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Hustle!!! (Dead on It)

single by James Brown

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ16996187 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Hustle!!! (Dead on It)" is a song written and recorded by James Brown. Released as a single in 1975, the song charted #11 R&B. "Hustle" was the lead track on his album Everybody's Doin' the Hustle & Dead on the Double Bump. The song's title refers to the popular dance the Hustle.

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“Hustle!!! (Dead on It)” enters the record as single by James Brown. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hustle, Dead and single can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hustle, Dead and single.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16996187. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hustle!!! (Dead on It)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.