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Here's the Funkpreneurship Spotify playlist for your listening homework (and your listening pleasure).

Class 1

Let's start what we have come into the room to do

  1. Let’s Start (feat. Ginger Baker), Fela Kuti and Ginger Baker, Fela With Ginger Baker Live!, 1971. (lyrics)

We are just dreams and space
Stranded in this funky place
No transport out of here
I guess we have to put away our fear
Enter
Enter

  1. Enter, Cybotron, Enter, 1983. (lyrics)

Hang up your hang ups

  1. Hang Up Your Hang Ups, Herbie Hancock, Man-Child, 1975. (instrumental)

Class 2

So let the horns do the thing they do, yo...ah, uh, ow! Uh-uh uh uh

  1. Express Yourself, Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Express Yourself, 1970. (lyrics)

What do you say when I say are you somebody?

  1. Damn Right I Am Somebody, Fred Wesley & The J.B.'s, Damn Right I Am Somebody, 1974.

J-a-y are the letters of his name / Cutting and scratching are the aspects of his game

  1. Jam-Master Jay, Run-D.M.C., RUN-D.M.C., 1984. (lyrics)

Class 3

I said I-yai-yai-yai-yai can’t tell you what to do

  1. I Can’t Tell You What To Do, ESG, ESG, 1991.

Now renegades are people with their own philosophy
They change the course of history

  1. Renegades Of Funk, Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force, Planet Rock: The Album, 1986. (lyrics)

I know how it feels when you know you're real
But every other time
You get up and get a raw deal
Say I'm the underdog
I say I'm the underdog

  1. Underdog, Sly & The Family Stone, A Whole New Thing, 1967. (lyrics)

Class 4

It's not...yesterday...anymore

  1. New Feeling, Talking Heads, 77, 1977. (lyrics)

Are we under their control, or are they under our control, or what?

  1. Computer Age (Push The Button), Newcleus, Jam On Revenge, 1984. (lyrics)

More bounce
More bounce
More bounce
Much more bounce

  1. More Bounce To The Ounce, Zapp, Zapp, 1980. (lyrics)

Class 5

Living my life in a fantasy
Living my life in my vanity

  1. Can’t Get Enough Of Myself, Santigold, 99 Cents, 2016. (lyrics)

Dig we must

  1. Dig We Must, Liquid Liquid, Dig We Must, 1984.

Playing Pied Piper
Follow what's true
Baby just sing about the groove (sing it)

  1. Groove Is In The Heart, Deee-Lite, World Clique, 1990. (lyrics)

Class 6

And then we get together and do it together
Building is you ready because we're gonna tear you down
I hope the building can stand all this soul brother—it sure's got a lot comin' on

  1. I Feel All Right, James Brown & The Famous Flames, Live At The Apollo Vol II, 1968.

Everything is on the one today y'all, now get to that

  1. Everything Is On The One, Parliament, Clones of Dr Funkenstein, 1974. (lyrics)

We're on the one, and we're having fun
And everybody's doing their part
Can you dig it, we can show you how
The gangs all here we're ready to start

  1. On The One, Cameo, Cameosis, 1980, (lyrics)

Class 7 (bonus track)

When I play my kind of music
I’m playing for your body and soul

  1. Body And Soul, William Onyeabor, Who Is William Onyeabor?, 1980. (lyrics)
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