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IF YOU FROM THE "DMV" PLEASE STAND UP✊🏿🔥🔥🔥🔥. For those who are not from the United States or are from the United States and still don't know what the "DMV" stands for. Let me help tell you. It stands for D.C.( Washington D.C.), Maryland, & Virginia.

Right here is the ONE AND ONLY GOD FATHER of the OF GO-GO MUSIC GRASS ROOTED IN "Chocolate City" of D.C. "CHUCK BROWN" (Whom I truly had an honor and privilege with my family to me)is his name so put respect on it.🥁🪘🛢️. Born in Gaston, North Carolina, on Aug. 22, 1936, a young Charles Brown left home at an early age and spent time in and out of correctional facilities. However, the DMV played a prominent role in forming the future” Godfather of Go-Go.”

In his own words written in an article -Out of all the other institutions that I’ve been through, they only taught me one thing, how not to go back to those same institutions again. But when I went to Lorton, that’s when I found myself,” Brown said, referring to the former northern Virginia prison complex. “That’s where a lot of inmates found themselves. You were presented with all kinds of opportunities, you know? You could learn a trade. Guys have come out of there and became lawyers. I got serious about music while I was down there.”learned how to play that guitar, I got serious about it within about six months. A young man named Scotty, Bill Walker, Shannon, these guys were three great guitar players, used to play with Count Basie, Duke Ellington, you know, played with a lot of the big bands. I used to sit there and watch those guys and they’d show me a few chords and I never forgot what they showed me because I never learned how to read music,” Brown explained in the NEA interview, conducted two years before he died in May 2012 at age 75.

In the 1960s Brown joined a group called Los Latinos, and was inspired and influenced by the Latin sounds. With his work with The Soul Searchers in the early 70s, Brown began exploring different sounds and merging genres, from jazz, to blues, gospel and African rhythms, producing funky tunes like “We the People” (1972), and the 1974 album “Salt of the Earth,” which featured hits such as “Blow Your Whistle” sampled for rapper Eve’s “Tambourine” (2008) and “Ashley’s Roach Clip,” (1974) sampled by Eric B and Rakim, LL Cool J and others.Brown continued the Go-Go sound with hits such as “We Need Some Money” (1984), and his famous tune the “Go-Go Swing,” in 1986. The legendary artist performed and created music until his passing from multiple organ failure in 2012, with notable tunes from his 2007 album “We’re About the Business,” such as “Block Party“ and “Chuck Baby,” featuring his daughter KK.

The Chuck Brown Band, featuring his son Wiley Brown often singing his dad’s hits, still performs to this day.Artists and bands like Sugar Bear and E.U., Rare Essence, Backyard, Be’La Dona, New Impressionz, and many more, keep Brown’s sound alive and even add their own rhythmic flares such as go-go’s pocket or more modern bounce-beat sounds. Producers and musicians such as Pharrell Williams, Jill Scott and rapper Wale have also incorporated the go-go sound and shared it with audiences worldwide.

In August 2022, at the annual Chuck Brown Day, go-go artist Sugar Bear, famous for the song “Da Butt,” with the band E.U., paid tribute to the “Godfather of Go-Go.”

“The huge crowd showed that his legacy lives on and that people are continuing to incorporate his musical genius into new forms of music,” Sugar Bear said.

D.C. native Ramon Thompson said go-go taps into African ancestry.

Now when you hear the beat on the drums and buckets for this generation you will start to beat your feet.👣👣👣👣👣🦶🏿🦶🏿🦶🏿🦶🏿🦶🏿🪘🥁🛢️. We miss you so much. Thank you for being a guiding example so humbled and knowledgeable. I know for myself I would take an all that you told me the very first that I met you. Thank you for leaving a legacy that not only gave purpose through a journey yet gave fulfillment.
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