August 26, 2020 Playlist

"Sons Of The P" by Digital Underground (1991)
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Digital Underground "Sons Of The P"  1991 (USA)
Here's another hip-hop classic from that magical year 1991! Underground rock groups were beginning to explode as the neo-longhair "grunge" era took off, while hip underground rap groups began to push aside the Hammer and Vanilla Ice pop rappers and create a new musical counterculture. All of a sudden, it seemed like the seventies were back, with the biggest new artists having more in common with classic pre-punk bands like Black Sabbath and Funkadelic than any artists from the previous 1980's decade. Aside from Neil Young (hailed at the time as "the godfather of grunge") perhaps no 1970's artist was more in vogue in 1991 than Parliament-Funkadelic, whose trippy grooves were being sampled to death in those days. But only one group sought to continue what P-Funk started rather than just borrow their beats: Digital Underground, a cartoony crew from Oakland who will always be best known for the classic novelity hit "The Humpty Dance" from their debut album Sex Packets (1990). That record was a heavy concept album (about virtual reality sex drugs!), and so was the follow-up Sons Of The P - the concept being that DU is going to continue from where P-Funk left off. George Clinton himself even appears on the album to give his blessing. Though this album didn't generate any major hits, it lives up to the challenge of recreating and extending classic rock forms into the rap era. Plus monster funky grooves!
(N) = New Release
   
Artist Song Album Year Country
ChicagoSing A Mean Tune KidChicago III1971USA
Eddie HazelSo Goes The StoryGame, Dames And Guitar Thangs1977USA
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Digital UndergroundThe DFLO ShuttleSons Of The P
 CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK		1991USA
Digital UndergroundSons Of The PSons Of The P
 CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK		1991USA
Digital UndergroundTales Of The FunkySons Of The P
 CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK		1991USA
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Eric DolphyGreen Dolphin StreetOutward Bound1960USA
Sun RaIntergalactic MotionOuter Spaceways Incorporated1968USA
Roscoe MitchellThe Little SuiteSound1966USA
Art Blakey & The Jazz MessengersOne By One (live)Ugetsu1963USA
   
 
Jazz Sabbath Fairies Wear Boots (Black Sabbath)Jazz Sabbath (N)2020 (Blacklake)UK
             
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