If you’re one of the more than 10 million Americans that get the blues in the winter, Klassik’s EP might be just what the doctor…
D’Angelo dropped his anxiously-anticipated third studio album, Black Messiah, to everyone’s surprise on December 15. Since then, long-time D’Angelo fans have been on stand-by, waiting…
Hip-Hop is a genre built on sampling. However, most young fans of the music rarely know that a drum loop on a KRS-One song was…
Snoop Dogg is reinventing himself once again, this time as a funk artist, the hip-hop icon is working on a funk album under the name “Snoopzilla”. Snoop has teamed up with modern funk artist Dam-Funk for a collaborative album 7 Days of Funk, due Dec. 10 on Stones Throw Records. His new name pays homage to long time Funk staple Bootsy Collins, […]
The more things change, the more they stay the same. One person who personifies that saying is funk legend George Clinton. This past weekend, the…
jungle boogie (jungle –oft attrib to Hindi jangal + boogie – prob alter of bogle – goblin, object of fear) a 1974 hit by Kool & the Gang, frequently sampled by hip-hop artists, perhaps the funkiest piece of music ever recorded.
You can now refer to the master of funk Bootsy Collins as professor. The bespectacled bassist will open his virtual doors to the world's first Funk University this summer.
