Editing Funkadelic (album) (section)

== Reception and legacy ==
{{Music ratings
|subtitle = Retrospective reviews
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="allmusic1"/>
|rev2 = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
|rev2Score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Blender">{{cite journal|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=August 2008|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/bl/funkadelic-08.php|title=The Guide: Back Catalogue: Funkadelic|journal=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]|location=New York|access-date=November 30, 2013}}</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
|rev3score = 9.0/10<ref>{{cite web|author=Dominique Leone |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11739-funkadelic-free-your-mind-maggot-brain-america-eats-its-young/ |title=Funkadelic: Funkadelic / Free Your Mind / Maggot Brain / America Eats Its Young Album Review |website=Pitchfork |date=2005-08-03 |access-date=2016-08-22}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
|rev4score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lRgtYCC6OUwC&pg=PA316 |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |author1=Nathan Brackett |author2=Christian David Hoard |page=316 |year=2004 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=9780743201698 |access-date=2016-08-22}}</ref>
|rev5 = ''[[Spin Alternative Record Guide]]''
|rev5score = 9/10<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rubin |first1=Mike |editor1-last=Weisbard |editor1-first=Eric |editor2-last=Marks |editor2-first=Craig |title=Spin Alternative Record Guide |date=1995 |publisher=Vintage Books |location=New York |isbn=0679755748 |page=296 |chapter=P-Funk}}</ref>
|rev6 = ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]''
|rev6score = (favourable)<ref name=Mojo />
}}

In conjunction with the release of ''Funkadelic'', Westbound Records circulated a promotional single called "Focus on Funkadelic" to radio stations. The single features six snippets of tracks from the LP.

According to critic [[Robert Christgau]], ''Funkadelic''{{'}}s "dark, slow, tuneless" music was originally panned and "scared the bejesus out of fans of upful blackness on both sides of America's widening racial divide".<ref name="Blender"/> Writing in ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]'' (1981), Christgau jokingly referred to Clinton as "someone from Carolina who encountered eternity on [[LSD]] and vowed to contain it in a [[groove (music)|groove]]."<ref name="CG81">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|year=1981|chapter-url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=1304|chapter=Funkadelic: ''Funkadelic''|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the '70s|publisher=[[Da Capo Press]]|isbn=0306804093|access-date=July 17, 2016}}</ref> Years later, Christgau rated the album as "a prequel to [[Sly and the Family Stone]]'s depressive ''[[There's a Riot Goin' On]]''".<ref name="Blender"/> ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]'' later hailed ''Funkadelic'' as "the best blues-influenced, warped [[acid rock]] you're likely to hear",<ref name=Mojo>{{Cite magazine|magazine=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]|title=Review|page=110|date=January 2003}}</ref> and ''[[The Mojo Collection]]'' (2007) called it the band's first album of "spaced-out [[psychedelic funk]]".<ref>{{cite book|title=Funkadelic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AVQbF9lTBwgC&q=maggot+brain+%22psychedelic+funk%22&pg=PA251|website=The Mojo Collection Vol 4|isbn = 9781847676436|access-date=25 April 2017|last1 = Magazine|first1 = Various Mojo|date = November 2007| publisher=Canongate Books }}</ref> [[AllMusic]]'s Jason Birchmeier said the recordings are "essentially conventional soul songs in the spirit of Motown or Stax -- steady rhythms, dense arrangements, choruses of vocals -- but with a loud, overdriven, fuzzy guitar lurking high in the mix". He deemed the album "a revealing and unique record that's certainly not short on significance, clearly marking the crossroads between '60s soul and '70s funk".<ref name="allmusic1">{{cite web|author=Jason Birchmeier |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/funkadelic-mw0000654220 |title=Funkadelic – Funkadelic &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits |website=[[AllMusic]] |date=1971-09-12 |access-date=2016-08-22}}</ref>

"I'll Bet You" was later covered by [[The Jackson 5]] on their album ''[[ABC (The Jackson 5 album)|ABC]]'', and sampled by the [[Beastie Boys]] for their song "Car Thief". The 2005 CD reissue also contains their version of "Can't Shake It Loose", which was recorded two years prior by [[Diana Ross & The Supremes]] on their album ''[[Love Child (The Supremes album)|Love Child]]''. In more recent years, The [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] have combined the main riff of "Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?" and certain parts of the lyrics from "What Is Soul?" in live shows, a version which appears as a B-Side on their 2002 single "[[By the Way (Red Hot Chili Peppers song)|By the Way]]".