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‘Booger the Hooker’: Black Nasty’s hard funk 70s classic
05.09.2013
03:44 pm
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“Booger the hooker, he’s in the palm of the pusherman!”

Black Nasty were a Detroit-based hard funk group who sprang from the same lysergic R&B scene as George Clinton’s Parliament/Funkadelic. The group was a family affair: lead singers Audrey and Terrance Ellis were married, and her brother, drummer Artwell Matthews, Jr. was the musical leader of the group. Their mother, Johnnie Mae Matthews, the first black woman to own a record label, was their manager.

Black Nasty were signed to Stax Records who released their one and only platter, Talking to the People in 1973. The album sank like a stone, but was later rediscovered and is considered a minor classic by funk aficionados.

The standout track,“Booger the Hooker,” is not about a prostitute, as might be expected, but is instead the story of a good kid gone bad on THE DOPE. Young Booger’s “smokin’ marijuana, poppin’ pills and snortin’ cocaine” and soon develops himself a “habit of a 100 dollars a day.”
 

 
Booger The Hooker (Album Version)

 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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05.09.2013
03:44 pm
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