Features : Former Fort Worth teacher releases genre-bending EP as OG ACID FUNK

Terence T. Brown has been involved in the Fort Worth, Texas music scene for more than two decades. Until recently, however, his day job was teaching audiovisual and multimedia production at a high school.

But the global pandemic gave Brown some time to think – and shined a spotlight on all the things in life he was just settling for. So he called it quits last year, rented an office and devoted his life to his true passions: making music and movies.

He recorded a horror-themed album during COVID lockdown called Slasher Flick and released it last year under the stage name PRIEST. Now the genre-bending Brown has followed that project up with the five-song EP (aka) OG ACID FUNK – which is also his new name.

“There were too many other artists using the name PRIEST and I wanted out of it,” he says. “A buddy of mine listened to my music and said man, it sounds like acid jazz, you should call it acid funk. I’m 51 and I’ve got some younger friends who always refer to me as OG. It’s definitely original.”

OG ACID FUNK’s sound changes from song to song, not just project to project. He’s been influenced by artists like George Clinton, Rob Zombie, Fantastic Negrito, Godsleep and Fishbone and used to run an underground label that focused on hip hop.

“I used to have a band back in the day and they didn’t know where to put us on the shelves,” he says. “We called it funk soul. That’s a little bit of rock, funk, R&B. I’m still the same way, everything that I hear and like I mash it all together.”

He loves Rob Zombie because he’s a “straight up rocker” who makes some “dope ass horror films” – Brown’s other love. He calls himself a child of funk, the first genre that got him into music.

“A lot of friends say it sounds like Prince,” he says. “What they don’t understand is there’s a whole genre of music Prince is representing. Parliament Funkadelic, all these old school funk players and that’s where that Prince sound I kind of rest on top of comes from. I do dig deep into my funk roots and I also love rapping so there’s some of that in there. I grew up in the hip hop culture.”

OG ACID FUNK sums it up in the third track from the EP, “Who Am I,” where he sings: “My flow is so Vincent Price/I’m the lyrical Steven King/I keep George Clinton in a hot sauce bottle/I swear, put that there on everything.”

He’s getting ready to produce a music video for “Faces,” the EP’s opening track which still leaves Brown breathless when he listens to it. He follows that up with the bass-heavy “The Harlot” and then “Who Am I,” which tells you everything you need to know without boring you.

“I’m really talking about who I am,” he says.

“I’m all about Fort Worth and bettering this place, just making it a better place for everybody,” he says. “I really just want to be free to do me and in the process of doing me, bless everybody I come in contact with.”

Make sure to stay connected to OG ACID FUNK on all platforms for new music, videos and social posts.

Websites:
Ogacidfunk
Slashersyndrome
Spotify
YouTube  
Apple Music

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