'How Late Do U Have 2 B B 4 U R Absent? is a bit of all things P-Funk: past, present, and future. Newcomers like Kendra Foster and George''s granddaughter Sativa ride alongside tracks credited to George Clinton, the P-Funk All Stars, Funkadelic, and Parl
George and the gang are back....the only problem is where is the gang? Don't get me wrong this is great, but it is such because so much of today's music is crap. The variety is 5-star. George trully loves music and you can tell the variety of different styles and featured artists is perfect. There are some cuts on here that are the bomb. My prblem is "where are the musicians?" I mean the real prblem with todays music is musicians or lack of. I bought this CD thinking the whole mob would be jamming out. But some tracks were made just like today's hip-hop and R&B. I was dissappointed....maybe on the next album he'll get the mob together and show these young cats the way the funk is supposed to sound!! Untill then this double cd of various recordings recorded over a pretty vast period of time will have to do. Long live the Funk!!
April 13, 2008this cd is hot it took almost a decade for this to drop but I'm glad it did bouncxe to this is a funky track love hearing kendra foster sing and she's a hottie too please check her cd out love seeing her perform on stage. something stank has gc's grandaughter sativa rapping abouit weed not too bad if you miss that hardrock funkadelic stuff try viagra loud guitars provided by michael hampton, blackbyrd, and eric mcfadden with george screaming going baserk on vocals man funkadelic still causing chaos love it, paradighm feratures prince love it it's luike gc and prince merged styles, i'll be sitting here fweatueres joi i love it nice guitar with a weird keyboard backing it love how p funk isn't scared to try anything musically sexy side of you and never ending love are hot smoking tracks p funk has the coolest vocals and weirdeast on mother earth, last time zone has clip payne talking crazy over a classic beatles tune yes p funk broke new ground again, baserk trust in yourself love kendra's singing on here with k brazil rapping about a young girl stripping, p funk fans who are open minded will love it the only weakness are the belita woods tunes other than that make my funk trhe p funk.
August 15, 2007Honestly, when it comes to the master of funk, i expect so much more. i bought this album to add to my p. funk collection expecting to hear some classic bass lines, and funky grooves but instead got a hip/hop infused, almost completely funkless, soulless album. i actually considered throwing it out the window after a first listen, the second listen saved its life. to say ive never been this dissapointed in an album is an understatement. RIP to the funk....
February 25, 2007This CD is bomb. I love to hear a good compilation. It's all about the art in generating a disc that flows.
I've been a fan of Clinton's work for a long time (two concerts). These other reviews are just from critics stuck in the 70's. It's called G Funk not Funk Hop and it's only a couple of songs. Clinton's songs and production with people like Outkast, Too , or Dre... You can't denie that this funkster has Hip Hop in his soul.
The whole CD is crazy bomb, Del's Hip Hop is hit or miss really (excentric)... heance the 4 star rating. The reason I bought this CD is because of the song Somthing Stank. I heard that song at the concerts and loved it and loved Shondra for rapping it, but never saw it recorded until now. It's completely different besides the some of the lyrics. I liked it better done over the 808 but now it's just a funk song, oh well - it's fine.
Buy the CD if your a die hard fan, buy it used if you want to hear a good colaberation of funk love.
September 14, 2006 |  | The Return of Dr. Funkenstein and his Clones |  |
As a long-time rabid PFunk fan, in my fear that the best of the mob may well be in the past I've contented myself during the last several years with nostalgia over the mob's great recorded hits of the 70s thru' the 80s (from "The Mothership Connection" through to "Trombipulation" for Parliament, "Let's Take it to the Stage" through "Electric Spanking..." for Funkadelic and the great output of the past from the myriad other spin off acts of the mob, including the eventual solo albums of George Clinton (the Funk overlord himself), Bootsy's Rubber Band, Parlet, the Brides, etc.. and even the renegade Funkadelic (Shady Grady, Fuzzy haskins and the (now good Rev) Calvin Simon). The last real new new material I heard was about 7 years ago "US Customs Coast Guard Dope Dogs" of 1998 which was a great disappointment overall. "How Late Do U have 2B..." however has re-energized my faith in "the One" and I must happily say the good Dr.Funkenstein is indeed really back with a bang. And in addition to a few of the amazingly talented clones of the old brigade who seem to have survived with him (Bernie Worrel, Michael hampton, Gary Shyder, Billy Bass etc..) there are fresh new faces whose individual talents make for a healthy regeneration of Pfunk. Belita Woods' voice is out of this world and so are the vocalizing skills of Kendra and the rapability of the first grand daughter of funk, sativa. I love a good number of the tracks including "Bounce to this", Whatchamacallit", "Something Stank, "Sexy Side of you", Paradigm (which features Prince), and the everlasting "I can Dance" which goes on and on. The track that however blows the cobwebs that have settled over the years of PFunk stagnation right out my mind is "U Ain't Running Sh*%t". Rejoice all believers, Pfunk is back!!!!
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