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>>52170806
yes, it is also the very first funk, soul and r&b album since the ones you cited, and its fame is obviously not related to the fact that it is one of the only advertised albums from the genre :^)

No, What's Going On and There's a Riot Goin On actually contain melodies.

No, it's opportunistic and not as iconic and universal as those records were.

>>52170806
have you only listened to 3 soul albums in your life?

>>52170897
Name three better albums than the ones mentioned.

>>52170944
Gil Scott Heron - Bridges > What's Going On
Voodoo is still better than Black Messiah
There's a Riot Goin On is the best Funk/Soul album of all time.

With the rise of artists like Outkast and Kanye, who borrow heavily from classic soul and funk, and place those elements in a new context, i.e. hip-hop, I'd argue that you'd have to look towards hip-hop for the successors of the great funk, soul, R&B artists/albums. I'm generally a rock fan, but there's no question that hip-hop is BY FAR the most culturally, socially and commercially relevant genre of our times, like it or not.

Stankonia features very obvious acknowledgments to that era and especially, There's a Riot Going On as seen on the cover. The title track is dripping with Sly Stone and, more broadly, the album as a whole features the same high-intensity, occasionally humorous, but overall dark and brooding anger that made Sly legendary. If TARGO is an answer to What's Going On? than Stankonia is Outkast telling us that the answer hasn't changed. Marvin asked why the world has be make him sad and Sly replied 'Fuck sad, get angry and do something about it.' Outkast remind us that 20 years later, we're still not there.

Best ever hip-hop in my opinion. Socially conscious, artistically informed and appropriately borrowed from predecessors without compromising the true originality of the music. Not to mention sick beat after sick beat.

>>52171039
Hip Hop is the successor of funk and soul, but hip hop is easier to make and it's repititive as fuck. Hip hop is garbage compared to funk (I do like some hip hop albums though).

>>52170806
>>52170944
>I only listen to p4k BNM so fuck everything else in the last 30 years since Riot.