Funkadelic

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You’ve made to the top of ‘Work Week’ hilltop  and beginning at 7pm tonight Love And R&B is going to help you make it to the weekend. Tonight’s #SMCS brings music from the innovator of funk music aka P-Funk George Clinton. George will celebrate his 75th birthday on Friday 7/22 and we’re going to get […]

  *Billboard is reporting that Robin Thicke’s team offered a six-figure sum to members of Marvin Gaye’s family in order to preempt a copyright infringement…

Marvin Gaye III appeared on “TMZ Live” Wednesday to talk about the lawsuit that Robin Thicke filed to protect his hit single, “Blurred Lines.” MG3 basicly said, Thicke disrespected the Gaye family by shamelessly lifting his father’s song “Got to Give it Up” plus many other tracks. Robin Thicke filed a preemptive lawsuit against Gaye’s estate, […]

Robin Thicke along with co-writers Pharrell Williams and Clifford Harris, Jr. (rapper T.I.) filed a lawsuit Thursday to protect hit single, “Blurred Lines” from the family of the late R&B singer Marvin Gaye. This is preemptive move, after Marvin Gaye’s family and Bridgeport Music (which owns several compositions by the group Funkadelic) complained that the hit was […]

George Clinton still has it. The funk master himself returned to his hometown of Newark, NJ to blow the socks off of fans and music connoisseurs at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. In an interesting interview with TheUrbanDaily.com, he described what it’s like being him from his eccentric wardrobe to the groupies. Born in North […]

Funkadelic was an African American music band most prominent during the 1970s. The band and its sister act Parliament, both led by George Clinton, began the funk music culture of that decade. Click below to check out parts 1 & 2 featuring a live performance of the classic “One Nation Under  A Groove”: Part 1- Part 2-

jungle boogie (jungle –oft attrib to Hindi jangal + boogie – prob alter of bogle – goblin, object of fear) a 1974 hit by Kool & the Gang, frequently sampled by hip-hop artists, perhaps the funkiest piece of music ever recorded.

Garry Shider, the musical director for George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic band known for wearing a diaper on stage, died June 16th at the age of 56.