Brown is “the king of soul,” Bambaataa says. “We must honor him by putting him in his proper royal place.” But even this is an understatement, Bambaataa decides: “James Brown is the DNA of the earth, in the most secret places, even in little babies. I heard James Brown in my mother’s womb — and I knew right then I was going to be funky.”
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