Parliament- Mothership Connection (Star Child)

So, I can't even completely count on the so-called old school radio stations like- Old School 100.3 FM (WRNB)- half the time, they don't even play the album versions of songs, & they don't play important artists like James Brown (what the hell?) or Bootsy Collins & the only P-Funk song they play is Flashlight, instead of far superior tunes like P-Funk Wants to Get Funked Up or Mothership Connection or Funkentelechy.......while they have time for crappy music from R.Kelly, Blackstreet, or Montell Jordan.



And don't get me started on what those I heart radio sadists did to WDAS-FM -now, they play more of what I call "gangsta R&B" ....




I put one of my favorite Funkadelic songs in an earlier post.

Untitled 2

I'm not putting Untitled (part 1) on this site..






16 years ago
You made me believe in something else
That there was a place I could go
To be free
Where nothing matters anymore
Where I could forget the hurt
The tears

But the next time I saw you
Its like that never happened
You were someone else
Who are you
What are you
I wish I could get those notes, those words, those eyes out of my head
Or at least you into my bed
But I can't

You take my breath away

An alternative, please....

Seems like everyone is what I would call hiphop these days, & what I mean by that is

-if you're male,you are misogynistic, thuggish, sleazy, say things like "I hit that" or uses the term "smashed" or "smash" when talking about sex

if you're female, you are similar to a "video vixen"/Beyonce/urban fiction character/sleeping with or marrying rappers (really?)/posing with your butt sticking out in a thong/appearing in so-called magazines like Black Men, which are full of video vixens, Love & HipHop women & whatevers/doing so-called dance moves involving your buttcheeks poppin, twerkin, or "clappin".


I'm NOT hiphop or "urban" or whatever you should call these types or what everyone on tv is glorifying these days.

Funkadelic -Think! It Ain't Illegal Yet!

"1984 is only 6 years away"


And Brave New World might just be closer....

Rufus & Chaka Khan-At Midnight (My Love Will Lift You Up) 1977

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When R&B was beautiful  and  sophisticated...

Cameo - Single Life

REAL music(they're a funk band, silly)
REAL dancing(booty poppin & twerkin are NOT dancing)
This seems so innocent compared to what we have today.

Save hiphop?!!! Save me from hiphop....

Frankly,I'm sick of hearing about what corporations or whoever did to hiphop..what about what hiphop did to music?! Rap should've only lasted a few years like disco, but noooo,too many people stopped listening to real musicians & bands & ONLY listened to rap & it took over the airwaves, then before you knew it, R&B & pop songs started to sound a lot different- no more riffs,solos, or extended jams- suddenly,club-bangin beats became more important, I guess it takes too much effort to listen to a song where more than one instrument is being played at the same time.

So,the public starts to "think" rappers are more cool than people who play instruments.

And what in  the hell happened to the kids who spent hours listening to Prince's Sign "O" The Times album in the late 80s, oh, I guess  I was the only one, all my so-called peers had already moved on to rap, so when they grew up & had kids, they didn't expose them to examples of musicianship like the record I just mentioned...if they did, then, they would wanna grow up & be multi-instrumentalists, not rappers. And when I say the "the public", I'm talking about the black community, we contributed to the destruction of our music by accepting the most dumbed-down genre in music history.

Recently,Darlene Love & Merry Clayton were on Tavis Smiley & he asked them about today's "music" & they said what more people should be saying- Darlene talked about how its not real music, no real instruments & how everything is done on the computer now. Then, Merry mentioned how she loved hearing a bass guitar & drums under her....live music.

Meanwhile, we have supposedly educated & sophisicated actors going on about how they love Jay-Z....imbeciles!






The below quotes are from a letter someone wrote to a free weekly local newspaper many years ago...


"There are a lot of silent voices who view hip-hop with a great deal of annoyance & embarrassment. Many cats like myself thought hip-hop would be just a trend, what's tragic is how wrong we were."

Side effects of hip-hop...

"When hiphop started,it was produced & created by people who loved it. Once corporate America realized it was outselling Luther Vandross & what they call 'music', they trashed it like they do everything else." Lady B

See,that's the problem...the fact that rappers were outselling a Luther Vandross in the first place,I got bored with rap really quick. When I was in high school,in the late 80s, I spent more time listening to Prince's Sign 'o' The Times & Lovesexy albums than rap, but I noticed the people around me neglecting real musicians & bands to focus on rappers. So,the idiotic masses lay the groundwork for what the record companies would do, & now,each decade since,the "music" gets worse & worse. Its not just the lyrical content that has dumbed people down, I think the lack of musicianship has done more damage, you get more from a song that has actual instrumentation than some mess that's just "beats"...you get intellectual stimulation as well as an emotional connection to what you're hearing.







AND..

It speaks volumes about Wendy Williams, that she would have Mr.Tip Drill on her tv show yesterday, not that I'm surprised, considering the people she glorifies on that show & the kind of sleazy things she talked about on her old radio show ...which makes sense considering those radio stations were basically hiphop stations with a little bit of R&B thrown in, if you wanna call that R&B. Most R&B of the late 90s & beyond is more hiphop than soul anyway!


And shame on  Queen Latifah for having that Nikki Minaj on her show-a video vixen in her own videos(!)- she said something about Lil Wayne discovering her or whatever......now,what kind of a woman would associate with a fool who raps about his sluts having oral sex with his dog?

Think about that.................

Her twitter has 17 million simpletons...oops,I mean followers.......and an audience of women going crazy over her.


SICK!

No muscleheads...oh no!

I remember when I was a little girl, having a little crush on Adam Ant. Any man I've been attracted to since then is basically a similar type. I don't think its a coincedence that the usual image for a male rock star is somewhat androgynous-long hair,skinny,more beautiful than handsome. Can you imagine a rock-n-roll frontman looking like some hypermuscular conan the barbarian type-yuck.....with a thick neck & pecs?! NO!

I never bought into the whole "big & strong" propaganda. Not only was the music better in the 60s,70s, & 80s,the men looked better! I can't see a woman turning down a young Mick Jagger to be with some big,dumb football player. Seems like now more than ever, women are brainwashed into wanting oversized & macho- especially if the woman is a bimbo.

HA!


Joe Manganiello is repulsive.