Clyde "Funky Drummer" Stubblefield

So last Saturday I attended Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? live at JKH hall of performing arts in Springbilly. I've been a fan of the show ever since I can remember so naturally I jumped at the chance to get tickets. Little did I know that the most sampled man on the planet would be on stage.


For those of you who don't know Clyde "Funky Drummer" Stubblefield is the drummer on a Mr James Brown's Funky Drummer cut. That break has been sampled by nearly all my favorite rappers.
I think there was a rule that you couldn't release an album in 90's without sampling from Funky Drummer. 
That song alone has been sampled by:

2 Live Crew A Tribe Called Quest Above the Law Beastie Boys  Big Daddy Kane Biz Markie Black Rock & Ron Cash Money & Marvelous  Choice MC Chubb Rock Compton's Most Wanted Criminal Nation  De la Soul  Deep Forest Depeche Mode Digable Planets DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince DJ Mark the 45 King ft Lakim Shabazz  DOC  Dr. Dre Eazy-E Eric B and Rakim  Fine Young Cannibals Freddie Foxxx  Gang Starr  George Michael  Geto Boys  Goats  Heavy D  Ice Cube Ice T  J.J. Fad  Kid 'N Play  Kool G Rap Kool Moe Dee  Korn & the Dust Brothers  Kris Kross

Kwame  Leaders of the New School  LL Cool J  Lord Finesse  Mantronix  Marky Mark  MC Lyte  MC Shan  MC Smooth  Mobb Deep  Nas  Naughty by Nature Nine Inch Nails  NWA  P-Funk All Stars Paris  Pharcyde  Prince  Public Enemy  Queen  Redman Roxanne Shante Run-DMC Sadat X  Salt-N-Pepa  Scarface  Sinead O'Connor  Sir Mix-A-Lot  Slayer & Atari Teenage Riot Slick Rick Stop the Violence Movement - "Self-Destruction" Sublime TLC Tupac Ultramagnetic MCs  Vanilla Ice WC & the Maad Circle

James Brown even sampled that song on"She Looks All Types A' Good". 
Could you imagine a world without:
"Run's House", "Original Gangster","Read These Nikes", "We Want Eazy", "Where I'm From", "Shadrach", "Oodles of O's", "Bring the Noise", "Fight the Power" or "Fuck the Police"???

No way, No How that's a world I don't want any part of!!!

With that being said you can imagine why I was so stoked to meet Mr. Stubblefield.

listen to the Funky Drummer Beat

I couldn't believe how many people at that show didn't know who Clyde was. I was so shocked that I got so much time with this legend that I yelled out "Clyde Stubblefield ya'll, The most sampled man on the PLANET, he even played with James Brown!!" to which Clyde responded "James Brown played with me".