"Escape-ism" is a funk song by American musician James Brown.
It was Brown's first release on his own label, People Records.
It charted #6 R&B and #35 Pop as a two-part single in 1971.
[1] Both parts also appeared on the album Hot Pants in 1971, with the previously unreleased nineteen-minute unedited take of the track appearing on the album's 1992 CD re-release.
According to Robert Christgau the song was "supposedly cut to kill time until Bobby Byrd arrived" at the studio.