Fatback - Is This the Future? (Official Audio) 

This song was ahead of its time! Fatback Band did that with this one.

This song was prophetic. They don't make thought-provoking music anymore.

Wow, this song actually predicted the future exactly.

The female singer at the end absolutely sings her but off what a powerful voice she has.💥💥💥💥🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵i felt that shit!

WHO OUT THERE STILL BUMPIN DIS 1 WIT ME!? 📀😎

Frightening to think this is around 40 years old, so glad I was around and enjoying this type of great music back then..

Funk at its best. Sax solo is incredible. Always remembered this funky song.

"Hey brother can you spare a dime i don't wanna end up doing time." Wicked tune, DAMN!!!

Who is here during the pandemic of 2020? This song sure is relevant.

It's September, 2022 and I'm blasting this brilliant joint. The keyboards and effects are outta this world. I love the sax solo. Been playing it all week long. The Fatback Band was one of my favourite funk groups of the 70s and 80s.

This song is even more relevant now than when it was released in the 80's. Today, even peanut butter and candy-bars are a luxury. Steak and caviar? What's that?

Nearly 2024 and this tune's still banging..deep lyrics ❤

A true future predicting masterpiece that came true

This song made me where I am today

Yes!!!!! That's what it now!!!! Visionaries!!!!❤

Loved this when it first hit in the summer of 1984. The synth is sick af 🤘

Still grooving with this masterpiece after all these years!!

One of the most iconic tunes ever.

Great lyrics still relevant probably even more today. That groove is banging

Iust be getting old but the past seems better than future ....... One of the best future funk boogie funk tracks of the 80s - a classic blast against raegenomics .......

These Brothers were right on point when the recorded this!!!!!! Wonderful cut with a lot of relevance !!!!

took my dad to see the fatback in london for his bday yesterday, he was going completly bonkers. this song was a highlight!

Greg Wilson made this big bak in the day . Amazing how relevant this choon is today 2023 🙄🙄 . 🇬🇧

This brilliant 80s Soul funk track came out in 1983 red released in 1985 by the legendary Soul funk band the Fatback band is this the future I bought this track in 1985 on 12inch Vinyl I paid back then as a import cost me nearly £5 I paid it because I loved the track Even in 2024

Fatback is UNSUNG! They stepped out with lots of unconventional funk..like this..and killed it!

This song PREDICTED this TIME WE IN NOW ,,37 Yrs ago ,and it,s still funky as can be, KEEP FUNK ALIVE IN 2020 .

1984 2024🎉🎉🎉

Wow in my top 50 all time tracks, so timeless, bringng back great memories of early 80's Soul Jazz Funk / Soul Radio stations in London like Horizon, Solar & JFM So sad that the world has not had much progress in the 37 years since this classic was first released

This song fits the times we are in perfectly,scary

THE FATBACK BAND BE JAMMMMMMING THEY ASSSES OFFF !!! THIS IS REAL MUSIC THAT NEVER EVER GETS OLD!!!

Here we are a timeless song as relevant today as it was in 84 - Lyrical genius by one of soul music’s greatest.

This song applies more so now than ever.......' Only a fool would wanna endorse this kind of future ' .

Still have this on 45 from the mid 80's. That deep voice is a guy that used to be dj in my home town of Buffalo New York. Also have "Up against the Wall," by Fatback.🤗

Yall have said it all!! But this has me thinking so deep! Contemplating about the past. I remember I recorded this on a cassette off of the radio way, way back in the day from WJIZ in Albany, GA. Man, where has all the time gone!. Makes me happy and sad at the same time.

the messages are still relevant

Just downloaded the whole album the other day with a few other from them. Keep the funk moving on through out the years.

Such a well crafted track..with a wicked Sax solo..great groooove!!

Still a big favourite track of mine in 2023. Loved it then, and still love it now. We have always be **** on by the establishment, fact, whoever is in power. But don't worry, just look after your own, folks, as best you can, it's the only way, and btw, keep it Funky.👍😉

Still so relevant And still so groovy

Fatback, an underrated band. Some say they were too black for black radio. They understood what was coming.They went from a full live band for years to DMX drum machine and synthesizers. It was a sign of the future. I bought this on CD in my early 20s and didn't really take the lyrics too seriously but now in my early 50's I understand why they were saying this in 1983..... because it's happening now.

a classic of elektro-funk

This is rap not cRap. Sadly, this was the last year that rap like this would sound this good. I miss the days when music would challenge you intellectually in every way. The arrangement; the loud synthesizer making an announcement at the beginning; polyrhythms; the cadence; tempo; the singers...perfection. They use proper English and enunciate well enough to understand the theme of this song. It got substantial airplay in the L.A. area in late Spring/early summer of 1983 but you couldn't listen to the very few radio stations that played it if you lived far from metropolitan L.A. The signal would fade and you couldn't hear any radio station in the L.A. area after the evening. So it was a treat and real joy to be able to listen to funk whenever I could!

Awesome 👌 Classic. Even more relevant... 2023 !!! ❤

When Garry Thomas wrote "Is This The Future?", he was prophecising the cultural events in the world: Honestly, it hits so hard today 40 years later, more than it did in Spring 1983! On the Spring album: 14 Karat!!

May 2nd, 2020 locked down in COVID-19 quarantine. No help no money no more job. Yeah, like the man said...you can cancel the future

Rest in Peace Gerry Bledsoe! The man with the amazing voice

Wow! For some reason this song just popped into my head. I thought it might be hard to find but nope, here it is right at the top!

Back in 1984 , it was so cool !¡!!!! 😂 ...

..the female singer at the end of the song is out of this world.

This song is pure COOL! He blows the hell out of that sax

Great Album 💿 Cover Art 🖼️

Fat back the best, far beyond time

Funk and rap combined which served as a great inspiration for the later Hip Hop scene!

THERE MUSIC IS BADASS EXCELLENCE TIMELESS FOREVER!!!

Entire LP is great.

"All my money's nearly spent...don't have enough to pay the rent...YOU CAN CANCEL THE FUTURE!!!" Dang Skippy!!!!

Ultra rara fatback un des meilleurs créateurs de funk ❤❤magnifique même en 2024

Every word written by Garry Thomas is more evident and powerful than its original release in Spring of 1983-I recall being in High School (9th grade) when it was playing on BMX-Chicago; scaring the Hell out of me!!

Auch eine der besten Funk- Bands der 70-80er Jahre, die Tanzfläche war immer voll!!

Fatback band: I hear that. This came out in 1983, but history has not changed. Make America great? Maybe, but they say it's just a sign of the future.............................

2023 here we come!

Always loved this song. Jerry Bledsoe did his thing.." You can CANCEL the future! ", and money positively NUKED that sax solo!!!

"Is this the future " - we are living this life predicted back in 1983 . Big up to Fatback it all came true ,wish they could predict lottery numbers! !!!!!!

The best stuff out there is this! Keep it funky

Memories ❤❤❤

that intro is so smooth. gonna loop that, cook that and serve it hot.

growing up in a place called moss side Manchester this song reminds me of summer days...

The Dow Jones is on the rebounddddd. Still relevant now

This is the greatest funk band ever thank you.

One of the best funk bands

this is so true a fantastic track from a fantastic lp as was those days so right and well-spoken

Great song from 1983...some 39 years later here in 2022 (the future) How true it was !

This tune will always be with us if greedy people carry on in globe sad

This song is so relevant. I am (fortunate) to hear this song today for the first time. (Unfortunately) I haven’t heard this song in all these years. Thanks for the post.

Timeless classic , straight out of Brooklyn the Fatback Band .

Still have this album on vinyl a master piece !!!!

Ed Jackson on that great alto sax solo.

This music is coming back. I'm 16 and am fucking digging this !!

The message is in the music

Great song! And still relevant to this day! Speaking of modern, rappers take notice, literally every single song on this album has a great drum break on it, but ironically very few have sampled from this album.

Kudos's to that sax player, man can he blow, it gives me goose bumps every time I hear it!!!!

Song made to honor the 1983 William Canady Black Man of the Year Award winner Wayne ‘Convertible Man’ Sutton.

2020 - mind blown

this song is still relevant in 2017

I use to jam to this as a young man preparing for work

Yes it is.

Predicted what we see in the present.

This song is what's happening N.O.W. No more steaks just peanut butter & candy bars this came out in 1983 just L.I.S.T.E.N. and you'll see this it applies to N.O.W.!!!

People felt like this early eighties how they feeling now........

The future is now

My sister used to have the 45 rpm single (edit) of Is This The Future?-from the Spring album: 14 Karat!

Why the fuck does no one talk about this song more??? this is amazing

Blast from da past.......dey Always kicked azz. In da early 80'd

Alway's 💕'd this Album, and still do from'1983. FATBACK" B.A.F. CLASSIC 2"the Maxx even 38 yrs. Later I have it the whole album on my 📲 phone. Bang'n still I have too say the "BADDEST album of the 80's I was 20yrs. Old when this came out couldn't tell me Shit!!!. FATBACK band the greatest ever.

I remember these great monumental songs like it was just yesterday 👀 they don't know about this joint. Great era 💙

13 ans à l'époque. Une tuerie ce morceau.

80s - must have!

I'm a *Person* from *Type Year*... this song represents what is happening now so much!

old skool!

This song is so true 👍