"Funky Drummer" by Clyde Stubblefield shaped hip-hop and pop, yet the most sampled drummer in music history died unpaid and overlooked.

The musician was among the founding members and songwriters of the iconic funk group Isa Foltin/Getty George “Funky” Brown, drummer and co-founder of Kool & the Gang, has died at age 74. A rep for the ...

MADISON, Wis. — Clyde Stubblefield, whose 20-second drum break to open James Brown's 1970 single "Funky Drummer" became one of hip-hop's most popular samples, died Saturday, Rolling Stone reported. He ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Kool & The Gang, which will be inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday in Cleveland, is one of those bands that many folks, even funk and R&B aficionados can take for ...

Nov. 18 (UPI) --George Brown, whose funk-inspired drumbeats defined numerous breakaway hits by the Grammy Award-winning band Kool & the Gang, died Thursday at a hospital in Long Beach, Calif. He was ...

Rodney Brown, drummer on 1967’s “Funky Broadway,” a Dyke & the Blazers classic and one of the first hit songs to use a variation on the word “funk” in its title, died May 17 of unknown causes in an ...

*Back in the day when James Brown was getting down and gettin’ funky wit it, he would always “give the drummer some!” The funky drummer he was referring to, Clyde Stubblefield, died on Saturday ...

DRUM WEEK 2025: Prince Rogers Nelson, aka Prince, was, himself an awesome drummer, and played or programmed the beats on much of his considerable recorded output. But live, he always picked the very ...