30. "That's a stupid thing to say too though..." In response to In response to 29 Sun Dec-11-11 04:14 PM by Jakob Hellberg
By saying that, you are pretty much limiting funk to late P-funk and Zapp/roger type of stuff. There was a shitload of non-gangsta artists who sampled Jmes Brown, Sly, the Meters etc. and that's funk too, right?
I remember when OldPro said that he felt the Neptunes were funkier than Marley Marl and it's like the latter based his career on straight vintage funk loops and yet he wasn't funkier than some dudes who knocked out beats on their keyboards. Basically, I often feel the west-coast contingnet have a very purist definition of funk that doesn't extend much beyond the early 80's-late 70's (¤think Flashlight, Atomic Dog, More bounce etc.) electro-type funk