Artist	Song
James Brown	Funky Drummer
from In the Jungle Groove (2003)
Public Enemy	Bring the Noise
from It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1995)
Sly & the Family Stone	Sing a Simple Song
from The Essential Sly & the Family Stone (2002)
Digital Underground	The Humpty Dance
from Sex Packets (2005)
Johnny Pate	Shaft In Africa (Addis)
from Shaft In Africa (2005)
Jay-Z	Show Me What You Got
from Kingdom Come (2006)
Ohio Players	Funky Worm
from Pleasure (2007)
DFC & MC Breed	Ain't No Future In Yo' Frontin'
from M.C. Breed & DFC (2002)
Incredible Bongo Band	Apache
from Bongo Rock (2006)
Nas	Made You Look
from God's Son (2002)
Tony Alvon & The Belairs	Sexy Coffee Pot (Single Version)
from What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves (1967-1977) (2006)
Cypress Hill	Real Estate
from Cypress Hill (1991)
Average White Band	School Boy Crush
from The Essentials: Average White Band (2008)
Eric B. & Rakim	Microphone Fiend
from Gold (2005)
Mtume	Juicy Fruit
from Juicy Fruit (1989)
The Notorious B.I.G.	Juicy
from The Notorious B.I.G.: Greatest Hits (2007)
Bob James	Take Me to the Mardi Gras
from Two (2005)
Run-DMC	Peter Piper
from Run-DMC: Greatest Hits (2002)
Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers	Bustin' Loose
from The Best of Chuck Brown (2005)
Nelly	Hot in Herre
from Nellyville (2002)
The Meters	Just Kissed My Baby
from Rejuvenation (2005)
EPMD	Never Seen Before
from Back in Business (1997)
Dr. Dre	The Next Episode (feat. Snoop Dogg)
from The Chronic 2001 (2008)
Skull Snaps	It's a New Day
from Snapped - EP (2005)
Stezo	It's My Turn
from Crazy Noise (2005)
The Emotions	Blind Alley
from So I Can Love You / Untouched (2006)
Redman	Redman Meets Reggie Noble
from Whut? Thee Album (1994)

Comment:

Some say sampling rescued funk's forefathers from the slagheap of oldies radio; others claim a generation ambushed their elders and filched the family jewels. We've matched up funk's champion jams with the hip-hop tracks that thrust them back into the public ear. There’s a reason why James Brown's "Funky Drummer" has been sampled more than [i]200 times[/i] by half the hip-hop nation; in Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise” it catapults Chuck D's freight-train-in-the-night delivery into hyperdrive. Digital Underground rips open Sly & The Family Stone's "Sing a Simple Song" like a birthday present, scooping out horns and hi-hats for its "The Humpty Dance." And the loose-limbed tribal beats from Incredible Bongo Band's "Apache" get slowed down, chopped up, and echoed back in fun-house-mirror style on Nas' throwback boast "Made You Look." But don't stop here: from Marva Whitney to Marley Marl, you can walk the groove that transformed masters of the funk into gods of the hip-hop nation.

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