Black 47 gained access to a significantly wider audience when Funky Céilí ( Bridie's Song ), a track from Fire of Freedom gained extended air-play on music channel MTV, becoming the bands breakout single.

In 2008, the Weather Girls were listed as featured artists on the song, " Break You " by Ralph Falcon of the bands Murk and Funky Green Dogs.

The image, styles and sounds of the old school were exemplified by figures like Afrika Bambaataa, The Sugarhill Gang, Spoonie Gee, Slick Rick, Run-D. M. C., Treacherous Three, Funky Four Plus One, Kurtis Blow, Fab Five Freddy, Busy Bee Starski, Lovebug Starski, Doug E. Fresh, LL Cool J, The Fat Boys, The Cold Crush Brothers, Kool Kyle, and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Ice-T.

What is typically forgotten in narrative histories of hip-hop as in the history of this film were the appearances of pioneering artists like Sha-Rock who was a member of Enjoy recording group The Funky Four Plus One More, later known as Funky 4 + 1.

In songs like " Too Many Creeps " and " Can't Be Funky ," she repeated simple phrases over and over again, creating a hypnotic monotony similar to Place's guitar rhythms.

It's the label that released hits like Fired Up, by Funky Green Dogs, Elements & Music is The Answer by Danny Tenaglia, Be Yourself by Celeda, Revolution by Superchumbo, Muscles by Club 69, So Get Up by USL, Walking On Thin Ice by Ono, Dark Beat by Oscar G & Ralph Falcon.

Like Candy, her design differs a bit ( but not as much ), and she also has been given tan fur like Funky.

The music is groovy, blends in unconventional psytrance instruments like guitars & horns and is best described as Funky Forest Trance.

His version of the Allen Toussaint song " Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky ( From Now On )" is referenced in the Beastie Boys ' song lyrics for " Sure Shot "-"... everything I do is funky like Lee Dorsey.

Her daughter Diamond ( born 1984 ) is from her marriage to Rodney Stone ( also known as Lil ' Rodney C !, from the hip hop group Funky Four Plus One ).

After two extra emcees, Mr. Ness later known as Scorpio ( aka Eddie Morris ) and Rahiem ( aka Guy Todd Williams ) from Bronx rap group The Funky Four joined them, the group recorded one single as The Younger Generation before they recorded as Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five.

* MC Jazzy Jeff ( Jeffrey Miree ), a member of the U. S. hip-hop group Funky Four Plus One from the United States

Additional credits include arranging " That's the Joint " by the Funky Four Plus One and " My Favorite Person " by the O ' Jays.

The Emoto-Tronic Furbies ( Furby, Furby Baby, and Funky Furby ) continued to be sold until late 2007, when these toys became extremely rare.

Though the titular everyman Funky Winkerbean was the ostensible main character, nerds Les Moore and Lisa Crawford became breakout characters and the primary focus of the strip.

During 2010, Funky became the central character in a storyline in which he has a flashback to his high school days 30 years earlier in Westview.

" Play That Funky Music " became a huge hit when released in 1976, peaking at number one on both the Billboard R & B and pop charts.

One of the most famous Bolden numbers is a song called " Funky Butt " ( known later as " Buddy Bolden's Blues "), which represents one of the earliest references to the concept of " funk " in popular music, now a musical subgenre unto itself.

The " Funky Butt " song was one of many in the Bolden repertory with rude or off-color lyrics popular in some of the rougher places Bolden played, and Bolden's trombonist Willy Cornish claimed authorship.

Other popular breaks are from James Brown's " Funky Drummer " and " Give it Up or Turnit a Loose ", The Incredible Bongo Band's " Apache ", and Lyn Collins ' " Think ( About It )".

These include Funky Kong who makes his return from the original Donkey Kong Country, as well as Cranky Kong, situated in " Monkey Museum ", who is back due to " popular demand " to divulge secrets of the game world, provide comic relief as well as offering paid for advice.

It inspired dances such as the Jerk, the Pony, the Watusi, the Mashed Potato, the Monkey and the Funky Chicken, although none were as popular.

The disco single, " Get Up, Get Down, Get Funky, Get Loose " was popular in dance clubs.

Funky Winkerbean is a popular long-run comic strip by Tom Batiuk ( pronounced " Battick ").

2 on the Billboard popular music chart in May, and was covered by Jermaine Jackson ( 1972 ), Toots and the Maytals ( Funky Kingston 1973 ), Junior English, and Cliff Richard ( 1981 ).

As " Funky Jan ", Jan is soon the most popular rock star on the planet while the oblivious Daniel is left out in the cold.

Charles presented the virtual reality game show Cyberzone ( 1993 ) on BBC2 ; the late-night entertainment show Funky Bunker ( 1997 ) on ITV ; the reality television show Jailbreak ( 2000 ) on Channel 5 ; and the late-night chat show Weapons of Mass Distraction ( 2004 ) on ITV.

The instrumental arrangements on tracks such as " Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose " and " Licking Stick-Licking Stick " ( both recorded in 1968 ) and " Funky Drummer " ( recorded in 1969 ) featured a more developed version of Brown's mid-1960s style, with the horn section, guitars, bass and drums meshed together in intricate rhythmic patterns based on multiple interlocking riffs.

The main guitar ostinatos for " Ain't it Funky " ( c. late 1960s ), and " Give it Up or Turn it Lose " ( 1969 ), are examples of Brown's refinement of New Orleans funk ; irresistibly danceable riffs, stripped down to their rhythmic essence.

On " Ain't it Funky " ( c. late 1960s ), and " Give it Up or Turn it Lose " ( 1969 ), the tonal structure is bare bones.

As a result, James Brown remains to this day the world's most sampled recording artist, with " Funky Drummer " itself becoming the most sampled individual piece of music.

Among his top ten R & B hits during this latter period included " Funky President ( People It's Bad )" and " Get Up Offa That Thing ", the latter song released in 1976 and aimed at musical rivals such as Barry White, The Ohio Players and K. C.

After " Get Up Offa That Thing ", thirteen of Brown's late 1970s recordings for Polydor, failed to reach the Top 10 of the R & B chart, with only " Body Heat " in 1976 and the disco-oriented " It's Too Funky in Here " in 1979 reaching the R & B Top 15 and the ballad " Kiss in ' 77 " reaching the Top 20.

By the release of 1979's The Original Disco Man, Brown wasn't providing much production or writing, leading most of it to producer Brad Shapiro, resulting in the song " It's Too Funky in Here " becoming Brown's most successful single in this period.

Staying on the beat is central to rap's flow – many MCs note the importance of staying on-beat in How to Rap including Sean Price, Mighty Casey, Zion I, Vinnie Paz, Fredro Starr, Del The Funky Homosapien, Tech N9ne, People Under The Stairs, Twista, B-Real, Mr Lif, 2Mex, and Cage.

's Ultra ( Part Two )" followed by " Funky / Mentally Mad ," one of the most sought-after 12-inch singles of its career.

Funky was based on a Joe Cocker piano sample later used as the basis for Dr. Dre and Tupac's California Love.

After the Monkees television show ended, Dolenz continued performing providing voice-overs for a number of Saturday-morning cartoon series including The Funky Phantom, Partridge Family 2200 A. D., Scooby-doo, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, Devlin and Wonder Wheels ( from The Skatebirds ).

The opening theme is based on the Clyde Stubblefield-performed Funky drummer drum break sample.

Bolden's " Funky Butt " was, as Danny Barker once put it, a reference to the olfactory effect of an auditorium packed full of sweaty people " dancing close together and belly rubbing.

Fast forward to the late 1970s and early 1980s, hip-hop turntablists, such as Kool DJ Herc, began using several Funk breaks in a row, using irregular drum patterns from songs such as James Brown Funky Drummer and The Winstons Amen Brother, to form the rhythmic base for hip-hop songs.