Bandleader George Clinton conceived this track from a comment when he was shooting film for an unfinished Parliament/Funkadelic movie outside the United Nations headquarters. The scene in question was the landing of P-Funk's signature prop, the Mothership, accompanied by a UN staffer raising the flags of the member nations. One of Clinton's friends described what he was looking at as "one nation under a groove." Bass guitarist Bootsy Collins recalled to Uncut: "One night in D.C. some guys start shouting, 'One nation! One nation! One Nation Under a Groove!' When you've got fresh musicians around you, you can take that hook line and really make something. George's thing was, 'It don't matter how many hooks you put in. Don't matter! Put them all in there.' So, on that song, you've got 'One Nation Under a Groove... Feet don't fail me now,' all that."
The title is one of many mantras embraced by P-Funk, whose shows bring together a mix of races that come together over the music. "One Nation Under A Groove" represents the positive vide that comes from this connection.
George Clinton had the title in mind two years before the band recorded the song. He didn't have any lyrics - he came up with those in the studio.
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