Editing Uncle Jam Wants You (section)

==Significance==
''Uncle Jam Wants You'' (a reference to the "[[Uncle Sam]] wants you!" [[US Army]] recruitment posters) may be a more militant sequel to the band's previous album, ''[[One Nation Under a Groove]]'', with the band waging war against the rise of disco.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shapiro |first1=Peter |title=Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco |date=2015 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux}}</ref>  Its purpose is also (as the cover claims) to "rescue [[dance music]] from the blahs."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reynolds |first1=Simon |title=Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture |date=2013 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |page=24}}</ref>

The cover art depicts [[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]] in a [[Huey Newton]]-[[Black Panthers]] pose.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vincent |first1=Rickey |title=Funk: The Music, the People, and the Rhythm of the One |date=1996 |publisher=St. Martin's Publishing Group |page=52}}</ref> The album features the band's last big hit single, "[[(Not Just) Knee Deep]]", an edited version of which went to number one on the ''[[Billboard magazine|Billboard]]'' Soul singles charts. The album title was adopted by the DJ organization known as [[Uncle Jamm's Army]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Matos |first1=Michaelangelo |title=Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year |date=2020 |publisher=Hachette Books}}</ref>

Samples of the 15-minute cut "(Not Just) Knee Deep" can be heard on [[Digital Underground]]'s "[[Kiss You Back]]"; the track has also been used by [[De La Soul]] for their song "[[Me Myself and I (De La Soul song)|Me Myself and I]]".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rabaka |first1=Reiland |title=The Hip Hop Movement: From R&B and the Civil Rights Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Generation |date=2013 |publisher=Lexington Books |page=262}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Rough Guide to Rock |date=2003 |publisher=Rough Guides |page=405 |edition=3rd}}</ref>