lost his soul

I never saw James Brown live but my old pal Jackie Robinson taught us all how to do the James Brown spin and once I split my jeans trying to do the splits to ‘Poppas Got A Brand New Bag’ at a dance down in the Pointe.
I still cherish my ‘James Brown Live at the Apollo’ album but I lost a big chunk of respect for the ‘Godfather of Soul’ when he came out for George Foreman in the celebrated 1974 ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ boxing match
All the people in the know figured Mohammed Ali was going to lose to Foreman so James Brown went with the smart money and lost his soul
You got to be dumb to be smart