#Funk Master Flex

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[ DJ Envy Subpoenaed For Alleged Ponzi Scheme ]

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Funk Flex says Tory Lanez is innocent

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no one and I mean no one! it’s enjoying kendrick dropping than @imperatorkhaleesi (and me)

kendrick dropping feels like that time funk master flex played Otis on the radio and told everyone to go in their nearest corner store and put their hands in the cash register for no reason!

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Release: October 1, 1992

Lyrics:

Ladies and gentlemen

As you know we have something special down here at Birdland this evening

A recording for Blue Note Records

Yeah, yeah, yeah

What's that? Yeah, yeah, yeah

Funky, funky

How 'bout a big hand now

Wait, wait a minute

Groovy, groovy, jazzy, funky

Pounce, bounce, dance as we

Dip in the melodic sea

The rhythm keeps flowin' and drips to MC

Sweet sugar pop, sugar pop, rocks it, pop

You don't stop 'til the sweet beat drops

I sure improve as I stick and move

Vivid poems recited on top of the groove

Smooth my floatin' like a butterfly

Notes set afloat, sung like a lullaby

Brace yourself as the beat hits ya

Dip trip, flip Fantasia

Biddy biddy bop (yeah)

Biddy biddy bop (funky, funky)

Feel the beat drop, jazz and hip hop

Drippin' in your dome, makes you zone and bop

Funk and fusion, a fly illusion

Keeps ya coastin' on the rhythm you're cruisin'

Up, down, round and round, rhymes profound

But nevertheless, you gots to get down

Fantasy freak through the beat so unique

You move your feet, the sweat from the heat

Back to the fact, I'm the mac and I know that

The way I kick the rhymes, some would call me a poet

Poems steady flowin', growin', showin' sights and sound

Caught in the groove in Fantasia, I'm found

Many trip the tour upon the rhymes they soar

To an infinite height to the realm of the hardcore

Here we go, off I take ya

Dip trip, flip Fantasia

Biddy biddy bop (yeah)

Biddy biddy bop (funky, funky)

Biddy biddy bop (yeah)

Biddy biddy bop (funky, funky)

Jump to the jam, boogie woogie jam slam

Bust the dialect, I'm the man in command

Come flow with the sounds of the mighty mic master

Rhyming on the mic, I'm bringing suckers their disaster

Beaucoup ducs but I still rock Nike

With the razzle dazzle, a star I might be

Scribble, drabble, scrabble on the microphone I babble

As I flip the funky words into a puzzle

Yes, yes, yes, on and on as I flex

Get with the flow, words manifest

Feel the vibe from here to Asia

Dip trip, flip Fantasia

Ow, you don't stop

Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on

Give me more of that funky horn

What's that? Yeah, funky, funky

Biddy biddy bop

Biddy biddy bop, funky, funky

Yeah, yeah, yeah, what's that?

Biddy biddy bop, yeah

Biddy biddy bop, funky, funky

Yeah, yeah, yeah, what's that?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, funky, funky

Yeah, yeah, yeah, what's that?

Biddy biddy bop, yeah

Biddy biddy bop, funky, funky

Songwriter:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, what's that?

Biddy biddy bop, yeah

Herbie Hancock / Jerry Wilkenson / Mal Simpson / Rahsaan Kelly

SongFacts:

👉📖

Homepage:

Us3

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wanted to post more over here and had the idea to do lil reviews for albums from years past. i'm gonna try to post a review for this series, as the name suggests, every thursday!! this week we're taking a look at a defining album in a legendary pop star's career and perhaps the best disco album of all time: Off the Wall by Michael Jackson!!! also feel free to follow me on rate your music and twitter <3

Off the Wall - Michael Jackson

◇ release year: 1979 ◇ genres: disco, funk, pop soul

Although his career would start a decade prior, Off the Wall feels like the true beginning of Michael Jackson. Gone were the days of singing about ABCs or pet rats, Jackson was an adult now and he was ready to take the world by storm. At least that’s how Off the Wall sounds. His last solo album for Motown, 1975’s Forever, Michael, was a commercial letdown and The Jackson 5’s creative frustrations with the label led to most of the family leaving for Epic that same year. In the years leading up to Off the Wall, Michael would continue to work with his family, now going by The Jacksons, but everything changed when Michael met Quincy Jones.

This would prove to be a collaboration for the ages. Over the next decade, Jones would go on to produce Jackson’s best albums and some of the most defining of the era. First among them is Off the Wall. It was one of the best disco albums of all time and the album that launched Michael Jackson into superstardom.

Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones, 1979

“Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” is one of the greatest album openers of all time and, like many of the songs here, is a radio staple to this day. Jackson’s soft, spoken-word intro leading into the “WOO!” is one of the most iconic moments in music history. From there, you’re treated to one of the most infectious disco tracks of all time. Jackson and the other musicians here keep the pace perfectly. Never a dull moment. I can’t imagine what hearing this for the first time in 1979 must’ve been like. Jackson also has sole-writing credits for this song and it would be his first solo single to have that distinction. Lyrically the song is incredibly simple, but it showed his masterful ear for incredibly memorable hooks and choruses. He flexes that ability throughout the first half of the album.

Somehow, though, Jackson tops himself with the next song and the next big hit, “Rock With You.” This honestly might be my favorite song of his. It’s just pure pop perfection, one of the smoothest songs ever recorded. It’s everything I want from a pop song. A danceable instrumental, a chorus that gets stuck in your head for days on end, and that desire to sing along to it at the top of your lungs that never goes away despite hearing it countless times. That fade-out at the end almost teases you to press play just one more time or bring the needle back to the start. Jackson did not write this one, but he would on the next track “Workin’ Day and Night.” This song brings back that funky groove from the opener and it’s also great. It has one of Jackson’s most fiery vocal performances. “Get On the Floor” has one of the most killer basslines I’ve ever heard courtesy of Louis Johnson. I love the way Michael sings “Then why don’t you just dance across the floor?” in the pre-chorus. I have no idea why this was a B-side and not a standalone single.

The title track opens the second side of the record and this is one of the cleanest cuts here. It was written by Rod Temperton who also wrote “Rock With You” and that makes total sense with just how suave it is. The only weak moments on the album come with the next two tracks. Michael’s version of the Paul McCartney & Wings track “Girlfriend” is just alright, nothing stellar. For what it’s worth, I prefer Michael’s version over Paul’s original. The arrangements on the version here breathe some much-needed life into it. I just think it’s kind of a boring moment in McCartney’s songbook. The next track “She’s Out of My Life” just doesn’t really fit into the album, but it isn’t bad either. It was originally written by Tom Bahler for Frank Sinatra and you can hear it. It does show off Michael’s vocal range, but he would go on to make better ballads on future albums.

My favorite song on the second side is “I Can’t Help It” which Stevie Wonder has credits for as both a songwriter and rhythm section arranger. You can tell right away with the arrangement that Wonder’s fingerprints are on this one. It’s another low-key song on the album, basically smooth soul. I can’t help but love it though, that chorus just hits. “It’s the Falling in Love” is a really sweet R&B song with a fun arrangement. The second half of the album kind of layered the disco groove underneath other sounds which makes it a lot less energetic than the first half, but there are still some very solid songs here. It’s only interesting that Michael has no songwriting credits across this whole side which could be the reason for that shift.

Luckily, the closing track here is one of the most wild, danceable songs on the whole record. The aptly named “Burn This Disco Out” opens with a wave of horns washing over you before shifting into some classic disco instrumentation. The backing vocals going “groove all night!” gets me every time. It goes without saying at this point, but Michael’s vocals here are fantastic and fit the vibe perfectly. Really great way to close out the record.

Michael Jackson on tour with The Jacksons, 1979

Michael Jackson would obviously go on to make bigger albums in the coming decade, but Off the Wall resonates with me more than any of his other albums. There’s such a palpable energy to it. Beyond the disco grooves, it’s the sound of a young artist ready to reach that next level. Quincy Jones does one of the best production jobs of all time here as well, the album still sounds great to this day. Off the Wall is just the first entry in a run of era-defining records. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ thanks for reading <3

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Funk Flex DEFENDS TI "Just cause he TESTIFIED doesn't make him a 🐀"+ Kat...

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Rapper Symba Addresses Funk Master Flex 2Pac Disrespect During Freestyle

Rapper Symba Addresses Funk Master Flex 2Pac Disrespect During Freestyle

Rapper Symba Addresses Funk Master Flex 2Pac Disrespect During Freestyle   Rapper Symba has come to the defense of Tupac, and when he visited Funkmaster Flex on Hot 97 in New York, he dropped a freestyle. The freestyle started off with Symba praising Flex for his contributions to hip-hop, and when Wu-Tang Clan’s “C.R.E.A.M.” instrumental started, he took aim at the DJ. The incident prompted Symba…

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Is Nicki Minaj losing her mystique?

It’s almost been a week since Nicki Minaj released her fourth studio album ‘Queen’. As a Nicki fan I was personally excited to hear a full new album from Nicki since all we’ve gotten were some hit-or-miss singles since the release of The Pinkprint in 2014.

While at Funk Master Flex’s radio show, the self-proclaimed ‘queen of rap’ poured out a whole pitcher of tea for the listeners. She spoke about her ex- Safaree, paying for his hairline, him not wanting to work and a slew of other allegations that make you shake your damn head. 

Whether these claims are true or not, her album is no longer the focal point, the social media drama is. The only headline mentions the ‘Queen’ album has received are the click-bait quotes from her press-run. Shady comments and antics have overshadowed what should be a moment of accomplishment for Nicki Minaj.

For whatever reason she still feels the need to defend herself, that she writes her own raps, at this point your longevity should speak for itself. As an artist I feel Nicki has lowered her stock or at least lost some of her mystique because of the need to create such controversy instead of focusing on her music itself. 

If the industry was attempting to discredit your ability to ‘push your pen’ as you say, then shut them up. Release a classic album, a bomb freestyle, not this social media trolling, A-List artists don’t need the antics, they have their art. 

Granted, fans love to have access to their favorite artists, I personally have no interest in the reality tv show like drama. What is the point if you don't have the body of work to compare it to? If Nicki Minaj had all this animosity, The Queen Album should be a masterpiece. The music should speak for itself, PERIOD.

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Jay - Z and Roc-A-Fella Hot 97 Takeover

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Video: @Blackthought Freestyle On Flex Why are people surprised? this guy has been doing this for years! Legendary.