The name of this tune is The Funky Drummer

Songs referenced in this episode:

• James Brown - "The Funky Drummer Parts 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) as sampled in 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