The Beatnuts – “We Got The Funk” (2002)
My apologies for the Throwback Thursdays lacking recently. I’m aware it’s many of our fans’ reason for living come Thursday. I just got a little out of control with it during its peak and I want to space out the throwbacks as much as I can. I can’t throw too many at you at once, it’ll be too overwhelming.
A co-worker of mine turned me onto this smooth track by The Beatnuts, and I haven’t turned back. “We Got The Funk” samples a late 70s/early 80s track by Rachel Sweet (no idea who she is), and turns it into one of the more perfect songs to walk around a city to. Maybe it’s just me, but you feel sweet as hell cruising around the streets of Boston with this in your ears; it’s just got a nice vibe to it. Released in 2002, this song received virtually no recognition on a national scale; it wasn’t even released in CD format. But for some obscene reason it landed in the movie Click with Adam Sandler…which makes absolutely no sense. Give it a spin, you’ll be hooked.
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