{"id":146307,"date":"2020-09-22T09:08:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T07:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=146307"},"modified":"2020-09-23T23:11:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T21:11:37","slug":"get-down-the-influence-of-james-brown-episode-ii-funky-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/get-down-the-influence-of-james-brown-episode-ii-funky-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Down, The Influence Of James Brown &#8211; Episode II: Funky President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eZ6Fn086ZNc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On September 14th, 2020 <strong>James Brown<\/strong>\u2019s official YouTube Channel unveiled a <em>Funky President<\/em>, episode two of the new three-part series, following the first episode, <em>Funky Drummer<\/em>, released on July 10th. Narrated by <strong>Questlove<\/strong> and featuring <strong>Lord Finesse<\/strong> and Co-founder of Wax Poetics Magazine, <strong>Andre Torres<\/strong>, the three-part series was created by <strong>UMe<\/strong> along with <strong>Dreambear<\/strong> and explores the sonic DNA of <strong>James Brown<\/strong> whose music is continually sampled and whose trademark vocal phrasing is deeply woven into the fabric of Hip-Hop.<\/p>\n<p>This second episode explores the fascinating and unpredictable politics of <strong>James Brown<\/strong> while following the influence of his second most sampled track of all time, <em>Funky President (People It\u2019s Bad)<\/em>. Touching on the civil rights movement and <strong>Brown<\/strong>\u2019s seminal <em>Say It Loud \u2013 I\u2019m Black and I\u2019m Proud<\/em>, <em>Funky President<\/em> shows how <strong>James Brown<\/strong>, as well as his musical peers and successors, has been able to encourage social change and raise political concern from a black American perspective.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"146308\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/get-down-the-influence-of-james-brown-episode-ii-funky-president\/captura-de-pantalla-2020-09-21-a-las-23-28-59\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Captura-de-pantalla-2020-09-21-a-las-23.28.59.png?fit=704%2C350&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"704,350\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Captura de pantalla 2020-09-21 a las 23.28.59\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Captura-de-pantalla-2020-09-21-a-las-23.28.59.png?fit=540%2C268&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Captura-de-pantalla-2020-09-21-a-las-23.28.59.png?fit=640%2C318&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Captura-de-pantalla-2020-09-21-a-las-23.28.59.png?fit=640%2C268&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"268\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-146308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Captura-de-pantalla-2020-09-21-a-las-23.28.59.png?resize=540%2C268&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Captura-de-pantalla-2020-09-21-a-las-23.28.59.png?w=704&amp;ssl=1 704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 14th, 2020 James Brown\u2019s official YouTube Channel unveiled a Funky President, episode two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-C3N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}