Sugarhill Gang
The Sequence
Sugarhill Gang & The Sequence
Super-Wolf
Sugarhill Gang
The Sequence
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Spoonie Gee & The Sequence
The Moments
Positive Force
Sugarhill Gang
Funky 4 + 1
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Sugarhill Gang & The Furious Five
West Street Mob
Spoonie Gee
Sugarhill Gang
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Trouble Funk
West Street Mob
Sylvia Robinson
Sugarhill Gang
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five & Grandmaster Melle Mel & Duke Bootee
Treacherous Three & Philippe Wynne
Crash Crew
West Street Mob
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Busy Bee
The Sequence
Grandmaster Melle Mel & Duke Bootee
Crash Crew
Treacherous Three
Sugarhill Gang
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five & Duke Bootee
Sugarhill Gang
Sugarhill Gang
West Street Mob
Kevie Kev (Waterbed Kev)
Grandmaster Melle Mel
Crash Crew
Grandmaster Melle Mel
Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five & Mr. Ness & Cowboy
Sugarhill Gang
Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five
Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five
Treacherous Three
Busy Bee
Treacherous Three
Sugarhill Gang & Kory-O
Grandmaster Melle Mel
Mass Production & Grandmaster Melle Mel
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
This song is notable for being the first hip-hop release from a female rap group, and also for following the seminal “Rapper’s Delight” as the second single on the label Sugar Hill.
This song has been sampled and referenced in several songs, including Dr. Dre’s “Keep Their Heads Ringin'”, and Mark...
[Hook]
Don't you give up
Keep going, keep going, keep going
Don't you give up
Keep going, keep going, keep going
Don't you give up
Keep going, keep going, keep going
Don't you give up
Keep going, keep going, keep going
We're gonna funk you right on up
We're gonna funk you right on up
We're gonna funk you right on up
We're gonna funk you right on up
We're gonna funk you right on up
We're gonna funk you right on up
We're gonna funk you right on up
We're gonna funk you right on up
I say, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up
Sit back down
Right on up, we're gonna funk you right on up
Funk you right on up, we're gonna funk you right on up
I say, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up
Sit back down
Right on up, we're gonna funk you right on up
Funk you right on up, we're gonna funk you right on up
Oh, hey, you, sitting over there
You better get up out of your chair
And work your body down
No time to funk around
'Cause we gonna
Funk you right on up, we're gonna funk you right on up
(Say now I'ma funk you up boy)
Funk you right on up, we're gonna funk you right on up
(Yeah, I'ma funk you up boy)
Funk you right on up, we're gonna funk you right on up
(Say now I'ma funk you up boy)
Funk you right on up, we're gonna funk you right on up
I say, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up
Sit back down
Right on up, we're gonna funk you right on up
Funk you right on up, we're gonna funk you right on up
Say, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up
Sit back down
Right on up, we're gonna funk you right on up
Funk you right on up, we're gonna funk you right on up
Hey, you, sitting over there
You look as if you don't care
But sit right there
And drink out your cup
'Cause I'm gonna mess around and funk you up
Gonna funk you right on up, we're gonna funk you right on up
(Say now I'ma funk you up boy)
Funk you right on up, we're gonna funk you right on up
(Yeah, I'ma funk you up boy)
Funk you right on up, we're gonna funk you right on up
(Say now I'ma funk you up boy)
Funk you right on up, we're gonna funk you right on up
I say, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up
Sit back down
Right on up, we're gonna funk you right on up
Funk you right on up, we're gonna funk you right on up
Say, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up
Sit back down
Hey, you, sitting over there
You better get up out of your chair
And work your body down
No time to funk around
[Hook]
If you're not ready
You better get yourself together
Gon' funk you up
It could happen anytime
Don't care about the weather
Gon' funk you up
[Hook]
[Verse 1 - Blondy]
My name is Gwen, uh, but they call me Blondie
I'm better known as the one and only
I'm five foot two, built so fine
36-26-36 dime
I'm better known as freaky 10
A Sequence freak with all the fans
When I clap my hands and I stomp my feet
I jam to the sound of the Sequence beat
Wave your hands in the air
And wave 'em like you just don't care
Like Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire
My main man Yogi Bear
I said I hit-ma-jazz, and I raz-ma-jazz
And I jam to the disco beat
And if you could move your body like you move your hands
Then I'm sure you can move your feet
'Cause I'm supersonic, I'm a 3X tonic
When I'm not down, I'm up
When I get real hungry I run to the store
And get my Reese's cup
I watch TV on my own
You gotta Yabba-Dabba-Doo with Fred Flintstone
I'm sweeter than candy, I'm sweeter than honey
That's why they call me Blondie
I'm super cool and I'm super fine
And I'm one of a kind to shock your mind
And you can ring my bell all through the night
Uh, you could rock my body 'til the early light
Uh, don't ring my bell, sayin' please
If you cannot fulfill my needs
I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast
But they call my name from coast to coast
From the coast of California to the shore of Maine
Everybody loves the way I play my game
Say I got more rhymes in the back of my mind
Than Billy Dee got lovers
I say I got style and I got class
I don't talk my stuff too fast
See, I'm cold as ice, I'm twice as nice
I get more sex than a cat chase mice
Blondie, hey that's me
I'm rapping in the key of R-A-P
I said bye-bye, baby, boogie, a boogie, baby
Boogie baby, boogie baby, goodbye
I said bye-bye, baby, boogie, a
Boogie, baby, boogie baby, boogie baby, goodbye
And you heard the raps of Blondie
And it was all the way live
I said Blondie, hey, that's me
I'm rapping in the key of R-A-P, said
Ring-ding-dong
Ring a ding-ding-ding-dong
Ring-ding-dong
Ring a ding-ding-ding-dong
[Verse 2 - Cheryl]
They call me Cheryl and I'll tell you why
'Cause I got such sexy bedroom eyes
And I pop 'em out and you look surprised
I got you and you're hypnotized
My love is strong if you can stand
To be within my sexy trance
But don't let this tell you about me
I'm a jealous lady and that you'll see
If I don't get the things that I mention
That's when I start crying for attention
(Attention) That's what I say
And things just always go my way
Well I talk a lot but I'm really shy
My loving ways just get me by
I write the baddest sounds around
I'm guaranteed to throw down
The only difference between you and me
And that is that I'm sexy
I'm an angel possessed with some devilish eyes
With the curvy hips to make your nature rise
Ring-ding-dong
Ring a ding-ding-ding-dong
Ring-ding-dong
Ring a ding-ding-ding-dong
[Verse 3 - Angie]
I said Angie B is what they say
I got chocolate hips and a Milky Way
And I feel like a millionaire in space
Flyin' on a go-cart with a silver lace
Everybody calls me never wrong
'Cause I'm a best style freak with a funky song
Do you hear me talkin', do you hear me singin'
On the microphone, won't you sing along
(You go do it, you go do it, you go do it, do it, do it)
I got two great partners standin' by me
That's guaranteed to jam to the beat
One is Blondy and she's right on time
She calls herself Miss Super Fine
I said Cheryl the Pearl is the one with the eyes
She's guaranteed to hypnotize
Said Angie B, he, that's me
I can rock you so dangerously
(You go do it, you go do it, you go do it, do it, do it)
At a quarter to six you got in a fix
And you called on Angie B
And you look surprised as I arrive
To see me dressed to a tee
(You go do it, you go do it, you go do it, do it, do it)
Yodle-lay-de-hoo
Yodle-lay-de-hoo
Cha-cha-cha (Ha-ha-ha)
Yodle-lay-de-hoo
Yodle-lay-de-hoo
Cha-cha-cha (Ha-ha-ha)
[Hook] [2x]
Funk You Up was written by Gwendolyn Chisolm & Cheryl Cook & Angie Stone & Sylvia Robinson.
Funk You Up was produced by Sylvia Robinson.
The Sequence released Funk You Up on Thu Nov 01 1979.