(Not Just) Knee Deep
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"(Not Just) Knee Deep" is a funk song running about 16 minutes on side 1 of Funkadelic's 1979 album Uncle Jam Wants You. The song is about a girl who's "freak of the week" and dances "never missing a beat." It is widely seen as a funk classic, topping the US R&B charts in 1979 in heavily edited form. The lyrics deal with a man meeting a woman, presumably at a party: she dances for him. He is unimpressed by the Jerk, the Monkey, the Moose and the Chicken, but is blown away by the Freak.
[edit] Sampled in other Music
Ten years later, Hip Hop artist De La Soul sampled the intro to the song in their hit "Me, Myself, and I", which reached #24 on the Billboard Pop Charts and #1 on the R&B Charts. The song has been heavily sampled by hip-hop artists, with others using it including LL Cool J ("Nitro"), Tone Loc ("Funky Cold Medina") and Snoop Dogg ("Who Am I (What's My Name)?"), G-Funk Intro & his unreleased track "Do U Remember". Dr. Dre also sampled the beat for his song "Dre Day".
[edit] In the media
- Played in the 1997 movie Good Burger during the insane asylum scene along with a cameo appearance of George Clinton himself.
- Played in the 2001 movie The Wash.
- Played in the 2003 video game True Crime: Streets of LA.
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