The funk flag was flown most prominently throughout the seventies by Parliament, led by George Clinton, who had their first top ten hit on Billboard magazine's Black Music Chart in 1974 and peaked in 1978, when Parliament scored two number 1 hits with Flashlight and Aquaboogie in the same year that Clinton's other group, Funkadelic, had a world-wide hit with One Nation Under A Groove. While the lyrics of these songs may not refer specifically to cannabis (unlike other Clintonic titles such as Pot Smokin' Tots, or Munchies For Your Love) there's small doubt that it was pot that put the P in Clinton's own special brand of music, P-Funk.
George Clinton, father of P-funk, Lee Perry and Sun Ra, all three of them believe they were born in space, and all three are black
see also: Funkadelic, Parliament, The Mothership, Bootsy Collins, ...
Funkadelic were bad motherfuckers. They shared management and stages with the other "bad boys of Detroit" -- Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes, MC5, and The Stooges. Their management even cooked up a marriage between George and Iggy Pop as a publicity stunt. Iggy was probably relieved that it was never followed through. "He could have been my wife," tittered Clinton. Clinton would certainly have incorporated Iggy into his entourage like a cyber-funkified bodysnatcher.
The funk flag was flown most prominently throughout the seventies by Parliament, led by George Clinton, who had their first top ten hit on Billboard magazine's Black Music Chart in 1974 and peaked in 1978, when Parliament scored two number 1 hits with Flashlight and Aquaboogie in the same year that Clinton's other group, Funkadelic, had a world-wide hit with One Nation Under A Groove. While the lyrics of these songs may not refer specifically to cannabis (unlike other Clintonic titles such as Pot Smokin' Tots, or Munchies For Your Love) there's small doubt that it was pot that put the P in Clinton's own special brand of music, P-Funk.
