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  • Island Records artists
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  • Go-Go funk band from Washington D.C.
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  • Trouble Funk is an American R&B and funk band from Washington, DC. It helped to popularize that area's local funk subgenre known as go-go. Among the band's well-known songs are the go-go anthem %22Hey, Fellas.%22 They released several studio albums including Drop the Bomb, In Times of Trouble, Live, and Trouble Over Here, Trouble Over There (UK #54), and two live albums, Trouble Funk - Straight Up Go-Go Style and Saturday Night Live. In 1982, they released a single %22So Early In The Morning%22 on D.E.T.T Records, later reissued on diverse labels as 2.13.61 & 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 %22Pump Me Up%22 was sampled by many other artists, for example in Dimple D's one-hit wonder %22Sucker DJ,%22 which went to #1 in Australia. The song is also featured in the film Style Wars and on the fictional R&B radio station Wild Style in the game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.Keyboard player Robert %22Syke Dyke%22 Reed died at the age of 50 on April 13, 2008, from pancreatic cancer.Trouble Funk continues to remain a figure on the Washington, DC, area live-music scene.
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  • 1978
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