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Funkin’ Friday: This is it

Y’all know what time it is. It’s Friday so start your weekend off right with some funk. For this week’s song, I am going back twelve years to 1997. A group called Camp Lo dropped Uptown Saturday Night, a blend of hip-hop, soul and jazz inspired by Blaxploitation movies of the 70’s. One of its […]

Funkin’ Friday: A Song for the Sexy

Today’s Funkin’ Friday joint is a funk rock joint released way back in 1984 by The Time, a group put together by a guy named Prince. While most would say the group never hit Prince’s level of success, The Time was a popular band that produced several hits. To put it simply, The Bird is […]

Funkin’ Friday: Rock it, don’t stop it

Today’s jam takes us all the way back to 1982, when Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force dropped Planet Rock. Before he became known as “The Amen Ra of Universal Hip Hop Culture”, Bambaataa was a member of Savage Seven (later called the Black Spades), a street gang in the south Bronx. He was born […]

Funkin’ Friday: Feel the funk

It’s Friday and for most of us, it’s been a long week. What better way to kick off the weekend than with some music? Starting today I plan on sharing some of my favorite songs with you. Hopefully that will help get you in the mood. If you are over the age of 25 you […]