Medicaid Fraud Dogg is the tenth and final studio album by American band Parliament, led by George Clinton. It was released on May 22, 2018, under the record label Clinton founded in 2003, C Kunspyruhzy Records. Guest musicians on the album include Fred Wesley and Pee Wee Ellis, one-time James Brown collaborators. It features guest appearances from Scarface and Mudbone. Medicaid Fraud Dogg was released in Japan by P-Vine records on September 12, 2018.[1][2][3]
The album followed a 38-year dry spell since the release of the band's last studio album, Trombipulation. Most of the 23 tracks on the album were written by Clinton in collaboration with his son, Tracey Lewis.[1][2][3]
Sheldon Pearce of Pitchfork praised the album saying "On the album, Clinton not only traces his band’s impact through the generations of music it influenced but suggests it still has the power to influence people today. At its best, most enthusiastic, and most optimistic, Medicaid Fraud Dogg proposes that funk is the panacea."[4]
Matt Bauer of Exclaim! also claimed "It's been 38 years, but the timing couldn't have been better for a new Parliament album...Medicaid Fraud Dogg sees a revitalized George Clinton and the funk mob targeting pharmaceutical conglomerates, social media and police brutality over its 23 tracks, all while rocking that off-kilter P-Funk magic."[5]
Lars Gotrich of NPR favourably commented "The only antidote for the hell-in-a-handbasket blues is the stankiest of funks, and no one makes it stankier than George Clinton."[6]
