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'Fellas!' 'yes!'

- 'fellas!' - 'yes!'

- 'fellas!' - 'yes!'

'i wanna get up and do my thang!'

'yeah!'

'i need to get up and do my thang!'

'yeah!'

- 'movin'!' - 'yeah!'

- 'movin'!' - 'yeah!'

- 'i wanna get into it!' - 'Yeah!'

- can I get into it? - Yeah!

- I mean movin'. - Yeah!

- Doin' it! - Yeah!

- Whatcha want - soul power

- whatcha need - soul power

- whatcha want - soul power

- whatcha need - soul power

- whatcha want - soul power

- whatcha need - soul power

I wanna get under

your skin

if I get there

I got to win

you need some soul

come on and get some

then you'll know

where I'm coming from

hey, I may lay in the cut and go along

and I'm still on the case and my rap is strong

- whatcha want - soul power

- whatcha need - soul power

- whatcha want - soul power

- whatcha... - Yeah! Huh!

Whoah!

Mr Mohammed Ali! Please!

When you're bad, you can do what you wanna do.

First of all, we wanna thank all the newsmen

for so graciously coming out at this hour

to see the people's champion depart for Africa.

The dream is now becoming a reality.

The people's choice.

So what we're going to do here today is to talk about... Ali leaving here,

going to meet George foreman in his quest to regain his crown

as the heavyweight champion of the world.

"Regain"? Defend my crown. I'm going to defend my crown.

What I wanna do is add a little bit more to this,

the complementary proposal we're gonna have down there

with a festival that will complement the greatest sporting event

in the history of the world.

Some of the most dynamic performers from afro-america

will be appearing down there

for the benefit of all that are honoured and privileged to be at the stadium

in Kinshasa on 20th, 21st and 22nd,

along with the world with its theatrical release.

It will be James brown,

who is soul brother number one, one of our top leading black artists...

- Is he coming? - Yes, James brown will be there.

- We will have b b king... - Mmm!

- The spinners, Miriam makeba... - Mmm!

How the hell did they slide the double-deck under here?

Or did they start up here? Does it feel firmer than it was?

Oh, yeah.

Let's hook up the winch leads.

Hook up the winch leads. I wanna get it 4 feet in the air.

Mickey was doing that last night. I don't know how it works.

Check the mains and the meters. Gary!

If you want to, there's some service receptacles on this first pull-switch.

You can start checking readings on this board here.

The matrix memory has been out since end of cat Stevens,

and I wanna find out, it just came from there right to here, all right?

Try 18 right now cos we're getting a lot of crap from you right now.

It's worse. Go back to 17.

'...he's standing right here and he's just stopped work all together

'and he's not gonna do anything until he's been paid

'for everything he's done so far.'

so we're caught up in the middle of all this, right?

'Right, the show is gonna suffer, it's already suffered.'

I'll have to get a hold of bradshaw and have him call the government

and find out about the payment of those people out there.

Zaire.

I don't have the time for that, what do you want? Who's this?

Hi, Bob, come over and get your picture took.

Foreman's eye got cut. It's on the ap, man.

Foreman got a cut in his eye and they're talking about postponing the fight.

I'm not, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, yeah.

Making it all up. I'm calling every artist and telling them that.

It's a practical joke for the day before the thing.

We just gotta go straight ahead. There's still gonna be a festival, man.

- We can't cancel it. - No, everything is all go.

Everything is on straight ahead. In fact, don't tell anyone.

No.

Okay, I'll call you back in about a half hour. Okay, later.

Hold on. So, we've got the press party, we've got the plane,

we've got the holiday inn, we've got limousines.

You'll get shots in Africa upon arrival.

If we make it!

I mean, how do you call performers and say, "hey, it's cancelled,

"because foreman cut his eye"?

That's what's so weird about this, the fight and the music together, man,

you know, like, they just... No one will ever understand that.

The festival must go on.

We got people down in Kinshasa, the stage is being built,

the crew gotta pull out,

bill McManus and chip monck gotta go on the road with the rolling stones.

It's impossible for us to delay, not one day,

it's impossible for us to delay a minute.

'Our main concern at the moment

'is we've got 36 hours to go for the festival, less.'

anything else?

No, I don't see any problems with the stadium.

We oughta have a little meeting...

And what about the reception for the artists tonight?

I understand the aircraft is now about midnight, right?

Somewhere between 10:00 and 11:00 I'm told now.

Have you found out if it's going via las palmas or Madrid?

It's going by Madrid.

I got a call from...

Oh, you said the world airways man was here now.

He's out at the airport. He told me that it'd be between 10:00 and 11:00.

We have to see him. In terms of trying to get this charter back.

Yeah, I talked to him already. I've already queried him on that.

I asked him if we could get a charter out of here on the evening of 24th.

And?

Very good possibility of it.

- Do you want my passport? - You have it? You've got it?

Okay. That's what I want to know? You need to fill out both of these, okay?

Then you can have this. Elizabeth. All right, Elizabeth.

How do you feel about this? It's obvious the answer.

But you of all people,

the most respected American in Africa, going to Africa.

I mean, you are respected.

Come on, now, you know where that's at.

I just feel good, man. I just feel I'm a part of a great movement.

I see the water now, I'm glad to see you. I'm just glad to be here.

Whoo! Who set up this meal, man? Mama used to cook these.

Yeah, yeah!

James brown, I work here. Can I get your autograph, please?

- Michelle, I'm getting it! - That's what we should be doing!

Michelle, come here. Here she is.

- M-i-c-h-e-l-l-e? - Yes.

I can't even spell all of that now.

'Anybody that hasn't had their tickets processed,

'please go to the counter outside the main ballroom.'

can't beat it, good food.

Soul cookin' in the bag.

My brothers and sisters, on behalf of the 23 million people of Zaire,

I wish to extend their deepest gratitude and appreciation.

And I wanna thank you for making a dream come true,

that one day the beat would return to the roots.

The best music you ever gonna hear in your life is gonna be heard in Kinshasa.

They playin' some grooves down there just make you cry.

There gonna be dancing and shouting and jumping.

You'll have so much fun, you'll throw your passports back on the airplane.

Again, I wanna thank all of you.

And I wanna say bon voyage on your musical historic mission,

Zaire '74, a spiritual commitment.

Thank you.

Oh, Christ, move round again.

Whaddya want from us?

So, what's the latest on the aircraft, by the way?

Um, Alan to base.

Alan to base.

Did you get anything after we met this afternoon?

- On the time it left Madrid? - Oh, you know what we got?

We got a huge discrepancy on the day that this festival starts,

um, cos likuku said he had just come from the presidency himself,

the presidency has notified every newspaper

and all the TV and radio stations,

that it is on Saturday that it starts, not Friday night.

You're saying no and I said...

No, tickets are printed for Friday, it's always been Friday,

in the contract it's Friday, the contract was signed six months ago.

But he said the presidency has moved it.

But he told me this morning that it was going on absolutely as scheduled.

- Who did? Shimpupu? - Shimpupu.

Who's going to pick up the bloody tab for the artists? The extra tab?

They are contracted to be here until the 25th.

Yeah, their problem says they perform on 20, 21, or 22, right?

I understand that...

So if we ask them to perform on 23, they'll say it's outside my contract

and they'll bloody well rip us off for an extra fee.

We don't know that. I'd like the extra day for better show.

My experience is the moment you ask them to do anything

that's one dollar outside of their contract, they are going to bloody well fight.

Every further day, I've got 200 people, hotel bills, expenses...

We're still coming in two days ahead of schedule, though.

- Anyway... - If we can make it three, all the better.

We got a weight it all. I figure it's up to them.

If we can get them to agree to it,

we've got enough ticket sales, which is important.

We'll see. I'm not happy about late changes like this.

Particularly when the situation is as confused as it is now.

Alan to base.

Alan to base.

'Let's bring up the one and only James brown!'

Why you wanna do this to me?

I got to do it to ya cos you did it to yourself!

You earned it! James brown!

Oh, man.

Ladies and gentlemen,

right now I'd like to give another special round of applause

by the way of beautiful singers, the fabulous spinners.

The spinners!

Bring up mr b b king. Mr b b king, come right on up.

Let's give a round of applause for the one and only mr bill withers.

Come on, a big round!

You say just plain bill? He's not just plain bill! A winner!

Give him another big round of applause.

The only thing I got to say is that it's been a long time comin',

and these are just four things I'd like to leave with you.

Four small things.

It's cold-blooded but it's been hell.

Now here's the payback,

and remember as long as you live, papa don't take no mess.

- No, no. - This stage doesn't look complete.

There's bunting that goes across the front and so on.

There's a lot of dressing that makes it look naked without it, but...

- All that's prepared and in-hand? - There is planking on the backside.

There's several more things they're gonna do, but...

They guarantee me they'll have it done by late tomorrow afternoon.

Any other problems?

Flies are faster here than they are in the states.

Ain't that something?

They eat too much in america, they lazy.

They get too much to eat.

These flies, they don't get enough to eat, so they stay hungry and fast.

I thought the Congo was a lot of jungle

and little rough mau maus running around, attacking, you know?

You hear about all this, what they in American make you think.

Some people scared to come over here,

it was in the press, "scared to come over here."

And people drive their cars and they so peaceful and nice.

And they got their own airports and hotels

and little houses and little streets and little nightclubs and they ain't so bad.

No kidding, New York is more of a jungle than here.

The policemen arrive with .45 guns and dogs.

Every minute a homicide, somebody dies.

Dying with dope and always somebody being raped or somebody being robbed

or somebody on the rooftop shooting twelve people.

A man goes in the bank and shoots the teller and stabs the bank official

and he runs out and he gets shot down the street.

Two cars, head-on, doing 100 mph.

Train jumped over a track, mine caves in.

Always something in america.

It's so peaceful over here.

Really, the savages are in america.

You know, I mean, I'm a world traveller

and I consider myself one the most travelled black men in america,

I'm getting around the world.

And I'm seeing things that I never saw,

so I know the average man, the layman wouldn't even thought of it.

I'm getting on a DC-10 in Paris and all africans flying and operating it.

Here he is, taking the big jet off.

And navigating, hitting little buttons.

And coming through lightning and thunder.

'Pulling that big old jet plane through the sky and flying it for 15 hours.'

Well, James, it seems like we're going back home.

Yeah, after such a long time.

We finally, um, got our heads together.

We ain't been to Kinshasa. We don't know what to expect.

We're gonna be met by a country that expected a fight.

Instead they're gonna get the greatest musical performance there ever was.

Every little band in Kinshasa and Zaire is playing a James brown beat.

Now it's a total, total, total French-speaking country

and they sing every one of your lyrics in English.

Now that says a whole lot for me.

- It says that we're not coming... - We're there.

Black is here.

We've been back and forth, getting reports, man,

about the way that people feel about this, man.

This is the biggest thing that ever happened to them, man.

And it's the biggest thing that ever happened to us.

- If you're going back now... - I have to get back there, yeah.

How are you fixed? Are you going back to the hotel? You got transport?

I'm gonna go back with shimpupu. He's here. So any problems...

Shimpupu is here? That's the man I've been waiting to see, where is he?

- Over there. Do you want to see him? - That's exactly right.

- How are you, Alan, all right? - Tired.

You better wait now shimpupu is here. See what we can sort out.

- Keith? - Yes?

He was fully told about all of that stuff, time and time again.

Doesn't matter. It's all history.

Go and ask McManus to join us with shimpupu,

because I want to get McManus' problem sorted out.

- What problem is that? - His bloody cable problem.

Eight thousand bucks worth of damn cable

which is just gonna go down for four days and go back up again

which is the government's responsibility anyhow.

And this fella says he's not gonna put it down...

I wanna lay it to shimpupu cos he said he'd sort it.

Bill!

Wait, which shimpupu is this? This is the journalist?

- Yeah. - Oh, no.

- The wrong man's here. - Sorry!

We been on this plane now, we going on 13 hours.

Thirteen hours on an airplane with all this energy and all this great vibe

and all this good feeling.

I'm almost high off it just listening to the great music.

Lloyd price never got high in his life.

Never ever. But I tell you, I promise you the spiritual commitment,

the rhythm and the beat,

and we're going to Kinshasa for Zaire '74, that's what's happening.

People waiting at the airport for six hours, man.

About 300,000 people.

300,000 people at the airport. Feels like there's 300,000 on this plane!

- I think that this is just fantastic. - Hey, let me hear some more music!

Back to the roots!

Yeah!

You know, we're gonna do it. We're gonna do it, man.

- Where's masekela? - Masekela is here.

Masekela!

Hey, brother bill! Welcome.

See you later, okay.

Welcome, John. How are you?

- It's a pleasure to be here. - It's a pleasure to have you here.

How do you like that welcome?

I love it, love it, love it. Really love it.

- I see some beautiful ladies, too. - Yeah.

The problem is... Forget the walkie-talkie.

- The problem is that other... - What do you want, abanga?

Other than the film crew and the staff, all the baggage is done in.

Put a blessing on us, o great one! Ha ha!

We had it worked out perfect,

except they came, we came with 32,000lbs extra,

and, um, don't discuss it right now.

Hello, papa!

I got ants in my pants, I gotta dance!

All right, on the downbeat, fellas.

A-one-ah and a-two-ah and a go!

Oh, everybody ready?

And stop.

I can only give you my record. My mode of operandi, what I've done.

It's a fact that I got out and hustled up $14 million,

which is a feat for any man, regardless of colour, race, creed or religion.

And the daringness of it is what brought it all together.

These are facts!

Excuse me.

Hi, George, what are you doing here in Africa?

Well... I'm drunk. Drunk in Africa, always have been.

Oh, yeah? Are you happy?

Well, since the... er...

Cut that damn thing off!

Next time I design a truss, I'll get a measurement on the crack in your ass!

Next time you design a fucking truss, make it big enough for the lamps!

You know we're always more ambitious than the trusses.

Wait a minute, number one is still not far enough off to the right.

It's gotta come off right further.

Come a long way

got a chance to stand here in our home today

wanna shout about it

'cause I need her and I know that you need her, too

girl, I'll build you up

when you're feeling down

get sexual, dance, get down

on solid ground

oh, I can tell

by the thing you do

you need loving the same as I need you

come on, get it together

everybody get it together

- doo-wa - doo-wa

- doo-doo-doo-doo - doo-wa...

Tell me what you're gonna do

how long is that line you're rigging?

Stokely...

Stokely...

Stokely Carmichael, don't you burn up nothing over here!

All right!

Don't touch my steak!

Caught bill in the middle of his steak.

Okay, we'll try and get over there.

I thought I was on Miami beach, all I saw was pretty houses

and rolls-royces in the driveway.

You went to the black house. To the black house!

- You mean the government house? - It's the black house.

I never felt so free in my life.

Free from america where we're not really free.

We been free all our life, we wanna see our people free.

- Are you free in america? - I've been free all over the world.

I have been free!

You free too all over!

You? What about us?

You free, champ.

Sammy Davis free, champ.

What about, the spinners, okay, the spinners?

Bill here, he's free.

Well, who are you? Why do you talk so loud?

I don't know. I'm just a dishwasher in the kitchen trying to turn out the cake.

- Well, you ain't free, either. - I been free all my life.

- No, you crazy. - That's why I teach a free man.

Has he been drinking?

- You've been drinking something. - I have. Africa weather.

Oh, man! That's fantastic.

A family gathering. A welcoming back home.

She can talk French and you can talk English.

She was ruled by the French, and I was ruled by the English.

So we both done lost our language.

But one day, we gonna talk to each other in our own little language.

'Hello, hello, hello.'

'hello, hello, hello.'

A multimedia experience. Direct to you from Hollywood, here.

Ali! Ali!

Ali! Ali!

I just wanna say, "excuse my French, if you please, it's lousy."

Well, it's that time.

The point of no return!

One of a kind

love affair is

when your down is up and your up is down

but love stays around

you know you're right, you've got to make a little sacrifice

make it for love

whoa-whoa

yeah

I never thought about the day would come

when she would leave without goodbye

well, well, well, well, well

she wrote a line or two upon the wall

said I'm leaving you, know I love you, too, can't stay with you

no, no

till this very day I could never say a discouraging word

girl, I really love you

place no one above you

oh, hey, hey

love affair is

when you treat her nice but you finally have to pay the price

you gotta dig in your pocket

no, you're right, got to make a little sacrifice

make it for love

make it for love

ah, ah, ah

all right

One of a kind

love affair is

makes you want to love her

got to have her, yeah, yeah

one of a kind, one of a kind

love affair is

makes a lame man walk

makes a blind man talk about seeing again

makes you wanna move, well, well

every day is like sunshine

now you're on my mind, hey, mama

know how to move me

sure am glad I found you

coulda stayed around you

will you build me up, baby, then let me down?

You make me wanna

only be with you

one of a kind...

I wanna thank all the black people

that it took to make it possible for us to come back home.

I thank the lord.

That was great.

- Let me tell you something... - We got it all in, but not how I wanted...

there's language problem, but they understood, they got your message.

You communicated with them, and that's what counted.

What was that about?

- In brief! - It was about the line-up.

What's happening now?

Erm... he said that, er...

The line-up had too many Zaire artists following one another

so they wanted to change it, to mix it up,

and if I would accept to do that.

I said, well, I don't want to give anybody any problems.

If it's for the benefit of everybody and for how many...

Maybe the lateness of the hour

Makes me seem bluer than I am

But in my heart there is a shower

Hope she'll be happier with him

I can't believe that she don't wanna see me

We lived and learned with each other so long

I never thought that she really would leave me

but she's gone...

Maybe the darkness of the hour

Makes me seem lonelier than I am

Over the darkness I have no power

hope she'll be happier with him...

Thank you.

Often, when I sing this song, people ask me,

"how do you make that noise?"

I get mad because it's not a noise but my native tongue.

For example, people call me Miriam makeba.

That's not really my name. Here is my real name...

The colonists where we come from in South Africa call this the click song,

because they cannot say...

The money was put up because it's a business proposition.

That's right.

It's a business proposition about whose money it comes from.

The money means that there's a potentiality for recoupment and profit.

When a man do something that's gonna involve black people

and generate black people and motivate 'em,

you create dollars, and dollars is what this thing is about.

You cannot get liberated broke!

That's right. That's for certain.

Ya gotta have some money!

But the commitment part of getting these super giants

to come into one fold and do one thing 6,000 miles from home,

that was blackness, that was the strength.

To accept blackness, to help blackness, to trust blackness,

and to associate yourself with blackness and now let's deal with the counterpart

and bring all segments of the world together.

We all the citizens of the world.

It ain't about us being, like we wanna be against nobody,

but it's about us saying we are for each other.

One, two... one, two, three...

I want to teach you that new routine...

Prove that to me

a better man to me

feel me up with so much affection

you made realise in me

you seem to move in the right direction

make me love, make me love and believe

Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba

My bwanas!

See you later, brothers.

This is our homeland, this is our civilization.

Before we was made christians and named negroes,

Africa was the cradle of civilization.

Original man was from Africa, all civilizations started in Africa.

Now, I'm thinking like this, I'm talking like this,

these people here, they want me to fight here.

This fight is for the freedom, justice and equality of the black man in america

so that I may take my title and my fame

and go out and uplift little black people in the ghettos,

black people is catching hell,

black people who entertainers won't speak for.

All those entertainers is coming here,

don't none of them really get on no television and give up every quarter

to say something that's against white people, the government.

All those entertainers, I'm not getting on 'em, but I have to lead the way.

Now god has made me bigger than all of the entertainers in america,

god has made me bigger than all the entertainers in the world,

god has made me bigger than all athletes in the world.

Now it's my job to whup this man, get my title,

so I can use it to help uplift the black man in america.

That's why I go in the ring, with this intention.

Muhammad Ali!

Come on in.

I have finally figured out just about what we'll do and the way we'll do it.

- Okay. - Er...

- Have you got beer? - Uh, no...

I had beer. Big black brought that in.

This is what I figured out.

We'll come in with the theme bit of guess who.

Then we'll play that slow blues, whichever slow blues of my choice

at that particular time, I don't know which one.

Then we'll follow with ain't nobody home,

the thrill is gone, sweet sixteen.

After sweet sixteen, then we will do...

I like to live the love and we'll throw out ain't nobody home.

I mean, we'll throw out hummingbird for now.

But if we have to do an encore or if the time is running short, then we will.

Got lipstick on my handkerchief. Good thing I ain't married.

- At the moment. - Oh, don't rush it, man.

Taking a nice, long break.

I tell you what, as far as I'm concerned, the break ain't over.

We still at intermission.

Thrill is gone

thrill is gone away from me

thrill is gone, baby

thrill is gone away from me

although I still live on

but so lonely I'll be

Thrill is gone

thrill is gone away for good

thrill is gone, baby

thrill is gone away for good

I know I'll be over it all one day, baby

like I know a good man should

you know I'm free now, baby

I'm free from your spell

free, free, free now, baby

I'm free from your spell

and now that it's over

all I can do is wish you well...

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

- Let's do a dance. - Do what?

Er, something we do in Philadelphia, in america.

- We do the bump. - Okay.

- We do the bump. - Bump, bump, bump.

- Yeah. - Go on.

- Okay, one. See? - One.

And bump and turn, and bump and turn,

and bump... and bump!

It took me 5 years to learn the bump, and she gets it in one second?

- Très bien! - She's really good!

Please, please.

- Bump... bump... - Hey, wow!

- Hey, that's not the bump. - In america, you'd get arrested for that.

Thank you.

I always like to see it. Thank you. I like to see it near me.

- Yeah, I'll see you after we hook it up. - Right on.

I'm gonna first sit down for a minute or so and drink me a little water.

That's the first thing I'm gonna do.

I hope it didn't sound too bad.

Er... I enjoyed parts of it.

Some parts of it, I thought, went on pretty good.

Baila!

- Au revoir. God bless you. - Thank you.

Dá-me cinco. Cinque. Cinq.

So what we're coming back here with is what we left here with,

plus the influences that we picked up from living... er...

Where we've lived for the last 3 or 400 years or whatever, y'know?

So we're coming back now in the same form

but with other places on it.

Meanwhile, they've evolved from the point

where we all were when we left here.

So we've evolved in one corner, they've evolved in the other corner.

And now we're gonna come back and listen to each other

and I know I'm gonna go home knowing something...

Somebody asked me, "what are you gonna bring back?

"You gonna bring back any souvenirs? Somebody wants cloth and all like that."

What I wanna bring back is the feeling.

I think of us as a people that was maybe left out in the desert.

We were taken away and dropped off in the desert by parachute.

We know that we got a home someplace, but where?

So we still got the same feelings, we still got the same ties,

we know that there it is, but where?

We know it's inside of us, we know that it must be someplace

that somebody's thinking along the same lines of us.

So we're in this little colony, we're being treated a certain way,

and parts of it we don't understand, we're in a different land,

we're in places where people speak a different language we don't know.

But we do know, deep down in, through the years, even though a lot of us died,

we still know that those ties are there somewhere.

For you, very good.

I must get... Er, where is the interpreter?

You really just don't want your slave to be free. Face it.

You hate to admit it and you don't mean it that way,

but your people don't want the slave to be free.

That's the whole thing. They'll say, "'really?" Well, why not let me go?

Why not let me go, white man? They don't want to let that negro go.

That negro leave, that's his protection.

Tornadoes, droughts, hurricanes, all kind of trouble.

America been under so much trouble,

if we wasn't over there, it would've been pitiful.

The wise whites know it.

Your white brother knows that if we wasn't in america,

it would've been in trouble long ago!

You have some problems.

We're not all brothers. No, you say we're brothers, we not brothers.

We white and black are not brothers! We're not brothers.

Brother don't lynch a brother, cut his private off and put it in his mouth,

tie horses and pull him apart, and burn him up,

and kill pregnant women before the babies are born.

Enslave him 400 years, Rob him of his name, his language.

And today, still doin' it.

Still police is stopped on the highway and look for black people

because their new cars and modern times and pull him over.

And I see 'em, modern cities and everywhere,

doing something to provoke him, make him say something and shoot him.

You don't say nothing, he get mad, because he can't get him for nothing.

Beat him up, all kind of injustice.

Only reason the cameras on me, only reason I'm in the shape I'm in

is cos I'm the world's greatest fighter, otherwise, I'd be another negro.

To show you I'm the best, I will stay in your chest.

Since we don't get along, we gotta get it on.

What I'm gonna say might shock and amaze ya,

but, chump, you look like Joe Frazier!

Quit talking.

Wait a minute. Let me get a mouthpiece, let me get a mouthpiece!

Let me get a mouthpiece!

- Are you serious? - Brother, I ain't got no mouthpiece.

Give a big round of applause.

Africa!

Right about here, ladies and gentlemen,

I want you to get yourself and your soul together.

This man will make your liver quiver!

This man will make your bladder splatter!

This man will freeze your knees!

If you will, let's all welcome the world's godfather of soul,

soul brother number one, James brown!

James brown!

James brown!

Get down with my girlfriend

You hollerin', you cussin', damn it, you wanna fight!

Payback is a thing you gotta see

brother do any damn thing to me

I can do wheelin', I can do dealin'

yes, you can!

But I don't do no damn squealin'

I can do rappin', I'm ready

I can do scrappin'

but I can't dig that backstabbin'

oh, no!

The brother get ready, that's a fact

get ready, you mutha, for the big payback

the big payback!

Get ready!

Hey, hey, yeah!

Baby!

Get down with my woman, that ain't right!

Oh, no!

You hollerin' and cussin', damn it, you wanna fight!

Don't do me no darn favour

I don't know karate, but I know ka-ra-zy!

Yes, you do!

I don't know karate, but I know ka-ra-zy!

Do you need some help?

Get down, get gone

get down, get...

Get down, get down

yow!

Right now, we'd like to do some of the tunes

that created a sound called the James brown sound.

And this is the way it goes.

One day, a fella walked up and said, "James, play some of your old tunes."

Said, "hey, man, we don't have no old tunes."

Said, "well, play some of your oldies but goodies."

I said, "I don't dig that. Don't Bury me while I yet live."

Then he said, "well, play the best of James brown."

Fred smiled and I frowned.

He said, "why you frowning?" I said, "because I can't do that.

"The best of James brown is yet to come."

Hit it!

I don't care, baby, about your past

whoo!

I just want our love to last

huh!

I don't care about your faults

I just got to tell ya about the do's and don't's

yeah!

When you kiss me

when you mess me, baby

hold my hand

make me understand

I break out

in a cold sweat

yow!

Hit me! Yeah!

Can't stand it

can't stand your love

can't stand it, huh!

Can't stand your love

you don't love nobody else...

When I say, "hit it," hit it!

When I say, "quit it," quit it!

Hit it now!

Yeah!

Cut out the lights and call some more blackness.

Say it I'm black and I'm proud!

Say it I'm black and I'm proud!

Say it I'm black and I'm proud!

Huh! With your bad self!

- Say it loud - I'm black and I'm proud

- say it loud - I'm black and I'm proud

- say it loud - I'm black and I'm proud

- say it now! - I'm black and I'm proud

- say it! Say it loud! - I'm black and I'm proud

- come on! Say it loud! - I'm black and I'm proud

- say it loud! - I'm black and I'm proud

- say it loud! - I'm black and I'm proud...

James brown, ladies and gentlemen, James brown! The godfather!

Say it loud! I'm black and I'm proud...

James brown!

Superstar James brown!

What a show! James brown!

- Say it loud! - I'm black and I'm proud!

- Say it loud! - I'm black and I'm proud...

James brown!

Now I want everybody to repeat after me

if you don't know who you are and where your place in life is

just say to yourself, "I am... somebody!"

- "I am... - "I am...

- somebody! - Somebody!

- "I may be poor... - "I may be poor...

- but I am... - But I am...

- somebody! - Somebody!

I may be uneducated...

but I am somebody!

I may be unemployed...

but I am somebody!

Same beat

same beat

same beat...

Thank you very much.

Thank you, fellas.

God bless you.

Let me say another thing. I hope this can be put on the tail end of this.

When you walk out this movie,

if you walk away from your television set,

here's one thing you walk out with in your mind.

When you get up and walk out and look down the street, you say to yourself,

"damn right I'm somebody."