DETROIT, MI  [Tuesday Mar.23.2004]  /WMQT.com/ -- *Outkast performs on George Clinton Television Show and Album.

Yes, the legendary funk superstar is planning a compilation album that features not only Outkast, but Busta Rhymes, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Scarface, Too Short, JT Money, Jamal, Tommy Lee, Anthony Kiedis, Flea, P-Funk bassist Bootsy Collins, keyboardist Bernie Worrell, guitarist Michael Hampton, and Prince. The album is titled "H.L.D.Y.H.T.B.B.Y.A. (How Late Do You Have to Be Before You're Absent)," and is scheduled for release on Clinton's C-Conspiracy label in October.

Clinton and the P-Funk Allstars haven't released an album for almost 10 years due to legal conplications with their former label, Mammoth, so Clinton's pulling out all the stops with "Absent." Clinton says his favorite collaboration on a song was with Prince for the track "Brother, Can You Pare a Dime?"

"We really connected on that one," he said. "It was the funkiest thing I ever heard him play. He took the stuff I had 'P'd on, and then he 'P'd on it, and it was spectacular."

The two-hour television special will be filmed on October 30th and 31st in Los Angeles, and will feature a cast that's as amazing as the album's. Outkast, Prince, Lenny Kravitz, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Macy Gray, Snoop Dogg and Raphael Saadiq have all agreed to join Clinton in classic Parliament/ Funkadelic songs, and Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys, Smokey Robinson, and Rolling Stones guitarists Ron Wood and Keith Richards are all tentatively attached. No air date has been announced.

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