TUNAGE – LNG

WHOT Episode 143 – “You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks” by Funkadelic
Hosted by Mangus Khan

[Slow fade-in. Bass pulses like a heartbeat made of anger. Faint background voices swirl like ghosts.]

“This is Late Night Grooves.

WHOT.

And I’m Mangus Khan, coming to you from the edge of the dial, where the truth still gets airplay.

Episode 143.

And we’re not whispering tonight.

We’re spinning something righteous.

Funkadelic – ‘You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks.’

Off Maggot Brain, 1971.

This record ain’t just legendary—it’s lethal.

And this track? It’s one of those songs that pretends to be polite just long enough to get through the door—then it rips the mask off.

It’s got a groove so thick you could drown in it.
A beat that feels like a revolution marching in slow motion.

But don’t get it twisted. This ain’t just funk.

“If you and your folks love me and my folks like me and my folks love you and your folks…
There’d be no folks to hate.”

That lyric hits different, doesn’t it?

That’s George Clinton, breaking it all the way down.

No metaphors. No sugarcoat. Just logic, looped over a bassline.

See, while the radio was still playing safe, Funkadelic said: Let’s talk race. Let’s talk power. Let’s talk what America refuses to admit.

And they did it with drums. With distortion. With harmony that dared you to disagree.

This track calls out segregation—not just in law, but in love.

It says: What if we dropped the fear? The fiction?
What if you actually believed in the humanity of the folks on the other side of the fence?

That’s a wild idea in 1971.

Hell—it’s still wild now.

And the kicker?

This song makes you move while it messes with your conscience.

That’s what makes it dangerous.

Maggot Brain as an album doesn’t give you answers.
It holds up the mirror—and laughs while you try to look away.

That’s art. That’s courage.

And that’s why Funkadelic still matters.

So tonight, we don’t run from the tension.

We ride it.

Episode 143.

Funkadelic.
“You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks.”

Only on Late Night Grooves.
WHOT.

And I’m Mangus Khan—reminding you:

If the groove don’t make you think,
Then it ain’t doing its job.”