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Trouble Funk

Trouble Funk is an American R&B and funk band from Washington, D.C. The group helped to popularize funk and the subgenre go-go in the Washington metropolitan area. Among the band's well-known songs are the go-go anthem "Hey, Fellas". They released several studio albums including Drop the Bomb, In Times of Trouble, Live, and Trouble Over Here Trouble Over There (UK No. 54), and two live albums, Trouble Funk: Straight Up Go-Go Style and Saturday Night Live. In 1982, they released a single "So Early in the Morning" on D.E.T.T Records, later reissued on diverse labels as 2.13.61 and Tuff City. Trouble Funk sometimes shared the stage with hardcore punk bands of the day such as Minor Threat and the Big Boys.

Trouble Funk's song "Pump Me Up" was sampled by many other artists, including Dimples D.'s one-hit wonder "Sucker DJ", Public Enemy's "Fight the Power", Kurtis Blow's song "If I Ruled the World" and M/A/R/R/S's song "Pump Up the Volume". The song is also featured in the film Style Wars and on the fictional old-school hip hop radio station Wildstyle in the game, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

Keyboard player Robert "Syke Dyke" Reed died at the age of 50 on April 13, 2008, from pancreatic cancer.

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Peel seemed to have discovered the group in the mid-80's when he played some of their older material. He continued playing their songs and included their track, Let's Get Small, in his mix compilation album called FabricLive.07, which was released in 2002.

Shows Played[]

Let's_Get_Small

Let's Get Small

1985
1986
1987
  • 21 April 1987: Drop The Bomb (LP - Drop The Bomb) Sugar Hill
  • 26 August 1987: Hey Tee Bone (LP - Trouble Over Here, Trouble Over There) 4th & Broadway
  • 02 September 1987: Trouble (LP - Trouble Over Here, Trouble Over There) 4th & Broadway
  • 08 September 1987: Hey Tee Bone (LP – Trouble Other Here, Trouble Over There) Fourth & Broadway
  • 21 October 1987: Let's Get Small (12" - Trouble) 4th & Broadway
1990
1993
1997
  • 03 July 1997: Let's Get Small (v/a LP - Go-Go Crankin') 4th & Broadway
1998
1999
2000

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