m Musician George Clinton accepted an honorary doctorate degree from the college named for his great-great- grandfather, Bishop Isom Caleb Clinton. "Today in Rock Hill, South Carolina," Clinton College president Lester McCorn said during Friday s commencement ceremony, "Dr. Funkenstein officially becomes Dr. Clinton." Clinton, 82, began his music career six decades ago. He influenced generations with a new genre of soul and R&B while popularizing Afrofuturism and synthesizing new sounds, McCorn said. A long reel of popular songs include the "unofficial anthem of the culture," he said, "One Nation Under a Groove." "Your music became the summons to the dance floor for every event that allowed Black folk to be free to express themselves," McCorn said. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted Clinton s Parliament-Funkadelic in 1997. The Hall of Fame describes Parliament-Funkadelic online as the "mind-blowing, soul-expanding musica