Music in this episode:
James Brown - "Funky Drummer (Part One and Two)" (1969)
James Brown - "Funky Drummer Bonus Beat Reprise" (1986)
Eric B and Rakim - "Lyrics of Fury" (1988)
Ultramagnetic MCs - "Give the Drummer Some" (1988)
Public Enemy - "Fight the Power" (1989)
Beastie Boys - "Shadrach" (1989)
De La Soul - "The Magic Number" (1989)
LL Cool J - "Mama Said Knock You Out" (1990)
Sinéad O'Connor - "I Am Stretched on Your Grave" (1990)
George Michael - "Freedom! '90" (1990)
Pete Rock - "Go With the Flow" (1991)
Sublime - "Scarlet Begonias" (1992)
Digable Planets - "Where I'm From" (1993)
The Roots - "The Next Movement" (1999)
Lupe Fiasco - "The Cool" (2007)
Aphex Twin - "droneBReak" (2015)
Sister Souljah - "The Final Solution: Slavery's Back in Effect" (1992)
Luke Vibert - "War" (2015)
Duke Ellington - "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" (1932)
Bill Withers - "Ain't No Sunshine" (1971)
Scholarly resources:
Richard Cohn - “A Platonic Model of Funky Rhythms”
Alexander Stewart - “‘Funky Drummer’: New Orleans, James Brown and the Rhythmic Transformation of American Popular Music”
Anne Danielsen - Presence and pleasure: The funk grooves of James Brown and Parliament
Joseph Schloss - Making beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop
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