Jan 31, 2012 · Many of hip-hop's greatest producers—from Dr. Dre to the Bomb Squad—have built classics using the P-Funk architect's blueprint. As the boogie-down ambassador of cosmic slop and knee-deep funk,...

Jan 8, 2021 · In this flashback, George Clinton started out by saying that one of his favorite rappers is Chief Keef, including "I Don't Like." He went on to speak about Dr. Dre being heavily...

Jul 2, 2018 · In the mid-seventies, George Clinton and his band Funkadelic were working on a new song, “Get Off Your Ass and Jam,” at a studio in Los Angeles. At the time, Funkadelic was basically a...

Rapper Dr. Dre often sampled Clinton's music, helping to bring about the G-funk era. In 1999, Clinton collaborated with Lil' Kim and Fred Durst for rap metal group Methods of Mayhem 's single " Get Naked ".

Artists like Dr. Dre, Outkast, Warren G, Redman, Snoop Dogg, EPMD, Digital Underground and many others were influenced profoundly by King Clinton. While in Detroit, he was a part of Motown,...

May 16, 2019 · During a funk rendition of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”, the mothership would come down in full pyrotechnics revealing Dr.Funkenstein, George Clinton’s alter ego. Theatrics are just as part of Clinton’s legacy as the music was.

Nov 22, 2023 · In the early 1990s, George Clinton’s work began to be heavily sampled by hip-hop artists. His most notable collaborator from this period is Dr. Dre, who used samples from George...

Nov 23, 2022 · While Public Enemy assaulted you with dissonant siren sound effects, industrial noise and yelled-out rapping at 115 beats per minute, Dr. Dre simmered things down to 90 beats per minute and...

Apr 24, 2018 · Through elaborate artwork, sci-fi mythology and slang that sounded like a cosmic Dr Seuss, Clinton’s Afrofuturist universe offered young black audiences an uplifting escape from everyday struggle. But that vision had a practical strategy behind it too.

Jun 1, 2007 · It was just one of his many hits during and after his days with N.W.A. Dr. Dre's patented mix of George Clinton-ish funk and (unintelligible) hip-hop beat made him one of rap music's most...