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2716160, Does he have the talent for all that?
Posted by Tim The Creator, Tue Jul-03-12 11:33 AM
The irony in all this discussion over a bland funk-lite track, and the Defenders up in arms - and the same mofos tried to get on here and shit on the GOAT on his recent funk numbers.

Heard 10 times better from Bilal, Martin Luther, Van Hunt and the likes, maybe they should have took they clothes off in a video, and had Questlove as a cheerleader.

>> the
>>structure kinda reminds me of Sly's 'Africa Talks To You' in
>>that it's kinda hypnotic. it drones. i think that's what
>>he's going for, usually. that mixed w/some
>>Worrell/Clinton/Collins and/or Prince or Ohio Players in the
>>vocals.
>
>GET THE HELL OUT OF MY HEAD
>
>I was just about to post that in a way, this song puts me in
>the mind of "Africa Talks to You (The Asphalt Jungle)"
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v-IkcwV_uI
>
>But when I started listening to the song, I realized that it
>actually has more variety, more movement than "Sugar Daddy"
>
>Still, it's in a similar zone... But D needs to work on
>filling up the sonic space. Sly has those chattering,
>overlapping and interlocking guitars and organ yelps. You
>gotta layer some stuff over the groove to achieve that kind of
>hypnotic effect.
>
>Stuff like "Sugar Daddy" and "Chicken Grease"... they're just
>too "watery"... too wide a space between the parts, no tension
>holding it all together... you try to dance to it and you fall
>through all the spaces in the groove.