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Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force

Renegades of Funk

1983 · via Ice Cube

Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force’s 1983 recording of “Renegades of Funk” is the earliest release on file. Afrika Bambaataa shares the writing credit with Arthur Baker, John Miller and John Robie. Also recorded by Rage Against the Machine (released 2000) and Breakdown (released 2003), among 15 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. Ice Cube’s “You Can Do It” (2009) carries this song’s writers on its credit.

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Before Cube built "You Can Do It" on it, "Renegades of Funk" was a 1983 record by these folks, and Rage Against the Machine later cut it too. One song, three very different hands on it, so start with this one.

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Liner notes

Credited writers: Afrika Bambaataa, Arthur Baker, John Miller and John Robie.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1983.

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Ice Cube’s “You Can Do It” (2009) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.

Other recordings on file · first release year

15 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Ice Cube's "You Can Do It" carries the writing credit of "Renegades of Funk." Who first recorded that earlier song?Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force
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