When you are out there with your instrument, being your instrument, and music comes ... you’ve made the album of the year? All the time I spent with P-Funk and James Brown, I always seen ...

WE WANT THE FUNK! is a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African, soul, and early jazz roots, to its rise into the public consciousness. Featuring James Brown's ...

As "Soul Brother No. 1," Brown acted as a cultural leader, writing hit songs calling for Black pride. As a progenitor of funk music ... by James Brown and others National Museum of African American ...