james brown is arguably the most influential musician of our time. james brown didnt just create rap he is one of the founders of funk music and all rap beats are sampled and looped funk tracks or sounds. james being one of the most sampled along with george clinton of parliament funkadelic due to bootsy collins playing bass and guitar for both.
False truths, and self serving justifications of male dignity, is a foreign concept to weak souls, genuflecting. Brothers need careers, not jobs. Brothers need futures. All men look to the future. Lie to yourself, lazy con.
Now Brothers need jobs, If you don't work you can't eat. You need mind power to deal with starvation......What it is, is what it is.....Some bull shit on capital hill.
Im 33 and ive always known who james was but really didnt know who he was. for the past 3 years of my life as funny as this sounds, this man has played a big influintial role in my life becomming a man and having drive and hustle. Soul brotha numba 1 will be missed by many
Im 33 and ive always known who james was but really didnt know who he is. for the past 3 years of my life as funny as this sounds, this man has played a big influintial role in my life becomming a man and having drive and hustle. Soul brotha numba 1 will be missed by many
@danathedude77 NOBODY WILL FLAT OUT SAY THAT JAMES BROWN CREATED RAP. THEY NO DAM WELL THAT IT'S TRUE. THEY THINK THAT IT'S ONE BIG TITTLE TO GIVE TO ONE MAN, AND EVERY RAP ARTIST WISH THEY CAN CLAIM IT. BUT THAT TITTLE BELONGS TO BROWN, LIKE ALL OF HIS OTHER TITTLES. BLACK FOLKS HAS TO MUCH HATER IN THEM THAN RESPECT FOR THIER BROTHER.....
It goes like this you want to know how heavy he was to black america and threat to another back in those days. He was on that list that the (powers that be) wanted to get rid of: Malcolm, MLK, JFK brothers, James Brown, and The greastest of all time...Ali.
If Martin and Malcolm where the head of the operation then James Brown Chief Number 1, he reached deeper into the community and touched those that aforementioned couldnt and they believed them cause JB was a brother off the street.
this was made in 1974!!! 1974!! How scary is it that this applies to 2011! If you don't work..you don't eat! this my friends is why this is forever be TIMELESS!!! People think the phrase "it is what it is" is something new. Bitch Please!! it came from the JBE!
@98SLABRIDER I can't agree with you more that song should be the anthem for this recession aND like the godfather says It Is What It Is you got to have mind power to deal with this shit that exists today Long live the godfather of soul godfather of funk yes.
@ 3 + : GBE The brother out of NY that he refers to is Gary Byrd, who while on WWRL had a program called The Gary Byrd Experience (GBE). He went on to WBLS and WLIB, and worked with Stevie Wonder on several projects--esp. as a lyricist. Bad tune. Thanks.
Try to articulate what "Funky music" is with words and you will fall way short. But just by hearing jams like this, it's all fully explained -- and then some. If funk were a physical being, this groove would be encoded in its DNA!
This is one of most bad ass songs JB ever made because he was shining a light on the ghettos all over the U.S.A.He always did that, R.I.P James Brown.
Aaaaah get some flute, get some flute!!! Ha Ha JB and his band was the truth and still is along with p-funk if you ask me. No one can touch this stuff and never will.
what it is, is what it is....R.I.P. Godfather of Funk...This man was far ahead of his time and has influenced and inspired a lot of people. But yet is so underrated by so many....
The man is a lengend in music! He's the only guy who can make a scream sound good! Another song with an inffectous beat like papa don't take no mess! Good post!
James Brown was the Mozart of our (and when i say "our" I mean black, poor yes white too, downtrodden, any kind of minority or mixed race mothafucka) time. People wanna downgrade him. He was a consumate musician, bandleader and businessman. He stood up for self and let the funk prevail. Yeah, in his declining years he said some disparaging shit about "brothers." How would you feel if your own people tried to steal from you incessantly, discredit you and act like animals? James Brown forever!!!!!
These were the days of dressing in your "Regal-Bucks" & starched "Dickies"; and letting your flag hang from your back pocket. Hot Damn! We sho' nuff' set a world-wide trend with this thing that was ours. (To all the survivers keep the feet moving in the right-direction.)
I remember when they would put this on at the roller rink ...if you were not on the floor already you would not find no room ..........Kenwood Academy 1983 Chicago Illinois
The GB Experience he's referring to is the Gary Byrd Experience. Gary was a dj at WWRL (AM) in New York along with Frankie Crocker, Hank Spann, Gregory, etc. He later went to WLIB and WBLS (where he is today), also in NYC. He also collaborated with Stevie Wonder. A pioneer.
@teltronicz James knew all the R&B radio d.j.s throughout the country, and since he had a home in Queens where WWRL was located (Woodside), he would have known the various disc jockeys there. Though younger than Frankie Crocker (who was an MC for James at the Apollo in '68), Gary Byrd was also a member of the Buffalo Brigade, which included Crocker and Hank Spann. Imhotep (now on WBLS) had a program I used to listen to called the GBE: the Gary Byrd Experience. Thanks for asking!
@Streamline09 Oh yeah, being from the Jersey Shore we got the New York stations. I remember Hank "Have Mercy Now!" Spann and Gary Byrd. I still have Byrd's 45 of "Soul Traveling."
@njblack73 You can now check out Imhotep Gary Byrd on his Sunday talk show online at WBLS. Sadly, Hank Spann, "The Soul Server," died last fall (October 2009).
i just love the visual picture that springs to mind when he be wearin a half, a half pressed suit from the pawn shop and ten inch shoes. yes yes yes! there will be no funk greater than this. X
@marcieval Hy student, all genius born poor yet dying leaving welt of rich dom for us the coming generations to dig within, my man look around you the best is yet to come i think, take good care yes you can
8:56
yup, what it is what it is, or as i say it is what it is
GrumpyOldAssFart 4 weeks ago
YOU CAN'T FOOL WIT JB WHEN IT COMES TO COMPOSITION,RIGHT ON MAN!!
ac2and4 1 month ago
Bell bottoms, Afros, and platform shoes shit. Oowww
357cigg 1 month ago
newbirth
mrbrandon567 1 month ago
icanunderstandit
mrbrandon567 1 month ago
Three words, Toe Jam Funk!!!
KingRam33 2 months ago
Esse cara e de mais canta muito.
marcosprt1 2 months ago in playlist jame brown
James gets all the love...lets give some love to the JB's too....Maceo, Fred, Pee Wee, Bootsy & all the others.
roachy333 2 months ago
a half...a half pressed suit from the pawn shop.
roachy333 2 months ago
This whole album is a funk bomb, to me it's James's last great full album were you can just let it ride.
KingRam33 2 months ago
To all those who question 'what applies', take out the all seeing 'I' and you are left with, APPLES.
Round and Green, know what i mean
rockhudsons 2 months ago
Play this on Wall Street!!!
oneluv72 3 months ago
@oneluv72 I agree!!!!!!
pobox915 1 month ago
The stakes is high.
tjk259 3 months ago
WHAT IT IS IS WHAT IT IS.
RIP KING OF SOUL.
THE GURU HAS SPOKEN.
mog5020 4 months ago in playlist Liked
omg
Meriamen 4 months ago in playlist soul
Even though from over 35 years ago it still applies to today and is just as strong. It is what it is! Be Cosmic ...
cosmicordering1 4 months ago
This is the shit right here ...
mercedezprince 4 months ago
It is what it is!
mdeloach02 4 months ago
james brown is arguably the most influential musician of our time. james brown didnt just create rap he is one of the founders of funk music and all rap beats are sampled and looped funk tracks or sounds. james being one of the most sampled along with george clinton of parliament funkadelic due to bootsy collins playing bass and guitar for both.
realivetruplaya 4 months ago 3
Not even 110 thousand views,,unbelieveable,,yo brothers across the nation,,pass on that right on information!
brukshotboyce 5 months ago
Kool Moe Dee Death Blow!
phukubeeyotch 6 months ago
@phukubeeyotch d-nice did this one too...
taylor4660 5 months ago
i hear so many classic breaks in one song james brown flaws and is a bad man
beatmakersuniversity 7 months ago
lookie here
ILuvMusic4real 7 months ago
I'm A James Brown fan
jazzzco 7 months ago
FUN-----KY!!!! His bands always sounded so cool to me. I mean REALLY listen to all that's going on. Dig it!
yama338dad 7 months ago 2
False truths, and self serving justifications of male dignity, is a foreign concept to weak souls, genuflecting. Brothers need careers, not jobs. Brothers need futures. All men look to the future. Lie to yourself, lazy con.
Holla
Dactuck 7 months ago
e40 sampled this beat on that Dow'n and Dirty Click tape the song was called SOHOB
TownTalk510 8 months ago
Now Brothers need jobs, If you don't work you can't eat. You need mind power to deal with starvation......What it is, is what it is.....Some bull shit on capital hill.
pobox915 8 months ago
this is so awesome. cant stop moving to this tune
CIKOTILLO 8 months ago
One of the most influential tracks of all time. No question
tonniesola 8 months ago
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All right now, here's the FUNK/SOUL.......POWER!
Thetasteofhoney1 9 months ago
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Im 33 and ive always known who james was but really didnt know who he was. for the past 3 years of my life as funny as this sounds, this man has played a big influintial role in my life becomming a man and having drive and hustle. Soul brotha numba 1 will be missed by many
lj801 9 months ago
Im 33 and ive always known who james was but really didnt know who he is. for the past 3 years of my life as funny as this sounds, this man has played a big influintial role in my life becomming a man and having drive and hustle. Soul brotha numba 1 will be missed by many
lj801 9 months ago 6
238 people believe in the mind power, i'm one of them (sorry for my english, i'm italian) JB lives
solstat 9 months ago 2
stiil relavent
around when rappin started. rappin -speaking/talking a message
hard to belief afirm. act. was just like 30 yrs ago
danathedude77 9 months ago
stiil relavent
around when rappin started. rappin -speaking/talking a message
danathedude77 9 months ago
@danathedude77 NOBODY WILL FLAT OUT SAY THAT JAMES BROWN CREATED RAP. THEY NO DAM WELL THAT IT'S TRUE. THEY THINK THAT IT'S ONE BIG TITTLE TO GIVE TO ONE MAN, AND EVERY RAP ARTIST WISH THEY CAN CLAIM IT. BUT THAT TITTLE BELONGS TO BROWN, LIKE ALL OF HIS OTHER TITTLES. BLACK FOLKS HAS TO MUCH HATER IN THEM THAN RESPECT FOR THIER BROTHER.....
62KingJames 6 months ago
stiil relavent
danathedude77 9 months ago
i like this sond it for real expecially in these times
MsStarfish22 9 months ago
the driven rhythm is awesome
kenaisi 9 months ago
It goes like this you want to know how heavy he was to black america and threat to another back in those days. He was on that list that the (powers that be) wanted to get rid of: Malcolm, MLK, JFK brothers, James Brown, and The greastest of all time...Ali.
If Martin and Malcolm where the head of the operation then James Brown Chief Number 1, he reached deeper into the community and touched those that aforementioned couldnt and they believed them cause JB was a brother off the street.
joshua626 10 months ago
peace,to the true god-father of soul.can i get a soul clap.
BLACKFIST1965 10 months ago 2
one person accidently missed the "like button"!!!!
71dime 11 months ago
what it is is what it is. just love his political ways, he speaks the truth baby.
mamarouxxx 11 months ago 3
The hardest working man in showbiz! No one beats Mr Dynamite!
matzomaniac 11 months ago
wonderful
kiuhy8 11 months ago
this was made in 1974!!! 1974!! How scary is it that this applies to 2011! If you don't work..you don't eat! this my friends is why this is forever be TIMELESS!!! People think the phrase "it is what it is" is something new. Bitch Please!! it came from the JBE!
98SLABRIDER 1 year ago 2
@98SLABRIDER I can't agree with you more that song should be the anthem for this recession aND like the godfather says It Is What It Is you got to have mind power to deal with this shit that exists today Long live the godfather of soul godfather of funk yes.
76BomberGeez 11 months ago
Bend your back funk. The purest funk around. Miss ya J.B.
colsnake331 1 year ago
k-solo-tales from the crackside and demon boyz-international karate....
Brilliant tune by a brilliant man, rip
cabagool 1 year ago
Just funky!
smp12 1 year ago
vibes, vibrations....
dolmanf 1 year ago
FUNKY!!! FUNK! FUNK!!! FROM SOUL BROTHA #1!!! SON! CMF TRIBE!!!
zarchild777 1 year ago
"Gimme some Flute"
laur51 1 year ago
@ 3 + : GBE The brother out of NY that he refers to is Gary Byrd, who while on WWRL had a program called The Gary Byrd Experience (GBE). He went on to WBLS and WLIB, and worked with Stevie Wonder on several projects--esp. as a lyricist. Bad tune. Thanks.
Streamline09 1 year ago
Try to articulate what "Funky music" is with words and you will fall way short. But just by hearing jams like this, it's all fully explained -- and then some. If funk were a physical being, this groove would be encoded in its DNA!
overstandman 1 year ago 2
This is one of most bad ass songs JB ever made because he was shining a light on the ghettos all over the U.S.A.He always did that, R.I.P James Brown.
KingRam33 1 year ago 3
'being as young as i am....you know' ; )
reeloopy 1 year ago
Aaaaah get some flute, get some flute!!! Ha Ha JB and his band was the truth and still is along with p-funk if you ask me. No one can touch this stuff and never will.
joshua626 1 year ago
i love it when he says look a here!
browngal1709 1 year ago
GREAT! R.I.P!
fromPlovdiv1 1 year ago
why people like him are missing. we need more like him
bongobong93 1 year ago
I FEEL GOOD!!! Oh wait, that isn't this.
MusicalTalent1234 1 year ago
what it is, is what it is....R.I.P. Godfather of Funk...This man was far ahead of his time and has influenced and inspired a lot of people. But yet is so underrated by so many....
giraud74 1 year ago 8
@giraud74 I agree with that, they should do a James Brown, UNSUNG on TVone
theoneandthree 1 year ago
SOUL, SOUL, SOUL! I WILL NEVER GET ENOUGH OF IT!
CHARCOALJOE7 1 year ago
Gotta be one of JB's finest tracks
DanielBowden1975 1 year ago 2
HIP HOP as we know it!!!
oneluv72 1 year ago
What it is is wht it is... My daddy used to say this all the time! This reminds me of the skating rinks back home in Chicago!!!
reesecups100 1 year ago
LISTEN
Darvmack1100 1 year ago
yepp....yea boy..!!
Darvmack1100 1 year ago
One of his best tracks ever! Should have been a single off the 'Payback' album from 1974.
PaulDA2000 1 year ago
This needs to be the national song today. What it is, is what it is.
pobox915 1 year ago 2
The man is a lengend in music! He's the only guy who can make a scream sound good! Another song with an inffectous beat like papa don't take no mess! Good post!
croxtonhas 1 year ago
The man is a lengend in music! He's the only guy who can make a scream sound good! Good post!
croxtonhas 1 year ago
Compton, CA West 136 st....SOUL BROTHA!!
oneluv72 1 year ago
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vibe.......vibration
pOBrain 1 year ago
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pOBrain 1 year ago
you can almost feel the 70s nostaliga(thats the best word i can think of at this point).for me anyways hits me with all kinds of images
therealCanablisS 1 year ago
james is alive
maxmc 1 year ago
unreal....
therealCanablisS 1 year ago
James Brown was the Mozart of our (and when i say "our" I mean black, poor yes white too, downtrodden, any kind of minority or mixed race mothafucka) time. People wanna downgrade him. He was a consumate musician, bandleader and businessman. He stood up for self and let the funk prevail. Yeah, in his declining years he said some disparaging shit about "brothers." How would you feel if your own people tried to steal from you incessantly, discredit you and act like animals? James Brown forever!!!!!
BreezelyBruin 1 year ago 18
@BreezelyBruin brothers need jobs!
muddyreefer 7 months ago 2
West End ATLANTA
MrDSmooth56 1 year ago
omfg... i colapsed on this fckn song.... this is the shit
brdodjandje 1 year ago
Nuthin but the truth....this is real music!
GovernerGeneral 1 year ago
Not only a very funky record, but a very educational and positive one that is timeless. Should be played on radio stations all the time!
macdance71 1 year ago 7
@macdance71 Yes sir! The "GodFather" gave us the sounds; that energized our Mind, body, and soul.
lowendfella 1 year ago
@lowendfella AMEN!!!!
macdance71 1 year ago
J Dilla sampled this for "Stakes Is High" by DeLaSoul
9991allday 1 year ago 4
These were the days of dressing in your "Regal-Bucks" & starched "Dickies"; and letting your flag hang from your back pocket. Hot Damn! We sho' nuff' set a world-wide trend with this thing that was ours. (To all the survivers keep the feet moving in the right-direction.)
lowendfella 1 year ago
oh this does it for me :-)
teltronicz 1 year ago
always gotta love bboying too mr brown and the group
evikt14 1 year ago
fb fam better get up on this if you dont no ask someone who does
zookeeper43 1 year ago 2
~ ♪♫..Vibes...♪♫♪ ~ ;-j
ELGROOVER 1 year ago
I remember when they would put this on at the roller rink ...if you were not on the floor already you would not find no room ..........Kenwood Academy 1983 Chicago Illinois
Gullahboy 1 year ago 2
Awesome!
usualsuspectsmovemen 1 year ago
Everybody sampled this song. Soul For Real "stay", Monifah "I still love you" , and I think Total sampled it to.
lpc0615 1 year ago
This song was SAMPLED FOR BLACK EYED PEAS song "THEY DONT WANT MUSIC (Monkey Business LP) along The same JAMES
funkberto 1 year ago
Great track. Love the lyrics.
xanyleon 2 years ago 2
The GB Experience he's referring to is the Gary Byrd Experience. Gary was a dj at WWRL (AM) in New York along with Frankie Crocker, Hank Spann, Gregory, etc. He later went to WLIB and WBLS (where he is today), also in NYC. He also collaborated with Stevie Wonder. A pioneer.
Streamline09 2 years ago
thats interesting.how do you no this.i no gary bird the crown ,is this the same gb
teltronicz 1 year ago
@teltronicz James knew all the R&B radio d.j.s throughout the country, and since he had a home in Queens where WWRL was located (Woodside), he would have known the various disc jockeys there. Though younger than Frankie Crocker (who was an MC for James at the Apollo in '68), Gary Byrd was also a member of the Buffalo Brigade, which included Crocker and Hank Spann. Imhotep (now on WBLS) had a program I used to listen to called the GBE: the Gary Byrd Experience. Thanks for asking!
Streamline09 1 year ago
@Streamline09 Oh yeah, being from the Jersey Shore we got the New York stations. I remember Hank "Have Mercy Now!" Spann and Gary Byrd. I still have Byrd's 45 of "Soul Traveling."
njblack73 1 year ago
@njblack73 You can now check out Imhotep Gary Byrd on his Sunday talk show online at WBLS. Sadly, Hank Spann, "The Soul Server," died last fall (October 2009).
Streamline09 1 year ago
@Streamline09 Thanks. Man, sorry to know that Hank passed.
njblack73 1 year ago
i just love the visual picture that springs to mind when he be wearin a half, a half pressed suit from the pawn shop and ten inch shoes. yes yes yes! there will be no funk greater than this. X
mamarouxxx 2 years ago
i think its tennis shoes sorry for blowing your image
i love the line bout the catfish head stew
hood67 2 years ago 3
@mamarouxxx - LOL! It's tennis shoes! That's funny!
PaulDA2000 2 years ago
i know. listened to it again and you're right. damn. much prefer 10 inch shoes though, always made me laugh. X
mamarouxxx 2 years ago
So phonkay! :-)
BishopsJazz 2 years ago
my favorite james brown track. get never tired hearin' it. thanks for the upload..
lockkai 2 years ago 5
GREAT EAR FOR MUSIC.
dionreedsamurai 2 years ago 5
JB kicks it like always. Great man. I really miss him... :(
oDJOldskull 2 years ago 34
@oDJOldskull really?! Good music, but don't think all those women he beat up would miss him much.
MegaTati07 7 months ago
4:01 hell yeah
julescoltrane 2 years ago 3
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e d u c a T o r s !
TheMistygeneral 2 years ago
OH BABY!
grossda410 2 years ago 3
They Don't Want Music!!!!!
B.E.P <3<3<3<3
FreShitax3 2 years ago
Mind Power----"Balck Eyed Peas!"..They Don't Want Music....all they want is the boom-boom-boom!" JB started the phrase, "it is what it is!"
deepsix7 2 years ago 4
hes a genius who was born so poor yet died so rich.
marcieval 2 years ago 43
@marcieval Hy student, all genius born poor yet dying leaving welt of rich dom for us the coming generations to dig within, my man look around you the best is yet to come i think, take good care yes you can
1999GEO 1 year ago
THE RINK ZONE 1980!!!!!
lasvegas881 2 years ago 3
the pronunzayzian
I can understand !
I
I
I can understand !
voorstevius 2 years ago 2
gimme a taste Jimmy, gimme taste...
hit meeeh
admoody 2 years ago 3
"You know them Stakes Is High, when you dealing with the 'Viibes, vibrations"
chicagoconnoisseur 2 years ago 6
My favorite JB track, as edgy as fuck
brucepig 2 years ago 3
@brucepig woop woop have another listen then
therealCanablisS 1 year ago
The bassline is so deep.
mayena 2 years ago 5