George Clinton: Tales Of Kidd Funkadelic
Kris Needs, Dance Music Report, October 1989
AT LAST it seems like George Clinton is getting some just recognition after about a quarter century of being funk's most colourful and innovative character. He has taken over James Brown's title of Most Sampled Man In Rap, the sprawling, anything-goes cartoon interplanetary grooveathons of the Parliafunkadelicment Thang one of hiphop's biggest influences.
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