Browsing: james brown

From soul to hip-hop, James Brown’s “one” reshaped rhythm, performance, and production – and artists still call him the music’s DNA.

How James Brown’s paranoid vow to hire ‘two of everything’ gave us double drumming, funk’s fiercest grooves, and hip-hop’s most stolen beats.

How a blues song about a rooster, Ronnie Spector in Harlem and James Brown at the Apollo turned the Rolling Stones into dangerous blues evangelists.