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Bootsy Collins
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What it up, mama? Yeah!
Right now it is indeed my funked up pleasure to introduce to you
From the silver screen to HD to Blu-ray, tell me what I say
Uh, let's hear it for Samuel L. Jackson, AKA Sammy J
Put your hands together!
Let me drop a little knowledge about how I got
From Chattanooga, Tennessee to the big city, L.A
When I was a kid, when I got up in the
Morning, there was music in my house
There was a whole gang of us walked to school together
We would grab each other up from house to house
Every house had its own beat
And that beat would carry us and our books all the way down the street
We gon' turn this mother out
We gon' turn this mother out
We gon' turn this mother out
We gon' turn this mother out
When we got to school, we used to have this thing they called devotion
Where we had to do the Lord's Prayer, pledge allegiance
To the flag, sang America the Beautiful and such
But once we done that, the teacher would
Let us pick a song that we wanted to sing
We would always pick something cool
You imagine a class of about 30 little
Brothers and sisters singing Peanut Butter
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Or doing background to our lead singer of the class, Aquanetta Butts
As she sang, "This is dedicated to the one I love" and we went...
Oh, that made the day so much better
We could learn and learn, learn and burn
As we got a little older, I think I bought my first 45
And I think it was, uh, Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This
Smokey was my man, then there was the Duke of Earl, Ike and Tina
Of course, James Brown!
I learned to do the Slide, the Funky Chicken, the Twist
We gon' turn this mother out (I was a-dancin', ow!)
We gon' turn this mother out (And I
Was certainly turnin' the mother out)
We gon' turn this mother out
We gon' turn this mother out
The music just made me so strong
I got to college, things started to groovin' even better
Marvin Gaye layin' it on us, makin' us feel all political
I grew my hair long, had my fro, my
Army fatigue jacket, fists in the air!
Stokely, Rap, all the brothers
Things were starting to make sense and nonsense
I met brothers coming from Vietnam, didn't even know where that was
They said, "If you don't stay in school
Man, you gonna end up in the war"
I was already in a war, the war of equality
Little did I know, the war was just beginning
We gon' turn this mother out
We gon' turn this mother out
We gon' turn this mother out
We gon' turn this mother out
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The government got kind of hip to what we was trying
To do and they decided, "We gonna put an end to this"
They took all the weed off the street
Took all the acid off the street
And all they left was death and the White House
We rode it, and we rode it hard
But when that wasn't enough, they brought in that girl
Oh, Lord, that girl
We loved that girl
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