WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.390 align:middle line:84% Mary J Blige sings no one will do. 00:00:03.390 --> 00:00:09.960 align:middle line:84% Now James Brown died, and he went on tour kind of. 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:12.810 align:middle line:84% One of the first places he went to was The Apollo. 00:00:12.810 --> 00:00:14.670 align:middle line:84% And there was a big thing that says 00:00:14.670 --> 00:00:18.660 align:middle line:84% you're not supposed to take a picture of James Brown lying 00:00:18.660 --> 00:00:20.700 align:middle line:90% in state at The Apollo. 00:00:20.700 --> 00:00:21.960 align:middle line:90% This is the New York. 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:24.190 align:middle line:90% That did not last long. 00:00:24.190 --> 00:00:26.625 align:middle line:84% The New York Post had him on the front cover. 00:00:26.625 --> 00:00:29.930 align:middle line:90% 00:00:29.930 --> 00:00:34.130 align:middle line:90% But Harlem went wild. 00:00:34.130 --> 00:00:38.390 align:middle line:84% Black people who had not been acting black for years 00:00:38.390 --> 00:00:42.380 align:middle line:84% went uptown and hung out at The Apollo. 00:00:42.380 --> 00:00:43.610 align:middle line:90% They had fun. 00:00:43.610 --> 00:00:44.790 align:middle line:90% It was a moment. 00:00:44.790 --> 00:00:45.290 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:00:45.290 --> 00:00:50.360 align:middle line:90% 00:00:50.360 --> 00:00:57.440 align:middle line:84% "Mary J Blige sings 'No One Will Do.'" James Brown's wax face 00:00:57.440 --> 00:00:59.630 align:middle line:90% graces the New York Post. 00:00:59.630 --> 00:01:03.710 align:middle line:84% Carnival starts in Harlem two months early. 00:01:03.710 --> 00:01:07.730 align:middle line:84% All of Soul Nation steps to the curb and kicks it. 00:01:07.730 --> 00:01:09.630 align:middle line:90% Say it loud. 00:01:09.630 --> 00:01:13.610 align:middle line:84% Oh verily, his brilliantine hair, tight pants, 00:01:13.610 --> 00:01:17.570 align:middle line:84% and tiny dancing feet laid out beautifully. 00:01:17.570 --> 00:01:19.850 align:middle line:90% The sullen city unsignified. 00:01:19.850 --> 00:01:24.590 align:middle line:84% Tears and dancing, like church, girl, like church. 00:01:24.590 --> 00:01:27.590 align:middle line:90% Now, I have to explain this. 00:01:27.590 --> 00:01:29.870 align:middle line:84% James Brown was called the ambassador of soul, 00:01:29.870 --> 00:01:35.000 align:middle line:84% and one of his various wives took that seriously 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:39.791 align:middle line:84% and tried to get many parking tickets taken, 00:01:39.791 --> 00:01:41.440 align:middle line:90% because he was the ambassador. 00:01:41.440 --> 00:01:44.790 align:middle line:90% 00:01:44.790 --> 00:01:49.650 align:middle line:84% Yes, this ambassador of soul has returned his credentials. 00:01:49.650 --> 00:01:50.820 align:middle line:90% No regrets. 00:01:50.820 --> 00:01:56.080 align:middle line:84% Godfather a misnomer, he was here to represent Soul Nation. 00:01:56.080 --> 00:02:00.540 align:middle line:84% And like Cuba, Soul Nation remains unrecognized. 00:02:00.540 --> 00:02:03.030 align:middle line:84% But folk visit Soul Nation daily, 00:02:03.030 --> 00:02:06.840 align:middle line:84% crossing the border to that shining party on the hill where 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:10.650 align:middle line:84% folk are eating fried chicken, drinking 7 and 7 and smoking 00:02:10.650 --> 00:02:13.800 align:middle line:84% Kool cigarettes while disco balls swerve 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:17.400 align:middle line:84% and curve the smoky air like plump women having 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:22.140 align:middle line:90% a really, really good time. 00:02:22.140 --> 00:02:28.050 align:middle line:84% This behavior continues to shock citizens of Soul Less Nation. 00:02:28.050 --> 00:02:32.460 align:middle line:84% Busy as they are with their markets, markers, and ministers 00:02:32.460 --> 00:02:37.710 align:middle line:84% without portfolio, they see only the smiling countenances 00:02:37.710 --> 00:02:39.690 align:middle line:90% of miserable men and women. 00:02:39.690 --> 00:02:44.730 align:middle line:84% Oh, so folkloric in fake fur floor length coats. 00:02:44.730 --> 00:02:45.840 align:middle line:90% That's hard to say. 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:46.620 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:02:46.620 --> 00:02:50.760 align:middle line:84% Oh, so folkloric in fake fur floor length coats, 00:02:50.760 --> 00:02:53.190 align:middle line:90% rhinestones, and hot pants. 00:02:53.190 --> 00:02:56.190 align:middle line:84% Soul Nation gives up poly rhythyms 00:02:56.190 --> 00:03:00.120 align:middle line:84% and an occasional orgasmic shriek. 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:04.200 align:middle line:84% Get up off of that thing and make yourself feel better. 00:03:04.200 --> 00:03:08.400 align:middle line:84% Get up off of that thing and change the shape of weather. 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:13.770 align:middle line:84% Because sometimes what you're on ain't no good, no way. 00:03:13.770 --> 00:03:16.980 align:middle line:84% You really, really got to get off of that thing. 00:03:16.980 --> 00:03:20.630 align:middle line:90% 00:03:20.630 --> 00:03:27.600 align:middle line:84% De man, de woman, dis Soul Less Nation with the odd White 00:03:27.600 --> 00:03:29.010 align:middle line:90% man in charge. 00:03:29.010 --> 00:03:33.600 align:middle line:84% On a ranch, a barge, fishing, whatever, violent death 00:03:33.600 --> 00:03:35.130 align:middle line:90% follows. 00:03:35.130 --> 00:03:40.380 align:middle line:84% Best to join the ambassador of soul, who brought us the ache 00:03:40.380 --> 00:03:45.000 align:middle line:84% and art of Black America claiming patriarchy of Funk, 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:48.210 align:middle line:84% and feeling just about as good as you can get. 00:03:48.210 --> 00:03:51.660 align:middle line:84% When you walk a walk so defiant, everyone 00:03:51.660 --> 00:03:53.430 align:middle line:90% wants to sample your will. 00:03:53.430 --> 00:03:57.660 align:middle line:84% And this year, Mary J sings about who will do and who 00:03:57.660 --> 00:03:58.410 align:middle line:90% won't. 00:03:58.410 --> 00:04:02.430 align:middle line:84% We of the folkloric know that only the hardest working 00:04:02.430 --> 00:04:04.590 align:middle line:90% man will do. 00:04:04.590 --> 00:04:10.650 align:middle line:84% And even in repose, he's working the room, lit like a Saint 00:04:10.650 --> 00:04:15.660 align:middle line:84% and made up better than any well-off hooker, hands and feet 00:04:15.660 --> 00:04:22.819 align:middle line:84% hidden beneath tufted satin so we can't see the wings. 00:04:22.819 --> 00:04:26.000 align:middle line:90%