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Time to get funky
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Wedged between the psychedelic rock pioneered by the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, and the soul championed by bands like The Temptations and The Staple Singers, is one of the most influential genres in music: funk.
There are the innovators like James Brown and Funkadelic, who molded and shaped funk into what it is today, but there were also legends like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder who dabbled in the emerging musical art form.
Tap your foot to the irresistible rhythms of funk by listening to this playlist on Spotify.
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Oludare is a fourth-year journalism student and this is his fifth semester on The Spectator. He likes watching basketball and is pretty mediocre at it, but that doesn't stop him from playing it. He has a small but growing record collection and believes Woody Harrelson is a style icon and national treasure — fact not opinion.
