Faith Evans

She can be featured on the hit single with rapper Twista titled "Hope" on the Coach Carter soundtrack. (Greatest Hits and Compilations appear in bold). Now signed to Capitol Records after her tenure with Bad Boy ended in 2003, she will release her fourth album, The First Lady this spring. George Clinton recorded several solo albums (sometimes under the name George Clinton & the P.Funk All-Stars). They later were granted misdemeanors and paid for their crime. As the 1980s wore on, legal difficulties arising from the multiple names used by multiple groups, as well as a shakeup among Parliament's record label, Parliament and Funkadelic disintegrated. In 2004, Evans and her husband got into trouble when the couple was arrested for having marijuana in their car. The song charted at the same time as the titular song to Clinton's Funkadelic's The Electric Spanking of War Babies.

The video was a remix of the song, which featured extra raps from Missy Elliott, in addition to Loon, and garnered substantial MTV2 play throughout the summer of 2002. With the new found fame of Funkadelic, longtime members Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon and Grady Thomas (who were original Parliaments) left the group (in 1977) and released a single, "Connections and Disconnections" under the name Funkadelic (in 1981). "Burnin' Up", the album's third single, featured Bad Boy rapper Loon and was successful on urban radio, despite failing to make the pop charts. The titular track spent six weeks at #1 on the R+B charts, while Parliament was enjoying success with "Flash Light" and "Aqua Boogie.". The next single, a tender ballad called "I Love You", was released in early 2002 and achieved moderate pop success--a first for a Faith Evans single. Funkadelic recorded and released its magnum opus, One Nation Under a Groove in 1978. In late 2001, Evans released her third album, which spawned the successful urban single "You Gets No Love". In 1977, Westbound capitalized on the success of Tales of Kidd Funkadelic by releasing The Best of the Early Years.

The same year, she was featured on Carl Thomas' single, "Can't Believe". The same year, Westbound released archived tracks as Tales of Kidd Funkadelic, which did significantly better than Hardcore Jollies and included "Undisco Kidd," a R+B Top 30 single. members Ja Rule, Vita, and Cadillac Tah. 1975 brought Funkadelic to Warner Brothers, and saw the release of Hardcore Jollies in 1976. In early 2001, Evans released "Good Life", a single from the Fast And The Furious soundtrack, which featured rap from Murder Inc. Michael Hampton, a seventeen-year-old guitar prodigy, replaced Hazel. The album's third single, "Never Gonna Let You Go", was less successful. In 1972, this new line-up released America Eats Its Young, but many members left the group after that, due to internal squabbles, plus Hazel spending a year in jail for drug possession and assault, Tawl Ross experiencing either a bad LSD trip and/or a speed overdose, while Billy Bass quit due to financial concerns.

Diddy, both of which failed to catch on with mainstream radio despite performing substantially at urban radio. The brothers would go on to become major contributors to the P Funk sound. It produced the singles "Love Like This" and "All Night Long", featuring P. After the release of Maggot Brain in 1971, Bootsy and Catfish Collins joined the group. Evans' sophomore album, Keep The Faith, was released in 1999. Worrell would go on to produce many Parliament and Funkadelic albums, as well as play keyboard on albums by other members of P Funk. Although Evans had had previous urban successes, this song was the first that mainstream America heard of her. and Your Ass Will Follow, thus beginning a long collaboration between Worrell and Clinton (who had been friends for quite a while).

Diddy in recording "I'll Be Missing You", a touching song which sampled The Police's "Every Breath You Take" and acted as a fitting tribute to the late Notorious B.I.G. Bernie Worrell was officially credited starting with Funkadelic's second album, 1970's Free Your Mind.. After her husband's murder in early 1997, Evans joined 112 and P. The credits listed organist Mickey Atkins plus Clinton, Fulwood, Hazel, Nelson and Ross, though the actual recording also included several sessionmen, then employed by Motown, as well as Ray Monette (of the Rare Earth) and Bernie Worrell, all uncredited. The album also contained a duet with Blige on a cover of Rose Royce's disco hit, "Love Don't Live Here Anymore". The self-titled debut album, Funkadelic, was released in 1970. Its singles, "Soon As I Get Home", "You Used To Love Me", "Come Over", and "Ain't Nobody" became smashes at urban radio that year and into 1996. The group signed to Westbound in 1968.