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James brown started it all

December 26, 2006

Funky Drummer is a track containing the drum sound that started sampling and remix culture as we know it today. The late James Brown started it all in 1969 with this track that’s become the most sampled track of all time.

2 Live Crew: Coolin’ 808 State: Pacific 202, A Tribe Called Quest: Seperate / Together, Above the Law: Murder Rap, Untouchables, What Cha Can Prove,Allison Williams: Sleep Talk, Aphrodite: Velvet Seduction, Awesome Dre: Frankly Speaking, Beastie Boys: Shadrach, Big Daddy Kane: Mortal Combat, Biz Markie: Spring Again, Black Rock & Ron: Stop the World, Breeze: Great Big Freak,BWP: A Different Category, Cash Money & Marvelous: Drawers Choice MC: Bad A-s B—-h,Chubb Rock: Bump the Floor, Talkin’ Loud, Ain’t Sayin’ Jack, Coldcut: Say Kids, What Time is It?, Compton’s Most Wanted: The Final Chapter, Wanted, Conscious:Unconscious, Convicts: I Like Boning, CPO: Flow to the Rhythm,Criminal Nation: I’m Rollin’, Insane, It’s a Black Thing, The Right Crowd,De la Soul: Oodles of O’s, Deep Forest: Deep Forest, Depeche Mode: My Joy, Derek B: Get Down, Human Time Bomb, Digable Planets: Where I’m From, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince: 2 Damn Hype, Hip Hop Dancer’s Theme, Jazzy’s Groove, Magnificent Jazzy Jeff, Pump up the Bass, DJ Mark the 45 King ft Lakim Shabazz: When a Wise Man Speaks, DJ Master T: Wind Me Up, DOC: Let the Bass Go, Domination: Back at it Again, Dr. Dre: Let Me Ride, Eazy-E: We Want Eazy,Enigma: Carly’s Song,Eric B & Rakim: Lyrics of Fury, Paid in Full, Relax with Pep, Father MC: Ain’t it Funky, Fine Young Cannibals: I’m Not the Man I Used to Be, Freddie Foxx: F. F. is Here,Fresh 4: Wishing on a Star, GangStarr: 2 Deep, George Michael: Waiting for That Day/You Can’t Always Get, Geto Boys: Mind of a Lunatic, Read These Nikes, Goats: TV Cops, Gus Gus: Purple, Guy: I Like, Hard Knocks: A Blow to the Head, Heavy D: Peaceful Journey, We Got Our Own Thang, Hi-C: Take a Ride, HWA: Trick is a Trick, Ice Cube: Endangered Species, Jackin’ for Beats, Ice T: I Ain’t New Ta This, Original Gangster, Radio Suckers, James Brown: She Looks All Types A’ Good, Jaz: The Originators, Kid ‘N Play: Foreplay, Slippin’,Kid Sensation: Emergency, King Sun: King Sun with the Sword, Kool G Rap: It’s a Demo, The Butcher Shop, Kool Moe Dee: Bad, Bad, Bad, I’m Blowing Up, Knowledge is King, Korn & the Dust Brothers: Kick the P.A., Kris Kross: Jump, Lil’ Boys in Da Hood, Kwame: The Rhythm, Lakim Shabazz: Black is Back, Leaders of the New School: Sobb Story, Teachers, Don’t Teach Us Nonsense, LL Cool J: Boomin’ System, Fast Peg, Mama Said Knock You Out, Nitro, Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?, Low Profile: Make Room for. . ,Maestro Fresh Wes: Let Your Backbone Slide, Mantronix ft Wondress: Got to Have Your Love, Fresh is the Word, Marky Mark: Good Vibrations, Masters at Work: Jus’ a Lil’ Dope, MC Frontalot: Good Old Clyde, MC Lyte: Brooklyn, MC Shan: So Def, So Fresh, MC Smooth: Blow the Whistle,Mellow Man Ace: Hypest from Cypress, River Cubano, Michel’le: No More Lies, Michie Mee: Jamaican Funk Canadian Style,Milli Vanilli: Girl you know it’s true, Ministere Amer: Traitres, Mistress & DJ Madame E: Hypergroove, Show ‘em How We Play, MMG: Only the Strong Survive,Mobb Deep: Flavor for the Non-Believes, Nas: Get Down, Naughty by Nature: Hot Potato, Ready for Dem, New Order: Ruined in a Day, Nikki D: Freak Accident, Gotta up the Ante for the Panties, Nine Inch Nails: Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now), No Face: Half, NWA: F–k tha Police, Quiet on tha Set, Omni Trio: Nu Birth of Cool, Paperboy: The Nine Yards, Paris: I Call Him Mad, On the Prowl, The Devil Made Me Do It, Pete Rock & CL Smooth: Go with the Flow, P-Funk All Stars: Dope Dogs, Pharcyde: Officer, Prince Johnny C: Comin’ to Get Ya, Kevey Kev is a Dancer with Soul, Prince: Gangster Glam, Gett Off, My Name is Prince, Public Enemy: Bring the Noise, Fight the Power, Hazy Shade of Criminal, Rebel Without a Pause, She Watch Channel Zero, Terminator X to the Edge of Panic, The Enemy Assault Vehicle Mixx, Redman: Rated R, Roxanne Shante: Have a Nice Day, Run-DMC: Back from Hell, Beats to the Rhyme, Run’s House, Word is Born, Salt-N-Pepa: Let the Rhythm Run, Scarface: Born Killer, Sinead O’Connor: I Am Stretched on Your Grave, Sir Mix-A-Lot: No Holds Barred, Slayer & Atari Teenage Riot: No Remorse (I Wanna Die), Slick Rick: The Moment I Feared, Smooth Ice: I’m Coming, Without a Pause, Sons of Bazerk: One Time for the Rebel, South Central Cartel: Neighborhood Jacka, Stetsasonic: DBC Let the Music Play, Sally, Speaking of a Girl Named Suzy, The Hip Hop Band, Stop the Violence Movement: Self-Destruction, Style: Victim to the Vinyl, Sublime: Scarlet Begonias, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud: Do the James, Let the Drummer Get Ill, Sweet T: My Beat, Tim Dog: Goin Wild in the Penile, Low Down N—a, TLC: Shock Dat Monkey, True Mathematics: For the Lover in You, Tung Twista: No Peace Sign, Tupac ft Richie Rich: Lie to Kick It, Ultramagnetic MC: Give the Drummer Some, Moe Love on the One & Two, Vanilla Ice: Stop That Train, Wagon Christ: Filthy Drummer, WC & the Maad Circle: Ghetto Serenade, Yomo & Maulkie: Mockingbird, YZ: Return of the Holy One, Z-Trip: Rockstar, Rockstar 2

This incomplete! list of tracks that used the sample comes from the breaks.com

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