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"Feel the Funk"' is the title of an R&B single by Immature, later known as IMx. It was featured in the 1995 motion picture Dangerous Minds and appeared on the soundtrack and Immature's album We Got It. It was also a b-side to the UK release of the We Got It single. The song heavily samples the 1979 hit "Love Changes" by the band Mother's Finest.
Outside the US, "If You Feel the Funk" reached number 42 in Germany, number 13 in the Netherlands, and number 9 in Belgium. Jackson performed "If You Feel the Funk" as well as "Are You Ready" on the November 8, 1980 episode of Soul Train. [1] She performed "If You Feel the Funk" on the December 13, 1980 episode of American Bandstand. [2]
Funk drumming creates a groove by emphasizing the drummer's "feel and emotion", which including "occasional tempo fluctuations", the use of swing feel in some songs (e.g., "Cissy Strut" by The Meters and "I'll Take You There" by The Staple Singers, which have a half-swung feel), and less use of fills (as they can lessen the groove). [36]
Funk music such as the type performed by groups like Parliament Funkadelic uses catchy electric bass lines and drum patterns to create a propulsive, emphatic rhythmic "feel" that is often referred to as a "groove". In music, groove is the sense of an effect ("feel") of changing pattern in a propulsive rhythm or sense of "swing".
T-Connection was a funk and disco group from Nassau, the Bahamas, who scored two hits on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1977 and 1979. They did better on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, where they had five Top 10 hits, including "Do What You Wanna Do", which reached #1, and "Everything Is Cool", which peaked at #10 on the US Billboard R&B chart. [1]
Like hip-hop and reggaetón before it, funk in Brazil has been stigmatized for its lyrics about everyday realities: sex, violence, drugs. But music is storytelling, rhythms can bring about change ...
But, ultimately, Bennett attributes the revival of these songs to be a testament to the song more than anything else. “I think the phenomenon is largely down to the quality of the music itself ...
The track Feel So Bad is astonishing - perhaps the only recording of a blues in which the downbeat is not on 1. Cold Blood puts it on the "and" of 4 of the previous measure - an anticipatory syncopation that compels the listener's hand, elbow, shoulder, hip, and knee to slip, in the classic way that makes funk so danceable.