FREE DOWNLOAD: Blueprint vs Funkadelic EP

Its been three years since the world has heard the sounds of Columbus, OH emcee/producer Blueprint. Those wondering when new music was going to be released can now sit back and enjoy.

Inspired by his rediscovery of the George Clinton led Funkadelics catalogue. Writing rhymes to beats that Blueprint created using samples of their music.

For me, the project kind of spawned out of my discovery of Funkadelic's music a few years back. I had been collecting records for a long while but wasn't really as familiar with Funkadelic's catalog as I was with Parliament's catalog until recently when my uncle gave me his record collection. I would always hear people refer to them as P-Funk, and for quite a while I thought they were the same thing, Blueprint told HipHopDX.

A project years in the making is finally seeing the light of day as Blueprint feels it is now complete.

After hearing one of Funkadelic's records I immediately made a beat out of one song and immediately wrote a song to it that same day ("Don't make me laugh"). I kept revisiting this record to make more and more beats, and soon after I asked my DJ to borrow all the Funkadelic records he owned for a couple weeks. So I started making beats out of as much of their music as I could and putting lyrics to them; some stuff i wrote on the spot, other stuff was ideas that I had played with before but never finished. I had the record pretty much done for a couple of years but I felt like I didnt have any audio of them speaking that really explained what they were about, so I put it on hold until I could find some interviews. Once i found them i finished it up, and here it is, continued print.

01 Intro
02 Check Mate
03 La La La
04 Off the Top
05 The Day to Day
06 Dont Make Me Laugh
07 Too Funkadelic
08 What Is

While Blueprint is offering Blueprint vs Funkadelic EP online for free [click to download], a CD version (limited to 500 copies) is being sold at the Weightless website [click to purchase] which will feature the instrumentals as well as a 11x17 poster.