“Yep Funkateers! I found out last week that I had to get surgery to remove the tumour in my ear. But all things happen for a reason no matter what it looks like to us. The good news is that I am ready for Heads or Tails. The One prepared me this way. I am not concerned because I know that (THE ONE IS GOOD Y’ALL)! The Holy Grail said: “JUST A FLESH WOUND”! Love to all my Funkateers! Bootsy baby!!!”

Collins had the surgery on Tuesday (May 16, 2017) and just before being rolled into the surgery room at 5:30 a.m., he reached out to his fans once more for positive energy:

5:30am this morning have yr Flashlights, Praying goggles & Love Vibes on for the Magical hand of the “ONE” to retrieve a piece of foriegn matter. I will be off of FB for a few days but feel free to share yr Love with each other. (I will be on the Come Back Trail for U & the Funk! Bearhugs & Love! Bootsy baby!!!

Surgery Was A Success, Grueling Recovery Ahead

Thankfully, hours later Bootsy made it through and took to social media to express gratitude and requests prayers as he begins his healing process. The surgery has taken his hearing in his left ear and also causes him to lose his balance. This was his post post-surgery:

Throughout the years we’ve become so used to seeing ‘Mr. Bootzilla baby’ uplifted and bringing joy to everyone else’s lives with his electrifying guitar riffs, that it kinda takes us by surprise to see the funk legend down for a while. Hopefully Bootsy will make a speedy recovery and be back on his stage commanding the crowd and doing what he loves soon. Prayers up for Bootsy Collins.

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Bootsy Collins is talking real talk in this interview he did with Red Bull, and we think these young artists out here need to take notes! Although Bootsy wasn’t really trying to go hard at today’s artists, he did so indirectly, because it’s hard for us to read this, without thinking about the stuff we hear on the radio today that’s being packaged up and sold as “urban music.”

This isn’t a “bash all new artists” type of article, because I think there are a few great artists on the radio today, regardless of if we may personally like their music, or not. So this is more like a “grown folks calling out the youngins who need to be schooled about their actions” type of article. Check out parts of Bootsy’s interview below. [After you read it, answer our question at the bottom of page 3 of this article.]

Bootsy on the demands that was placed on him back then:
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We took rehearsals probably even more serious than we took the shows. At rehearsals we just kept at it. I remember last night we were playing this thing…we played it a few times, and somebody said, “Oh, one of my fingers is hurting.” That was unheard of. I remember fingers bleeding! We practiced until people’s hands bled. And we weren’t doing it on purpose to make people’s hands bleed, we were just trying to get it right. Musicians’ hands were bleeding on the keyboards, you’d have blood on the piano, blood on the guitar. But this was just a part of it, we wanted to get it right. And it wasn’t just me.

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Sadly, some of today’s artists, in particular, some rap artists (but definitely not all) are drawing blood through their art too, but it’s not from rehearsing their crafts like Bootsy, instead it’s from the poisonous messages their record labels are encouraging them to push out to their fans through MAINSTREAM radio. That is further causing the the younger people to become even more desensitized to their environment and making them think it’s cool to bust guns over the slightest confrontation and snort dope for fun, just like their idols do on record. Moving on…

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One of these singers took a huge risk to pursue their dream of being in the music industry. He joined the military and then went AWOL (absent without official leave) after fleeing the country to escape his military duties and follow his dreams of being a successful recording artist. Was it James, Bootsy, or Morris Day? Flip the page to see who was bold enough to pull off this stunt…

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