Songs referenced in this episode:
* James Brown - "The Funky Drummer Parts 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)
* De La Soul - "The Magic Number" (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) as sampled in 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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