever as long as I live, THIS IS THE BAND!!!!!!. Im a christan and luv the LORD, I believe JESUS would have to nod his head to this beat.

[PDodds77]

@BensonBee Always bringing up fucken Religion! Can't even have a convo about music without bringing up the Man in the Sky. 

[PhilipJames69]

@BensonBee 'm feeling you. Serious Hip Hop Head and loves Jesus and thank God for James Brown and the Jb's.

[maceo28]

Hard Core Gangsters Steppin' HARD with each other on 47th and Federal!!! Thats what I remember! This beat is SICK!! Chicago up in here...back in the day...from Roosevelt Road to 125th...act like you know....

[lowendfella]

@maceo28 Yes sir! bring good memories in my mind. It's all water-downed now. Attending the "Sam Chatman"-Sets; was our very own "Ghetto-Ballroom dancing..

[BeyondInfinit]

@AlvezP The Vapors - Biz Markie (1988?)

[TEABABI7]

@ tonyblair999 till the world blow up lmao..... @ teempc5000 you ar so right...

[Nicey1411]

LOL a pimp slap. Man the guys from Chi-Town used to jam on this one every Monday night. I would always just take a seat and watch.

[coporal4]

The montage of America in the background with the music really sets this off. The depression indicating that if things don't change we will be back to the same beat of a financial disaster. Kids all across the nation enjoying themselves instead of the same beat of societal breakdown. The different bands black and white froming the bond of musicianship regardless of music indicating same beat. Yes the RINK was the joint in D.C. in the 1960's. If your ass couldn't skate don't get on da floor

[tonyblair999]

@TEABABI7 AWW HELL NAWW!!!! THE MOTHAFUCKIN RINK?!? u took a nigga back!!! the fuclin CHI ALL DAY!!!!

[eillekeillek]

I had my first blow job to this track !!!

[TEABABI7]

OK IT'S 1989...SKATING AT THE RINK IN CHICAGO... THOSE WHERE THE DAYS!

[teempc5000]

@TEABABI7 wooow...if you didnt know how to skate to this you had to get off the floor for sure

[db60615]

@TEABABI7 You know they still play this! Never gets old! This is when the pros get on the floor!

[eboyRC]

nehiUSA@comcast.net....in a class all by itself...raw beat , infectious , hypnotic ...way past cool!!!! I need me an icy RC Cola bout now...

[poppingjaz]

this is the jam right here!  I had this album!

[kenmbailey]

mmm m still funky nasty cool

[miknice59]

This the funkiest song I have ever heard in my life......The group total used this track the sampled it and I knew it was a James Brown or Fred Wesley track...Crazy funky

[yamirel88]

This is gooooooooooooooooooooood I love and like this come on people take care of this tune!!!! yamirel88 love you : ) ........XXX

[yamirel88]

This is gooooooooooooooooooooood I lov e and like this come on people take care of this tune!!!! yamirel88 love you : ) ........XXX

[micljnes]

You just know this has James Browns influences in there somewhere as these guys are the only ones on the planet that can use the same words or phrases in 1 track and sell a million copies, just a timeless classic, and the true power of great musicians with creative ideas. Lovely post

[hezimoe]

naste naste never gets old naste!

[fatshoolaces]

BOOOOOOYAAAAH !!!! now thats wot im talkin about...

[gangster14th]

YES SIR! COLDEST SHIT STILL BLOWING IN THE CHI

[fortsill]

@gangster14th . YES SIR G. THIS IS THE STEPPAS ANTHEM

[Imakebeats65]

man me and justice rocked this way back in the day to a joint I called the new ways...I ve really got to get that off of the casette LOL.. The JBs were LIVE and BAD!!! Off my favorite album with blow your head another NYC Classic B boy break!!! so the question becomes are you somebody? you damn right im somebody!!

[maceo28]

All The Hardcore Steppers To The Floor!!!

[a721105e]

...same beat... I`m somebody!!!

[lowendfella]

Nice video showing how we feel the same beat around the world.

[lowendfella]

A true steppers dream tune! (Shouts-out to all the fancy-feet fellas' of the city of Chi.)

[MikeHF]

This is how my snare drum sounds. Thats a killer groove!

[cavaleer]

Great montage of our American history and what our ancestors and forebears endured and built and created.

[MadridSoulbrother]

sound of blackness!

[jesusneverexisted300]

That horn tellin' ya'll sumpthin ain't it?

[megatron0357]

O.G. FUNK!!!

[oldschoolruler]

If you can't dig this oldschool, hard-core funk...you got a hole in yo' soul...heaven help yo' white bread, and mayonaisse eatin' azz.

What is FUNK??? Funk is a hamhock in yo' cornflakes.

[monsieurdino1]

samedi 3 avril !! maceo parker au mc2 de grenoble !!!!! the jb's force !!

[01tnql]

SUPA STANKY FONK

[mrintimateluva]

The epitome of soul with straight up funk

[1220amsoulradio]

Grew up with this music in the 60s and 70s down in the deep rural areas of the San Joaquin Valley listening to KLIP 1220 AM Soul Radio founded by Woody Miller...we were funky in Fresno in those days.

[rula5577]

makes you think where you come from!! what u know bout that????

[columbusohio72]

Man this is roller skating music in Chicago all day!! Funky!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lowendfella]

@columbusohio72 Holla!

[hyropath]

What's that smell?

[TheMrrox]

why is this recording so clean ?

[musicman02]

@TheMrrox magic, mostly

[BoneThugsEternal]

EPMD "Who's Booty" lol

[terrencepaulmiller]

man, this is really cool. Package and wrap it up....I'll buy it !!

[whupass95]

This is from the 2-cd recording titled "The JBs; funky good time, the anthology."  Check it, it is solid.

[PeeyanoKeys]

That snare is like a pimp's slap.

Hard as fuck!!!

[terrencepaulmiller]

@PeeyanoKeys ditto !!!

[johnthedogon]

@PeeyanoKeys this is the real shiznizzle!!!

[Kell1295]

Gonna be a funky kind of Christmas. :)

[edinhobluesman]

JBS - Sensacional......Edinho de Guarulhos - São Paulo - Brasil

[Gil1976]

too bad!

[Blueupsi3]

Another one of Chicago's favorite stepping Cuts. We Love James Brown & The J.B.'s . Much Love from Chicago.

[mcreminisce]

..i may be uneducated...but i am Somebody...

[rawsketch]

Ultimate steppin and skating song!

[hezimoe]

omg pre soul train!

[sallyvent57]

This takes me back to my youth. Highgate and Chris. x

[kpettit1957]

keep on funkin,we need more sax like this

[jamminjoeus]

Amen to that,,,and we need more mujsicians who can keep it on the 1

[JoseyWales93]

That's exactly what i said to myself, that drumming is awesome it hits so hard in the face specially during the last 4 min. Thanks to the influence of the godfather of soul brother number one.

[SlikkTim]

man... that snare !! that snare !! Jabo Starks strikes again !!

[rootskarma]

power of soul!

[mcreminisce]

real G's know whats up!

[1995RangeRover]

Way too funky!

[gotente]

Can you say roller skating! This is one of the nices songs to skate to.

[7MOTOR2]

Used to dance to this jam for my Pop and his homies back in the 70's to get some loot for candy and swag! And I'm still somebody! Hit it Hank!

[terrencepaulmiller]

cool ass post !! Even the dancers are in sync with the groove !!

[budweizer1]

One of the greatest steppers songs, ever

[Streamline09]

...and..the beat..goes on...

[kell7wlt]

Simple and FUNKY!

[ColdGripHandle]

This funky music came from out of nowhere

Nobody gave black people credit for being Geniuses

[blackfalconsungodzzz]

I move to funk & soul power,,..F@#!K neo-soul what the hell is that?? James Brown/P-Funk didnt call it that give me what my God Father Soul Brother No.1 got!

[mced666]

it´s a shame that for millions of human beings life has been a bad trip, such as for all african americans during slavery.

from now on, peace and love, learning from our mistakes

[PaulRandolph]

This is what I'm talkiin' bout, lay it down and don't move!

[biggole76]

chicago jb skaters is the shit

[bouvieboob]

yes, we are. i was part of a group that invented the jb steps on skates, back in 1975 when i was a teenager on the southside of chicago. i skated at skate city on 63 and racine, us on 95th st,rainbow up north on clark st, screamin wheels in gary, and st.anselm on 61st and indiana

[funkactivist]

Just imagine you're driving a lowrider pimped out car through Harlem with the seats so reclined that you can barely see over the wheel to steer! That's how laidback this tune makes me feel! Chillaxin!!!

[arachnid876]

Shout out to the JB Skaters!

[Buckeyecat2002]

Good to see Fred Wesley and the New(Neuvo/Neo) JB's are still playing this old shit and laying it down fat like he did with with James Brown on the Soul Train track. Aged wine always tastes fresh.

[roachy333]

phat to death...great jam.

[Tommyfj]

Ain't much changed has it a depression is a dpression no matter what decade. But the ablity to jam moves us to look ahead for somthing better! Keep jamming!!!

[mayena]

That's Jesse Jackson at the Wattstax music festival in the background (1972).

[marcieval]

This reminds me of Joe Gilliam in 1972 black proud and cold blooded nashville tenn runnin with Curtis Hawthorne jr .

[drdoowop]

GREAT VIDEO...THANX

[Buckeyecat2002]

Same Beat, same greasy, lowdown, southern, deep fat fried soul, that's always bold and never gets cold, stale or old. An all time timeless favorite slice of J.B. and his band of Soul Godfathers.