Who is Clyde Stubblefield?
Hip-hop sampled him for decades. The credits mostly forgot to mention him.
Clyde Stubblefield · drummer, James Brown band
What it became
- Played on Funky Drummer (James Brown, 1970). Stubblefield improvised the eight-bar break on James Brown's orders. With no songwriter credit, he got almost nothing from the samples. Prince paid his chemotherapy bills, reported as $80,000 to $90,000. Source: Wikipedia: Funky Drummer, Wikipedia: Clyde Stubblefield, Rolling Stone
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