RELEASE PARTY is going to be on Feb 14th at Apache Cafe, so come out.

Stories of happiness, joy, pain and love.

Bout Dat Lyfe Concert Series Presents “Hip Hop Is My Valentine”

Valentine’s Day (Feb 14 2012) @ Apache Café (Doors open at 9 pm)

Benefit Concert/Cell Phone Drive for Women’s Resource Center To End Domestic Violence

….Aleon Craft’s “Cosmic Valentine” Album Release Party

Featuring Aleon Craft, Amante Da Prez, Preston Banks, Athena Renee, Nefertiti aka Neftunes, Stanza, Dukes of DaVille

Hosted by David Freeman Jr.

Music by Dj Majestik aka Skenny Kravitz

For more details about Women’s Resource Center To End Domestic Violence

www.wrcdv.org

Please come out and support a great night for a great cause!!!

READ THE INTERVIEW HERE

As he makes an authorized project with an Atlanta Rap veteran, Uncle George says that the lawsuits stemming from his music are not from him, and urges Lil Wayne that a phone-call could save him money.

George Clinton’s career is the stuff of novels; the stuff of biopics; the stuff of legends. From Doo-Wop and Motown to Parliament Funkadelic to P-Funk to Hip Hop (Techno coming soon), “Uncle George” has literally seen it all and breathed it all. Many artists make great songs. Clinton makes great genres. Half a century-in and the P-Funk All Star is still pushing the margins off the page and off the charts.

Aleon Craft grew up idolizing George Clinton. The Atlanta-native splashed in the mainstream early as part of Da Backwudz in the mid-2000s. Nearly five years later – sans record-label abandonment – he’s creating some of his freshest material and feeling better than ever about it. Taking a nod from his idol, he released Craft Singles in 2011 – an eight-track adventure through Craft’s own original genre, Solar-Hop.

In a sense, Aleon Craft and George Clinton teaming-up on Mothership: The Decatur Connection is a reunion of sorts. The two worked together on the Da Backwudz‘ Wood Work. But beyond the obvious, Craft and Clinton seem like kindred-spirits: two musical minds that only see the boundlessness of sound, separated by decades only.

HipHopDX spoke with Aleon Craft and George Clinton individually in this interview, discussing the origins of their collaboration, Clinton’s current legal battles over copyright issues and his memories of Afrika Bambaataa, Beyonce, Eminem, Dr. Dre when they were teenagers, and what surprises them both about Hip Hop.

READ THE INTERVIEW HERE

1) Spodee – Who Run It (Prod. SMKA)
2) Freddie Gibbs ft. Juicy J – St8 Slammin (Prod. SMKA)
3) Aleon Craft ft. Tuki & Grip Plyaz – My Girlfriend (Prod. SMKA)
4) Young Scolla – Alive (Prod. SMKA)
5) Jarren Benton – Get a Load of Me (Prod. SMKA)
6) Fashawn ft. Phil Ade – Feelin Free (Prod. SMKA)
7) REi ft. Short Dawg – Feelin Some Kinda Way (Prod. SMKA)
8 ) Kid Daytona ft. Big Remo & Jarren Benton – No Lies on the Verses (Prod. SMKA)
9) STS ft. Tony Williams & Freddie Gibbs – Cloud of Endo (Prod. SMKA)
10) Voli – Righteous Remains (Prod. SMKA)
11) Jus Nice ft. Aleon Craft – Valedictorian (Prod. SMKA)

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TRACKLIST
01. Aleon Craft & George Clinton – Copyright Trolls
02. Aleon Craft & George Clinton – No Strings Attached
03. Aleon Craft & George Clinton – Places To Fly
04. Aleon Craft & George Clinton – On The Air
05. Aleon Craft & George Clinton – Yoga Flame
06. Aleon Craft & George Clinton – Look Twice
07. Aleon Craft & George Clinton – Ghetto Dope
08. Aleon Craft & George Clinton – Make It Out
09. Aleon Craft & George Clinton – Donkey Kong
10. Aleon Craft & George Clinton – Ball Of Confusion

Mothership: The Decatur Connection is a collaborative project between funk legend, George Clinton, and hip-hop artist, Aleon Craft. This is the first time George Clinton (of Parliament Funkadelic) has linked up with a hip-hop artist for a complete, new project. George Clinton recorded to 3 new records for the project, however, Mothership: The Decatur Connection consists of elements from… Aleon Craft’s Mothership Decatur (2011 Mixtape), the Parliament-Funkedelic catalog and original recordings from both Aleon Craft and George Clinton.

Paul Forrest & Justin Padron, SMKA-affiliates, are the chief producers behind the project and were tasked with taking all of the pieces from Craft and Clinton and creating something unique that reflected their style and vision. Mothership: The Decatur Connection is an exciting mash-up project combining two very different artists, both with an exceptional creative process. The project is presented by SMKA & Funkprobosci.com.

#Savefunk

George Clinton is currently engaged in major court cases that could critically impact the future of copyright laws for the entire music industry, as well as motion pictures and related media.

Below is the full sample list used on the project…

“Song” – Album
* = album rights owned by George Clinton

Ball of Confusion

“Maggot Brain” – One Nation Under a Groove*
“One Nation Under a Groove” – One Nation Under a Groove*

Copyright Trolls

“We Hurt Too” – America Eats Its Young
“I Bet You” – Funkadelic
“Philmore” – America Eats Its Young
“America Eats Its Young” – America Eats Its Young
“Flash Light” – Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome
“Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk (Pay Attention)” – Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome

“Ball of Confusion” – Mothership Decatur
“Ghetto Soul” – Mothership Decatur
“Look Twice” – Mothership Decatur

Donkey Kong

“Hit It And Quit It” – Maggot Brain

Ghetto Soul

“Qualify And Satisfy” – Funkadelic
“Good Old Music” – Funkadelic
“What Is Soul” – Funkadelic
“(I Wanna) Testify” – (The Parliaments)

Make It Out

“We Hurt Too” – America Eats Its Young
“That Was My Girl” – America Eats Its Young

No Strings Attached

“Supergroovalisticprosifunkstication” – Mothership Connection
“Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples” – Mothership Connection

On The Air

“P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)” – Mothership Connection
“Elevators (Me & You)” – ATLiens (Outkast)

Places to Fly

“I Got A Thing, You Got A Thing, Everybody’s Got A Thing” – Funkadelic
“Mommy What’s a Funkadelic” – Funkadelic

Look Twice

“Wake Up” – America Eats Its Young

Yoga Flame

“Mothership Connection (Star Child)” – Mothership Connection
“Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)” – Mothership Connection

Aleon Craft & George Clinton – “Places To Fly” by SMKA

Check out the track list and get ready to DL the project off LiveMixtapes HERE

Musical icon and flamboyant Funkadelic frontman George Clinton has been in a royal funk for over a decade now. That’s how long he’s been in litigation with his former publishing company Bridgeport Music, which owns the entire P-Funk catalog. Despite providing the DNA for hip-hop hits ranging from De La Soul’s “Me, Myself and I” to pretty much the entire West Coast sound constructed by Dr. Dre on a mountain of P-Funk samples, Clinton still hasn’t seen one red cent of his royalties. To raise awareness about his plight and underscore Clinton’s role as a musical forefather, local production crew SMKA and Decatur MC Aleon Craft have joined forces on Mothership: the Decatur Connection, a mixtape that mashes up songs from Craft’s Mothership Decatur album with a collage of P-Funk samples. It culminates in a megamix that’s equal parts party soundtrack and homage to the Granddaddy of Funk.

“People have been sampling Clinton for years and he’s not being done fairly,” Aleon Craft says over the phone from a studio in Los Angeles. “I idolize George, he’s a pioneer — a legend that’s still walking the earth and it’s wacky to think that he hasn’t seen a dime for all of his work that’s been sampled.”

Link to full article

Motherhip: The Decatur Connection w/ George Clinton (Dec 20th)!!!!

Aleon Craft – Yoga Flame (Disc Jockey Nappy vs. Crushington Thugstep Mix) by Disc Jockey Nappy