Nice "Retro-review" of the debut of Slave. I was a 21 year old DJ in Da Bronx ,N.Y. when this came out. I still have my original "clean safe" copy of this LP and if you check out the credits on the album cover ,you will see there are thanks to Ralph and Pat Middlebrooks ,of the OHIO PLAYERS. Also the OHIO PLAYERS were influential in the group FAZE-O ,[[RIDING HIGH), at the same time. An important period of time in regards to the development of what we know as FUNK. I look at it this way ,J.B. and Sly uncovered the entity that is the FUNK ,the beef of it ,the sirlion so to speak. The OHIO PLAYERS and the addition of BOOTSY and MACEO to PARLIAMENT, are the filet mignion ,and SLAVE....the tar-tar. SLIDE was/still is, RAW FUNK. Seared to a rich brown on the outside ,but pink and juicy on the inside. Still to this day ,if you dare to get into it ,you come out of it with a snapped neck from the beat ,and that look on your face ,like you smelled doo-doo warmed twice over,and that's FUNKY!!!!. An aquired taste for some understandably , but something that can't be denied.
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