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JB - II
By Avery | December 25, 2006
I got this from a post on Okayplayer, and I thought that it was probably the most appropriate way to start my however-long commemoration of The Kang. So with no further ado…
1. Best Use Of “Funky Drummer”: I wanna say Rebel Without A Pause, but…Mama Said Knock You Out is very close.
2. Best NON “IT TAKES TWO” use of “Think”: Golddigger - EPMD. The little “She bad, Hank” sets off the action just right.
3. Best Use Of “Funky President (People Its Bad)“: Eric B For President
4. Best James Offspring Production Use In Hip Hop: “Four Play” - Fred Wesley and the Horny Horns in Packet Man - Digital Underground
5. Best St Clair Squeal PE - Rebel Without a Pause. No. Question.
6. Best Non PE St. Clair Squeal- ??
7. Best James in RnB - Hold On - En Vogue
8. Best James in Pop - I don’t know pop that well.
9. Best Use of his Vocals - Golddigger - EPMD
10.Best “holy shit THAT was JAMES BROWN?” - There Was A Time - Dee Felice Trio. There Was A Time is a James Brown staple, and I thought I had heard it every way there was to hear it, but I was stone-cold wrong. You know that sample from Chubb Rock’s Treat ‘Em Right? That bass line? It’s from here.
11. Best JB Album Cover - Black Caesar is pretty hot.
12. Best Haterade James -
13. No JAMES NOOOOOOO!!!!!: The rapping on For Goodness Sakes, Look At Those Cakes. Sheesh.
14. Best JB just hanging with the boy’s banter on wax: “We gotta go on a Jesus crusade like the rest of ‘em…” from More Peas. But More Peas is just a gold mine of banter in general.
15. Best JB Drummer:Â Gotta give the nod to Stubblefield, although Starks always represented, and Melvin Parker plays on my all-time favorite James song.
16. Best JB Label
17. Irony In The Fire
18. Tell the truth…Eddie Murphy started your interest in JB: Yes or No: Naw, what really got me into JB was hip-hop. Started tryin to source all those samples I loved. That put me on the quest I’ve been on ever since.
19. The Best James On TV to school a youngin: This clip of JB doing Sex Machine and Soul Power. Note the extremely tall bassist in the background.
20. The Funkiest Moment captured on wax:Â So many to choose from, but Let A Man Come In And Do the Popcorn is, to me, the absolute essence of everything James Brown was about.
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