Music in this episode:

James Brown - "Funky Drummer (Part 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)

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)

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

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