The name of this tune is The Funky Drummer

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 Get full access to Ethan teaches you music at ethanhein.substack.com/subscribe