Then he met a radio DJ named Ted Currier, who believed in Clinton and helped him re-launch his career.Īt the beginning of 1982, together with keyboardist David Lee Spradley and guitarist Garry Shider, they began their first session. Although Clinton was strong and persistent, in late 1981, he was about to give up. He did not score a hit for multiple years to make things worse. The label then closed in 1981 due to a significant financial loss (It briefly resurrected in 1983 for a P-Funk All-Stars album).Ĭlinton at that time got blocklisted by many record labels because he was having a lot of trouble with drug addiction and had some legal disputes about copyrights. They planned to release the successful Roger Troutman's Zapp first album with the label, but it then got sold to Warner Bros, becoming a top-selling album. The label Uncle Jam records founded by Clinton in 1980, went bankrupt. It's a perfect blend of electronic music, represented here by sequenced machines and synthesizers and infectious funky grooves played by humans.īefore telling you the story of how this song was created, we need to go back to 1981: an awful year for the ParliaFunkadelic leader. It also reflects the technological advancement made by humans at that time. This song inspired a generation of hip-hop producers and laid the fundamentals of an entirely new genre called G-Funk! It has the same vibe as many G-Funk classic hits.

When you hear this song, you immediately think about how funky this is, but you also think about west coast hip-hop.

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