WEBVTT - QLS Classic: George Clinton Part 1 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.040 Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:08.960 Hey all, It's on pay Bill from Team Supreme. For 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:11.320 this classic episode of Questlove Supreme, we are speaking with 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:15.360 the incredible, the Only George Cliffe Parliament Funkadelic Part one, 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:17.880 George updates QLs and something's going on with his music 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:19.960 while taking a look back at an incredible sixty five 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.640 year career. This was taped in mid twenty twenty during 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:24.919 those early days of the pandemic, so Team Supreme was 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.200 still learning to get along virtue. But the quality of 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:29.440 the conversation is amazing. I love this one. 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:30.120 I hope you enjoyed. 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:45.120 The Ladies and gentlemen Funk upon a Time and a 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:53.320 galaxy far away and the land of cheese steak Utopia. Well, well, 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:59.480 the five year old April head boy with dreams, aspirations 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:03.800 and power hour of creative abundance, and he wished upon 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:07.520 a star one day that this young and would utilize 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.480 his talents so that one day he could bug and 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:15.040 pester from the Jesus out of his musical idols who 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.240 raised him. And this is that moment. Ladies and gentlemen, 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.160 you know the show, and you know the crew. You 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:26.240 know Fonte. You know six Steve unpaid, Bill Laya. Let 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.160 us get into it. This is the moment I've been 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:35.000 waiting for all my life, my first real conversation with 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:36.080 God himself. 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:46.880 George Ship, Yes, yes, all of that, uh North Carolina building. 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.800 How that sounds like some ship I wanted to say 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:57.240 to Smokey Robinson and I was growing up. Man. 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.480 Now you know, I know, man, this is This is 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.720 a rare moment where you know, I have access to 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:10.200 somebody that has had major input on my all of 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.320 our creative juices, I mean all of us are everybody? 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:14.320 We all your sons? 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.120 Yea illegitimate? 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:23.840 All right. I'll try not to make it this like 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:27.799 it's your eulogy, but you know this is definitely Where 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:28.720 are you right now? 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.120 I'm at home. I'm in Tall, Florida. I'm sitting back 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.160 and kicking it, and I'm been painting and shit, I've 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:38.880 been chilling. This has been the RESTful part of my life. 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:40.440 Really good. 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:42.959 I ain't going nowhere. 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:45.600 Stay in that bubble wrap. 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:47.480 No, I'm cool. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:51.920 Is this the first real rest that you you've gotten? 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.800 You know, since I was a teenager. I put it 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.080 like that, We've been on the road since we was 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:01.920 twenty two when Testifact came out, right, Okay, I had 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.200 never left the road since then. We lived on the 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.640 road and moved to city to city and you know, 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.160 raised kids, get married, moved country and c you know. 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.960 But this is probably the longest that we've been down 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:18.280 and not doing anything. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:21.760 And you're not at all, are you? 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.800 Oh? Hell no, because I had to do it this time. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.440 So I take it like, I don't stress myself. If 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.560 I can't do nothing about it, I do the best 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.560 I can and funk it. You know. I have a 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:37.480 good excuse to paint, and we make music now. I mean, 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:41.160 we were sending ship back and forth on nineteen studio 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.840 only about five miles from here. But I send this 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.320 ship down there in back. I don't even chance that ship. 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.880 But I don't know. I'm I have I go fishing. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.760 Yeah, I was gonna say, I know you're big on fishing. Like, 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:55.200 are you doing a lot of that now? 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.040 Oh? Oh hell yeah, that's the only I sneak to 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.720 the boat, get on the boat, we mask up. But 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.080 I do a lot of that. Okay, I've been I've 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:08.240 been chilling for real, just and you know, luckily been 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:12.720 chilling that you know, ready for it this time, right, 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:14.800 because we got a lot of ship that's getting ready 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:18.240 to come out when this thing is go down. We 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.279 was working on some bad ship, you know, with the 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.960 group the kids, they was killing them. We was getting 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.120 ready to do some hell of ship. But it's good 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.280 because it gave us a chance to sit down and 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.000 get it together and do it properly. 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:30.520 That's good. 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:32.599 At the same time, you know, I just got a 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:39.520 lot of my catalog back, you know, yes, oh yeah, 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.760 I got it back. Now I'm going getting ready to 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:45.480 go through some things that publicize it. You're gonna see it. 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:50.840 Ben Crump is my lawyer, you know, civil rights part 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:51.080 of it. 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:58.800 Right right? What would this mean for funketeers everywhere? Like, 0:04:58.960 --> 0:04:59.760 are we all? 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.320 I'm a matter of fact, I want everybody that has 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.839 worked with us that that's gotta be got a beef, 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:11.039 you know, the contact Sheila Jackson, Lee, we all we're 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.320 all doing together. She wants me to get all the 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:17.240 people that has a beef together so we can make 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:22.920 a one proper announcement. All those people get their copyrights back. 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.640 They can get them back right now. They you know, 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:31.240 recapture their copyrights. Said although this is this I'm telling 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.760 this is the civil rights. This is gonna be a 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:39.160 civil right. Yeah, like I said, yeah, how long is this? Well, 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.599 I've been I've been in the battle almost thirty years, 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.159 but I've been, you know, fighting to get it to 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:48.200 that level of you know, get it to where the Congress. 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.800 I was with John Kanye's he took it up for 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.680 a long time. You know, we couldn't get up the past. 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:57.960 But now every you know, it's the copyright capture thing 0:05:58.080 --> 0:05:59.919 is over now. So I got a lot of min 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.720 in on time, and a lot of other people got 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.280 theirs in. They just don't know it, and they're not 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.040 telling and they're not telling them that they got it. 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:09.799 They trying to make them think that they have to 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.640 fight it something they don't have to fight. It's theirs now. 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:17.240 So we're gonna make a big announcement, especially everybody with us, 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.039 but not only us, a lot of people that work 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.159 with us, even the people that sample the music. They've 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.039 been in long enough now for some of their rights 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.400 to be coming back to them. Yeah, you know, Prince 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:32.000 Prince got his back, you know. So it's that it's 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.680 that time and this generational wealth. It's what it's about 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.400 you can't you can't pass it onto your airs if 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.680 they tie you up, which is what they're trying to do, right, 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.159 you know, trying to make it. There's a whole new 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.599 law thing going on that you know, you they tell 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:50.800 you just how they do it. And we got the help. 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.520 We got the writer report, the Child Jackson need to 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.919 explain all those things that needed done. So if you 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:00.360 know anybody that's stuff that's that's having a problem with 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:04.320 the copyright recapture, yeah, they should definitely get in touch 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:08.640 with Ben Crump and Child jacksually or myself. 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.760 Wow, So does this mean that for the first time 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:18.040 your post seventy six funk a deck delic catalog will 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:22.200 finally see the light of day, Like Yeah, Nomina One, 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:25.120 Nation on the Groove or Uncle Jim or Hardcore Jolly. 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.280 I got that album that masterback, Kneed Deep, I got 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:34.240 those back. I own those two. I was I was 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.000 hesitant to put them out till I got them all 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.120 off the market people that was putting them out illegally. 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.000 I had to clean it up first, So I got 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.760 I owned those been on those for a long time, 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.520 but lawyers was keeping me from getting to them. You know, 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.280 but I got those and especially need to be in 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.600 one nation. That's why you hear so much about Antomic Dog, 0:07:55.920 --> 0:08:01.240 even your capital stuff. I got Atomic Dog, the computer game. 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:02.920 So loop Zilla all that stuff. 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.880 Yeah, so now we put all of them in. And 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:10.720 that's what we're making sure that that whole catalog recapture 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:14.280 thing is. You know, it's it's true for Elvin's president 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:17.239 and his family. It's true for John Lennon and his family, 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:21.160 So it need to be true for everybody that that 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:22.560 don't got nothing to do with race. 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.239 So what does this also mean for the westbound catalog? 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:28.080 Same thing? 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:33.240 Yeah, same thing. So is armand but lady and is 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:34.800 he still alive? Is he still alive? 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:40.200 He's still alive. He's still alive, and and all that. 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:43.520 That's all that's from a big issue. It's gonna be 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.520 a big issue because it's you read the book, the 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.760 book I put out, You read the Jane Peters thing 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:50.400 in the back. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:54.160 That's you got to explain to the audience. Yeah, and 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.119 that's the thing recapture. 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:57.520 So I want to treat. 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.760 I'm gonna try to not ask such a your questions 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:04.920 because this is not just might be a book. So 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.400 I might have to break it down. Can you explain 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:11.400 to them the situation right now? I'm so elated that 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.319 that you own this stuff now, I know you've been 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:14.080 trying for the long. 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.400 Yeah, I had the book, the brother's video, like George, 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.240 ain't that phone count hard on? You know? That came 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.400 out and it was out for a while, and they 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.319 took me to court on that book. So I'm still 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:31.720 in court five years later for the book. Yeah, I 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.040 mean the thing was to kill that information, to kill 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.800 the information in that book. They said that the deformation 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.760 of the farm because I told everything that was he already 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:47.760 said himself, you know, in deposition. But yeah, they got 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:49.840 me in court right now. The main thing is to 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:53.320 keep it slowed down to where I can make no moves. 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.040 You know. Long. I've been in court for the last 0:09:56.360 --> 0:10:00.640 fifteen years with my lawyers and and him and Armor 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:05.120 and the major record companies. So all of that's coming 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.240 to a head now because they're gonna investigate the whole 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:12.720 copyright recapture. We got our back, but we need everybody 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:14.800 to get out of the way to let us make 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.680 those collections because it's still hard to collect from the 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:21.600 different societies. If you know, if you ain't got your 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.840 powerful set of people behind you and lawyers. You know, 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:27.680 that's pretty hard for them because they got to be 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.439 in business. They got business with the companies, so they 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.480 mess up their business trying to protect you, especially a 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:37.520 catalog as big as ours. There's a lot nobody don't 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:39.960 nobody want to get at us. But they've been stealing 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:44.320 with that, you know, But they'll go down fighting. That's 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:46.400 a lot of you're talking about a lot of years, 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:50.360 a lot of careers of people that sample those songs, 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:54.960 use those songs, license those songs that we never not 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.120 only myself, but none of the band members. You hear 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.960 them all something. No, they didn't get money. I agree 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:02.360 with them, they didn't get it. 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.160 So I'm sorry, just for claborication. 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.440 You're saying that you guys never received anything from any 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:08.880 of these songs until. 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.640 No, No, I ain't gonna say never receive anything. I'm 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.760 talking about that sampling and that license, and no we don't. 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:19.360 We're not. We don't be participating in that at all. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:25.520 You know, we got Atomic Dog recently in that three years. Okay, 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:30.400 but no, no, the money. Even since I got it, 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:34.000 I've been fighting my own lawyers to get the money 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.920 that's owed to me for it. The main thing was 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.960 to get it out of my possession right and you know, 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:43.760 and they did that for a long while. But I 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.200 thought it, I got it. I got it back, paid 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.760 four million dollars to my own lawyer. You know, take that, 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:52.800 pay got it back. 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:55.880 Just to clarify it, what I was going to say 0:11:56.000 --> 0:12:01.840 is probably the most endearing thing about your personality is 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.440 the fact and your business acumen was the fact that 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:11.600 you were so open to working with rappers because unlike 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:17.160 your counterpart, and I use this word lightly, of course, 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.600 you know, people consider the pillars of soul music and funk, 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:25.000 you and James Brown. James Brown's attitude towards it was well, 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:28.960 I hate samplers, sampling, you know, rapper sampling my music 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:32.960 and all that stuff, but really not seeing that that's 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.400 going to just bring it back and make it. And 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.640 you called it early in an interview, like even in 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.960 the mid eighties that no, I like, they asked you, like, 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:42.520 what do you think about you know, day lost soul 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.719 taking you know, needy for me myself and I and 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.000 you were so open to it. You're like, that's great 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.040 because what it will do is it will lead a 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.680 whole flock of people to my music and to my 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.319 concerts and whatnot, Like you saw the vision of it. 0:12:55.800 --> 0:13:00.440 So it's not that you're anti sampling and reached structuring 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.199 the music, but the fact. 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:03.040 That pave me my money. 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:04.720 Yeah, so many people have. 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:12.880 To you know, right part of it, the sampling part 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:16.160 of it, I welcome. I welcomed the sampling part of it. 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.560 You know, they got them too. Most of them didn't 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:20.320 get paid either. 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:26.760 I've gotten bit by armored a few times almost. 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.240 And we never got anything that and he was doing 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:33.560 that on behind of us. He's supposedly we never got 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.120 any of it, got any of it. So now that's 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:41.079 what's happening. And now that's getting meant to be open 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.280 up and everybody will be able to see that nobody 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:47.120 in the band got their money or the other artists 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.280 that had you know, all the companies band together on 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.840 those sampling because nobody wanted to acknowledge it. So now 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:55.640 it's going to come out because we didn't fade the wait, 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:57.800 we didn't die all. We're supposed to be out of 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.880 here by now. But we said one nation and the group. 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.560 We meant that we uncle Jim's Army. We was on 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:07.079 the March then, and the clones with the sampling, to 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.679 me was just the clones. You have to have DNA 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.240 clones to make something new. That's what making the music. 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.400 When we said clones of Dr Funkenstein, we meant that 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.960 that far back we knew it wasn't gonna be music 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:25.120 on television. How they sell those k tail packages that 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.120 you didn't have to worry about that, no more, nobody 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.200 got paid for that. The new thing was gonna be samples. 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.040 And they didn't know how far they were gonna get 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.400 away with it. Not the artists that do. A Kid's 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.600 gonna make music whatever way they can, whatever new way 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.200 they have to, they gonna make music. And I'm welcome that. 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.760 I just have to learn how to participate, how to 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.760 hang in there. But the business people around that used 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.920 us against each other. You know that he don't want 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:53.720 you to sample it, he charging you. Most artists wouldn't 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:55.520 even talk to me. They were scared to talk to 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.280 me because they thought I was mad about the samples. 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:04.200 They told them, you know, and and I'm assuming you 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:07.120 so everybody knew that. But like I said, it's coming 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:11.720 out now, and yeah, and they sued me for the book. 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.640 In the book, you know, I'm the last one in 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.640 five years. Everybody else they got sued with me got off, 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.880 and I'm still there, you know, hoping I would go away. 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.640 That's what I did, Shake Shake the Gate and Medicaid 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:30.000 Fraud Dog. I did those two albums just to reignite 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:34.120 my energy, you know, to start to get the kids 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:37.680 going and the and that's how I inspired I was. 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.640 Once I got the book out, I'm ready to make 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:44.600 brand new music with whatever we're going from here. This 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:46.280 is a new generation. 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.480 You know. I'm glad you mentioned that. Normally I start 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.120 from the beginning, but I think for this particular one, 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:57.320 I kind of wanted to start go backwards. Definitely, the 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:02.360 Medicaid Fraud Dog project. Can you, for one, what is 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:11.120 your obsession or what is the the ideology behind dogs 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:15.520 in the metaphor your metaphors for everything. But because that 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:21.760 album in particular is such a clever outlet, like political 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:26.480 commentary but using dogs as your main characters, what what 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.600 was the genesis of that album? 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:33.120 I did called Dope Dogs right, Yes, indeed, okay, Dope Dogs. 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:36.560 I have a whole story for that that I wanted 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.600 to do cartoons, animation and everything, but I never would 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:41.920 give it to anybody because I have all the characters, 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.520 and so I tried to do as many you know, 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:48.960 dog related songs just to keep that concept alive. So 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.160 I use it in Medicaid Fraud dog because it was 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:56.400 based on laboratory studies on dogs, when they used to 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.960 do studies on dogs for perfumes and ship like that. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.480 That member, that's when the dope dogs come from. Not 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.520 only the drug dogs, but this time the dogs were 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:12.119 sniffing out the political bullshit in the in the Obamacare, 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.760 you know, all the different names they want to call it. 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:19.440 On the political drug scene, everything is about dope. Everything's 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.280 about drugs. The whole world is talking about how they're 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.520 gonna get their medicaid, okay, and so that whole thing. 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:29.159 The dogs are sniffing out that information, and most of 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:33.480 us are being hooked on stuff on medicine and create 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.840 new diseases with the drugs they give us. They given 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.160 the certain drugs and those drugs to give you side effects, 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:43.919 which to be a whole new flock of patience. Okay, 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:49.160 now they do. That's what I'm saying, And it's designer, 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:54.000 designer side effects, like designer drugs. That's the era we 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.399 live in now, where we evolve into some you know, 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:01.280 between robots, androids, human and that shit's gonna be a 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:05.159 blurred line in a minute, you know, it's you know 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:09.000 and wait, So the dog is take a dog to 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:12.120 sniff that out. The instincts of a dog is primal. 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.440 You know, whether this maiden or whether it's sniffing out 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:22.760 whatever you're training to sniff out, learn it. And if 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:25.760 he's sniffing out the drugs, you get high from sniffing 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:29.239 on drugs. So the dog's gonna have it, so they 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:33.119 have to. You know, the dogs are doped up. So 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.920 these are the dogs, the characters. I got this dope dog. 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.840 They all got their own relationship to drugs, whether it's 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.920 a police dog or whether it's a dope dealer who 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.480 like to make their dogs fight. And the dog and 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.879 the dogs are like, shit, you don't you used to 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:49.600 give me a reward, you know, used to give me 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:53.640 a joy, true sniff a treat. You know, that's how 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:57.000 they how they train the dogs so that they don't 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.720 even want to get a dog no treat. You know, 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:04.320 these dogs get together and they got their own like 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.920 you know, remember the Ninja Turtles. These dogs are like that, 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:12.320 you know, kind of like who Tang clan, you know. 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.960 And they they got a thing on drugs. They don't, 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:21.480 you know, they impartial to the political book, you know, discrepancy. 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:26.159 They just deal with drugs. So that's my part, My 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.200 partiality to sucking with dogs and drugs. 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:31.520 Makes sense. 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:33.280 Now we can't hear the news. 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:35.720 You know, got more dogs for us. 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:38.760 I got one that's coming I got one that's coming out. 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:45.119 That's that's gonna hurt you. Oh man, oh yeah, who dogs? 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:48.240 You know it's gonna be they're gonna be stepping on it. 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:51.560 You know how they be doing dancing to Atomic Dog. Yeah, 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:56.000 they're gonna stop. They're gonna stepping on this. They're gonna 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.920 be stepping up. They're gonna be stepping up this and there. 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:04.320 I dare your booty not to move your but your butt, 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:05.960 your butt to betray you. 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:09.960 I when that happened, I love it, you know what 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:10.320 I'm saying. 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:13.320 From when she shaked by itself and you ain't got 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:14.640 nothing in voluntary? 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:22.399 Yeah, can How long did it take to make the 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:28.919 Medicaid Fraud Dog album? You know I I thirty eight 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:31.840 years but since the last Parliament record, but. 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:36.960 Well between that would shake the gate and that it 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:40.760 took about three years, you know. But I had a 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:42.520 couple of songs that I was hold on to the 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:45.800 I've done maybe five or six years ago. Then I 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:48.479 just kept them, kept them until I got them right. 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:51.760 I did them a thousand different ways, but medicaid fraud. 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:54.960 When I got the concept together, I got Fred Wesley 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:58.960 down there, I got you know, Chris Days. You know, 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:02.400 I knew the people that I needed for that outside 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:07.199 flavor to what we were doing now. And we were 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:10.560 sampling our own self, but now we're learned. Everybody else 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:13.880 was sampling, and then everybody got scared to sample anymore, 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:15.680 so we started sampling that self. 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:18.520 You're I think you're your best sample source. 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:22.000 So that's only right, but you know, it's still is 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:24.040 it's an art form to picking that shit out. 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:35.480 How many reels do you reckon of just unused source 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:36.920 material do you have? 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:38.600 And can we have them? 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:39.120 Yeah? 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:43.040 Because for me, for me. 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:48.639 Like my all time favorite p funk song is new Spaceship, 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:53.359 a song which musically is created twenty years before you 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:57.600 even completed it in ninety seven, So how many other 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:01.720 like uncooked is do you have just sitting in the 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:05.240 vault that could come out today and still work. Have 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:05.720 you heard? 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:08.320 Have you heard the sample some of this and sampled 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:09.399 some of that? All right? 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:12.960 I have a slight confessional, yes, so check this out. 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:17.200 I purchased sample some of this, sample some of that. 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:22.359 Never opened it because I think in my mind, I 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:26.399 always thought, well, this probably throwaway stuff. And you know, 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:29.520 I'm sure that all the prime P funk stuff is 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:33.200 on actual P funk records. And so it wasn't until 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:37.359 I talked to DJ Premiere. This is about four or 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:41.720 five years ago, and I asked him a question about 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:45.920 a sample. It was a NA sample and he says, oh, yeah, 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:50.080 these drums I got because my favorite premiere sounding drums. 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:52.000 I asked like, where do you get these drums from? 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:54.760 And he said, the George Clinton sampled some of this, 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:59.000 some of that PET like, so NAS's represent drums come 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:02.720 from that practice. All of the Hard to Earn album, 0:23:03.760 --> 0:23:07.480 the drums come from that. Some of Jaybrew's second album, 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:12.160