Listen to Kamasi Washington and George Clinton team up for the strutting ‘Get Lit’

Kamasi Washington has enlisted funk icon George Clinton and rapper D Smoke for a new track, ‘Get Lit’.

The suave new track is taken from his forthcoming album ‘Fearless Movement’, which will land on Friday (May 3).

It follows previous singles ‘Prologue’, ‘Dream State’ (featuring André 3000) and ‘The Garden Path’, which Washington performed for the first time ever in 2022 while making his late-night television debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Check out ‘Get Lit’ below:

Speaking about his forthcoming seventh album in a press release, Washington has referred to ‘Fearless Movement’ as his dance album. “It’s not literal. Dance is movement and expression, and in a way it’s the same thing as music—expressing your spirit through your body. That’s what this album is pushing,” he said.

The album also focuses on the everyday, an exploration of life on earth which was inspired by the birth of the musician’s first child a few years ago.

“Being a father means the horizon of your life all of a sudden shows up,” he added. “My mortality became more apparent to me, but also my immortality—realizing that my daughter is going to live on and see things that I’m never going to see. I had to become comfortable with this, and that affected the music that I was making.”

Washington will also be embarking on a US tour in support of his album. The run of dates will kick off on May 4 at New York’s Beacon Theatre with further dates including Chicago, Houston, San Francisco and the Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival, which he will co-curate with Herbie Hancock for the second year in a row, on June 16. Check out a full list of tour dates below and visit here for tickets.

Kamasi Washington 2024 US tour dates are: 

MAY
4—New York, NY—Beacon Theatre
5—Philadelphia, PA—Union Transfer
7—Toronto, QC—History
8—Cincinnati, OH—Ludlow Garage
9—Detroit, MI—St. Andrews Hall
10—Chicago, IL—Thalia Hall
11—St Paul, MN—Fitzgerald Theater
12—Omaha, NB—Slowdown
14—Houston, TX—House of Blues Houston
15—Dallas, TX—House of Blues Dallas
16—San Antonio, TX—Empire Theater
17—Austin, TX—Empire Garage
30—Vancouver, BC—The Vogue Theater
31—Seattle, WA—The Showbox

JUNE
1—Eugene, OR—McDonald Theatre
2—Portland, OR—Crystal Ballroom
5—Sacramento, CA—Crest Theatre
6—Monterey, CA—Golden State Theatre
7—San Francisco, CA—Warfield
8—Santa Cruz, CA—The Catalyst
9—Solana Beach, CA—Belly Up
11—Mesa, AZ—Mesa Arts Center
16—Los Angeles, CA—Hollywood Bowl Jazz Fest

JULY
31—Alexandria, VA—The Birchmere

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