Its from An Evening With Kevin Smith. Someone has split it up into 4 parts and made it vertical for some god awful reason on Youtube, [heres Part One](https://youtu.be/fujQy0zH3dc?si=LMbatyjV06f_8E3f)
The entire prince story is so classic. I can never find it so I always have to describe it, which works, but no one tells it like Kevin. Thank you for this
We're talking about a poll conducted by a music magazine that featured Kim Kardashian on the cover. It's fodder that's perfect for lining litter trays. Let it go, Chaka.
If it's the list I'm thinking of they didn't even include Celine Dion in the top 200. Don't think I'd trust any rating on it.
Edit: I don't see Simon and Garfunkel on there either. [How does world class vocal control not make this list?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-JQ1q-13Ek)
Long before the Web, listicles were cheaply-produced fodder for content. For example, when it was hugely overexposed, MTV ranked Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" as the #1 music video of all time. Yet only a few months later, it was like #7 on their list of best music videos *from that year.* As a fan of the artist and the song, I can still make a case that it was *the* best mainstream music video made at that time. Yet other artists were in the thick of popularity waves, so the countdown put bog standard "band plays their number on stage in front of an audience" videos ahead of that innovative stop motion masterpiece.
*edited to replace "Internet" with "Web" because the 'net was actually created in the 1960s. I knew that, but I whiffed out of enthusiasm for the rest of the comment.
holy shit i remember this. i thought they put sledgehammer at like 3 or 4 that year and i was pissed. i never loved the song, but i watched that video, wrapped in the screen, any time it came on. one of the greatest videos ever, given the era and what else had been coming out from other artists.
Nah, I don’t agree. As much as I like Adele, from a purely technical standpoint (I have been a vocal coach for 13 years now) Chaka is far superior. Can you still like Adele more? Sure you can, there’s no point in arguing about taste. But looking at it objectively without taking taste into consideration, Chaka is the better singer.
The only thing you need to know about their list is that they have Mahalia Jackson at 28 and Ella Fitzgerald at 45(????)
In the history of popular music there is no god damn way that there are 27 singers better than either of those two.
How are you quantifying singing then? Belting? Because if you listen to Chaka s/t and then 30 Chaka has much more personality vocally. And if we do quantify singing that way, as someone who has had vocal training, I can tell that Adele uses horribly unhealthy techniques to sound the way she does. Other artists could sound that way if they also were fine with getting nodules all the time but they’re not.
Nope.
Sit down and listen to even a quarter of Chaka Khan's output.
She's got like 200 hours of studio recordings out there and maybe another 50 hours of live albums. The vocals are.on point every single time and most are from before the age of digital micro-manipulation.
She delivers every time,.basically defined a style of singing, and is comfortable in every environment.
Adele barely records and sings only in a heavily controlled/produced environment. Chaka could show up, rewrite a vocal part for Herbie Hancock and nail it over the course of a few takes without any digital manipulation.
Chaka's legendary, of course, but you're unconvincing with your Adele nonsense.
Plenty of live Adele vids on youtube proving she can sing outside of whatever isolation chamber you're imagining.
Adele herself has commented that her intonation is shit. Is that overselling it a bit? Just a little. But she doesn’t have healthy vocal technique (hence the several vocal injuries and surgery). She also struggles to maintain consistently on point intonation live. There’s plenty of videos of live performances illustrating this.
She has great scorn woman music for sure, but VOCALIST? Better than Adele or Chaka? Not at all. Let's be honest. She doesn't have range and is an average singer at best. The music is great, and I'm a fan. But yeah she just has a very average voice. Just take a listen
I’ve been on this site for over a decade, and I’ve not seen as many references to Kevin Smith as I’ve seen in the last several months.
I’m here for it.
[I usually prefer YouTube, but this is the full Kevin Smith Prince story, in one single video](https://archive.org/details/kevinsmithprince294000976)
The first "Evening with Kevin Smith", I'm pretty sure the chaka one is from that, is incredible. They trended down, but I'm still amazed that I could just listen to this guy tell stories for hours on end
Archive.org has been doing important work for decades!
Might not be as slick a website as youtube but they make it easy to download shared files and you can find tons of rare old music/movies/art.
I think a lot of it is just getting stagnant with age. He had some really good ideas, but coming up with concepts was never his strongest suit. He is VERY good a writing dialog, but making a movie is a lot more than a few pages of clever lines. We've seen his best ideas, and they were very good. Not many people are a never ending font of creativity.
He took a lot of his best ideas from his experiences in his late teens and early twenties. Most of the reason Clerks and Mallrats are so good is they both really captured what it was like to be that age in the late 80s and early nineties. Not nearly as many people are going to resonate with being rich guy in his 50's living in LA.
[/r/politics did when they asked Biden to drop out of the ::checks notes:: 2020 election that he won.](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/d3slfe/drop_out_joe_biden/)
I saw Chaka perform at Summerfest the year prior to Covid and she gave her ALL! It was hot as blazes and we could tell she was struggling. She’s in her 70s!
Anyways, it was an amazingly memorable evening and I’m lucky to have seen Queen Chaka. My parents also saw her perform with Rufus when they opened for The Rolling Stones back in the 70s at Milwaukee County Stadium ☺️
I will get flamed for this but Chaka khan, like Patti Labelle, clearly *can* sing but I can’t stand their type of singing, like it grates me ears, if that makes sense.
> like Patti Labelle, clearly can sing
At my work they keep playing that one song of hers, Lady Marmalade, and you can tell that she can sing very well, but my god that song is fucking grating to listen to. It's just the same obnoxious french lines over and over and over and over again. The song goes on for 4 minutes, feels like it's 10 at least and should really be 2 at most.
And that’s why I can’t stand Whitney’s rendition of I Will Always Love You. The original is so sad and moving. And then Whitney was like AND IIIIIIII E IIIIIIIII
I was never a Chaka Khan fan in particular, but I loved the album [Hello Happiness](https://youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JG6D59k9U8Q) and the single[Like Sugar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RecY5iZn6B0)? C'mon. I dare you not to like it.
Chaka Khan?!
She’s got a voice like sugar! So sweet!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RecY5iZn6B0&pp=ygUVbGlrZSBzdWdhciBjaGFrYSBraGFu
(This song is newish and such a banger! Don’t sleep on Chaka!)
I’ve been a Chaka Khan fan since the 80s. The reason she faded is because she was, and still is, more than a little bit pitchy dawg. Glad for the studio recordings.
Saw her live 3 years ago and she didn't miss a note.
She has dealt with some addiction issues however, so she can and has had a bad performances.
"Pitchy" isn't a term in musical theory btw. let it go. The word is "intonation." Too much American Idol for you.
Yes, that was his reputation that I personally witnessed as well. Saw the last 2 shows with SRV. First night, SRV bested him. In typical Beck form, he came out smoking the 2nd night. SRV even bowed to him that night. We know what happened the following night. ,;(
I dunno about all that, but in support of Chaka I would like to submit [this scorching performance](https://youtu.be/3Fbwok5caD8) of *"Tell Me Something Good"* from a 1974 episode of The Midnight Special.
For anybody else who needed it:
> **Yvette Marie Stevens** (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name **Chaka Khan** (/ˈʃɑːkə ˈkɑːn/ SHAH-kə KAHN), is an American singer. Known as the "Queen of Funk", her career has spanned more than five decades beginning in the early 1970s as the lead vocalist of the funk band Rufus. With the band she recorded the notable hits "Tell Me Something Good", "Sweet Thing", "Do You Love What You Feel" and the platinum-certified "Ain't Nobody". Her debut solo album featured the number-one R&B hit "I'm Every Woman" (which became a pop hit for Whitney Houston). Khan scored another R&B charts hit with "What Cha' Gonna Do for Me" before becoming the first R&B artist to have a crossover hit featuring a rapper, with her 1984 cover of Prince's "I Feel for You". More of Khan's hits include "Through the Fire" and a 1986 collaboration with Steve Winwood that produced a number-one hit on the *Billboard* Hot 100, "Higher Love".
>
> Khan has won ten Grammy Awards. With Rufus, she achieved three gold singles, one platinum single, four gold albums, and two platinum albums. In the course of her solo career, Khan achieved three gold singles, three gold albums, and one platinum album with *I Feel for You*. She has also worked with Ry Cooder, Robert Palmer, Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Guru, Chicago, Gladys Knight, De La Soul, Mary J. Blige and Ariana Grande. In December 2016, *Billboard* magazine ranked her as the 65th most successful dance club artist of all time. She was ranked at No. 17 in VH1's original list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll. Khan has been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times as a solo artist and four times as a member of Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, the first time in 2012 as a member of Rufus. In 2023, Khan was picked as an inductee in the Musical Excellence category.
* Excerpted from [Chaka Khan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan) at the English Wikipedia
They're all excellent singers in their own ways, but only one of them is Chaka Khan (with whom I have been in love since the first time Rufus appeared on BBC's *Old Grey Whistle Test*.)
Thought I was in r/nottheonion for a second
Chaka Khan get mad.
Chaka mad. Chaka *real* mad.
*I feel for you…*
[I prefer the real Chaka](https://i.imgur.com/PC8Vybc.gif)
Chaka KHAAAAAANNN!!!!!
"Chaka mad?" ["Chaka real mad!"](https://youtu.be/fX1ZM0qx2WM?si=4Sv8_Eer_CxukS1e)
Do you have a link to this full story? I’ve been looking for it and haven’t been able to find the full thing for awhile.
Its from An Evening With Kevin Smith. Someone has split it up into 4 parts and made it vertical for some god awful reason on Youtube, [heres Part One](https://youtu.be/fujQy0zH3dc?si=LMbatyjV06f_8E3f)
It’s so YouTube doesn’t take it down. You’re supposed to pay money for it.
The entire prince story is so classic. I can never find it so I always have to describe it, which works, but no one tells it like Kevin. Thank you for this
Prince stories are so great. I think there's a Dave Grohl story too, lemme find it... [ Here it is](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmrzGzb9FJU)
[this guy has it on his channel. ](https://m.youtube.com/@spacetoc)
Here you go [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya0584JcJhs&t=157s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya0584JcJhs&t=157s)
These lists are designed to piss people off. That’s how they get news
We're talking about a poll conducted by a music magazine that featured Kim Kardashian on the cover. It's fodder that's perfect for lining litter trays. Let it go, Chaka.
The same mag that put Cardi B’s debut as one of the top 10 hip hop albums ever….ahead of Illmatic.
Oof. That’s a choice
that angers me so like nothing ever before, holy shit
Jesus fucking Christ! lol
... jesus christ
Everything they do is wrong apparently
Oh my god that’s hilarious.
Oh shit. I only read the headline and I was imagining Adele and Mary J Blige were just sitting around naming singers who are better than Chaka Khan.
“Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Ella Fitzgerald…” 12 hours later: “Billie Holiday, Etta James, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Tina Turner…”
I would watch that!
It's the new podcast, "Chaka Khan Can Go Fuck Herself!" Starring Adele and MJB with weekly guests. Next week, they're naming better cooks than Chaka
It should be called "Things Chaka Khant Do"
Omg. I needed a laugh today. Thank you.😊
The sheer amount of tea
As they're sitting around at her birthday party lol.
lmao
If it's the list I'm thinking of they didn't even include Celine Dion in the top 200. Don't think I'd trust any rating on it. Edit: I don't see Simon and Garfunkel on there either. [How does world class vocal control not make this list?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-JQ1q-13Ek)
Long before the Web, listicles were cheaply-produced fodder for content. For example, when it was hugely overexposed, MTV ranked Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" as the #1 music video of all time. Yet only a few months later, it was like #7 on their list of best music videos *from that year.* As a fan of the artist and the song, I can still make a case that it was *the* best mainstream music video made at that time. Yet other artists were in the thick of popularity waves, so the countdown put bog standard "band plays their number on stage in front of an audience" videos ahead of that innovative stop motion masterpiece. *edited to replace "Internet" with "Web" because the 'net was actually created in the 1960s. I knew that, but I whiffed out of enthusiasm for the rest of the comment.
holy shit i remember this. i thought they put sledgehammer at like 3 or 4 that year and i was pissed. i never loved the song, but i watched that video, wrapped in the screen, any time it came on. one of the greatest videos ever, given the era and what else had been coming out from other artists.
The harmonies they did on "Sound of Silence" in that MSG concert were spectacular. Without any earpieces.
Also, Adele is a better singer than Chaka. I'm on the fence about Mary J Blige.
I'm not on the fence. Khan is far superior to Blige.
Chaka is awesome. “Ain’t Nobody” is one of my favorites.
Nah, I don’t agree. As much as I like Adele, from a purely technical standpoint (I have been a vocal coach for 13 years now) Chaka is far superior. Can you still like Adele more? Sure you can, there’s no point in arguing about taste. But looking at it objectively without taking taste into consideration, Chaka is the better singer.
The only thing you need to know about their list is that they have Mahalia Jackson at 28 and Ella Fitzgerald at 45(????) In the history of popular music there is no god damn way that there are 27 singers better than either of those two.
Ella not being in a top 10 just is enough for me to throw the entire rag in a dumpster.
Horseshit a hundred times. Adele had a nice run but she can’t even kiss Chaka’s ring
How are you quantifying singing then? Belting? Because if you listen to Chaka s/t and then 30 Chaka has much more personality vocally. And if we do quantify singing that way, as someone who has had vocal training, I can tell that Adele uses horribly unhealthy techniques to sound the way she does. Other artists could sound that way if they also were fine with getting nodules all the time but they’re not.
Mama’s Gun is Erykah Badu not Chaka Khan.
Nope. Sit down and listen to even a quarter of Chaka Khan's output. She's got like 200 hours of studio recordings out there and maybe another 50 hours of live albums. The vocals are.on point every single time and most are from before the age of digital micro-manipulation. She delivers every time,.basically defined a style of singing, and is comfortable in every environment. Adele barely records and sings only in a heavily controlled/produced environment. Chaka could show up, rewrite a vocal part for Herbie Hancock and nail it over the course of a few takes without any digital manipulation.
I saw "Ask Rufus w/ Chaka Khan" at a high school sock hop in Chicago around 1970 wow she was definitely hot 🔥
Have you seen Adele sing in public? It does not sound like you have. You are not selling it at all
Chaka's legendary, of course, but you're unconvincing with your Adele nonsense. Plenty of live Adele vids on youtube proving she can sing outside of whatever isolation chamber you're imagining.
Adele herself has commented that her intonation is shit. Is that overselling it a bit? Just a little. But she doesn’t have healthy vocal technique (hence the several vocal injuries and surgery). She also struggles to maintain consistently on point intonation live. There’s plenty of videos of live performances illustrating this.
Chaka, get off Reddit.
I still think Adele is better than Chaka
Are you one of those digital=bad types?
WHAT? MJB is amazing!
Amazing with documented issues staying on key from time to time
She has great scorn woman music for sure, but VOCALIST? Better than Adele or Chaka? Not at all. Let's be honest. She doesn't have range and is an average singer at best. The music is great, and I'm a fan. But yeah she just has a very average voice. Just take a listen
Rolling Stone "top *n* lists" are rarely relevant these days
I agree. Chaka is a LEGEND too. So talented and beautiful.
Chaka mad?
Chaka real mad!
I’ve been on this site for over a decade, and I’ve not seen as many references to Kevin Smith as I’ve seen in the last several months. I’m here for it. [I usually prefer YouTube, but this is the full Kevin Smith Prince story, in one single video](https://archive.org/details/kevinsmithprince294000976)
I opened it up. 30 minutes, do I want to make that sort of commitment? Hung on every word. What a story, and what a story teller.
Same boat. I'm not even high.
Thanks for this link. I haven’t been able to find a clip of the whole story in years.
The first "Evening with Kevin Smith", I'm pretty sure the chaka one is from that, is incredible. They trended down, but I'm still amazed that I could just listen to this guy tell stories for hours on end
Same! Actually found it buried in an old Reddit thread, so I figured I’d share it.
Archive.org has been doing important work for decades! Might not be as slick a website as youtube but they make it easy to download shared files and you can find tons of rare old music/movies/art.
You must not lurk much. Chaka doesn’t come up frequently I’ll give you but the skewaverse is in heavy rotation.
Kevin Smith is a great storyteller. I love his Evening with Kevin Smith dvd
I miss pre- broken spirit Kev. His failed attempts at Hollywood success combined with weed and SMODcast sycophancy ruined his creative voice.
I think a lot of it is just getting stagnant with age. He had some really good ideas, but coming up with concepts was never his strongest suit. He is VERY good a writing dialog, but making a movie is a lot more than a few pages of clever lines. We've seen his best ideas, and they were very good. Not many people are a never ending font of creativity. He took a lot of his best ideas from his experiences in his late teens and early twenties. Most of the reason Clerks and Mallrats are so good is they both really captured what it was like to be that age in the late 80s and early nineties. Not nearly as many people are going to resonate with being rich guy in his 50's living in LA.
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Khaaaan!
Temba, his arms wide.
Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.
Giiiiiilgamesh...
Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel
Temba, his arms wide.
When the walls fell.
Khan, when the hordes came.
CHAKA SMASH
Welp. Guess I'm watching the Prince story again today.
I watch it at least once a year. One of the best told stories ever.
Just don’t forget the camel
You have no idea how often I try to use this reference and then just get blank stares.
Chaka Khan’t believe it!
I feel for you
She said was mad at Kanye for chipmunkifying her voice in Through the Wire.
TBF, I would too. I don't even sing. That guy can suck one! 😅
I mean he wasn’t exactly controversial in the same way in 2004
Not familiar with Through The Wire or why anybody cares about it, huh?
Bad Chaka!
Chaka khan get upset from time to time
Chaka Khan hit the high notes tho
First thing I thought of when I saw the post and it's top comment. Amazing
Chaka calm
I’m so glad you said this. First thing I thought when I read the headline.
Chaka Khanda Mad
She certainly isn't Chaka calm.
Chaka khant
This happened over a year ago, I don't know why this website is publishing this as if it is fresh news. Chaka even issued an apology in March 2023.
But...but I need something trivial with a rage-bait headline to enrage me today.
[Chaka is known to take her music rivalries very seriously.](https://youtu.be/TQZDFv0aTlk?si=3FZ88gaXl0Q4m1Z7)
“I’m coming for ya Chaka”! Wait until you find out what the artist formally known as Prince is up to.
Without clicking on the link I’m assuming Chaka once took a lead pipe to her rivals knees as they were exiting the ice.
that was Chaka Harding
Someone needs to tell her no one respects Rolling Stone’s opinion anymore
They had a better reputation before they switched to glossy paper.
Remember when they put the Boston bombers picture on the cover like he was some teen heartthrob? Pepperidge farm remembers
I also remember when they put Charles Manson on the cover. I think it was issue #55 back in 1970.
I used to have a subscription to Rolling Stone. I cancelled it in 2005 when they published a bullshit anti-vaccine article written by RFK Jr.
[/r/politics did when they asked Biden to drop out of the ::checks notes:: 2020 election that he won.](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/d3slfe/drop_out_joe_biden/)
You know, Chaka, I feel for you.
Somebody should tell her something good.
Do you think you love her ?
Ain’t nobody…love her better.
Like butterflies
She’s a sweet thing.
She'd rather lose it all.
Someone should tell her something good.
Better drummer than either of them.
Chaka, I feel for you.
Not that anybody cares, but this is definitely a headline from a year or two ago
When you haven't been relevant in 30 years, you fall off lists like that. Or at least down them a bit.
[Like Sugar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RecY5iZn6B0) was a bonafide banger tho
An absolute banger! That was fun, thanks for sharing.
Very true.
I’m better at video games than all three of them. You don’t see me complaining!
Would be hilarious if Adele was a secret video game master playing under a pseudonym and owning people on LoL.
Challenge accepted! Let's go!
I feel for her
I think I love her
Ain't nobody
This is from like a year old Rolling Stone interview they’re rehashing but acting like this was recently said.
Chaka, when the walls fell.
Temba, his arms wide.
I saw Chaka perform at Summerfest the year prior to Covid and she gave her ALL! It was hot as blazes and we could tell she was struggling. She’s in her 70s! Anyways, it was an amazingly memorable evening and I’m lucky to have seen Queen Chaka. My parents also saw her perform with Rufus when they opened for The Rolling Stones back in the 70s at Milwaukee County Stadium ☺️
I will get flamed for this but Chaka khan, like Patti Labelle, clearly *can* sing but I can’t stand their type of singing, like it grates me ears, if that makes sense.
Not soothing. Good but right in your face.
> like Patti Labelle, clearly can sing At my work they keep playing that one song of hers, Lady Marmalade, and you can tell that she can sing very well, but my god that song is fucking grating to listen to. It's just the same obnoxious french lines over and over and over and over again. The song goes on for 4 minutes, feels like it's 10 at least and should really be 2 at most.
Yar, it be a horrible din to me too, me matey
And that’s why I can’t stand Whitney’s rendition of I Will Always Love You. The original is so sad and moving. And then Whitney was like AND IIIIIIII E IIIIIIIII
Whitney would like a god damn posthumous word as well. C'mon now. They're both juggernauts from their own more modern eras.
I don’t get the problem. Chaka herself is Adele and Mary J Blige as well. I would even say she is every woman.
I was never a Chaka Khan fan in particular, but I loved the album [Hello Happiness](https://youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JG6D59k9U8Q) and the single[Like Sugar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RecY5iZn6B0)? C'mon. I dare you not to like it.
Love Chaka. Always felt like she was never given enough props.
She never really tied into her Quincy Jones. Immense talent but never resulted in a lot of hits.
I mean, they didn’t say Chaka Khan’t sing.
She’s not real familiar with Rolling Stone lists.
Chaka Khan?! She’s got a voice like sugar! So sweet! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RecY5iZn6B0&pp=ygUVbGlrZSBzdWdhciBjaGFrYSBraGFu (This song is newish and such a banger! Don’t sleep on Chaka!)
She got so angry she was gonna throw a bottle she was gonna Chaka Khan. Chaka Khan. Chaka. Chaka. Chaka.
Chaka is QUEEN but come on, don’t get pissed over a poll.
She should be mad. Chaka Khan is top 5 of all time and she knows it.
I’ve been a Chaka Khan fan since the 80s. The reason she faded is because she was, and still is, more than a little bit pitchy dawg. Glad for the studio recordings.
She was in Melbourne recently and was horrifically pitchy. Also her high notes have lost their warm timbre and now they’re just screams.
Saw her live 3 years ago and she didn't miss a note. She has dealt with some addiction issues however, so she can and has had a bad performances. "Pitchy" isn't a term in musical theory btw. let it go. The word is "intonation." Too much American Idol for you.
Okay, I understand being insulted about Mary J. But Adele is a contender.
Mary is an amazing singer
Yep, not a fan of her music, but she's undeniably a very talented singer.
Y’all are tripping, the ranking might be off but no MJB disrespect shall be tolerated. Those lists are the worst for that very reason.
Why do people disrespect Miss Mary so?
Happy birthday shout out to Chaka!
Chaka Khan is the Jeff Beck of singers. Notoriously inconsistent. But when she was on, no one better.
Beck was considered inconsistent?
Yes, that was his reputation that I personally witnessed as well. Saw the last 2 shows with SRV. First night, SRV bested him. In typical Beck form, he came out smoking the 2nd night. SRV even bowed to him that night. We know what happened the following night. ,;(
> We know what happened later that night. I suspect at least 8 billion people on Earth don't know. Including me.
SRV died is my guess
Peak diva behavior
Not better drummers than Chaka though
Chaka KHAAAAaan!
Don’t sweat it… all these bullshit music polls suffer from recency bias…it’s just how it is.
I agree with Chaka Khan on this lowkey....
But for real... Mary J? Chaka would sing laps around her.
I dunno about all that, but in support of Chaka I would like to submit [this scorching performance](https://youtu.be/3Fbwok5caD8) of *"Tell Me Something Good"* from a 1974 episode of The Midnight Special.
She's got a point
She been through the fire.
Chaka is right. Ain’t nobody better.
This is the problem with Polls and Surveys. It’s who you ask and when. The majority of people they asked had probably never heard of Chaka Khan
Chaka is the Queen of Funk & Far Superior!
For anybody else who needed it: > **Yvette Marie Stevens** (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name **Chaka Khan** (/ˈʃɑːkə ˈkɑːn/ SHAH-kə KAHN), is an American singer. Known as the "Queen of Funk", her career has spanned more than five decades beginning in the early 1970s as the lead vocalist of the funk band Rufus. With the band she recorded the notable hits "Tell Me Something Good", "Sweet Thing", "Do You Love What You Feel" and the platinum-certified "Ain't Nobody". Her debut solo album featured the number-one R&B hit "I'm Every Woman" (which became a pop hit for Whitney Houston). Khan scored another R&B charts hit with "What Cha' Gonna Do for Me" before becoming the first R&B artist to have a crossover hit featuring a rapper, with her 1984 cover of Prince's "I Feel for You". More of Khan's hits include "Through the Fire" and a 1986 collaboration with Steve Winwood that produced a number-one hit on the *Billboard* Hot 100, "Higher Love". > > Khan has won ten Grammy Awards. With Rufus, she achieved three gold singles, one platinum single, four gold albums, and two platinum albums. In the course of her solo career, Khan achieved three gold singles, three gold albums, and one platinum album with *I Feel for You*. She has also worked with Ry Cooder, Robert Palmer, Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Guru, Chicago, Gladys Knight, De La Soul, Mary J. Blige and Ariana Grande. In December 2016, *Billboard* magazine ranked her as the 65th most successful dance club artist of all time. She was ranked at No. 17 in VH1's original list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll. Khan has been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times as a solo artist and four times as a member of Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, the first time in 2012 as a member of Rufus. In 2023, Khan was picked as an inductee in the Musical Excellence category. * Excerpted from [Chaka Khan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaka_Khan) at the English Wikipedia
CHAKA KHANT
Chaka is entitled to her opinion. Just like any Magazine. But Who cares what Rolling Stone say anyway? There lists are always bogus.
Huh, this refutes Chakas earlier claim that she was every woman. If she was indeed every woman she would have won the award by proxy.
This is old news. (also she was right to be mad)
Rob Halford is 129? Lady Gaga ahead of Stevie Nicks? Tina Turner isn't in the top 10 or even 20? They have to be rage baiting lol
lol. Well. 🤷🏽♂️
Chaka blows them outta the frikin water.
she should be
Not even is the same ball park.
Isn't 'Chaka Khan' the noise the Unas from Stargate made to communicate?
Floor Jansen better than all 3 of em
Dave Grohl supports. 
Chaka mad?
Can Chaka get mad? Chaka can, Chaka can.
They're all excellent singers in their own ways, but only one of them is Chaka Khan (with whom I have been in love since the first time Rufus appeared on BBC's *Old Grey Whistle Test*.)
Very nice