| Funky Serenity | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Ramsey Lewis |
| Cover: | Funky Serenity.jpg |
| Released: | January 30, 1973 |
| Recorded: | October 1972 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 48:07 |
| Label: | Columbia KC 32030 |
| Producer: | Ramsey Lewis |
| Chronology: | Ramsey Lewis |
| Prev Title: | Upendo Ni Pamoja |
| Prev Year: | 1972 |
| Next Title: | Ramsey Lewis' Newly Recorded All-Time Non-Stop Golden Hits |
| Next Year: | 1973 |
Funky Serenity is an album by the pianist Ramsey Lewis, released in 1973 on Columbia Records. The album got to No. 6 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart.[1]
"Dreams" was sampled by A Tribe Called Quest on the song "Electric Relaxation", from their 1993 LP Midnight Marauders. Beck also sampled "My Love For You" on the song "Debra."
"My Love For You" was also sampled by Musiq Soulchild on the track "Girl Next Door." What's more, Lewis' rendition of Luther Ingram's "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" was sampled by The Fugees on "Fu-Gee-La."
Producer Kanye West also sampled Lewis' cover of The Stylistics' "Betcha by Golly, Wow" for the Mariah Carey song "Stay the Night" on her 2005 LP The Emancipation of Mimi.
Andrew Hamilton of AllMusic called the album "enjoyable and essential".[2]
All compositions by Cleveland Eaton, Morris Jennings and Ramsey Lewis except as indicated