Funny Vibe | |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Living Colour |
Album: | Vivid |
Released: | 1988 |
Recorded: | 1987–1988 |
Genre: | |
Label: | Epic |
Prev Title: | Open Letter (To a Landlord) |
Prev Year: | 1988 |
Next Title: | Funny Vibe (remix) |
Next Year: | 1989 |
"Funny Vibe" is a single released by Living Colour from their 1988 debut album Vivid.[3] [4] It features Chuck D and Flavor Flav from Public Enemy.
Rolling Stone magazine wrote about the song in a 1990 Living Colour interview, saying "The words – "No I'm not gonna hurt you/No I'm not gonna harm you/And I try not to hate you/So why you want to give me that/Funny Vibe!" – spelled out with machine-gun eloquence Reid's rage and frustration in communicating his vision to a rigid, unapologetic music industry rife with racial stereotyping and de facto discrimination."[5]