Brothas be, yo like George, ain't that funkin' kinda hard on you?
Traces the funk music legend's rise from a 1950s barbershop quartet to an influential multigenre artist, discussing his pivotal artistic and business achievements with "Parliament-Funkadelic.".
| Main Authors: | Clinton, George, 1940- (Author), Greenman, Ben (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Atria Books,
2014.
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| Edition: | First Atria Books hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : let's take it to the stage (1978)
- The bomb
- If you hear any noise, it's just me and the boys
- I'm into something and I can't shake it loose
- Friends, inquisitive friends, are asking what's come over me
- Sound a little something like raw funk to me
- Open up your funky mind and you can fly
- Would you like to dance with me? We're doing the cosmic slop
- Everybody get up for the down stroke
- There's a whole lot of rhythm goin' round
- Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip and come on up to the mothership
- When the syndrome is around, don't let your guard down
- So high you can't get over it
- Never missin' a beat
- You can walk a mile in my shoes, but you can't dance a step in my feet
- The dog that chases its tail will be dizzy
- Rhythm and rhyme, rhythm and rhyme, rhythm and motherfucking rhyme
- If anybody gets funked up, it's gonna be you
- You gonna get ate
- Epilogue : Brothas be, yo like George, ain't that funkin' kinda hard on you?
- Appendix A : Selected discography
- Appendix B : Selected sampleography
- Appendix C : Statement of Jane Peterer Thompson.