I’m an old white woman who just recently stumbled on a few videos of HBCU marching bands and I love them. This is one of my favorites because these dancers are amazing. What an awesome display of female power and beauty. The sexist and racist comments came from white people who spend time watching things they don’t like and writing mean things about them - draw your own conclusions. To me the HBCU style is quintessentially American because it takes elements from Western European military and African musical traditions and combines them to make something that transcends the parts. While mainstream white marching bands have clung to the same old stiff slightly manic British Corp style the people they excluded took the standard marching band format as just a starting point from which they could innovate. I don’t know who lead the way or how it happened but the HBCU marching bands created a new language that was loose enough to allow on-going creativity but structured enough to be understandable. I am a grateful fan.
I'm going to be honest, I'm white and go to a school that used to be a more hbcu style school in the stands but core on the field. Now it's straight core and hate it. I just love the groove and the culture that surrounds the more hbcu style bands. I just hope that one day I can go to an hbcu for to experience it 👍
Sounds damn damn good; everyone that has been to a HBCU has a different look about them and how they look at their blackness and appreciation for our heritage and legacies/ excellent film
hountoonz40 I watch 4th video at least once a week. my daughter is on the drum line, majorette dancer, flag line and going out for drum major. This video is awesome to both of us.
I could watch this Marching Band and Majorette dance routine Over and Over they are the BOMB!! Wish i was in that Band.( Go Blue and Gold)😄❤🎆I really don't know the name of the College Marching Band.
My band plays o funk but and I'm in the cymbals line but we don't do it like this I'm hoping to make it apart of ours tho because honestly it's a grove
Reading the comments I noticed, White people are offended or called the dancers "dirty". While Black people automatically are proud and recognize the connection to our common ancestry through Africa, displayed in rhythm and dance. To all the ill informed folks who find this offensive, sorry but river dancing and clogging doesn't move us like this does.
+DarthYutsi yes we did!!! Jazz, Hip-Hop, Country, R&B & Classical were invented by backs!!! White people just took them and ran with them, go do your research. America was literally built by blacks.
not sure how one can figure that cause I would think a lot of white people could appreciate this, but admit I have not looked over all the comments, anyway Im white and think its awesome! lol @ clogging, i dont even know what that is but doesnt sound that good
Let me tell u something. I've been on RUclips watching HBCU marching bands consistently for about two months now and I haven't seen anything better than this - P FUNK. I watched every year. This one is probably the oldest. But even 7 years ago they are killing it. The swag is crazy, the girls look and move amazing and the rhythm is the illest. Love this. I'm addicted. Make my funk with P Funk!!!
TUSKEGEE TELEVISION NETWORK INC ABSOLUTELY! If there is a time to perform and put on a good show. HBC and black HS's give you what you came to see. Talent!!!
I love HBCU bands!! Just so much heart, soul, and a certain kind of rhythm in what they do. Stuff like this can't be taught or duplicated!! It amazes me how every section in the drumline has their own personality. I played in middle and high school (snare and quints), but it was a traditional band. Would have loved to march like this!
Somebody should fund a trip and bring a marching band from an HBCU to Africa, let their native Brothers and sisters share in the culture they've helped create and teach us more about OUR history with the drum and why we are the masters of frequency and vibrations ❤🖤💚
big J78 And you surely missed out on a great thing. The good people, the love, at all the HBCU'S. YOU truly missed out on a great time, a great EDUCATION, and friends for LIFE. IT WAS TRULY A FAMILY AFFAIR. Since you missed out, don't allow your kids to miss out on it
Hey. Take one elective at any black college of your choice and show up at homecoming, and you are one of us big J78! frfr #100 You ain't even gotta graduate.... Haaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
big J78, in about 1995 I worked with a black woman and realized she was my neighbor. We became good friends and still talk to this day. I told her at one point that I wanted to be black. :D I loved the culture I was exposed to while spending time with her. So she put me on the "10 step program to becoming black." lol Oh my gosh! She took me to a step show at the college, tried to feed me collard greens which I just couldn't accept. ;D She is one of the greatest women I ever met. But yes, while I was watching this video all I could think was "I should have finished my 10 step program." Haha!
love the love ya'll giving,,,and that's how it was bk in da day,, we battled on the field, and after ,both bands hung out,, we'll some times,, bk in the 70's when we went against WSSU it was war,,,but fun,,,,
So good!! I used to live in center city Philly and every time I'd hear a marching band outside, I'd run out to hear/see them better. I was missing that, so I searched here for "funky marching bands." YEAH!! That's what I'm talking about.
and exposed to the ULTIMATE HOMECOMING NCCU EAGLE PRIDE AMPLIFIED. I love the fanfare that comes with playing your arch rival (aggies) it's like having 2 homecomings. There is nothing like the tradition of an HBCU much love to all of the schools.
Damn, I have to start checking out more black marching bands. They got their shyt together, they are on point, hell the music beat has me dancing in my seat. Those cymbals, damn blowing the shyt up. I will be checking the black marching bands out during March Madness for sure.
There is nothing in the world like these southern college bands. After years of sitting thru boring european “classical” music, when i see something like this it make me proud to be american even if half of the country has gone rogue nazi. This is anything but dirty. It is celebration of heritage. More....!.
Heyy.. shout-out to NC A&T from The Lone Star State, I can't get enough of that P-Funk performance, I love those Golden Delight dancers they are the bombdotcom!!!!❤ fantastic, I love the way they break it down and Cold Steel, in the words of George Clinton: your funk is the best, U guys rock!!, you're on the 1 baby!! now.... that's the way to take it to the stage! man.... I got to put you guys on my bucket list, & come see you perform live!
Kickin the marching band college season off with a little P-FUNK. It doesnt matter what year you go to, they are killing it. The swag is bananas. The routine changes a little from year to year but they are all phenomenal. Keep up the great work!!!
It's called an HBCU Marching band. Don't even say it's not a band just because they are not DCI or just because they don't do classic things. We do things the Black classic way weather you like it or not. If you don't like don't watch it or comment
Lmbo!! I was in the band for 4 years and ive never seen the whole thing :P I just knew it was alot going on down there and from the stands it felt like THE LONGEST cadence in the world lol #memories :')
432 down votes? I seriously don’t know how anyone can dislike this. Drum cadences in the US came from military cadences, but it was black schools that brought more tribal beats, more rhythm, more soul, to drum cadences. The syncopated stick movements, head movements, the dancing....Anyone who likes any type of music has to appreciate this...and whites secretly wish they had soul and rhythm like this. I’m white, I would know :)
Drum line the movie that’s based on all black college bands because they funky especially Norfolk State. Them brothers bring raw and hard. One of the best out!
I love my HBCU Bands, the best d---m thing next to professional performers. These are the real musicians putting it down. Thumbs up to the Carolinas! P-Funk!
I'm a martian that did action corps back in the day and we had our cadences, and they had some style, but nothing I could sing Tear the Roof Off the Sucker with!
I’m an old white woman who just recently stumbled on a few videos of HBCU marching bands and I love them. This is one of my favorites because these dancers are amazing. What an awesome display of female power and beauty. The sexist and racist comments came from white people who spend time watching things they don’t like and writing mean things about them - draw your own conclusions. To me the HBCU style is quintessentially American because it takes elements from Western European military and African musical traditions and combines them to make something that transcends the parts. While mainstream white marching bands have clung to the same old stiff slightly manic British Corp style the people they excluded took the standard marching band format as just a starting point from which they could innovate. I don’t know who lead the way or how it happened but the HBCU marching bands created a new language that was loose enough to allow on-going creativity but structured enough to be understandable. I am a grateful fan.
I love their faces and their swag, like "that's right. we bad."
So , basically, the WHOLE band can drop it low ! ....lol They jammed it from the beginning to the end !
I'm going to be honest, I'm white and go to a school that used to be a more hbcu style school in the stands but core on the field. Now it's straight core and hate it. I just love the groove and the culture that surrounds the more hbcu style bands. I just hope that one day I can go to an hbcu for to experience it 👍
You should definitely go!
Dude if it's in your heart go!!!
Damn
That TAIL DANCER brought it on in like it's s'posed to be Fnished in A-1 style!! GET IT GOLDEN GIRLS !!
Sounds damn damn good; everyone that has been to a HBCU has a different look about them and how they look at their blackness and appreciation for our heritage and legacies/ excellent film
its not all black and white.... its blue and gold and passion
Rollin Dub drumline was good I liked too see more black drum lines more
MVSU!!!!
I could watch this a million times tho!!!! 😆😆😆
hountoonz40 me too
hountoonz40 I watch 4th video at least once a week. my daughter is on the drum line, majorette dancer, flag line and going out for drum major. This video is awesome to both of us.
hountoonz40 yesss me too they routines are the Bomb!!!!
I could watch this Marching Band and Majorette dance routine Over and Over they are the BOMB!! Wish i was in that Band.( Go Blue and Gold)😄❤🎆I really don't know the name of the College Marching Band.
hountoonz40 Me two
Those cymbal players just about stole the show.
+Trek Ryder agreed but you gotta hand it to the quints cause they were grooving
My favorite part because if you've never experienced an HBCU band before it gets you so off guard.😂
My band plays o funk but and I'm in the cymbals line but we don't do it like this I'm hoping to make it apart of ours tho because honestly it's a grove
Trek Ryder they did
Leon Burgess what college u play for
Reading the comments I noticed, White people are offended or called the dancers "dirty". While Black people automatically are proud and recognize the connection to our common ancestry through Africa, displayed in rhythm and dance. To all the ill informed folks who find this offensive, sorry but river dancing and clogging doesn't move us like this does.
preac it, brother.
***** Your people? Mr. Gam, I thought "you people" were against slavery.
+DarthYutsi yes we did!!! Jazz, Hip-Hop, Country, R&B & Classical were invented by backs!!! White people just took them and ran with them, go do your research. America was literally built by blacks.
+flights360 and immigrants from many other countries
not sure how one can figure that cause I would think a lot of white people could appreciate this, but admit I have not looked over all the comments, anyway Im white and think its awesome! lol @ clogging, i dont even know what that is but doesnt sound that good
Let me tell u something. I've been on RUclips watching HBCU marching bands consistently for about two months now and I haven't seen anything better than this - P FUNK. I watched every year. This one is probably the oldest. But even 7 years ago they are killing it. The swag is crazy, the girls look and move amazing and the rhythm is the illest. Love this. I'm addicted. Make my funk with P Funk!!!
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pure uncut cuzzo🤘🏿
@@RohgishSun 😁
2023 and still jammin, since first post 6yrs ago, still haven’t heard or seen a better version of this piece. #NCAT
Black is Beautiful.
James Ward i agree BLACK PEOPLE ARE BEAUTIFUL NO MATTER THEY DO....if its rapping sombody nope
Citormolik A White and Black are both Awesome
yes it is.....
It depends
@@rickslickw Humans are awesome. But there are always some flaws.
I've heard all the HBCU's and this IS the baddest drum line entrance ☆☆☆☆☆!
I hear the rumble in my head a few times a day (lol) and have to come get my fix.
I Love watching that Awesome Dance Entrance routine! Go A&T!!!😀
Black folks are the soul and rhythm to life. Don’t ever tell me otherwise.. PWR 2 THA PPL ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
Preach
them dam Cymbal players ain't joking..."They better play them dam thangs"!!
The Afro roots are just too strong no matter were black people are in the world.
And I love it.
so powerful!
+guleiro Yeah, I was gonna say that too.. not being racist but it's on there blood period
I rock Afros all da time.
UNTMatt84
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I love to watch HBCU Marching Bands, they are sooooo Smooth
TUSKEGEE TELEVISION NETWORK INC ABSOLUTELY! If there is a time to perform and put on a good show. HBC and black HS's give you what you came to see. Talent!!!
TUSKEGEE TELEVISION NETWORK INC Awesome 😆
Nothing like a HBCU Marching band !! That is one of the real joys of attending an HBCU!!! Wow!! I miss those days!!,
Cant nobody mess with A&T's tunnel.
That down south shit. they don't know nothing bout that
LennyBenassi right
I love HBCU bands!! Just so much heart, soul, and a certain kind of rhythm in what they do. Stuff like this can't be taught or duplicated!! It amazes me how every section in the drumline has their own personality. I played in middle and high school (snare and quints), but it was a traditional band. Would have loved to march like this!
Righto!
The cymbals though.........My my my
THIS is how to go and sit down in your seats like a boss. damn the shit was tight nice work
This band is lit! The dancers are beautiful, DM’s are on point, and the entire band is fabulous! Black is beautiful!❤️
Somebody should fund a trip and bring a marching band from an HBCU to Africa, let their native Brothers and sisters share in the culture they've helped create and teach us more about OUR history with the drum and why we are the masters of frequency and vibrations ❤🖤💚
Everyone at my school wants the drumline to play this for our pep rally Friday. It's Thursday night. Wish me luck y'all.
How'd it go lol?
Ursula Johns Late reply but it actually went very well. The tenor part was a little eh but overall it was good
Just love the spirit, sync and rhythm. Everything on point
Never really was a fan of marching bands. But damn Cold Steel came with it!
this video is one of many reasons why I love being black. It also makes me regret I didn't go to a black college 😔
who u tellin
big J78 And you surely missed out on a great thing. The good people, the love, at all the HBCU'S. YOU truly missed out on a great time, a great EDUCATION, and friends for LIFE. IT WAS TRULY A FAMILY AFFAIR. Since you missed out, don't allow your kids to miss out on it
Hey. Take one elective at any black college of your choice and show up at homecoming, and you are one of us big J78! frfr #100 You ain't even gotta graduate.... Haaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
big J78 best experience ever! #aggiepride
big J78, in about 1995 I worked with a black woman and realized she was my neighbor. We became good friends and still talk to this day. I told her at one point that I wanted to be black. :D I loved the culture I was exposed to while spending time with her. So she put me on the "10 step program to becoming black." lol Oh my gosh! She took me to a step show at the college, tried to feed me collard greens which I just couldn't accept. ;D She is one of the greatest women I ever met. But yes, while I was watching this video all I could think was "I should have finished my 10 step program." Haha!
I just love all of our people and HBCU’s There is nothing like in the planet
I love marching band because I love watching people who know what they're doing. Like these guys do.
@Kanuri Right......They don't wanna see us winning as Black African People💙Let them be offended they don't rule us.🔥
Ok so it's 2:46am why am I up out of bed dancing like I got one of their uniform on.......lmao
Not the only one🤣🤣
They killed it everyone the whole band. And the majorettes were excellent.
that was probably the most sickest drum cadence I've ever heard real talk they snap Cold Steel snapped
I can't get enough of this band. WOW
My Melanated ppl are so FREAKING AWESOME!!!!!!!
DAMN RIGHT!!!
***** ✊
make me proud
Show You Right, Sista!!! I LOVE MY PEOPLE!!!
Stop trolling Cauca-demon
Love love love drum cadence entrances. I miss my High School marching band days. Killer drum section right here.
Go to play back speed options and slow it down 0.75x. Sounds fire
Jordan Cowthorn 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Would love to see this in person. One of the most bada$$ performances. Wow!!!!
Those African roots running strong and deep! Awesome 👏🏿
jammin on the field, and jammin going back to the stands
Cymbals KILLED IT!!
Simply THE BADDEST band on the PLANET. HANDS DOWN...I dare ANYBODY to challenge that.
love the love ya'll giving,,,and that's how it was bk in da day,, we battled on the field, and after ,both bands hung out,, we'll some times,, bk in the 70's when we went against WSSU it was war,,,but fun,,,,
Them girls took me TO DA MOTHALAND! Get IT girls!! :)
So good!! I used to live in center city Philly and every time I'd hear a marching band outside, I'd run out to hear/see them better. I was missing that, so I searched here for "funky marching bands." YEAH!! That's what I'm talking about.
Watching y'all perform it's like I can see y'all soul breathe
4:09= me when my direct deposit hits :D
Lmfao
I’m laughing so hard 😂 😂😂😂. I’m mad at you for that comment!!!!
🤣🤣🤣
Wow!! # BIGMAD
You can't understand the tradition, if you never been exposed or attended a HBCU. Aggie Pride!!!
vette B h
Facts
Understood!!! #BRONCOPRIDE
and exposed to the ULTIMATE HOMECOMING NCCU EAGLE PRIDE AMPLIFIED. I love the fanfare that comes with playing your arch rival (aggies) it's like having 2 homecomings. There is nothing like the tradition of an HBCU much love to all of the schools.
Love this
I dont know whats going on but you guys are MASTERS of it!
Best DRUMLINE Period NC rocks the house cant no other state bring it like we do! And im a white guy to let yall know Bring It
You are great with me! Keep enjoying the band.
The way them symbals came in and killed it will always have me.❤❤❤❤❤❤
Damn, I have to start checking out more black marching bands. They got their shyt together, they are on point, hell the music beat has me dancing in my seat. Those cymbals, damn blowing the shyt up. I will be checking the black marching bands out during March Madness for sure.
I can never stop watching this.. I just love it!
BEST LINE WE EVER HAD. REALLY I FEEL THIS THE BEST LINE.!!!!!
P funk always gets me hype. One of my favorites. This is cleannnn
There is nothing in the world like these southern college bands. After years of sitting thru boring european “classical” music, when i see something like this it make me proud to be american even if half of the country has gone rogue nazi. This is anything but dirty. It is celebration of heritage. More....!.
Wow! Now that is an ENTRANCE. Leave no doubt that you are about to rock the house.
Heyy.. shout-out to NC A&T from The Lone Star State, I can't get enough of that P-Funk performance, I love those Golden Delight dancers they are the bombdotcom!!!!❤ fantastic, I love the way they break it down and Cold Steel, in the words of George Clinton: your funk is the best, U guys rock!!, you're on the 1 baby!! now.... that's the way to take it to the stage! man.... I got to put you guys on my bucket list, & come see you perform live!
I'm in middle school and I play this stuff with the dances and everything and I'm one cymbal player playing those splits by myself swag
Logan Fitzgerald Me too man!
Logan Fitzgerald not that hard ltfol
A couple of the drummers could double as football players...yesh some big boys there.
This is what our young people need to be watching, not all of that other crap. Go Go Go. I love it.
Ummm...
DAAAAAM!
That is America.
That is Africa.
That is the beauty that is all of us.❤️
This is the funkest cadence around. I pray they never shelf this one every
Wow. Came across this on accident. This was very impressive. Too bad they don't show this on the front page of the news and im white.
Kickin the marching band college season off with a little P-FUNK. It doesnt matter what year you go to, they are killing it. The swag is bananas. The routine changes a little from year to year but they are all phenomenal. Keep up the great work!!!
So grateful to have seen this. Blown away!!
Wow!! I wanna see this and experience this intensity! Lovely!!!
Wow, one of the best tunnels I've ever seen. XD
This is in our soul...and always has been...
Never leavin eevuh
This Cadence is da name Of my Drumline'. . .What a great cadence to bring da name of my Line out. . . .Nice Job A&T. .
I LOVE this bands style of P-FUNK 🔥🔥🔥kudos all the way from Ohio !!
It's called an HBCU Marching band. Don't even say it's not a band just because they are not DCI or just because they don't do classic things. We do things the Black classic way weather you like it or not. If you don't like don't watch it or comment
Lmbo!! I was in the band for 4 years and ive never seen the whole thing :P I just knew it was alot going on down there and from the stands it felt like THE LONGEST cadence in the world lol #memories :')
I love their tunnels! Wow!
432 down votes? I seriously don’t know how anyone can dislike this. Drum cadences in the US came from military cadences, but it was black schools that brought more tribal beats, more rhythm, more soul, to drum cadences. The syncopated stick movements, head movements, the dancing....Anyone who likes any type of music has to appreciate this...and whites secretly wish they had soul and rhythm like this. I’m white, I would know :)
So beautiful! I like the cymbals dance or whatever its call awesome!
IT takes ALOT OF HARD WORK TO HAVE SUCH CONTROL OVER YOUR INSTRUMENT!! AWSOME THEEE BEST POINT.BLANK.PERIOD:))
We love this so much the passion is at high levels
Bout to join Aggie Family next semester I hope I can see this live. Yall are THE BEST! I can not wait!
Drum line the movie that’s based on all black college bands because they funky especially Norfolk State. Them brothers bring raw and hard. One of the best out!
Only at a HBCU, people go to the football game not to watch football, but to listen to the band. It's crazy
Y'ALL BETTA GET ON DOWN, GREAT Showmanship & Marching Band 🤗👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I love my HBCU Bands, the best d---m thing next to professional performers. These are the real musicians putting it down. Thumbs up to the Carolinas! P-Funk!
Wow!!! go young folks!
and I fought OHIO was good and stumbled across this guys, awesome!!
I love their band...
For me the best sound and the best P funk
BLACK POWER✊✊✊✊✊✊💪💪💪💪💪💯💯💯💯💯❤❤❤❤❤
Notice how the audience is so quiet, taking it all in and enjoying every minute of it, lol!
I’ve been looking for this for years I remember watching this a long time ago
LOOK LIKE ME YEARS AGO BRING THEM N💯💯💯💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
That cadence is so cold !!!
Friends...Children and Grand Children of Original P-Funk. I can now die in P(Peace)-Funk.
I'm a martian that did action corps back in the day and we had our cadences, and they had some style, but nothing I could sing Tear the Roof Off the Sucker with!
This is the absolute BEST entrance I’ve seen …. Please continue
Hi my name is Garcia and I like the cold steel drum line you guys are fantastic
Hell of a football game they played yesterday
the drumline!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that beat that arrangement!!!!!!!!