The Mount Rushmore of Funk

[NormanConnors]

GEORGE CLINTON
JAMES BROWN
RICK JAMES
BOOTSY COLLINS

Feasible right here

 

[IllmaticDelta]

James Brown
Sly Stone
George Clinton
Stevie Wonder

 

[Awesome Wells]

James Brown, George Clinton, Sly Stone and Prince



Agree or disagree?

Definitely agree. This would be my Top 4 too!!

 

[summwunn]

 

[I love Latina women]

Definitely agree. This would be my Top 4 too!!

Yeah, I think whoever made this Mount Rushmore of Funk got it right

 

[L. Deezy]

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[L. Deezy]

He was definitely a funk artist, but he was so diverse that some people think of him more as a pop artist. But even Purple Rain had a lot of funk on it. And everyone has heard Kiss, which was probably one of the last pure funk songs to go #1 on radio (for any artist). Prince veered away from funk later as he got more religious but it's worth noting that when he finally got back into that bag completely it produced his biggest album in a decade plus. That's how much demand there was for him to return to that shyt.

What is your definition of Funk?

Funk was heavy bass guitar driven. A lit of it had horn sections

Slave was funk. Listen to Slide, Watching You..etc..
Ohio players is funk. Listen to Skintight etc..
Rick James is funk. Listen to his bass lines
Prince didn't use heavy bass guitar. More synths than anything

 

[Mac Ten]

No bruno mars

Bruno Mars gets no play in the whip unless you’re a soccer Mom…


Id rather play some Bootsy Collins and James Brown.


James Brown was a true OG

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

Prince a legend but not a forefather

Foundation is james brown, sly stone, George Clinton, and jimi hendrix

Even if you wanna go all time, the list still really gotta remain the same cause of who we're talking about

Dont get it fukked up though. Curtis Mayfield and stevie wonder belong but we're limited to only four

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

Prince and Sly ain't funk to me

I done heard it all now. Sly ain't funk

You tripping on prince too but I'll chop it up as you only familiar with purple rain

 

[Erratic415]

They have so many good songs…Doo Wa Ditty is probably my favorite

 

[L. Deezy]

I done heard it all now. Sly ain't funk

You tripping on prince too but I'll chop it up as you only familiar with purple rain

no, Ill chalk it up to you not knowing Ohio Players, Lakeside, Slave, Parliament, Rick James etc

I can go more with Sly, but he was in the psychadelic hippy sounding shyt.. He just not a first thought for ME as funk. but he did have the standard horn section

Basslines and horn sections are funk. Where was Prince horn section?

this is funk

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

no, Ill chalk it up to you not knowing Ohio Players, Lakeside, Slave, Parliament, Rick James etc

I can go more with Sly, but he was in the psychadelic hippy sounding shyt.. He just not a first thought for ME as funk. but he did have the standard horn section

Basslines and horn sections are funk. Where was Prince horn section?

All of them are funk breh

You telling me having song that literally invented slap bass, a hallmark of funk music, doesn't make them funk



And horn sections aren't a requirement for funk. Prince used synths as a replacement. You're reducing the music down to the instruments when it's more about the beat and the rhythm

Things would get pretty boring if it was reduced down to a formula. We need people like prince to push the mode and be creative. Such as not using bass but still maintaining the rhythm

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

id put bootsy collins over prince when it comes to funk

This

A Prince & Bootsy Collins album would've been


Got a Prince and George Clinton album though

 

[JuvenileHell]

George Clinton
Bootsy Collins
Sly Stone
Rick James

James Brown was bigger than being relegated to a single genre. Arguably the most influential music artist ever

Shiiit whole musical genres came from James brown's loins. Hip Hop is just one of his many children