Today we move on to the Northeast Regional competition of the March Madness of American Rock Bands tournament. Vote for your favorite band! The top two vote recipients move on to the next round.
William Earl “Bootsy” Collins (born October 26, 1951) career in music began playing bass for the legendary James Brown in the early ’70s. He later gained fame playing bass with Parliament-Funkadelic. Bootsy has made a name for himself as a skilled bassist and has interesting vocals. His voice goes up and down flowing through his abstract lyrics about, life love, and whatever Bootsy throws in. If his skills as a musician and singer-songwriter didn’t set him apart it would have to be his elaborate outfits and stage shows. In the studio and on stage known to be a perfectionist making sure everything sounds just right He has collaborated with various artists like Snoop Dogg and RCP he will occasionally work with George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic.In 1997, Collins was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is considered one of the leading names in funk Bootsy Collins to help set a tone for some of today’s hip hop, r&b, and pop music.
Ice Cube: “True To The Game” b/w “Givin’ Up The Nappy Dugout” (1991)
Without a doubt 1991′s Death Certificate is one of the best accomplishments Ice Cube has done in his career. In an era where he acrimoniously left N.W.A., releasing his 1991 debut Amerikkka’s Most Wanted, and starring in his first full-length feature film Boyz ‘N’ The Hood (Singleton, 1992), there was no stopping him. Ice Cube held nothing back when he chronicled the-then current condition of life in South Central Los Angeles; detailing many a vicious tale of gang violence, explicit sex, cultural sentiments, and the state of black society.
This double-A single makes up two examples that pieced together the critically-acclaimed Death Certificate. The former, “True To The Game”, had Ice Cube staking his claim about golden-era hip-hop generation’s hottest topic of artists selling themselves out to the industry and the white man. It happened to be one of the funkiest cuts on the album laid down, sampling The Gap Band’s “Outstanding” (’82) and George Duke’s “Reach for It” ('77) while Cube reminded everyone to never forget where they came from. The other, “Givin’ Up The Nappy Dugout” references Big Daddy Kane and Funkadelic and gets its funk from Booker T & The M.G.’s “Hip-Hug Her” (’67). It’s Cube’s ridiculously comical yet sharply-pointed triple X-rated take of slut-shaming to a daughter’s father. Both tracks are great, and it’s only a build up to the album closer “No Vaseline”, considered one of the greatest rap diss tracks ever recorded.
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Today we’ll decide which bands from the Northeast Region will advance to the nationwide knockout rounds of the March Madness of American Rock Bands! The top two bands from each poll will advance, so vote with your heart. Ties will be broken by the percentage of votes received in the previous round, there will be no tiebreaker polls!