Clyde Stubblefield, funk drummer for James Brown, and one of the most sampled drummers of all-time, died Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017, of kidney failure, according to The Associated Press. He was 73.
Stubblefield died in Madison, Wisconsin after being hospitalized for several days. He had suffered from kidney disease for 10 years.
One of the great funk drummers, Stubblefield was the creator of the break in James Brown’s “Funky Drummer” that became one of the most sampled pieces of music in history. The sample can be heard in “Fight the Power” by Public Enemy, “Let Me Ride,” by Dr. Dre, and “Mama Said Knock You Out” by LL Cool J. According to Rolling Stone, the break has been sampled more than 1,000 times.
Below is a 90* tridial for death with indicators for kidney and kidney disease.
