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  • Proper Music! Funk it up! for those who feel it!

  • The comments here are very interesting to say the least. Reading the "funk vs. hip hop" debate got me thinking: Funk is like a chromed out black Harley Davidson. In comparision, Hip Hop is like a plastic orange Big Wheel.

  • Not a bad album----I actually bought it when it was released----but too sterile. It needed George Clinton's funky touches to "funk it up."

  • This is used at the beginning of I Know You Got Soul...Eric B. and Rakim...Paid In Full!!!!

  • Wonderful song! Why was Connections & Disconnections never available on CD? Or am I wrong? Could find just super-expensive LPs... :(

  • Drum sample is used by rapper Schoolly D on "Do It, Do It"

  • The beatboxing at the end is Biz Markee, right? I love that. Also this song kicks ass. Reminds me of Daft Punk for some reason.

  • i used to cut this sure shot

  • This is the other, beakaway, Funkadelic. No George Clinton here.

  • the ending reminds me of the ending of the Fraggle Rock theme.. maybe it's just the rhyhtm, not sure :D

  • back when musicians were musicians, awesome!

  • This is a bad album!! I can't believe it was not as big as the others! Despite the fact George was missing from the entourage.

  • Somebody was cutting this up in WildSTYLE!!

  • Celestrial beauty in this raw funk.

  • MS > NWA

  • I kno you got soul-Eric B. and Rakim

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  • N.W.A

  • Thanks Assmaster. Sent the info you needed to your personal channel. Waiting to hear back from ya.

  • Looking for the cut "Come Back" off this album. Can you help?

  • @kevinh820 Hard to find unless someone has the 1981 vinyl. Funkadelic released the CD with a different version of Come Back that sounds nothing like the original.

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  • @kevinh820 yes i have this give me your email and ill send it to you just because im a nice guy

  • @assmaster09 could you send it to me too?

  • this is funk. learn it, love it, live it...

  • it's a nice song but come on this is no where near a george clinton produced song and as we now know via TVONE UNSUNG EVERYONE DID GEORGE WRONG BAND MEMBERS LAYWERS ONLY THOSE WHO STAY WITH GEORGE AFTER HE WAS FORCE TO GO SOLO LIKE BOOTSY, EDDIE, BERNIE PLILIPPE' FRED, MACEO

  • @tempts2000 I'm far from an expert, but from a whole bunch of interviews I read, George did the original Parliaments and Funkadelics a lot worse than they ever did him. There's a really good article on them all in wax poetics.

  • @garmonbozia318 If that is the case how come everybody eles got paid and George is still trying to get the rights to his own music . those others jumped ship before the money stop rolling.

  • @garmonbozia318 also they took the name before George could copy right it thinking that with his friends it wouldnt come to that I know Fuzzy came u[p with the name in 69' but that that was before the jealousy kicked in because George would give anybody a job.

  • @garmonbozia318 i think the parliaments left because they were being sidelined for new people like glenn goins. also i think the drug scene might have been too much for them, and the pcofj. but as far as money goes, everybody in p-funk got screwed over equally. over the years p-funk had like 30+ plus members, 30 years later the pie cant be that big to cut up since the record companies get most of the money. george works wit anybody, who else could work wit sly stone and get him to show up?

  • damn this a nice song don't have and the P FUNK STYLE OFGEORGE AND THE FUNK MOB BUT IT'S COOL. SONG.

  • It's been along time, I shouldn't have left you

  • @lamareaton Without a strong rhyme to step to?

  • @TheRealNBays I Know You Got Soul

  • fuzzy and the gang fakin the funk

  • sadly, probably the only good song from that album.

  • GREAT MUSIC AND YET ANOTHER FUNKADELIC/PARLIAMENT CUT THAT WAS OVERLOOKED WHEN ORIGINALLY RELEASED. GREAT DANCE TRACK, ESPECIALLY THE PIANO & HOUSEY SOUND EFFECTS(!), AND THANK YOU FOR POSTING - SEE ALSO "ONE BAD APPLE" BY THE OSMONDS OR J5-LOVE YOU SAVE. DAVEDJ

  • "let's talk about meth"

  • Rakim/Eric B. "You I Got Soul" drum sample...Anotha P-Funk contribution to the culture!!!

  • @meechamaka411 It's not quite a P-Funk tune...around 1980 there was a huge riff within the P-Funk organization (more than likely over money among other problems).Grady,Simon & Fuzzy (part of the original Parliament/Funkadelic) split from the core group and formed their own Funkadelic group with one LP-Connections & Disconnections (which this tune came from)..More confusing that George,Bernie and the rest came out w/ Electric Spanking of War Babies at the same time....

  • @uVueD2b thank you was a pretty decent album tho

  • @meechamaka411 omg thnk you! i was seriously sitting here for ten minute trying to think what eric b song this sounded like.

  • whoooooo!!!!

  • very popular sample from the original P Funk, doo wop crew minus Clinton

  • From Sequence - "Funk You Up" from 1979

  • sounds like a jackson five song at the begining

  • this is funk, you poop it

  • With or without George, that's some funky shit! :-)

  • one of my funkadelic favorites

  • eric b and rakim comes to mind of course

    but shit this is a nice funkadelic cut too!

  • its been a long time, i shouldnta left you

  • DAMN OLD SCHOOL SAMPLE

  • Crazy! I swear I dropped three pennies on the record needle starting at 1:07 when I recorded this track onto my pc along time ago! My pc crashed and now im hearing it again. Probably a coincidence but that would be nuts if it was the same recording

  • You can say what you want, but no bass line in the universe catches you so much than the bass lines of tha great P-FUNK ! Bow down, we're not worthy, we're not worthy !

  • product of the funkadelic funk wars

  • no george?

  • the bass line is very similar to nightcrawler by bob james. who was first?

  • @codini2000 HEY good ear. I didn't even noticed that. Well, I'm waking up right now. It is correct, same bass line. Nightcrawler is from 1977. By the way I gotta find it again in my crates.

  • how can I get the lyric?

  • @kanning2gou you dont have them memorized?

  • yea off the top you heard that eric b

  • Rakim Sampled the intro of this beat. this is the original beat...

  • my GOD, what is this, this is awesome!!!

  • @Hermy11380's funk lol

  • @Hermy1138 this is funk. live it, breath it, eat it...

  • "its been a long tiiime!"

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  • u can hear the beginning of this song was in straight outta compton

  • I know you got soul - Eric B and Rakim - what version of Straight Outta Compton are you referring to?

  • Nah, your right funky, I didn't go back far enough to see the analogy....kids AREN"T giving credit where it's due going back to 1985 or 86 when sampling really took off. But two wrongs don't make right for the likes of Dusty Fingers and other trackminers.

  • classic funkadelic jam, the entire album is timeless!! currently in my collection of vinyl! this old school funk never gets old! peace!

  • @djbenzo1 AS so I...somebody should post "The Witch" up in this peace. It is a GREAT album.

  • ahaha rakim i know you got soul! so thats where he got that drum line

  • This is so good

  • They couldn't do it like George Clinton and they couldn't walk a mile in they're shoes or dance a beat in they're shoes.

  • I think you NEED to undestand that the folks in THIS band were THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF P-FUNK. THEY were the driving force behind their earlier sounds before Clinton allowed Bootsy and Phelps to steer the mothership. Know your history..don't talk what you THINK you know.

  • Know Calvin,Fuzzy,Grady, were very important to the movement,you have to get smart dude.This is a cool cut,yeah I like it now.

  • @mightyblack1 I'm confused by your statement becuase you said THEY couldn't do it like him or walk a mile in his shoes..have you heard this CD in its entirety? The album was better than anything that game out post Knee Deep by Parliament or Funkadelic...they got blackballed because they told the truth about what it was like working with George once he snorted all the millions they made in the 70's. No offense to the Dr. but these guys eclipsed all the P-Funk projects Clinton put together.

  • Yeah P Funk lost a step when those guys left but I guess I more pro George.

  • mighty..nothing wrong with that you really can't knock what he JB and Bootsy have done for blak music in general. I remember when they were on Soul Train performing "Connections and Disconnections" (the ablum was actually named THAT instead of it's current re-issued title) and I thought "these cats ripped off George Clinton..fakers". When Don C. introduced them the names clicked and I bought the album anway but I always thought it was GC's way of getting back @ Casablanca.

  • No he would be getting back at Warner Bros. Thats was funkadelic's record company

  • I feel curious about this libanese's comment... I wonder why his/her post was deleted... whatever... Funk rules!!! damn is so great!!!

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  • 好聽

    GOOD

  • u must be white.......only you whiteboys be breaking down sample lists for the masses. Thas sacrilege to the hip-hop world and you know it. We accepted you into hip-hop and and 15 years later you're breakin down the Producer/DJ's masterpieces for a profit. And don't give me that "You brothas was samplin white music!".......that don't have nothin to do with the heresy of givin up the secrets of hip-hop production made pre-1990(before sample clearance laws).

  • It is and it isn't. I'm black..been black 44 years and I'll tell you THIS...what hip-hop did to funk was sacrilege. It stopped ghetto kids who CREATED the music with live instrumrnts and turned them into lazy theives. What the record company owners did to the likes of old balck recording artists is what's being done today my the "young guns". NOT GIVING CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE. It a shame that white folks have to teach black folks about OUR music. Stay black rann1968

  • @funkysample im a b-boy. child of hip hop. and we gave MUCH respect to artists like this. maybe you feel offended but hip hop was pioneered on more than just funk. please know this!

    we used rock also. call it thievery if you want, but you just sound scorned,

    we were too poor to own instruments so we extended classic beats. you should feel honored instead on walkng around with a stick up your azz.

    ALL hip hop records have to give credit to the samples. try buying a rap CD and looking

  • mr.philly..please don't test the knowledge ( I too am a child of hip-hop)..but allow me to remove the stick and beat you over the head with it with some KNOWLEDGE: Are you saying that the musical pioneers that the hip-hop artists STOLE their beats from were RICHER than THEM??!! JB was dirt poor but self taught in 8 instruments..Aretha Franklin..George Clinton..and BLUES ARTIST..dirty poor..lived in poverty..self taught on thier instruments. DJ's hit labels from thei rivals (cont.).

  • @funkysample you seem upset.

    if so,exactly why? where did i mention anything about anyone being rich?

    your precious funk has been surpassed by hip hop. thats a fact. all the crying youre doing wont bring it back.

    bottom line is YOUR DUMBAZZ cant respect hip hop and you need an outlet. so you create the FALSE belief that hip hop owes its existence to funk.

    hip hop owes its existence to a number of music forms.

    and you arent a child of hip hop. youre a washed up, funk, has been.

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  • Guess again, and what's with the name calling? Do you not know how to speak like an adult?

  • @Kell1295 get a life. that was discussed over a month ago

  • Then remove it or I might comment again...and I have a "very" good life thank you :)

  • @Kell1295 seems to me that you have a miserable life. enjoy it

  • Yeah but it's pretty darn good. Stop being such a petty little douche.

  • @Kell1295 you took offense over an old expired comment. and you think im the petty douche?

    enjoy that misery

  • mr phil..where was the so called "credit" during those days? Hip-hop was FORCED to name their sources and even THAT constitutes a "bar" limit. To break it down to YOUR dumbaz, if I used a certain portion of your song I DON'T have to list you as a credit..MANY hip-hop artists still follow this rule. Some hip-hop artist WILL..but only because they were FORCED to do so. Buy FUNDMC by People Under the Stairs and see how many "credited" artist THEY listed from beats THEY jacked. Try again...son.

  • BTW...THIS SONG was NEVER CREDITED on the original of Eric B and Rakim's "Paid in Full". How do I know...I HAVE IT....B-BOY.

  • Jeru The Damaja - Statik

  • Funky Powaa guys, that is awesome shit ^^

    Really sounds goo :D

  • gag damn this is funky shit. ooooo im in love

  • wow. just wow. So THIS is where the know you got soul sampled beat is from. After what, 22 years, I finally know where eric b. and rakim got that beat.

  • yeah right?!

  • Just about every beat from every tune from every band these guys were involved in has been sampled :-)

  • Years ago, this was the first time I heard a soulful Funkadelic song which was completely unexpected.... but I really liked it! I like the way the song has so many twists and turns in its structure that all work exceedingly well, with a perky jazzy/blues piano scat over the top to lift the mood. What a great intro fill and beat too, the world would be a different place without this song but most people probably don't realise.

  • psychadelic funk!

    That what I call funkadelic!

    GET IT?

  • YES THEY WERE MAD AT HIM...

  • gang starr - here today, gone tomorrow

    main source - watch roger do his thang

    doug e fresh -back in the day

    naughty by nature - rhyme'll shine on

  • Definately one of THE most used Breaks used in Hip Hop - not just Eric B but countless others...

  • Salt N" Pepa used it too, you can guess what song.

  • I KNOW YOU GOT SOUL

  • isnt the beginning beat from

    eric b and rakim - i kno you got soul

  • Yes....

  • The begining drum sounds like the start of Jackson 5 I want you back

  • You were listening to the Early 90's remix which hit the chart using THIS Record.

  • im gettin down with my bad self cuttin this rug 2 shreds

  • The beginning drum beat of this cut was sampled by Eric B. and Rakim's I Know You Got Soul!!! Classic!

  • it is also sampled by dr dre on straight outta compton

  • FINAL PART:

    This is the 2nd time this Name-Game happened to a Westbound Band:

    In 1973, the OHIO PLAYERS signed with Mercury, but they were STILL under contract with Westbound. Junie Morrison (who joined in '71) stayed with Westbound and called HIMSELF "The Ohio Players"-and got about 3 albums out of the deal before the REAL OPs sued!! Junie's remaining Westbound albums were under his name. His backing band (formerly The COUNTS) became The CROWD PLEASERS, led by Donald "Thumpdaddy" Payne.

  • Love it! Love it! Love it! Love it! Love it! Love it!

  • you cant jus change the name of a legendary band like this you cunt fuzz funkadelic wehether yuou likie it or not its FUNKADELIC george left for the right reasions

  • You misunderstand:

    George NEVER left--it was Fuzzy, Grady and Calvin WHO left (in July, 1977) over pay disputes. This took out the true Parliaments (leaving only George and Ray). Fuzzy called his group "Funkadelic" and signed them to LAX/MCA, while the TRUE Funkadelic was still with Warners. George SUED...

    and LOST!! (the Capitol Albums of the early '80s were meant as FUNKADELIC albums before the lawsuit.) George got the name back in '88--only to have it bounce out to EDDIE HAZEL.

  • Here's pt. 2:

    George officially wound up calling the whole thang The P-Funk All-Stars for nearly 2 decades before the whole mess could be straightened out-to an extent. He now calls it GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT-FUNKADELIC, while Rev. Haskins-mending fences after a 2 decade feud-calls THIS BAND playing "ORIGINAL 'P' " (meaning Original Parliament).

    Nonetheless, Fuzzy wasn't lying either time: it was FUNKADELIC and PARLIAMENT--via Relation!!! "No Imitaiton, Just Relation!"

  • This offshoot either called themselves FUNKADELIC or ORIGINAL 'P' over the course of it's time. In school, I called them "FUZZ-FUNKADELIC", because technically, it IS Parliament Funkadelic, but with The Reverend Clarence 'Fuzzy' Haskins in the lead, instead of George.

  • i absolutely love this group

  • Love the Lyrics!

  • NWA sampled that :D

  • Is this the only Parlament Funkadelic record that had no involvement from George Clinton?

  • true that, they had a fight, i know it too. i mean you'll like it two. ha ha ha ha ha.

  • Yes.

    Read the inset!

  • eric b rakim u know i got soul

  • I never did understand why the original ' Come Back ' was not the re-release. That joint is no joke! When I met the fellas I actually forgot to ask them why......

  • it's been a long time, i shouldn't of left you...

    rakim

  • I love this album dispite all the backslash becasue it was not created by George, but these guys were with george from the very begining & they had 2 have influenced the music that was created. So i always gave them there props

  • FUNK that punk )

  • Best song on the album is Come Back, but that was dropped on the later release of the album, called Who's a Funkadelic. Strange, that...

  • Will you also play "The Witch"?

    I'll be MORE than happy!

  • Funk at its best.

  • I sure enjoy this Funkadelic!

    My favorite song is "The Witch"!

    The intro is about how George became possessed by witcjery, greed and deceit.

    If you lisen, the narrator says "one of quin",

    meaning George! I can play "The Witch" over and over again and NOT get tired! I know the entire song by heart!

  • true i wish somebody would post that one it is wicked and it'sobvious george should have allowed more input from the guys who started with him in the beg....cause that sly shit much as i luv him wasnt strokin on the funk.a mixture of war babies and trombipulation mixed with the tunes on this album would have kept them from getting that ass kicked by prince and rick,one way and all those other brand named mollyflocks who came thru faking the funk..using the word funk but knowin nutin bout it-P.U.

  • Out of all the Funkadelic Samples people have use in the past...Think Eric B. and Rakim us this one, that's saying alot, with all the other songs and albums that George Clinton was involved in,this was the hottest..in my opinion....WITHOUT GEORGE CLINTON..GO FIGURE!!!!

  • also nwa in str8 outta compton

  • Did'nt say George Clinton had a part in this song. As a child of the funk, Fuzzy, Calvin, and Grady made up this group, George at the time when this came out, was'nt really doing much...in 1981

  • The gang, "FUNKY" was ticked off at GC at the time... Still, they made fantastic music!

    And, of course, they remain good friends.

  • thats whats up.

  • this is not the funkadelic,its cool,but thees guys was on soul train,a 3-d band,at the time george was in and out of court,he told calvin,fuzzy,grady,to lets take it to the stage,let the people see whos a funkadelic

  • Funkadelic - You'll Like It Too!!

  • The opening drums to this song has been sampled so many times. Sampled by Salt-N-Pepa "Lets Talk About Sex" Eric B. & Rakim "I Know I Got Soul". NWA "Straight Outta Compton"

  • funny how they left the group and used the name...how come they couldnt jus make another name for themselves?....oh well history is what it is

  • They did: in 1998, they recorded under the name "Original P" and added Ray Davis into the mix. We (Lisa, my deceased fiancee, who died of colon cancer on September 4, 2003, at the age of 39) saw them perform at B.B. Kings in New York City in July 2002. They put on a wonderful performance, although Calvin wasn't there.

  • You and YOU Too! You'll Like It Too! ;-)

    Funkadelic brings peace to the planet.

  • u can say that again...peace and BALANCE to this un-funky world...its a cold cold world

  • Not Great but its not bad either.

  • you know why? it is GEORGELESS!!!

  • Intro was good he just lost me in the middle

  • Bad jam and LP/ will U post Phunklords & The Witch please!!

  • do a search for Funkadelic - the Witch. It's up by another member. So is Phunklords. I'm hoping he puts up 'Come Back'.

  • bobby byrd - i know you got soul?

  • Crap, this music is taken from my veins! How could you be in a bad mood on this hahaha ?!

  • nice nice nice

  • This when Fuzzy and the boys were trippin' and George was moving in another direction with his tripped out ways.....Lovely still...Brings back lots of great memories because I was a kid during these times Jr high and High school years from 1977 thru 1984......All good .....love the Funk....it is all in me....

    Peace

  • soooo good

  • mmmm

  • ?????????

  • like very mmmm sexyyy

  • anyone have the bass tab?

  • one of the best songs to do locking with !!! just lovin it !!!

  • this had jerry goldstein producing, who was the main producer for WAR, every bit as funky as the Mob in their own way. it had the first of the Parliament vocalists, a band that was groove oriented and the added ingredient of bitterness to make it truly earthy. it ranks as well as a studio-heavy side project of any of the mob, including bootsy, and it may not be a classic like maggot brain, but it is a side project from original P-funk personnel. i dig it for that alone.

  • well put.

    that's why most funk purists don't disregard this LP.

    now for that '88 LP... meh... haha.

  • its been long time i shouldn't of left

  • I found this cd in its original big cardboard sleeve ina detroit record store. By far one of my fav. funkadelic albums, the witch is the shit! WHO CARES IF GEORGE WASNT ON IT

  • Please post "Come Back" or "Connexions and DisConnexions". Lawsuit or not, this waz, iz and will alwayz be from the "P" Tree. Listen to da riddim trax inna backbeat. Pure F*&^%^*n'P

  • Jeru the damaja - Statik (prod. Dj Premier)

  • thx