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Inside ‘Give It Away’

One of the high points of is the most obviously ‘Chili Pepper’-sounding song on it, the relentless ‘Give It Away’. Plucked straight from the drawer marked , the song was and remains the finest extant example of modern white funk to emerge in years. Nowadays the long-time RHCP fan will not be

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