James Brown Interview

JB could communicate in song.

Q: "How did all this trouble begin?"
A: "Livin' in America."

Q: "Have all the charges been dropped?"
A: "Yeah, I'm out on love.... Alone from night to night you find me...." (The song is "Prisoner of love.")

Q: "And what are you going to say to your fans when they ask you some questions about it?"
A: "I'm gonna say I feel good... papa's got a brand new bag... this is a man's world." [Meaning: I'm great, I still got my swerve... this world was made for men!]

Yeah, everybody loves to think he's totally out of it. He was too. But that's not the point. The point is that this man was a music man and, although out of it, too smart to give a flying shit if the tabloid gossip bullshit press media wanted to portray him how they wanted too. He wasn't gonna play along with rubbish like that. Do you think James Brown was interested in talking to some patronizing reporter about issues that was really none of their business. No, is the answer.

LOL

1 million bux for whoever translates WTF ever it is he said from 1:41-1:45:

"...moizhee,ihnee-ahyeesayzhuh inuh conna mujchuh...No, nagashahng..."
Holy hell, WHAT??!

A friendly word of advice for all the would-be "Godfather's of Soul" out there:
Never do a TV interview when your mouth is full of 'funk'.
But if you absolutely must, just be sure that you go on immediately following Andrew Dice Clay. F-bomb laden rants on live TV will ALWAYS beat out the 'Crack-Mouth' interview.

JAM

hes is cracked out