Funny Vibe (song)

"Funny Vibe" is a single released by Living Colour from their 1988 debut album Vivid.^[4][5][6] It features Chuck D and Flavor Flav from Public Enemy.

"Funny Vibe"
Single by Living Colour
from the album Vivid
Released	1988
Recorded	1987–1988
Genre	Funk[1] hip hop[2] rap metal[3]
Label	Epic
Songwriter(s)	Vernon Reid
Living Colour singles chronology
"Open Letter (To a Landlord)" (1988) "Funny Vibe" (1988) "Funny Vibe (remix)" (1989)

Rolling Stone magazine wrote about the song in a 1990 Living Colour interview, saying "The words – "No I'm not gonna hurt you/No I'm not gonna harm you/And I try not to hate you/So why you want to give me that/Funny Vibe!" – spelled out with machine-gun eloquence Reid's rage and frustration in communicating his vision to a rigid, unapologetic music industry rife with racial stereotyping and de facto discrimination."^[6]