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Riff: Prince – “Funknroll”

Sep 30, 2014

The only way to last til the break of dawn/Is put your phone down get your party on/Who ya gonna call when it’s obviously us/Everybody you know is rockin’ in here

from Funknroll lyrics by Prince

The Funkadelic mothership has a new captain, and he’s as wildly flamboyant and surreal as the souls that came before him. The twisted vocals bend over the skittish beat like it were on some late ’70s early ’80s proto-rap. It’s a modern sound with an old school, shake what your momma gave you vibe.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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