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Weekly mp3 #60: Dudley Perkins - Funky Dudley

Been a while since I linked to a tune on Better Propaganda.

A mid-tempo sorta funk, sorta hip-hop track. There's a fairly slow, thudding beat with some heavy sub bass, a swung clavinet lick and some snippets of horns jutting out from time to time. Quiet, tinny soul vocal samples layer up from time to time for texture. Dudley's basically channelling George Clinton all over the track, half-rapping half-singing about the history of funk in his life. "How'd you get so funky, Dudley?" he apparently asks ... himself in the refrain. :)

I think Dudley Perkins is from the West Coast of the US, but not sure where exactly. I first heard him rapping as Declaime over some Madlib beats (as he is again here), Madlib being a thoroughly overrated and often very boring American hip-hop producer. Still, this is a good beat. Likewise, Declaime is quite an awful MC, but under his own name Perkins has done some good tracks...

Labels: music, weekly mp3

Posted at 6:00 PM