Editing Mothership Connection (section)

==Concept==
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The album is held together by an outer-space theme.<ref name="AM"/> Describing the concept, George Clinton said "We had put black people in situations nobody ever thought they would be in, like the [[White House]]. I figured another place you wouldn't think black people would be was in outer space. I was a big fan of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek]]'', so we did a thing with a pimp sitting in a spaceship shaped like a [[Cadillac]], and we did all these [[James Brown]]-type grooves, but with street talk and ghetto slang."<ref>{{cite web |last=Niesel |first=Jeff |url=http://www.clevescene.com/Issues/2006-09-13/music/music.html |title=Cleveland - Music - Turn This Mutha Out |publisher=Clevescene.com |date=2013-06-26 |access-date=2013-07-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017051541/http://www.clevescene.com/Issues/2006-09-13/music/music.html |archive-date=2015-10-17 }}</ref> The album's concept would form the backbone of P-Funk's concert performances during the 1970s, in which a large spaceship prop known as [[P-Funk Mothership|the Mothership]] would be lowered onto the stage.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/smithsonian-acquires-parliament-funkadelic-mothership/2011/05/18/AFHMvj6G_story.html |title=Smithsonian acquires Parliament-Funkadelic Mothership |first=Chris |last=Richards |date=May 18, 2011 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=December 14, 2013 |archive-date=December 16, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216214624/http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-05-18/lifestyle/35232787_1_smithsonian-george-clinton-african-american-history |url-status=live }}</ref>

''[[BBC Music]]'' described the album as a pioneering work of [[Afrofuturism]] "set in a future universe where black astronauts interact with alien worlds."<ref name="BBC">{{cite web |last1=McAlpine |first1=Frasier |title=8 afrofuturist classics everyone needs to hear |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/0ebecc1d-d08b-465f-924e-ee037e9231ab |website=[[BBC Music]] |date=2 March 2018 |access-date=8 April 2021}}</ref> Journalist Frasier McAlpine stated: "As a reaction to an increasingly fraught 1970s urban environment in which African-American communities faced the end of the optimism of the [[Civil rights movement|civil rights era]], this flamboyant imagination (and let's be frank, exceptional funkiness) was both righteous and joyful."<ref name="BBC"/>