Afrofuturism owes a sizable debt to funk pioneer George Clinton. The concept of blacks in outer space was central to the mythos of his psychedelic black rock band, Funkadelic, beginning on this album. “Mommy, What’s a Funkadelic?” sets the tone for a record full of swampy, muddy, acid-rock funk. Hip-hop would mine this record for scraps 20 years later, but tracks like “What Is Soul” and “I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody’s Got a Thing” prove that Funkadelic is more than the sum of its samples.

– Miles Marshall Lewis