James Brown - Make It Funky - Pts. 1 & 2

[franz909]

Master Musician , Innovator , creator , arranger , conductor , song writer ... this wasn't on the radio in Georgia , he HAD TO CREATE the FUNK and everybody else are just imitators . Sorry MJ , when you make a song bout a RAT , you're kicked out of the soul club . 

[pdddddp1]

The very DEFINITION of the word "funk", i don't give a hard fard WHAT Merriam Webster says!

[fnknebula]

We use to ROLLER ROCKER JAM HELLA DOWN skating to this. I did things I was afraid to do on skates while I was skating to this. I've got Parts 1,2,3,& 4 on two 45's and all 4 parts on a CD. Every time I hear this song I can't set still. When they take it to the bridge, it's so FUNKY it can't be topped or repeated. For that moment in time, James and the band grabbed the groove by the tail and snapped it like a whip.!!!!! ( This groove is so pure that this is Funk DNA )

[MrKenndawg]

Y'all Smell That????? Ooooooooo-Weeee {:o

[Dactuck]

Candied Yam!. Good God!

[lovfunkymusic]

grits n gravy!!! funky!!!!

[samarvem]

James music was so funky i just get goosebumps whenever i hear it,i think i'll go jump in the shower,afterwards get me some cornbread and buttermilk,nuff said.

[titusanndeborah]

Skate we will! That use to be my saying back in the day. Oh Yeah!

[melow3x]

These young chumps done forgot how to make it funky......

[tp10488]

4 teabaggers disliked this

[nickholmesbeats]

j dilla sampled this for i dont know

[Dactuck]

God bless the FUNK!

[kellytaylor407]

Man, we used to skate to this!!!

[TheSeriousmrkarate]

Candied Yams and Smotha'd Steak!

[TheSeriousmrkarate]

Buttamilk!

[TheSeriousmrkarate]

When I order food at a restaurant and the waitress or waiter asks me how would I like my steak, I reply with a James Brown style cool expression relaxed on my face, I lean back casual and say "Make it funky" lol.

[TheSeriousmrkarate]

On Slum Villages track titled "I Don't Know", James Brown voice clips are sampled from this song in that one from SV. Dilla knew where the samples where at! Gotta make it funky. James Brownzilla and Dilla Zilla! along with Bootszilla lol.

[USMCHelogunner]

If you're ever having a bad day, when things just aren't going right, MAKE IT FUNKY!

[Retr0Master]

This is almost too much funk. Almost broke my neck bobbing my head.

[LondonAcidHouse1988]

Easily the best set of comments I've ever seen on a YouTube video - fun, humorous but also intelligent and in a good friendly spirit. Kind of fitting that they go with such a great tune. 

[musics56]

you better start funking with the music

[waltinhopai]

Tardes incríveis,lá em São João de Meriti,com a rapazida,curtindo,mr.Brown!Tem­po bom,não volta mais...

[Otis461]

This bring back so many memories back in my skating days in Chicago with me and my friends.

[curtisjones400]

This was my favorite James Brown song they were doing a dance back then called the "PENGUIN'-if you don't know what the penguin dance is -it is the dance that Jerome always does on the TV show Martin

[pdddddp1]

MO-BEEL GUMBO!

[pdddddp1]

MAN!.....the bridge is TOOOO funky.

[jamescoco100]

nigga



[closer7771]

Mr. Brown was right! He can't hep it Byrd!!!

[asifwekere]

A true legendary classic from a one of a kind artist..... It is so funky!

[JAASIM99]

thumbs up if u cant c the dislike bar

[BomquishaDavis]

@FolkloreHymn  As the Godfather would say "whatseneva"!

[BomquishaDavis]

@FolkloreHymn If it wasn't for Usher Augusta would not have the statue of James Brown Downtown in his own hometown....so...don't diss Usher!

[TheHawkster2012]

I love when he goes to the bridge...FUNKY

[gallego23]

2 guys arent funky enough

[DancingSpiderman]

it's 300AM ... I DON'T NEED NO SUNDAY MORNING CHURCH.

I got it all right here... what I need...I got it RIGHT HERE.

This is all need for right now.

LeeMe alone.

I'm all right.

Nhere, an now.

[odiugelcnu]

"I can't help it Byrd!"

"I see you up on your leg brother!"

He was the innovator and everyone else are the imitators!!!!

[nakedmambo]

Love this! It's like deluxe porn music.

[timmy841212]

@nakedmambo lmao

[calvinlotz]

The intro is genius.

[pdddddp1]

IT'S ALL THIS FUNK!

[pdddddp1]

somethin' STANK !

[TheFakenGay]

2 people don't know how to make it funky !

[curtisjones400]

When this song was out the people were doing a dance to it called the "Penguin"

[aceinco]

snap peas... mobile gumbo... hot cornbread... watermellon... this song makes me hungry!! .... make me hungry... make me hungry... make me hungry...

[Gunnercv]

To the bridge, to the bridge!

[hapzap13]

The Godfather in all of his glory.....

[MegaJamesUsa]

what you going to play know ?

[EBANO882]

OLHA AI DE ONDE COMEÇOU O FUNK E O REI

[EBANO882]

OLHA AI DE ONDE COMEÇOU O FUNK

[EarthsAngels]

Whoa....

[retrospect4life1]

Neck bones-candy yams-turnips !!!!!

[BomquishaDavis]

@retrospect4life1 smothered snake...smothered steak!



[yowzephyr]

The sax from 4:10 to 5:46, funkiest sax ever recorded by man.

[tonyjrify]

damn!!!!! i sho nuff feel like gettin funky right now!!!!!!! i saw james in his hey day and towards the end he wuz the baddest m.f. i ever did see! and thats the truth! nobody could match his live shows on the planet! when i saw james for the first time in 1964 i wuz 9years old and he tore the stage up! he always gave 100 percent when he the flames the band and the support acts hit that damn stage. bar none ya hear me!!!!

[yowzephyr]

@tonyjrify I hears ya! James be baaad!!! baaad!!! baaad!!! baaad!!! baaad!!!

[kariebeez]

@tonyjrify I hear you.

[oOViperrrr6Oo]

Dilla

[MultiGoruto]

No one will ever be as funky as James brown like bruce lee he's the best.

[bassharmonica1]

i must find bass tabs for this amazing funky stuff

[456and7strings]

Now that's funking funky.

[KTBEverlasting]

This beats all that horrible rap mess they got today and I was born in 1990

[timmy841212]

Hey guys!!!! I posted the FULL version a few days ago, check my videos. Thanks! :)

Timmy841212

[TheSkoobey]

This is SICK. Buh-nuh-nuhnuhnuh

[jackrebel601]

Wishing all the Parts (1234) were together to make it it even more funky than it was already super funky of all the funky anyway!

[timmy841212]

@jackrebel601 Hey. :) Once I can find the full version, I'll upload it as when I originally uploaded it, you can only upload up to ten minutes lol

[soulbrothanumbahone]

@jackrebel601 I just so happned uploaded the full version of this a couple of weeks ago. I got all four parts together about 12-15 years ago on a james brown 2 disc compilation. I', not sure if it's still in print or not, but I got it from one of the record clubsBMG, or Columbia House.

@ Timmy, Great channel!

[timmy841212]

@soulbrothanumbahone Thanks. Oddly enough I just uploaded the full version too lmao but it's all good thanks for posting. :)

[veryveryboredperson]

Lol i couldnt scroll down because the music funked out my scroll bar, literally froze

[IceCold007]

I guess 1 person don't know how to make it FUNKY

[JulinhodeAdelaide]

@IceCold007 Nah, prolly a misclick :)

[kenaisi]

...everytime tiz song played..the dancing floor is flooded, one of them is me...

[dreid1500]

What fool voted down this jam.

[TheAstrofighter]

the king is alive...

[clothedon]

Listen 2 this b4 u go 2 work and your day seems 2 go good...

[yowzephyr]

At 1:14 thru 1:50 that organ trill you hear symbolizes birdsong. Only male birds sing. That trill represents virility.

[owiz9212]

The Greatest of All Time. Often imitiated, never duplicated.

JB is the Original O.G. Forty years later, and still badass.....

[Nanadsyl]

Funkier than a old batch of collard greens!

[spanishkg123]

Its impossible to even go near the dislike button.

[develynn1]

R.I.P. RAYMONd Lee WAShINGToN !!

[bravewarrior777788]

HAHA WHERE MY STEPPERS AT!!!!!! GOOD GOD!!!HAHA THERE WILL NEVER EVER BE  ANOTHER MR. DYNAMITE NECKBONES CANDIED YAMS MAKE IT FUNKY THE ONLY ONE THATS CLOSE IS PRINCE!!!KEEP IT TIGHT

[bravewarrior777788]

HAHA WHERE MY STEPPERS AT!!!!!!

[itsPLURbitch]

whats in ever i play....

[IrisMG]

I just wish they'd put horn sections back in dance music!

[CaponeFavilla1]

Funk, two, three, Funky!

[Dactuck]

BadASS!

[TheDrTommysun]

Im 15 and i wish we had artist that actually sang without voice alterations like James Brown. :(

[HypeRhymz]

@TheDrTommysun i'm 15 too and i feel the same way

[kennethowens1897]

@ Eddyb6666; That's a stone cold trip u mentioned that but 1st my condolences to you father. 2ndly, I can very much relate somewhat to your comment.. My father took me to my very 1st concert which was J.B. & ironically he took me to what was James' last concert in L..A. How coincidental how our father's were involved in our music!!

[rw5791]

would somebody please answer that phone.

[thelilblackduck]

Long Live King James - Baddest of the Bad - No Doubt!

[Queenalso]

Me and my oldest son danced to this at my wedding. We had a ball!

[DancingSpiderman]

2:47 NECK-BONE...

[rcafasso1]

I agree guys. He was a great performer. And his band was flawless.

[ronrico7337]

whas en ever I play is got to be funky

[rhfactorseven]

Do tell What were u doin then, perhaps makin it fuuunnkky

[noodlam]

Love it. ROOTS!

[CanoSunjata24]

"Bobby I dont know...But whats and eva I play..its gots to be funky" R.I.P Godfather of Soul

[rhfactorseven]

@CanoSunjata24 Seriously though, Roots to da nappy hair.

[CanoSunjata24]

@rhfactorseven Fo'sho

[zzzxxyy]

If I only had the power to raise the dead.

[rhfactorseven]

@zzzxxyy let the funk live on just rise to the occasion..

[BOMBQUISHADAVIS]

Thanks Mr. Brown, I stayed in school like you told me....what an encouragement you were to many black children, especially the kids in Augusta who attended Jr High right down the street from your home, in a neighborhood we were told we would never live in......

you showed us all things are possible!!!!!!!

[mrintimateluva]

Loved the Godfather then and still love him now. To me he is the greatest of all time. He was definitely a major reason why I love music and dancing and playing the saxophone. You talk about dancing off make it funky when I was a teenager plus all his songs we would get down with RIP JB

[curtisjones400]

@mrintimateluva wow i remember those days i was 16 years old when this song came out we use to form a soul trian line at the high school dances-the man is a legend-He is truly the Godfather of Soul

[Roninartillery]

Peace to the Godfather of Soul, and the Architect of Hip Hop...

[mistersir418]

...dis dat phunkie-stank-toe-jam-head-bop­pin-wanna-smack-ur-own-momma-p­hunkie-phunk!!!...pppphhhhheee­eewwwwww!!!!!!!.....dat b's sum phunk!!!!...

[dhctwo]

So funky, it hurts...gimme more!!

[wordreet]

It's too funky in here! JB was a perfectionist, even though this may seem like a jam session. Check that bass line! Then Maceo comes in with his sax!

And guess what.

 I got ants in my pants!

B¬)

Thanx for sharing Timmy. I only have part1 on my JB 50th anniversairy CD

[IkeDysonSOUL]

@wordreet

That is NOT Maceo on the sax. That is St Clair Pinckney. Don't you hear James saying, "Come on Pink"?

[timmy841212]

@IkeDysonSOUL Plus Maceo's sax lines never reached that high, far as I know. Yeah he's clearly calling out "Pink".

[IkeDyson71]

@timmy841212

St Clair Pinckney died in 1999. He said in interviews that because Maceo was the most famous of James Brown's musicians, sometimes when he was playing on stage, people would call out, "Play it Maceo." He would shout back, "Thanks, bro, but I'm not Maceo..."

Besides Maceo Parker did not work for james Brown when this song was recorded (1971). Maceo left in 1970, and came back in 1973.

Sent you a vid with a St Clair Pinckney solo in da middle...

[wordreet]

@IkeDysonSOUL Ah. No, I missed that. I know Maceo wasn't there all the time. And now that I've checked, which I should have done before, this was released in '71, Maceo's second year with Maceo and All The Kings Men!

[tljones9]

Say what you will....but if it wasn't for the Godfather, half of these rappers from the '80s to today would not have careers!

[timmy841212]

@tljones9 No one will argue about that. I agree 110%.

[dlonegunman]

@tljones9 No arguments here ! This is THE FUNKIEST !!!!!!

[IkeDysonSOUL]

@tljones9

HALF od them? Get the fuck outta here!

Without James Brown there would BE no rap...

[timmy841212]

@IkeDysonSOUL LOL true.

[oOOpIIIqOOo]

@timmy841212 the best sequence of comments ive seen on a brown video!

[renkar820]

@IkeDysonSOUL Word Up!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lukyganesh]

@IkeDysonSOUL emphasis on the BE

[voltrumiks]

@IkeDysonSOUL uu i see a hater here...

[MrJP75]

@IkeDysonSOUL AMEN TO THAT!!!

[Lukin4SumthnReal]

@IkeDysonSOUL -Ain't that the TRUTH!!!

[MrJaylon71]

@IkeDysonSOUL without james brown no rap,no rock no modern music.....PERIOD..... and im white!!!!!!! lol

[curtisjones400]

@tljones9 it is sad that these young rappers don't realize how famous James Brown was especially during the Civil Rights Movement he was no just a musician he was a black activist also-he spoke to his people through his music like the song "Say it Loud I am Balck and I am Proud"

[pluggedin2u]

@tljones9  All of them, my brother, all of them. Mr. Brown was the foundation.

[mrintimateluva]

@tljones9 I agree 110% 

[kingod615]

@tljones9 80's and early 90's but not todays rappers and producers

[wallofvideo]

@kingod615 which of today's rappers & producers do you have in mind?

[kingod615]

@wallofvideo on the producers side lex luger, justice leauge,cool and dre, toomp and rappers currencey,jeezy,j.cole its just a diffrent time alot of artist still sample but most of them want OG beats so they dont have to pay royaltys

[TheJdiggity101]

@tljones9 deff menng hip hop originated as funk there wud be nuttin today ...juss these fags listenin to dubstep

[MrMactab]

whas-n-ever i play gots to be funky, somebody slap yo mamma cause she made it funky

[hargotube]

This is not polyrythmic funky...

This is just FUNK

[telak2]

The funkiest!

[yowzephyr]

This music caused a disturbance in the space/time continuum. It made God dance. That had actually never happened to Him before. He listened to this over and over and kinda lost focus on stuff. Oh well.

[Ifunkfm]

that organ kills me 

[hagnuj]

The bridge just drops you into a different zone..man he knew when to shut up!!!!

[gailousl]

I knew EXACTLY what he was saying...you must be old school too! On yeah, you forgot the grita and gravy!

[timmy841212]

@gailousl Grits and gravy... Bobby was shouting "pass the peas" too lol

[gailousl]

I knew EXACTLY what he was saying...you must be old school too!

[builtinshape]

james brown is and will remain a legend cause everytime he hit the studio he start getting hungry, and make other people hungry. he got food for the funk and the funk for the soul!!!!! R.I.P. JB

[lmallen77]

My second all time favorite James Brown song beside The Big Payback! Cause he is talking about food Smothered Steak, Cracklin Bread.Turnip Greens . Neck Bones. Candied Yams. Grits and Gravy. Buttermilk. Snap Peas, Moblie Gumbo, A Hunk of Corn Bread. Ya See I Speak Brown!!! I bet most of you didn't even know what he was saying!? MAKE IT FUNKY Beotch !!

[timmy841212]

@lmallen77 LOL! Oh I knew. ;) James ain't even that hard to understand once you start to listen to what he has to say. It makes sense he put all that food in there. The ingredients to make things funky hahaha

[LondonAcidHouse1988]

@lmallen77 there's some really goodtime fun but inteligent too comments for this tune pity all You Tube can't be as decent and well meaning

[Aadonis219]

Neckbone ! 

[hapzap13]

Mr James Brown and George Clinton pioneered polyrhythmic funk !!!

[timmy841212]

@hapzap13 Exactly!

[khalilasbro]

lol this mofo just named my all time food favorites

[freddypknight]

Try this: Just out of the blue, using the same intonation of Bobby Byrd in the opening of this record, ask, "What you gon' play now?" If the person you ask is not hip, you'll get some wacky response like, "Well, I was just thinking about my friends . . ." But if that person is indeed hip, the reply will be just like James Brown's: "Bobby, I don't know. But whasn'ever I play, it's got to be funky." And then you chime in with, "Yeah."

[Coltsie]

the godfather of soul himself baby :)

[djlilfoot1]

all i have 2 say is. that the name of the song speaks for it self and he was truly the hardest working man in show bizness and still is if you ask me R.I.P. JAMES BROWN

[ioxxd90]

YES INDEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[blaquemark]

Everything you did JB was RAW PHUNK...thank you for blessing us with the PHUNK!

[BeyondInfinit]

thurr will neva b anotha bandleader/MC like dis again.......incredible band.....and songz r all legendary.......THE G.O.A.T.

[123djblive]

what about george clinton??!!

[cen1276]

@123djblive George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, James Brown, and Sly Stone ALL epitomized music in the name of the Funk.

[arkansoul]

A song doesn't really get "funky" until people start clapping to it. Now, you're talking about some major league funk right there...

[cen1276]

@arkansoul Shhhoooot I'm clapp'n right now!!!!

[decioa]

Ha ha, Ha ha..

[eddyb6666]

this is the jam , as a kid my dad took me to get my 1st album and he got me " james brown live at the apollo " , james died in 2006 , so did my dad , but my memory of both of them will never die , i know my dad is up there in the 1st row , jamming to james , r.i.p. dad and james " LONG LIVE THE FUNK "

[tompaixaoreporter]

@eddyb6666 you are a happy man, very happy, i think!

[kiddfunknyc]

@eddyb6666 And Gerald Ford told James ...wait for me BRO!!!!

[LondonAcidHouse1988]

@kiddfunknyc that's really clever and funny.... lol.

[summerdiva1]

@eddyb6666 I hope he is sitting next to my Grandmother. She took my sister and I to the Apollo whenever he was there back in the day, from the 60's into the early 70's. She died in 1979. Funk it up for me, granny!

[ltinsley2]

JB and MJ are gone. Prince and Stevie are the two last greats still with us. God bless them ALL!!! thanks for posting! great quality!

[SethChillis]

@ltinsley2

I could not of said that better myself!

[ltinsley2]

@SethChillis Thanks my friend!

[freddypknight]

@ltinsley2 My friend, what you state about JB and MJ is surely true and we are saddened by it. There are, however, many "greats" still with us: Gladys Knight, Sly Stone, Chaka Khan, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, K & The Gang -just to name a few. Yes, God bless them ALL!

[ltinsley2]

@freddypknight Yes that's true. They and so many others are indeed considered greats. However, there are some in that upper tier of greats that transcend time. Some make their mark in the industry and enjoy a certain level of notoriety for a period of time, then it's those whose catalog runs for years (even after death) and attain universal acclaim beyond appealing to just certain age groups. A 10 yr old can tell you something about MJ and JB. This may not hold true in the case of the others