"The Pride" is a 1977 funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 song by The Isley Brothers

The Isley Brothers

The Isley Brothers are a highly influential, successful and long-running American music group consisting of different line-ups of six brothers, and a brother-in-law, Chris Jasper...

, released on their T-Neck

T-Neck Records

T-Neck Records was a record label founded by The Isley Brothers in 1964.It's notable for having the Isleys becoming the first R&B band to form a record label, a rarity in black music. During the label's early years, the Isleys issued the records "Testify" and "Move Over And Let Me Dance", which...

 imprint. The song, which was the first single released from their album, Go For Your Guns

Go For Your Guns

Go for Your Guns is a 1977 album released by The Isley Brothers on their T-Neck imprint.-Reception:The album yielded three charted R&B singles including their #1 political funk anthem, "The Pride", the Top 40 pop record, "Livin' in the Life" and their Top 50 ballad, "Voyage to Atlantis", which...

, was written as a warning to politicians to be the leader that the people need and to others who want change reminding them that "the pride makes (them) feel that (they) belong". The song was one of several socially conscious political songs the Isleys recorded throughout the 1970s including "Fight the Power Pts. 1 & 2" and "Harvest for the World

Harvest for the World (song)

"Harvest for the World" is a 1976 single released by The Isley Brothers on their T-Neck imprint. It was from their 1976 album Harvest for the World...

". While the song peaked at a dismal number sixty-three on the pop charts, it reached number-one on the R&B singles chart becoming the group's third number one on the chart..

Personnel

• Ronald Isley
  Ronald Isley
  Ronald Isley is an American singer and is known as the lead singer and founding member of the family music group The Isley Brothers.-Career:...
  
  : lead vocals
• Ronald Isley
  Ronald Isley
  Ronald Isley is an American singer and is known as the lead singer and founding member of the family music group The Isley Brothers.-Career:...
  
  , Rudolph Isley
  Rudolph Isley
  Rudolph Bernard Isley , better known as Rudy Isley, is an American singer-songwriter and is one of the founding members of the legendary family group, The Isley Brothers.-Biography:...
  
   and O'Kelly Isley, Jr.
  O'Kelly Isley, Jr.
  O'Kelly Isley, Jr. , better known as Kelly Isley, was an American singer and one of the founding members of the legendary family group, The Isley Brothers.-Biography:...
  
  : background vocals
• Ernie Isley
  Ernie Isley
  Ernest "Ernie" Isley is a member of the iconic American musical ensemble, The Isley Brothers.-Life and career:Ernie was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his older brothers formed The Isley Brothers, first as a gospel group, then as a secular-singing group. In 1960 his family moved to Englewood and...
  
  : guitars and drums
• Marvin Isley
  Marvin Isley
  Marvin Isley was the youngest member of the family music group the Isley Brothers and its bass guitarist....
  
  : bass and percussion
• Chris Jasper
  Chris Jasper
  Chris Jasper is a former member of both the Isley Brothers and Isley-Jasper-Isley. He is also a successful solo artist and record producer, recording a number of his own solo albums, and producing artists, for his New York based record label, Gold City Records...
  
  : piano, keyboards, synthesizers and clavinet