Word: funke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Well the thing about it is, I don't tend to like to play real hard so in the beginning there were times where I could be overpowered a little bit just by the sheer funk of their playing. You know here I am with an acoustic banjo and the amplifying system is less than perfect still, so I couldn't get up over them, but as time has gone on I've grown stronger and they've grown more sensitive, I think. Somehow we've learned how to make it work together, we know when to hit it hard...
...Funk, from that FUNky B.O. growing in your pits, from the stink between the sheets, with the bass bustin' out and the grooves hangin', ever-e-thang 'cept opera & polka, the visible line from Zapp to Zappa, gee-tars 'n' horns 'n' cong-Os and voices voices singin 'n' screamin 'n' chanting 'n' shouting...
...Bomb, the Fly, Shaft, and blaxploitation sending it up right through the nineteen hundred and seventies with our man Tricky Dick in the Whitest House in town, bellbottoms and Chocolate City across the street and to the right. Wer gonna have a funk-Y good time, free yer mind, and yer rearend will do th'followin'. Follow follow follow yer ass will follow and what a fine FAT ASS it is and BREAK to nineteen hundred and ninety-three disco is dead but now so is punk rock and glam rock and pop rock and self-righteous rock and freedom...
...Take it out, put it in, and turn it on and the Godfather Himself JB the MAN the HARDEST Working Man in Show Biz-nass the FOUNDING FATHER of funk James Brown..." Fellas I'm ready to get up and do my thang...I wanna get into it, man, you know, like a sex machine man. Moving, doing it, you know...can I count it off?" and BREAK into Sly & The Family Stone coming and Thanking You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin and BREAK hangin with th'Parlifunkadelicacy thick groove hittin ya in your backside gang, doin...
Snoop's rapping isn't flashy, but it is catchy. His relaxed vocal style is a perfect match for Dr. Dre's bass-heavy producing. The songs on this album are built around '70s-style funk grooves; Snoop's voice is lithe enough to snake its way around the big beats. Tracks like Aint No Fun (If the Homies Cant Have None) are perfectly crafted to come booming out of Jeeps and college dorms...