Nile Rogers said in an interview with Red Bull Music Academy in 2011 that he and Bernard Edwards realized that with Good Times, they had the “perfect hip hop record because the break down took so long to develop that they could have rhymes that could go on forever…” He said for Chic, the song was just the excuse to go to the chorus and the chorus was just the excuse to go to the breakdown.

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