2008 Woodie Awards
Best band ever: Parliament-Funkadelic
Chris Essig/Online Interactive Editor
Issue date: 10/26/07 Section: Arts and Entertainment
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Who else but the P. Funk masters themselves have influenced everything from jam to hard rock to gangsta rap? Not many, if any at all. Behold, the power of Parliament-Funkadelic.
Don't believe me? Here's proof:
In a recent search at Livedownloads.com, I found that jammers Widespread Panic, who could be compared to the Allman Brothers Band, have covered the Funkadelic classic "Maggot Brain" at least 20 times. Here's just one example.
From one extreme to the other, P. Funk has also been sampled by such rap heavyweights as N.W.A., Cypress Hill, A Tribe Called Quest and Too Short. For more, click here.
They say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. Case in point: Ice Cube's "Givin' up the Nappy Dugout." For starters, Ice Cube took the term from Funkadelics's "Nappy Dugout" which appears on the band's Cosmic Slop album. A few seconds in, we hear George Clinton sing "I can hear my mother call." The song sampled is the title track off of Cosmic Slop.
After Clinton is done, a familiar beat comes into the foreground that is grittier than P. Funk fans will remember it being 30 years ago. The beat is Parliament's "Funkentelechy," which got quite a facelift from Ice Cube, who made it "edgier" but kept the funk intact.
That's three knockoffs in one song, a feat that shows just how influential P. Funk's supergroovalisticprosifunkstication was.
Don't believe me? Here's proof:
In a recent search at Livedownloads.com, I found that jammers Widespread Panic, who could be compared to the Allman Brothers Band, have covered the Funkadelic classic "Maggot Brain" at least 20 times. Here's just one example.
From one extreme to the other, P. Funk has also been sampled by such rap heavyweights as N.W.A., Cypress Hill, A Tribe Called Quest and Too Short. For more, click here.
They say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. Case in point: Ice Cube's "Givin' up the Nappy Dugout." For starters, Ice Cube took the term from Funkadelics's "Nappy Dugout" which appears on the band's Cosmic Slop album. A few seconds in, we hear George Clinton sing "I can hear my mother call." The song sampled is the title track off of Cosmic Slop.
After Clinton is done, a familiar beat comes into the foreground that is grittier than P. Funk fans will remember it being 30 years ago. The beat is Parliament's "Funkentelechy," which got quite a facelift from Ice Cube, who made it "edgier" but kept the funk intact.
That's three knockoffs in one song, a feat that shows just how influential P. Funk's supergroovalisticprosifunkstication was.
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