Escape-ism
"Escape-ism" is a funk song by American musician James Brown. It was Brown's first release on his own label, People Records. It charted at #6 on the Billboard R&B chart and #35 on the Billboard Hot 100 as a two-part single in 1971. Both parts also appeared on the album Hot Pants in 1971, with the previously unreleased nineteen-minute unedited take of the track appearing on the album's 1992 CD re-release. According to Robert Christgau the song was "supposedly cut to kill time until Bobby Byrd arrived" at the studio. A live version of "Escape-ism" is included on Brown's 1971 live album Revolution of the Mind. The song was sampled in Bell Biv Devoe's song "Poison" from their 1990 album of the same name.
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