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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 for news of tour dates or at least a couple one night-only engagements stateside (European tour dates were announced shortly after the album’s released).  Word spread on Friday that D’Angelo […]

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 originally heard on a James Brown record. Since the youth need to be educated sometimes, Eclectic Method put together a video that details some of the most famous samples in […]

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 “Atomic Dog” creator came back home to Newark, New Jersey to perform his FunkFest at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Though the show was everything you’d imagine a George […]

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.

Created by BP Member MsMerising the journey of the drum to the drum machine…paying homage to the genius of soul, R&B, funk, disco sounds from what goes pop to the underground is expressed in the Dusty Fingers: Rare Groove/Funk Page group. Check out the announcement celebrating April ’09 Honoree – Marvin Gaye! here… Check out […]