Sly & The Family Stone - Into My Own Thing Lyrics






Into my own thing [x4]

When I'm feeling great
I stop and meditate
Yeah, I'm into

Into my own thing [x2]

Everybody's fine 'cause
I got an open mind and I'm

Into my own thing [x2]

My brother

Into his own thing
Each to his own thing

My sister
I got to got to now now now

Into her own thing
Each to his own thing

Cynthia and Jerry

Into their own thing
Each to his own thing

The drummer

Into his own thing
Each to his own thing

Got to got to got to got to got to
Get to the bottom of this





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  1. J.... M....

    Walk without rhythm and it won't attract the worm.

  2. E.... H....

    Now this - this is my weapon of choice.

  3. c.... e....

    Funkadelic was influenced by Jimi more than sly

  4. J.... ....

    As others have pointed out, this is clearly where George Clinton/Funkadelic/Parliament came from. My only complaint about this recording? I wish it was a little longer! But I can always re-play.

  5. L.... M....

    sly stone
    rosie stone
    freddie stone
    larry graham
    jerry martini
    cynthia robinson
    greg errico
    sly and the family stone

  6. D.... P....

    Weapon of choice

  7. B.... ....

    Okay I recognise this opening riff from a TV show, I know it is used in weapon of choice but I know that's not where I first heard it and it's driving me nuts...

    B.... ....

    Huizenjacht on Dutch television

    B.... ....

    same and its driving me crazy

    B.... ....

    Tom Dorenbos alan carr’s celebrity ding dong! took ages to figure it out!

    B.... ....

    Penny Crowther alan carr’s celebrity ding dong! took ages to figure it out!

    B.... ....

    alan carr’s celebrity ding dong! took ages to figure it out!

  8. r.... b....

    Cant believe I just heard this song on a Walmart commercial.

  9. P.... D....

    I Got ta, Got ta, got ta, GOT TA.........

    GET to da BOTTOM of THIS

  10. S.... M....

    what tv show is this used in?

    S.... M....

    Huizenjacht on Dutch television

  11. m.... ....

    Who's here because of Fatboy Slim?

  12. M.... T....

    Great song!

  13. M.... E....

    blues ,ragtime piano, very interesting, love it

  14. L.... A....

    what tv show is the intro from??????

    L.... A....

    So annoying... it's been frustrating me for years!

    L.... A....

    It's not from a tv show. Fatboy Slim used this song as a sample for his song, "Weapon of Choice."

    L.... A....

    Huizenjacht on Dutch televison

    L.... A....

    @Joshua Ryan Did you figure it out?!

  15. E.... H....

    It's been written LIFE is a musician's album. This examples point, I sense. I hear musicianship rather than entertainment. It testafies the band can wring interesting sonics from their instruments in unison and on solos, and many doo wop Motown cliches are reworked to suit SLY's take on blues bssed music, netting what has been called funk, or rocked out blues.

    I studied elementary piano while enjoying the album post reissue w new cover art (art displayed here is from original cover) as a child. Crisper notes from every player, even when compared with STAND, one of the best albums of all time. That's an entertainment milestone that's great music, too. LIFE, by contrast, is great music without any hits and so what. Musicians must had loved it.

    E.... H....

    Words do not mean what you think they mean...

  16. J.... D....

    Into my own thiiiiiing!

  17. P.... ....

    funking genius. you can tell George Clinton listened to Sly a lot. This is the blueprint for early Funkadelic

  18. F.... C....

    If you walk without rhythm, you won't attract the worm.

  19. G.... ....

    FUNky!!!!

  20. T.... ....

    Me too.

  21. 1.... ....

    Sly put "da FUN in Funk!" - Was anyone more funky than Sly during this time? The Meters maybe, but they had their own New Orleans way of laying things down. I was very fortunate to see them live in the late 60's and early 70's.

  22. s.... ....

    weapon of choice

  23. c.... ....

    WHAT IS SOUL
    i dunno
    Soul is a hamhock in yo corn flakes
    WHAT IS SOUL i dunno
    soul is chittlin foo young
    WHAT IS SOUL i dunno
    soul is a joint rolled in toilet paper
    OH YEA LONG LIVE P-FUNK

  24. P.... R....

    When Funkadelic was still The Parliaments they used to cover this as well as the spiritual "Showboat," originally sung by Paul Robeson, in all their shows. What a great set of influences!

  25. S.... ....

    weapon of choice lol

  26. C.... ....

    That fuzz bass at the end is SICK!

  27. t.... ....

    @AerosauruS same here dude

  28. G.... ....

    Gotta love that super fuzzy bass at the end.

  29. C.... ....

    @LiiMuRi That he does, good sir. This isn't the only song that proves it, but it does help to prove it A LOT.

  30. I.... ....

    @MUN7001 Dude, Fatboy Slim used a 3-second-long riff in a 5-minute-long song. Can't say he stole the song.

    Oh, and as long as the dj's pay for their songs, they ain't 'plagiarising' nobody

  31. C.... E....

    @mhotter It's not much as saying 'jocked' per se,
    but the whole element of funk was created by both
    Sly & The Family Stone AND George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic.
    They basically complimented each other with the style(s) that they used,
    and that's what makes all the hits so legendary today;
    but I do get your point, though.

  32. l.... ....

    @AerosauruS , the other part of the Fatboy Slim song is from The Chambers Brothers "All Strung Out Over You"

  33. S.... ....

    this is way better song overall than fatboy slims song

  34. S.... -....

    interesting to hear how similar this is to early Parliament/Funkadelic - i mean, Sly was always cited as a main influence, but they pretty much jocked this whole sound on the first couple Funkadelic albums - but its all good : )

  35. L.... ....

    Yay, Fatboy Slim has always sampled the greatest of soul/funk songs. The man has a great taste.

  36. M.... ....

    "The opening to this song should sound familiar even for you kiddos" yes it sure does, sampled in fatboy slim's "weopen of choice"

  37. J.... P....

    still sounds so funky, Sly was setting the blueprint

  38. d.... ....

    Also a lot is down to the producers of the record - geniuses in the studio like DJ Premier, Marley Marl, J Dilla and other cryptically twist and edit the sound of the original to create something new..

    my iTunes is full of original 'Breaks', records from artists across the spectrumThe Meters to Steely Dan, Ahmad Jamal to Led Zeppelin, Billy Joel, Shirley Bassey, The Four Seasons, Woody Herman! and so on...

  39. d.... ....

    but thru the music there begins an affinty or respect for an artist from the listener that wasn't there before.

    That is the essence of Hip Hop music - if you're hearing the processed modern stuff that's out there on the radio now, and brands it all with the same quality then that's your problem..
    I've been a fan of Hip Hop for over 25 years and the amount of genres and artists I've been introduced to thru the music are amazing.

  40. d.... ....

    er ....thats the whole point of Hip-Hop but then on YouTube i've got used to this type of typical haters remark ..........not knowing the full facts.

    The GREAT thing about Hip-Hop (the music form) is it's Pluralism - not one sound but an amalgam of many, keeping the form fresh which is the key to it's longevity.
    A lot of the music used (sampled, scratched, whatever) are from artists who you would never associate a connection with.

  41. q.... g....

    Slim ain't done anything that has been done in hip hop 1st.

  42. M.... ....

    friend im a working dj for 4 years... im guyanese. Firstly music is beyond ethnicity and culture. Secondly, the skill required to mix and cut music is beyond fathom... if yu knew anything about music everything is sampled, altered and fabricated from the music that came before it. Ps. i didnt mean any disrespect; i also love funk (James Brown, earth wind fire, and even the commodores) but Fatboy Slim has an amazing talent for mixing music crossingover from funk to hiphop which is sheer genius

  43. M.... ....

    "Teafing" the record? Well beyond your horrible grammar, (Which by the way is ironic since "teafing" derived from hip-hop culture) your ignorance as to what FatBoy Slim does is highly astounding. Slim has probably been one of the greatest mixers of our generation bringing back superb classics (like this), mixing it with more amazing classics and truly creating a phenomenal mixes.

  44. d.... ....

    Listen to Freddie Stones tone! I like! Get to the bottom of this!

  45. A.... G....

    i hate you