I Live for the Funk by Daniel Jordan (featuring Dolemite and Blowfly)

Written by Daniel Jordan


I Live for the Funk by Daniel Jordan, Dolemite, and Blowfly
(MP3 8.26mb)

Ahhh, where do I begin when mentioning the creation of this song, that was 2 years (scratch that) 40 years in the making. Marking the first time old road dogs such as Dolemite and Blowfly are on the same record together, thus creating underground history (after all they both single-handedly created the Rap genre in the early 60's).

On my end, it all started with me laying in bed a week or so after I recorded a session with legendary rock band The Chambers Brothers, and I thought "I wonder if I could get my two heroes on the same song together, Dolemite and Blowfly"

This was a feat that Too Short, Snoop Dogg and Dre would all be envious of. Yes, Snoop has had Dolemite featured on many of his albums, and he has referenced Blowfly as one of his major influences, and if you are a true west coast rap historian you will notice that the scratched sample in "Nobody Move" by Eazy E is in fact Blowfly's "Rapp Dirty" on the lyric, "What I thought was a bitch was nothing but a man".

Ironically enough "Rapp Dirty" was the VERY FIRST Rap song EVER recorded in music history.

Many say "Rappers Delight" was the first "Rap" song, but it is in fact the first "Hip Hop" song recorded. "Rap Dirty" was recorded 20 years earlier.

Too Short is quoted saying, on the song The Game is Sold Not Told, "The only true pimp's on the mic are Too Short, Blowfly and Dolemite." Well make room for Daniel Jordan! Beeeeeitch!

Ok, lets get started on how this went down! I met Dolemite and Blowfly on tour together in 2005, and if anyone knows me they know how I religiously force Dolemite's movies and comedy records into their life; he is my all-time favorite artist. We become more acquainted after I went to a players ball with him and Don Magic Juan in San Diego, and the first step is taken.


I get a hold of Dolemite and his manager one day and propose the idea of collaborating. Dolemite was down and we set up to meet in Vegas, where he lives. I told him I had portable studio equipment so we wouldn't even need to book a studio.

I drive to Vegas and get in about 3 am and check into the hotel that seemed to be the most fitting, Circus Circus.

I decide to walk around the strip. Its 4 am on a Wednesday. I'm tired and delirious, carrying a tall can of beer down the desolate ghost town Vegas is when it's a weekday.

I lose $40 to the house at the poker table and decide to call my losses and go back to my room and sleep at 5 am.

At 8 am Dolemite's manager wakes me and we get started on the long day ahead of us. He informs me Dolemite has to go to the doctor and run a bunch of errands first. We run errands all day and form somewhat of an unbreakable bond between three men of three different generations, but we are all on the same level somehow.

We end up recording hours worth of material inside the Circus Circus hotel room

(Yes, "I Live 4 the Funk" was recorded in a Circus Circus hotel room) And that day I was officially knighted by Dolemite, and the torch was passed to me to carry on his legacy!

I drive back home with the biggest amount of karma I have ever had, and knowing I have been chosen to carry the almighty Dolemite's weight is a huge responsibility especially being a young white boy "picking up the spill" of the OG pimp player Dolemite. I am now a solidified P.I.M.P. in the game with Dolemite's ghetto pass and stamp of approval!

When I got home I got a hold of Blowfly, and told him I have a track I want him on, he was more than down to get on it, and thus "I Live 4 the Funk" was created. The ode to all pimps, players, freaks, hoes, and necrophiliacs.

This song is my greatest accomplishment yet, and now I have successfully achieved my goal, by making this possible I have realized anything goal can be possible if you refuse to give up on it.

I left out a lot of the trials and tribulations of the creation of this song because I could write a whole entire book solely on that alone!

But it was one of the greatest experiences of my life, and I can die a happy man knowing I created history 40 years in the making.

I always wanted to hear my 2 heroes on a song together, who would have thought I would be the one orchestrating it?!?!?!

Man this has been a colorful journey.


[You can check out more tracks at Daniel Jordan's MySpace page] -Mark