Jay Worthy & George Clinton Are Bringing Funk Back to Rap: ‘It’s Getting Ready to Get Deep Around Here’
Categoria: Musica
The West Coast MC linked up with the funk pioneer to try and rectify G-Funk with their collab album Generation P.
Por Billboard | 23/10/2026
Jay Worthy wants to bring the funk back to rap. So naturally, the Compton MC (by way of Vancouver) took advantage of a chance DM from George Clinton ‘s grandson, Zavier Croft. What resulted from the exchange is a 12-song collab album between LNDN DRGS and Clinton that features P Worthy rapping over some of Parliament-Funkadelic ‘s greatest hits, like “(Not Just) Knee Deep” and “Atomic Dog” with the help of producer Sean House as the funk legend himself provides some much needed narration. This all got put in motion because Croft was playing a Jay Worthy & Larry June project while on the road with his grandfather. “We were on tour a couple years ago, and I was playing 2 P’z in the Pod , and I believe I was playing ‘Maybe the Next Time,'” Zavier says over Zoom. “And George was like, ‘Yo, yo, who is that? Let’s see what they’re up to.’ So then I reached out to Jay Worthy, and as soon as I DM’d him and told him who I was, he asked for my phone number and FaceTimed me. After that it was just a snowball effect of working together and building this.” Worthy and House were then presented with a batch of songs that were cleared for use and started crafting what would become Generation P. Once they had something to present, LNDN DRGS headed out to play what he had for George out in Tallahassee, Florida. “I hit up management for songs that George and Parliament own so we can sample them without legal issues or getting in trouble, so that George and the band can benefit from,” Croft tells me. “There were a couple of albums I already knew that we could use, like Uncle Jam Wants You and One Nation Under a Groove . I sent it to Jay and we talked through it. That’s how it all worked out.” “I linked up with Sean, and then we made that trip down to Tallahassee, and G was f—king with it,” Worthy adds. “He P’d on it and I P’d on it, and then we took it back to L.A. and I started getting them features on it, and then I went back to Tallahassee and played it for them after it was all done. It’s been about like three years, man. For real.” Once they were ready to go, they leaned into the nostalgia and released a 16-bit video game entitled P of the Week — a mix of Super Mario Bros. and Streets of Rage — during the rollout. Like Worthy’s Once Upon A Time double disc from last year, Generation P bridges the gap of California’s deep rap lineage with features from Snoop Dogg , Larry June , 03 Greedo , Kokane, Ty Dolla $ign , Channel Tres , Terrace Martin , YG, The Game , Ab-Soul , Aceyalone and Del the Funky Homosapien. During our talk, George raved about Jay’s work ethic, because it reminded him of himself. “Y’all remind me of remind me of those old-school days of hustlin’,” he said on several occasions with a big smile on his face and a blunt in his hand.