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Bring The Funk Back

from Elev8te by TONY B. CONSCIOUS

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This song is dedicated to the FUNK, the whole FUNK and nothing but the FUNK !!!

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BRING THE FUNK BACK...

Do you remember the funk back in the day ?
Like ISAAC HAYES, MARVIN GAYE, THE BAR-KAYS ?
THE GAP BAND, KOOL & THE GANG...
JAMES BROWN, RICK JAMES
EARTH, WIND & FIRE, taking us higher
All with sounds we could admire
Back when R&B, funk and soul
Wasn’t like this pollution on our radios

These cats today, ain’t from the streets
All they do is sing over HIP HOP beats
None of them, now can play instruments
It ain’t like BOOTSY and PARLIMENT
Or GEORGE CLINTON, or ASHFORD & SIMPSON
Or the COMMODORES or even WAR
So, what they doing it for ? I don’t understand
I’d much rather listen to the AVERAGE WHITE BAND
BRING THE FUNK BACK...

Remember STEVE ARRINGTON & SLAVE
GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION and HEATWAVE
SLY and the FAMILY STONE on the microphone
And CHAKA KHAN, where have they gone ?
I guess it wasn’t really that cool
When they took band and music out of the schools
They left the children with no tools
And that’s when electronics began to rule
But I still remember ROGER & ZAPP
CAMEO. THE DAZZ BAND way before rap
JOHNNY “GUITAR” WATSON, ROSE ROYCE
MAZE & LAKESIDE gave us a chance
Even the voice of STEVIE WONDER
But tell me has the FUNK really gone under ?
Bring the funk back,,,

Like DONNIE HATHAWAY, man where is the love ?
TOWER OF POWER and the deep funk of
THE ISLEY BROTHERS and OHIO PLAYERS
There’s got to be more than just rhyme sayers...
THE BROTHERS JOHNSON and the J.B.’s
There has to be some groups like these
But All I hear is the fake crooners
No emotion, they’re AUTO TUNERS

Fixing their voices in the studio
But I’d rather hear the METERS or BLOODSTONE
THE DAZZ BAND or CHUCK BROWN
The HEADHUNTERS or the S.O.S. sound
BT EXPRESS or TOM BROWNE
“Funkin’ for Jamaica”, a real music maker
MIDNIGHT STAR, MOTHER’S FINEST and all of that
Even L.T.D., just BRING THE FUNK BACK

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from Elev8te, released September 9, 2010
PRODUCED BY: NIC the ARTIST

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TONY B. CONSCIOUS Los Angeles, California

A renaissance man (Harlem Renaissance that is), TONY B. CONSCIOUS
is the personification of AFRICAN- AMERICAN culture.

He is (amongst other things) A B-BOY, BEATBOX,EMCEE, GRAFFITI/VISUAL ARTIST (known as “THE GHETTO VAN-GO”), Poet/ Spoken Word Artist, Vocalist, AUTHOR, ACTIVIST, VEGAN VEGETARIAN and PHILOSOPHER.

ALSO a member of THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION and THE TEMPLE OF HIP HOP. ... more

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