Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Snoop in Retroland
My basement video wallpaper generally consists of VH1 Soul. There are few commercials, and none are too exceptionally annoying. And other than that nothing but soul videos by artists new and old. Hip-hop is just a flavor in this mix, mostly it consists neosoul crooning and trips down video lane for artists of the late eighties and early nineties. And then there is some special programming such as concerts like a recent one with Snoop Dogg, that was surprisingly diverse. I very much enjoyed the guest spot by Charlie Wilson of the GAP band (that man has one of the best sets of pipes in all of soul-funk-urban music) and his closer, the hit single from last December, Sensual Seduction.
Sensual Seduction is Snoop's take on Prince, Roger Troutman and Zapp and other iconographic imagery from the excess of the late seventies and early eighties disco to electrofunk era. I love the PFunk spaceship, the turban and the round bed. He sings: "If you don't know by now, Doggy Dogg is a Freak" The buffet embeds this clip to you all as a public service brought to you by WEFUNK. Life is too short not to have the funk.
posted by well-executed buffet at 2:06 AM
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