"Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due Give the drummer some! On this day in 2017, the world lost one of its most influential drummers ...

Clyde Stubblefield, James Brown's one-time drummer and the creator of one of hip-hop's most popular samples, has died at the age of 73.

Tributes poured in for dummer Clyde Stubblefield, a key force in one of funk master James Brown's most important bands, who died in Madison over the weekend. Stubblefield, 73, performed on some of ...

The Original Funky Drummers On Life With James Brown Clyde Stubblefield and Jabo Starks should have been rivals: James Brown hired both of them to do one job. Instead, they stuck together, and ...

Clyde Stubblefield, a drummer for James Brown who created one of the most widely sampled drum breaks ever, died Saturday. He was 73. His wife, Jody Hannon, told The Associated Press that ...

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Clyde Stubblefield employed a similar technique on James Brown's "Funky Drummer," released in 1970, which became a widely sampled breakbeat on numerous hip-hop classics.

Clyde Stubblefield, the funk drummer whose work with James Brown made him one of the most sampled musicians in history, died Saturday morning in Madison, Wis., his publicist confirmed ...

Drummer Clyde Stubblefield, the man behind what is arguably the most sampled beat in all of hip hop, died Saturday. He was 73. Stubblefield, a session drummer best known for his work with James ...