James Brown had an influence on early hip hop in many ways, but the most obvious way is how early hip hop DJ's sampled his music. But was this… purely coincidence? Or was this a calculated move by the Godfather of Soul to GET people to sample his music? Was he trying to expand his Godfather title to encompass other genres of music? Had he tried this before? What does Disco have to do with any of this?
Today I'm talking all about James Brown, his influence on hip hop, and how his failed attempt to claim he invented a completely different genre of music set him up to be the Godfather of Hip Hop.
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In The Jungle Groove: https://amzn.to/3vW1l0A
The Original Disco Man: https://amzn.to/3vYKPNe
SOURCES
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/james-browns-new-doc-9-things-we-learned-from-mr-dynamite-176911/
https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2020/02/11/pride-and-pain-the-story-of-the-funky-drummer
https://www.whosampled.com/James-Brown/Funky-Drummer/
https://www.liveabout.com/how-james-brown-influenced-hip-hop-2857334
Clyde Stubblefield saying he hates Funky Drummer: https://youtu.be/J9CQn_aC9Pk?t=82
An incredible video (and terrible audio) of JB talking about Hip Hop and saying "It's something the lawyers are going to discuss, I'm very happy they love me": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQyEVtveb9k
Topics covered:
James Brown
Godfather of Soul
Godfather of Hip Hop
Funky Drummer
Give it up or Turn it a Loose
Get on the Good Foot
DJ Kool Herc
Grandmaster Flash
Early Hip Hop
Old school hip hop
drum samples
hip hop sampling
Disco
The Original Disco Man
Rapper's Delight
Bee Gees
Stayin' Alive
Heist
In The Jungle Groove
I'm Real
Public Enemy
NWA
LL Cool J
Digable Planets
The Pharcyde