*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 ...

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

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 ...

Footage of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival spent 50 years in a basement as Woodstock and Monterey got the glory ...

Clyde Stubblefield, the funk drummer whose work with James Brown made him one of the most sampled musicians in history, died Saturday morning in Madison, Wisc. He was 73. He joined James Brown’s ...