Zapp & Roger - I Heard It Through the Grapevine

[@lionelkennedy1394]

There will never .. ever .. EVER .. Be a better remake of a Classic Song than this ONE riiiiight here!! Roger was a GENIUS.

[@YAbaby1]

I don’t like remakes at all but this song is the only one I like and bump every day, actually I have always felt that Roger & Zapp made it better than Marvin Gaye . I was 16 in 1980 and I feel bad for everyone who missed the 80’s , they have no clue what fun it was to be a teenager in the 80’s .

[@margomckaine78]

You got that right.

[@gordoncolbert4582]

Amen to that

[@yvonneporterallison1421]

I agree

[@curtisboswell2619]

STILL the best version of this song ever done by anyone. RIP Roger Troutman... You were the man. You and Joe Walsh made the "talk-box" a thing.

[@margomckaine78]

Best. Ever!

[@johnwebster76]

I remember Neil Young using something similar in a song called Sample and Hold

[@marcustrice3246]

Don't forget Stevie Wonder

[@blakebrown84]

RIP Roger Troutman!!! He took it to the next level with funk music. This is old school music that we can listen to forever. Thanks Roger Troutman & Zapp for making great music!

[@mac1bc]

Crazy how many hip hop songs sampled from these guys.

[@YAbaby1]

I was devastated to hear that Roger’s brother shot and killed him and turned the gun on himself, their poor mother lost two sons at once.

[@MissVikkiAnn2011]

Man this song right here!!!!! Teenage life in the 80s! We LOVED ZAPP&Roger!!! RIP Roger!!! You and Zapp made some funky hits that we'll always dance and skate to!

[@talkdattrashimmapullyacard4396]

Marry me to this song 😘

[@jeffreywilliams5027]

Roger zapp said it best that " grown man suppose to cry "

[@jeffreywilliams5027]

It was the summer of 1983 here in Birmingham alabama at the historical fairgrounds known as the cross plex that roger and zapp took city of Birmingham by heart and hasn't loosen its grip yet; a grown man ain't suppose to cry but when I look back over the year and consider love I still have for( Roger's) zapp my eyes swells with tears of joy and sadness "untimely" live on Master of funk.

[@sylvia7656]

I can relate...class of 1983!

[@YAbaby1]

Tell em girl, i’m 59 and I will always remember 1981 as the best year of my life , so many good songs came out that year and I was 17 years old already working, I remember getting paid on Friday and going to the gas station and you could literally feel the energy in the air that it was gonna be a great night, I miss them days.

[@sandiecarter4650]

This song so many excellent memories and Zapp Band is the bomb y'all and I am only 58 still jamming to them

[@bartonfunk1237]

CCR, Gladys Knight. Marvin Gaye, Roger...ALL killed it, but Roger took it somewhere else altogether. Such was the essence of his musical ear and his genius.

[@charrison6923]

Amen!

[@gregorycampbell2164]

Brownstone made a soulful version of this song also

[@lauralindsey1331]

The one and only Roger…let’s turn up 2023👏🥂😋🍾

[@Sandra-n2v5p]

I will put this in any party ❤

[@David-hd7vj]

When I hear the first minute of this version I still think of big Worm pulling up in his low rider to have a conversation with Smokey in the movie Friday. 2 great memories in 1.

[@keithriley4506]

THOSE WERE THE GOOD OLD DAY'S WHEN THIS SONG CAME OUT! ALL TIME CLASSIC!

[@T3l3MuNd0]

"Playing with my money, is Like playing with MY Emotions!!" -Big Worm

[@30006714]

"What's up big perm?"

[@amandaoutlaw1349]

"I don't think you're applying yourself, Smokeeyy!" 😂 --Big Worm from Friday

[@rolandorolo127]

Oooh how I wish funk would still be around in today's music! Soul is what's missin!

[@shannondiaz73]

I know :(

[@jimmyneutron8694]

Rolando Rolo listen to childish gambino's latest album it has some funky songs in it.

[@AngelGomez-xp1bm]

Mayer Hawthorne 👀

[@Mr-Tibbster]

It's not mainstream anymore, but some smaller artists are making some great funk to rival the oldies even today, it's just hard to find because it's not promoted by big corporations because they just want the same old cookie cutter brainwashing music that they produce today. Look up artists like Temu, Mofak and Tuxedo. They are modern funk artists that stay old school.

[@sandiecarter4650]

Totally agree with you this was music and this is missing in today's music

[@SoWikkedTv]

Man I had the MOST fortunate pleasure to record in the studio with Roger back in '99 not long before he gained his wings. I even turned him on to my ese homies in Albuquerque and he recorded with them as well. While in the studio with us he played us some instrumentals that he produced that were independent of Zapp and MANNNNNNN them junts were funky!!!! I called one of my older cousins on speaker phone (who was and STILL IS a HUGE fan of Zapp and Roger) and he couldn't believe his ears that he was actually on the phone with a LIVING LEGEND. A solid and classy man Roger Troutman was. Dude was really down to earth and he felt UBER comfortable around people that he had NEVER met before in life. He even came to the studio everyday in a suit and tie!! One of the artists that he was working with told him after the 4th or 5th day "Roger you have been coming in here looking suave everyday since you 1st came" and te told us "women all over the world love me NOT because I'm rich and famous BUT because I dress nice everyday and I smell good everyday" while plucking on the lapels on his suit coat and dusting his shoulders off (looonnnggg before Jay Z).🤣 Rest In Power Roger Troutman🙏🙏

[@thatboybear]

Been bumping this for more 30 years now, and it STILL slaps like a sissy fight. This is 80’s babies crunk music.

[@sherettepayne5624]

2022 and i still listen to zapp Roger RIP ❤🥰

[@cherylgrim7624]

2023 rip

[@coreyboston618]

His music has and always make you want to dance whenever it comes on from then and even now.....just love it R.I.P Roger

[@marknorthwest93]

Smokin' HOT! You can't keep a GREAT song down, and I LOVE all versions of this!

[@paulgambilllll]

When I was a kid, my dad would pick us up for the weekend, I would ask him to play this song on his 8 track player in his bonneville. Loved to hear the "uh-uh-uh " part.

[@Renee-ms6di]

Real music 🎵🎶 to jam to back in the day! Sure do miss his talent!

[@bartonfunk1237]

1:22 - 1:47 How did he even hear THAT for this song?! Just brilliant!

[@wpkw]

2:28

[@ThePhantomKing]

What's up Big Perm....I mean Big Worm.

[@Muleek.420]

How much you got left?

[@MateMagyar88]

@@Muleek.420”YOU STILL AIN’T SOLD THAT WEED, SMOKEY?!”

[@Muleek.420]

@@MateMagyar88 “man, I’m trying too, Worm. N**gas Are broke these days.”

[@marcustrice3246]

​@@MateMagyar88 Man I'm tryin to Worm, N!@#$%^& are broke these days.

[@daveatkins3796]

BW: I don’t think you applying yourself, Smokey! Sm: Huh?

[@pocahontaspoca3145]

This man was so awesome he was part of my childhood even though he was before my childhood

[@stealthskater5674]

Same brother 😎 Born in '88 Long Live Old School 😎🎸🥁🎸🤘✌️🕹️🎮😎

[@MusicMan1999]

Friday (1995) Brought Me Here

[@BeatriceHall-vu9ch]

I.m her2024 and wondering if could last another day 1959 9 of for real can't stop now

[@veronikagarner9949]

Legendary Aways Loved Singing And Dancing To as A Little Girl and Still Love This Day!!!! Thank You So Much Mr. Zapp & Roger!!!!

[@helenmorreal9072]

Oh my gosh! This is the first Roger tune I heard from him. Haven't stopped listening since early 80's!! My favorite is " Dance Floor!!"

[@joj5181]

You still ain't sold that weed smokie? Man, I'm trying to worm! Ninjas are broke these days.

[@justuschristian8725]

Ninjas..

[@johnny8566]

Never knew ninjas smoked weed

[@daveatkins3796]

I don't think you applying yourself, Smokey!

[@fread51]

Lmao

[@gailgarcia-smith2462]

I still jump to my boy Roger you are timeless!

[@NemoHoes323]

the funk don't stop, it don't quit cuzz it's forever to stay 💯

[@hannahgilliam3026]

My Blood Run's Troutman, I'm From South Carolina When Roger Troutman Came To My Little Town It Was On 🔥🔥🔥 I Won Tickets And Back Stage Pictures!!!!! Me And My Bestie Loved You❤

[@crushthecrushermachinewwel6500]

Zapp and Roger always my favorite all time

[@BrownPriderFunk]

Doesn't get much better!

[@Jo_Wardy]

Best music for cruising in a lowrider

[@KoDTIFF]

The beginning of this song is the funkiest thing ever!! Absolute genius

[@MrRahshad]

This way some of the best music of my life learning to pop lock to this and Egyptian pop was amazing.

[@loulowery5066]

I Played this song at the Motorcycle Club,When it was the Chosen Few,Grease The Peace,Red Devil,Sir Skeletonman.BKA The Lou Dog on BroadwayI was DJaying at the club Back in the Olden Days;Still sounds Good after all of these years,Rest in Peace Roger Troutman.

[@mirkomiranda8160]

Ciao come stai tutto bene mi piace che fai tiamo anche tu quando vuoi mi chiedo se canzoni di bello era lui gay di una persona gio link

[@tracypatton2538]

Lou Lowery I hung out at a few of the Chosen few parties and also the Defiant Ones on Central near Broadway that was my spot and this song here was the cut back then and now

[@bambirose213]

Hittin da floor where we b in Cali~ Da funk is visceral!!

[@TheVerbalAxiom]

"WASSSUP SMOKIEEEEEEEEEEEE" "Hey PHUCK YEW!!!" "Why you dont like hector?" LOL

[@tylerriley2587]

Omar Moodie Friday is my favorite movie

[@ashtonbosillo1870]

Omar Moodie

[@CLAIREAVENUEBLOCK]

AYE ESE TOKOSOKOMADOTO TOKOSOTOKO

[@michaelmyles5103]

This joint right here ninja was a Pop locker's dream . Jheri curl juice was everywhere we was living the life we loved and we loved the life we were living.

[@amandaoutlaw1349]

This song here when Smokey neets up with Big Worm from Friday. 👈🏾👊🏾

[@berthadaniels5373]

LEGENDARY ! WOW.🎤🎶💗

[@donnellsims7972]

this cut was made in my moms livingroom in the 80s on a cassett tape never thought i would be listening to it now great for the soul

[@rodneymorehead8845]

Straight old school

[@yolondawaters1106]

Another great song by Roger...He was soooo good with that Vocorder...and was the only one who could get away with doing this song with it. How much longer, longer would you be mine...

[@jackcastillo1164]

I know right I love zapp and rogger

[@djqmusic6107]

It was a talk box

[@Sight2Behold]

0:15 The moment Smokey saw Big Worm coming up the street and said "damn"

[@mares260]

“What’s up big perm, I mean big worm”

[@rafeikasratali213]

Oh mang took me back to that am 1580 kday even had mofo on .. Cassette tape Sony Walkman Currently in London 🇬🇧 groove on this here joint 1030 am bst

[@dianneforeman3213]

What I loved about this version it has a good beat to get on the dance floor baby

[@samimiami1524]

Amazing and brilliant. Loved him🥰❤

[@derekshephard7564]

what a combo, Motown and jazz funk

[@sweetdimples6467]

ROGER IS THE MASTER OF THE VOICEBOX.HE COULD SING GOOD WITHOUT IT TOO

[@Renee-ms6di]

He killed this song.. auto tune at it's best!! Best era to grow up in ..how i wish things were still simple and fun!😊🙏🏾🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶

[@big88ful]

You drop the top and just ride when you play this song. Party time!!!!

[@ThomasRios-e5o]

Very good cover version I'm still listening to this song in 2024.

[@bobraft8759]

This song Introduced me to popping. First kids I saw popping were cranking this tune. Back in the day.

[@davidvromant9243]

Juste SURPUISSANT Zapp,depuis toujours,du pur son.Petit retour dans mes annees 90,toi m tu sais!!!!!!!!!!!

[@talkdattrashimmapullyacard4396]

Big worm pulling up & pulling off in that movie 🎥 Friday 🎥 brought me here 🎶 👍

[@charrison6923]

Zapp and Roger? What a find!

[@T--T2.0]

Big Perm pulling up on Smokey in the low rider "Friday"😂😁🤣

[@crom4023]

This is one of the first songs I remember dancing to. I was probably 4. But I remember this one. Oh yeah, heard it through the grapevine!

[@ttkell3310]

Rest easy LEGEND. It will never be another ♥

[@billmcka5937]

I 61 still kick whit it old school from the 80 get down on zapp

[@13kkja13]

The "scream" at 2:26 is may favorite part.

[@donmontero957]

Zapped yall with this one.

[@derekschultz5029]

4:12 to 4:52 is my favorite part of this song. So smooth

[@hannahgilliam3026]

Mines Too

[@jayboski1]

He was 1 of the best to come out of the Cincinnati, Dayton, and Hamilton area.

[@elisabethreese1516]

I still love this!!!

[@tonymunoz7400]

i dont wanna have to FUCK YOU UP SMOKEY!!!!!

[@jerryj920]

"Big Perm, I mean Big Worm"...classic.

[@TheKrazyKevanshow]

Out of this world!!! Yeah

[@treyharp1881]

Does anyone remember hearing this in the movie Friday???

[@mares260]

Yup! When Big Worm pulls up 🤣

[@catchjoe1]

“You smoking my shit?” “Fucking with your shit, hell naw!” 😂

[@dariushenry88]

+thegreat23ful "I don't want to have to fuck you up, Smokey. Playing with my money is like playing with my emotions."

[@catchjoe1]

+Darius Henry wooooorrrrrmmmmmm

[@dynoesaur5018]

+I spent 6 hours trying to figure out my username lone me $200 dollars

[@ocfulaststx3prowlers685]

playing with my money is like playing with my emotions SMOKEY

[@Mike-mm6jp]

used to play this in my 56 oval in vallejo back in the 80s

[@skunkworksmusicgroup]

This jam dropped right during the breakup with my high-school Boo😂 She use to get burnt up when I borrowed my Mom's deep blue Monty Carlo and drove past her house. My Mom's had a fit when I put that 12 crystal Alpine pull out deck with them 4 6x9s and door speaker in it. I still remember the look on the dude and her picked head ass face when I would roll by smoking a fat ass joint😂🎵💪🔥

[@elchampeon8772]

BIG WORM LMAO. I been listening to grape vine way before the friday big worm seen.

[@Tweaked818]

WASSUP BIG PERMM I MEAN BIG WORM

[@lavetafobbs3088]

I'm here in 2024. 19yrs. old in 1980.❤🎉 Whose with me.

[@YAbaby1]

Brother, I was 17 in 1980 and I always tell my wife which was born in 1980 that 1980 and 1981 were the best years of my life, oh my God was is fun, why couldn’t the world just stay that way.

[@michaelfarris9553]

People with good music taste, that's who is here with you... Keep parting on 😊

[@world-yw5ro]

It's 3-2024 here! ❤❤❤

[@dtoxbrewer3696]

Lol I was 9 in 1980 grew up on this Stuff before Hip Hop and started Break Dancing 😂

[@eljefe897]

I was 3 years old in 1980 but grew up listening to this classic music , it's like a time machine that takes me back to my childhood

[@InstrumentsofMusickIOM]

Friday!!!!

[@youngcannon3]

you smokin my (bleep) Heck nah,(bleep) with yo (bleep) playin wit my money's like playin with my emotions

[@Charles_brown23]

Worm

[@Charles_brown23]

I'll steal from my mama before I mess wit yo shit and you know this man

[@ivanurzua7035]

@@Charles_brown23 lmao hahahha

[@jaydenfox9586]

We’ll see. (Hydraulics rise, Big Worm drives off)

[@cynthiaanderson7998]

Yeah 🔥🔥🔥

[@SPYRYT216]

I still bump this today ,,yes I was a teen in the 80's

[@TheTemplar62]

Still listening in 2023 🔥🎙🎶🎶🎶🎙🔥

[@odellpayne6526]

Odell cool music 🎶 I like it 👌

[@hiighway7570]

"Whhaattt upp big perm ,I mean big worm"

[@jarod3931]

How much you got left?

[@ChristopherOchoa-c3w]

U no I sold that

[@ChristopherOchoa-c3w]

I got half of it

[@TheGameChanger]

😂😂😂😂😂😂I knew I wasn't the only one who remembered this Friday soundtrack 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🫡

[@daveatkins3796]

Sm: Man, I got a lot BW: You still ain’t sold that weed, Smokey?

[@TLive-ji5wf]

Used to jam to this in the 80's! Long before Friday. The esai's would bump in their low riders.

[@rakeemblakley9594]

Gotta thank my parents for this type of music 🎵

[@harryjules369]

Awesome cruising tunes.

[@clarkesiulys8425]

26 years old in 2024 dad used to play this in the car with me when I was younger such a jam 🔥

[@dynoesaur5018]

in my 84 cutlass supreme babyyyy

[@pmd467]

dynoe saur LoL had a ‘86 Monte SS😊👍

[@mizzjacquettaxx6974]

Friday bought me here 😉✌🏽

[@joelopez4008]

Love Roger and be with us forever😢

[@tillgutierrez4213]

What's up big perm, I mean big worm...

[@LordYngling]

This is such a bop it's crazy

[@johnfarrar7448]

I was 19 years old then, too! USAF in Germany!

[@CamGraycloud]

Block party Music right here the good times 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@frankiecarrington3224]

Still relevant in 2024 we love ALL YOU FOREVER 💋❤

[@sauquoit13456]

On this day in 1968 {Feb. 25th} Gladys Knight & the Pips performed "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'... Four months earlier on Oct. 21st, 1967 it entered Billboard's Top 100 chart; it peaked at #2 {for 3 weeks} & spent 17 weeks on the Top 100 Thirteen months later on Nov. 23rd, 1968 Marvin Gaye entered the Top 100 with it; his version reached #1 {for 7 weeks} Three other versions charted; King Curtis {#83/1968}, CCR {#43/1976} & Roger {#79/1981}

[@ayndowney9401]

Cool information, we can all benefit from history!

[@TheGetterdone]

Real funk

[@wesleyrodrigo461]

O maestro dos talk box ...

[@mtroutman3182]

R.I.P. Cousin 🌹

[@supersonic0469]

Is he your cousin fr? That's awesome dude is father of funk

[@jessequintero2137]

Love you dad rest in peace gracias for everything 💖

[@Goldmine810]

And Happy Birthdsy

[@Debora-e3n]

LLroger Troutman ❤❤ from an onioan to another

[@YAbaby1]

Your cousin left us with some beautiful music and plenty of memories, this has been my favorite song for a long time. May Roger rest in peace along with his brother, what a terrible tragedy.

[@zaincuriel]

ZAPP AND ROGER thanks Smiley 22nd Gangster's 🥇

[@georgehimon1445]

Damn , Roger had more hits than the b gees , wow what an amazing talent ,listen to his songs daily ,🙂

[@user-bz4gm4ts8l]

Baby girl had ta kick rocks

[@j.landeta]

Superb!!!!!