First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate explained

First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate
Type:studio
Artist:Funkadelic
Cover:First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate.jpg
Released:November 25, 2014 (digital download)
December 23, 2014 (physical release) (TBC)
Genre:
Length:3:27:34
Label:The C Kunspyruhzy
Producer:Original sessions produced by George Clinton
Prev Title:U.S. Music with Funkadelic
Prev Year:2009

First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate is the fourteenth and final studio album by American funk rock band Funkadelic. The album was released by the C Kunspyruhzy in 2014 and consists of newly recorded material.

The album consists of 3 discs comprising 33 tracks in total, which has been explained to mirror the 33 years that had elapsed since Funkadelic's last official album release in 1981, The Electric Spanking of War Babies. Like most of the Funkadelic catalog, the album features cover artwork by artist Pedro Bell.

Release

First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate was released in digital format on November 25, 2014. The official CD release, after first being announced for December 1, was delayed to December 23, 2014.

The album's first single released was "The Naz", a song featuring Sly Stone, in 2013. A second single, "Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You?", was digitally released on October 21, 2014, in connection with the release of George Clinton's autobiography, Brothers Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You?.

"As In" is a remake of Bootsy's Rubber Band's "As In (I Love You)" and features the late Jessica Cleaves on vocals. This album also features the first appearances of George's grandson Trazae rapping on a few tunes, and George's granddaughters Kandy Apple Redd, and George's stepdaughter Nakid 87, Sidney Barnes, Sly Stone, and posthumous appearances by Garry Shider and Belita Woods are featured on the album. Garry's son Garrett Shider replaces his father. This was the last Funkadelic project keyboardist Bernie Worrell contributed to before his death in 2016.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Funkadelic, First Ya Gotta Shake The Gate (2014) . Birnstengel . Grace . August 10, 2015 . Stereogum . January 8, 2022.
  2. Web site: Funkadelic, 'First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate' . Ken . Capobianco . December 22, 2014 . .

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