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ALBUMFunky And You Know It (Myd Remix) - SingleBootsy Collins & Shakedown
Albums by Bootsy Collins
ALBUMNothing but U on My MindChew Fu & Bootsy Collins
ALBUMThe Power of the OneBootsy Collins
ALBUMWorld Wide FunkBootsy Collins
ALBUMTha Funk Capitol of the WorldBootsy Collins
ALBUMThe-Official-Boot-Legged-Bootsy-CDBootsy Collins
ALBUMPlay with Bootsy: A Tribute to the FunkBootsy Collins
ALBUMFresh Outta "P" UniversityBootsy Collins
ALBUMFresh Outta P UniversityBootsy Collins
ALBUMLord of the HarvestZillatron
ALBUMTransmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)Praxis
Bootsy Collins's Popular Music Videos
After the Storm (feat. Tyler, The Creator & Bootsy Collins)
Kali Uchis
Party On Plastic
Bootsy Collins
Keep That Funk Alive (feat. Bootsy Collins) [Official Music Video]
Lettuce
The Case of the Dry Markers (feat. Bootsy Collins)
Zak Morgan
Honeysuckle Neckbone
BLK ODYSSY & Bootsy Collins
Boot-A-Claus: Here 4 a Reason (feat. D-M.A.U.B., DREION, GARY G7 JENKINS, Baby Triggy & FANTAAZMA)
Bootsy Collins
Funk Not Fight (feat. Baby Triggy & FANTAAZMA)
Bootsy Collins
We Outta B Funkin’ (Lyric Video) [feat. Soopafly, Temu Bacot & Myra Washington]
Bootsy Collins
Artist Biography
Parliament-Funkadelic founder George Clinton remembers the first time he saw the cover for Bootsy Collins’ Stretchin’ Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band. The white suit, the star-shaped glasses, the mix of blaxploitation star and psychedelic kids’ cartoon: Bootsy had a look. That’s the link, Clinton thought: someone who could take the freedom and density of funk and make it pop. Not only did Collins (born William Earl Collins in Cincinnati in 1951) help shape the rhythmic spine of both Parliament-Funkadelic and James Brown’s band as a bass player, he expanded the parameters of Black music in ways that laid ground for everything from LA G-funk to Detroit techno and house. (And, as he noted, helped make it okay for Black people to wear bright colors at a time when it was still considered weird.)
The P-Funk material is impeccable (“Give Up the Funk [Tear the Roof Off the Sucker],” the delirious post-doo-wop of “Be My Beach,” and hey, did you know he played drums on “Flash Light”?!), and the solo and Rubber Band work is great too (“Psychoticbumpschool,” “Vanish in Our Sleep”). But like George Clinton realized in 1976, Collins is also one of those rare artists whose look, sound, and aura helped crystallize an entire culture: the funk incarnate. “Funk has always been making something out of nothing,” Bootsy tells Apple Music. “That's what funk is. That's what we do as athletes. That's what we do as entertainers, musicians—we take what we got and learn to get forward with it. And that's what funk is.” In 2022, he began hosting The Bootsy Collins Show on Apple Music Hits.
The P-Funk material is impeccable (“Give Up the Funk [Tear the Roof Off the Sucker],” the delirious post-doo-wop of “Be My Beach,” and hey, did you know he played drums on “Flash Light”?!), and the solo and Rubber Band work is great too (“Psychoticbumpschool,” “Vanish in Our Sleep”). But like George Clinton realized in 1976, Collins is also one of those rare artists whose look, sound, and aura helped crystallize an entire culture: the funk incarnate. “Funk has always been making something out of nothing,” Bootsy tells Apple Music. “That's what funk is. That's what we do as athletes. That's what we do as entertainers, musicians—we take what we got and learn to get forward with it. And that's what funk is.” In 2022, he began hosting The Bootsy Collins Show on Apple Music Hits.
Hometown
Cincinnati, OH, United States
Genre
R&B/Soul