{"id":144,"date":"2017-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2017\/2017\/02\/20\/clyde-stubblefield-funky-drummer-dead-at-73\/"},"modified":"2017-02-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T00:00:00","slug":"clyde-stubblefield-funky-drummer-dead-at-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2017\/2017\/02\/20\/clyde-stubblefield-funky-drummer-dead-at-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Clyde Stubblefield, ‘Funky Drummer,’ Dead at 73"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clyde Stubblefield, the drummer who provided the backbeat for a generation, died Saturday at the age of 73. As the drummer for James Brown’s band, Stubblefield laid the groundwork for funk and inadvertently created the most sampled track of all time. The drummer’s wife, Jody Hannon, confirmed his death from kidney failure.<\/p>\n

\"ClydeStubblefield’s resume as Brown’s drummer includes classic tracks such as “Cold Sweat,” “Say it Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud,” “I Got the Feeling,” “Sex Machine” and the track that gave him his notoriety, “Funky Drummer.”<\/p>\n

He was a funky drummer. The brief interlude in “Funky Drummer” provided the beat that launched a thousand hip-hop acts. The track was sampled by the Beastie Boys<\/a>, Public Enemy, Run DMC<\/a>, N.W.A., LL Cool J and even George Michael.<\/a> Unfortunately, Stubblefield never saw any royalties from any of these uses of his most famous piece as he was not listed as a songwriter on the track.<\/p>\n