good album but this was the beginning of the demise of sly stone pop icon by now sly was strung out on cocaine and his family stone members was just as strung out as well. anyway sly did'nt record this album with his unit they're on a few cuts I think larry graham was gone or about to leave by then. bobby womack, and i think billy preston didf some stuff on here but the funk is still hittimng but it's dark sly was fighting himself mentally it's like his utopian dreram failed and the only way he could cope was by drugs. family affair, babies having babies are classic but really there's no hot fun in the summertime it's like sly gAVE UP ON HIMSELF AND IT'S LIKE he was getting ready to join hendrix, joplin, and morrison.