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Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond. | dG1faldmOGxzUGxnR0k
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00:00Two, three, and one.
00:02James Brown.
00:03George Clanton.
00:04Sliding the family's throat.
00:06Funk is something that takes you over.
00:09A history that goes back to the spiritual.
00:12Funk got the whole world dancing.
00:14You certainly couldn't contain it culturally,
00:16and you couldn't contain it geographically either.
00:18Funk is the DNA for hip-hop.
00:20Da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
00:22Lose yourself in it, and that was the thing.
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