![]() ![]() The esteemed producer Rick Rubin sums him up thus: “In one sense James Brown is like Johnny Cash. Is President.” That opened the floodgates for people to sample Brown. His shadow looms so large that it’s worth recalling he was the first artist to be sampled on a hip hop record, namely Eric B. Rolling Stone magazine has named him the seventh most important of their greatest artists of all time. He enjoyed sixteen number-one Billboard smashes and walked into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame with his head held high. His influence on the development of deep groove and rap is as profound as his mastery of the call and response hit or the lengthy multi-part singles that kept him bubbling through the charts. ![]() In a six-decade spanning career, James Brown moved American urban music out of the chitlin circuit forever and established R&B and soul as mainstream fare for clubs, halls and eventually stadia. is an American R&B phenomenon of such staggering importance that we’d need several volumes to skim the surface of his achievements. The Godfather of Soul and the undisputed King of Funk as well, James Joseph Brown Jr. ![]()
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