Funky Serenity is an album by the pianist Ramsey Lewis, released in 1973 on Columbia Records.

[1] "Dreams" was sampled by A Tribe Called Quest on the song "Electric Relaxation", from their 1993 LP Midnight Marauders.

What's more, Lewis' rendition of Luther Ingram's "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" was sampled by The Fugees on "Fu-Gee-La.

"[3][4] Producer Kanye West also sampled Lewis' cover of The Stylistics' "Betcha by Golly, Wow" for the Mariah Carey song "Stay the Night" on her 2005 LP The Emancipation of Mimi.

[5] Andrew Hamilton of AllMusic called the album "enjoyable and essential".