Word: funke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dirt. May be you could teach your interviewers about the Sandhogs." They're sort of militant hogs. so you've got to be careful with them. The Sandhogs eat, and they wallow, but on top of that, they have spiritual nourishment, and that is in the form of funk music. So you must play funk music, do the hog incantations, and then they know that you're in tune with them...
...Buckshot LeFonque, Marsalis has concocted a veritable musical melting pot: a funk bassist, an electric guitarist, a latin percussionist, two keyboardists (one on Fender Rhodes, the other piano), a jazz horn section (trombone, trumpet and Marsalis on alto and tenor saxophones), a hip-hop drummer and a rap DJ, with intermittent help from a house rapper and three Caribbean dancehall rappers...
When asked "Why funk," Kim Walker, the instructor explained: "When we got interested in aerobics years ago, it was an opportunity for women to get together and motivate. Since then, it has become extremely athletic and less like dance. Funk sets a relaxed environment where people can dance around and have a good time." Watching her dance, however, is the only explanation you need...
...Funk aerobics is a relatively new development in the mega-bucks exercise industry. On paper, it could be described as a multimovement free-style cardiovascular workout in which instructors use the latest hiphop dance movements as their steps, which they build into different combinations. This description, added to the fact that funk aerobics surfaced in trendy New York and L.A. health clubs, makes it sound like fat burning for the stars. As the converted know--and addictions usually result form the first hit--it's authentically fun exercise and a liberating experience...
...want to get or keep yourself in shape, get out of the MAC and shake your booty. Besides the cardiovascular side of it, funk aerobics has real possibilities for improving your club image. Even if you are no Michael Jackson (and let's hope you're not), there is funk inside of you waiting to be unleashed. So get up off of that thing...