Now Baby Turn It Up We Bout to Play It Loud
| "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'one thousand Proud (Part i)" | ||||
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 The Say It Loud – I'yard Black and I'm Proud album | ||||
| Single past James Chocolate-brown | ||||
| from the anthology A Soulful Christmas and Say It Loud – I'k Black and I'one thousand Proud | ||||
| B-side | "Say It Loud – I'one thousand Black and I'thousand Proud (Part 2)" | |||
| Released | Baronial 1968 (1968-08) | |||
| Recorded | August 7, 1968, Vox Studios, Los Angeles | |||
| Genre | Funk | |||
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| Label | King 6187 | |||
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| Producer(s) | James Brown | |||
| James Dark-brown charting singles chronology | ||||
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"Say It Loud – I'grand Black and I'thou Proud" is a funk vocal performed by James Brown, and written with his bandleader Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis in 1968. It was released as a two-office single which held the number-one spot on the R&B singles nautical chart for six weeks, and peaked at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] [2] Both parts of the single were later included on James Chocolate-brown's 1968 album A Soulful Christmas and on his 1969 album sharing the title of the song. The song became an unofficial anthem of the Black Ability motility.
"Say It Loud – I'one thousand Black and I'thou Proud" was Brown's first recording to characteristic trombonist Fred Wesley.
Lyrics [edit]
In the song, Chocolate-brown addresses racism confronting Black Americans, and the need for Blackness empowerment. He proclaims that "we demands a chance to practice things for ourself" and that "we're tired of beating our head confronting the wall and workin' for someone else." The song's phone call and response chorus is performed by a group of young children, who reply to Chocolate-brown's command of "Say it loud" with "I'm black and I'chiliad proud!"[3] The song was recorded in a Los Angeles area suburb with about 30 young people from the Watts and Compton neighborhoods.[4]
The lyrics "We've been 'buked and we've been scorned/ Nosotros've been treated bad, talked about as sure as you lot're built-in" in the first verse of the song paraphrase the spiritual I've Been 'Buked. Several other Brown singles from the same era as "Say It Loud – I'1000 Black and I'g Proud", notably "I Don't Want Nobody to Requite Me Nothing (Open up Up the Door, I'll Get Information technology Myself)", explored like themes of Blackness empowerment and cocky-reliance. The song's opening exhortation, "With your bad cocky", is an example of linguistic reappropriation, and added a new entry to Brown'south long list of nicknames: "His Bad Self."[ citation needed ]
Recognitions [edit]
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame included "Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'chiliad Proud" in their 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Scroll. In 2004 it was ranked number 305 on Rolling Stone mag's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. It inspired the championship of a VH1 television special and box gear up, Say It Loud! A Celebration of Black Music in America.
"'Say It Loud – I'm Black and I'm Proud' was a record that really convinced me to say I was black instead of a negro," remarked Public Enemy'southward Chuck D. "Dorsum and then black folks were called negroes, but James said y'all tin can say it loud: that being black is a dandy thing instead of something you lot accept to apologise for."[5]
However in directly response to the song'due south bulletin, Willie Cobbs wryly observed that Brownish was a millionaire past that point, as Cobbs retort was "Sing It Low - I'm Black and I'thou Poor".[6]
Personnel [edit]
- James Chocolate-brown – lead song
- Unknown children's chorus[7]
- Ryan Hayman-Brawl Prep University
with the James Brown Orchestra:
- Waymond Reed – trumpet
- Richard "Kush" Griffith – trumpet
- Fred Wesley – trombone
- Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis – alto saxophone
- Maceo Parker – tenor saxophone
- St. Clair Pinckney – baritone saxophone
- Jimmy Nolen – electrical guitar
- Charles Sherrell – bass
- Clyde Stubblefield – drums
Other versions and uses [edit]
Numerous hip hop musicians and groups accept sampled "Say It Loud – I'yard Blackness and I'one thousand Proud", including Eric B. and Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Full Force, LL Absurd J and 2 Live Crew in the states and Akil Ammar for the Mexican hush-hush scene.
A few performers have recorded cover versions of the song, including jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson (on his 1969 album Say It Loud!), reggae vocalizer Bob Marley (in a medley with "Black Progress") and the punk rock band Black Randy and the Metrosquad.
A slightly modified version of the bassline of "Say Information technology Loud – I'thousand Black and I'chiliad Proud" appears in long sections of the track "Yesternow" on the Miles Davis album A Tribute to Jack Johnson.
Jazz pianist Jaki Byard recites the championship phrase at the onset of "Parisian Thoroughfare", the opening track of his album The Jaki Byard Feel. Withal, the recitation is just aural when the track is played at a loftier volume.
The song is referenced in an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, inspired by Blackness Power protests, Will, the African-American male lead attempts to hold a protest (ironically, Volition and his cousin Carlton are the but blackness people in the room) to get a popular instructor reinstated, he inspires "Cornflake", a white fellow student, who stands upward and shouts passionately "Fight the Power Volition! Sing it loud, I'chiliad black and I'yard proud", to which Will replies "Encounter, my man Cornflake'south got the spirit. He'south a piddling confused but he's got the spirit".
The vocal is likewise referenced in the Temptations song "Bulletin From a Black Homo".
"Let's Accept it to the Stage" past Funkadelic gives a nod to this vocal with the lyric "Say it loud, I'm funky and I'm proud."
R&B/Rock creative person Meshell Ndegeocello covers the song during her alive performances.
References [edit]
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 84.
- ^ White, Cliff (1991). "Discography". In Star Fourth dimension (pp. 54–59) [CD booklet]. New York: PolyGram Records.
- ^ James Brown interviewed on the Popular Chronicles (1970)
- ^ "Charles Bobbit". Interviews, Roots Of Doo Wop. 2012-06-11. Archived from the original on 2014-05-02. Retrieved 2012-06-11 .
- ^ Mojo, March 2002
- ^ Giles Oakley (1997). The Devil's Music . Da Capo Printing. p. 230. ISBN978-0-306-80743-5.
- ^ Leeds, Alan, and Harry Weinger (1991). "Star Time: Vocal past Song". In Star Time (pp. 46–53) [CD booklet]. New York: PolyGram Records.
External links [edit]
- Song Review from Allmusic
- List of songs that sample "Say Information technology Loud—I'm Black and I'1000 Proud"
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Say_It_Loud_%E2%80%93_I%27m_Black_and_I%27m_Proud
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