Artist	Song
Parliament	Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)
from The Best of Parliament - Give Up the Funk (1995)
Curtis Mayfield	Superfly
from Superfly (2004)
Funkadelic	Cosmic Slop
from Cosmic Slop (2005)
Ohio Players	Fire
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Ohio Players (2000)
Bootsy Collins	Ahh ... the Name Is Bootsy, Baby
from Ahh ... the Name Is Bootsy, Baby! (1977)
Zapp	More Bounce to the Ounce
from Zapp (2008)
The Gap Band	Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)
from The Gap Band III (1993)
Slave	Slide
from Slave (1996)
The New Birth	I Can Unerstand It
from The Very Best of The New Birth (1990)
One Way	Cutie Pie
from The Best of One Way: Al Hudson & Alicia Myers (1996)
Lakeside	Fantastic Voyage
from Lakeside: Greatest Hits (1984)
Bloodstone	Natural High (Single Version)
from The Essentials: Bloodstone (2007)

Comment:

Never mind Cali and N.Y.C. — the Midwest was [i]ground zero[/i] for the funk. The Motor City’s main musical export may have been Motown, but Detroit also dropped the cosmic slop of Parliament/Funkadelic. Earth, Wind & Fire grew from Chicago soil, and the Ohio Players were just one of the many bands representing the Buckeye State. Still unsold on the power of rustbelt funk? Ask James Brown himself, who went straight to Cincinnati to recruit his JB’s, the outfit that gave us “Sex Machine,” “Superbad,” and the elastic thump of Bootsy Collins.

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