Clyde Stubblefield, James Brown‘s one-time drummer and the ... The cause of death was kidney failure. “The Funky Funkiest Drummer Of All Time,” Questlove wrote on Saturday.

The two first met in 1965, at James Brown gig in Augusta ... is based around a snippet of Stubblefield's playing on "Funky Drummer" (to which rapper Chuck D makes a sly reference in his opening ...

Among those offering praise of Stubblefield: - Fellow James Brown sideman Bootsy Collins ... added on his Instagram account: "The Funky Funkiest Drummer Of All Time. Clyde Stubblefield thank ...

But he’s best known for accidentally changing the course of hip-hop in 1970—before the genre even existed—with a short drum break on a James Brown song called “Funky Drummer.” ...

More than five minutes into the recording, James Brown tells his band that he wants “to give the drummer some of this funky soul we got going here.” He tells Stubblefield, “You don’t have ...

He joined James Brown's backing band in 1965 ... as the pattern he'd played on 1970's "Funky Drummer" proved irresistible to producers. The track's distinctive break, a sixteenth beat punctuated ...

Clyde Stubblefield, a drummer for James Brown who created one of ... But he was best known for a short solo on Brown’s 1970 single, “Funky Drummer.” Rolling Stone magazine said it was ...

MADISON, WI (AP) – Clyde Stubblefield, a drummer for James Brown who created ... But he was best known for a short solo on Brown’s 1970 single, “Funky Drummer.” Rolling Stone magazine ...