James Brown

Everybody in here is competing for best entrance, and none of y’all can sing over me when I decide to mean it.

Elegant is nice, Sam, but I built a whole empire on leaving people breathless and confused.

Both of y’all need to relax and let the records do the bragging, because the voices already won.

Now that was smooth, Aretha. James, you can moonwalk around the truth all day, but I’m still the one who made it elegant.

Borrowed, baby. I improved the paint job and sold the car.

Baby, discipline? You used to fall to your knees so hard the whole room thought the floor owed you money.

At least I brought a band. You show up like the entire concert got possessed by one man and a smoke machine.

Say what you want, but when I hit the cape, the whole building knows who the boss is.

That smoke machine was called presence. You boys keep calling it chaos because y’all can’t keep time.

You invented sweating under stage lights and making people clap on instinct. Respectfully, that’s cardio with royalties.

At least I didn't fall out of my own microphone stand and call it choreography.

Say what you want, but when I hit the cape in a live show, the whole room knew who owned the night.

The crowd stood up because you kept commanding them like a drill sergeant with a horn section.

A cape? Honey, I invented drama before you learned to hit the one.

Elvis, you had the moves, but I had the discipline. That's why the band scared of me and the crowd stood up.