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"(Not Just) Knee Deep" is a song by the American funk band Funkadelic written by George Clinton. The song was released as a single for their album Uncle Jam Wants You (1979). The song is widely regarded as a funk classic, peaking at No. 77 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topping the US R&B charts in 1979. [ 1 ]
[1] Rolling Stone opined that "the strongest material here—notably the first ten minutes or so of '(Not Just) Knee Deep', with its snazzy synthesizer fills, razor-sharp Michael Hampton guitar solo, raucous vocals, and hook upon hook—is state-of-the-art black pop music." [22]
The album contains the fifteen-minute "(Not Just) Knee Deep" featuring former Spinners lead singer Philippé Wynne, an edited version of which topped the R&B charts. The final official Funkadelic album, The Electric Spanking of War Babies, was released in 1981. The release was originally a double-album project, but it was reduced to a single ...
The leader behind the Parliament-Funkadelic collective was celebrated for influencing and impacting funk music. George Clinton, one of the most […] The post George Clinton becomes emotional as ...
The song's bassline is a slowed interpolation from Funkadelic's song "(Not Just) Knee Deep." The chorus includes vocals by two more Death Row Records artists, R&B singer Jewell and rapper RBX. Also included is a sample and an interpolation from George Clinton’s song “Atomic Dog."
"(Not Just) Knee Deep" 77 1 43 — Uncle Jam Wants You "Uncle Jam" — 53 — — "Connections and Disconnections" 1981 — 68 — — Connections & Disconnections "The Electric Spanking of War Babies" — 60 — — The Electric Spanking of War Babies "Shockwaves" — — — — "—" denotes releases that did not chart.
The bonus-EP of Funkadelic's One Nation Under a Groove (1978) included a live version of the song featuring Hampton. One of his most celebrated performances is the lead guitar solo on the Funkadelic hit single "(Not Just) Knee Deep" from 1979, as well the title track to the Brides of Funkenstein's second album Never Buy Texas From A Cowboy.
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