"That New Funkadelic" is the third single from rapper
Ice Cube's tenth
studio album Everythang's Corrupt (and thank goodness he knew better than to title it
Everything's Corrupt).
As the name promises, the
song is heavy on
funkadelia, with a
beat "so sweet like
booty meat" (a mildly cannibalistic-sounding line) but surprisingly somewhat light on
lyrics, having few proper lyrical constructions, and several segments where a line is simply repeated four times (aka, "What's up for the evening? I ain't into trickin'; I'm into treatin'"; or "I heard
weed was legal; grow that shit n***a, feed ya people"). The first set of any lyrics that have some constructional development
as lyrics addresses an "
Uncle named
George" who's always "down to
orge" (pronounced so it rhymes with George, in this instance presumably meaning to partake in an
orgy -- which may be the first use of this somewhat archaic word in
popular culture this
century), and eats a booty like a
smorgasbord. Which last word is, amusingly, pronounced correctly. The other proper lyric instructs us that "the funk will linger," which Ice Cube asserts will make everybody "want to
smell my finger," followed by mention of everybody wanting to engage in intercourse with Ice Cube's singers, and a random mention of
Jerry Springer.
The music video is awash in neon colors and hoes. All told, the song is distractingly entertaining to bounce along to, but is in the final analysis as
forgettable as any
throwaway piece of
culture.
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