BLACK MUSIC MONTH: READY OR NOT, HERE WE COME

With Black Music Month (and our sprawling special issue celebrating same) on the way, we're delighted to share this snapshot of P-Funk founder and all-around legend George Clinton with visionary, hitmaking producer Dallas Austin. Shortly after this pic was snapped, Dallas resumed remixing a track that went straight to #1, and George entered a fourth-dimensional time-space vortex.