Are You Okay?
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Are You Okay? is the fourth album by art-funk ensemble Was. It was released in 1990. It was their last album for 18 years until 2008's Boo!
Original album artwork by Mark Ryden
Funk
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Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that wer
James Brown, a pioneer of funk, in 1973; one of his many nicknames was the "Minister of New Super Heavy Funk"
The rhythm section of a funk band—the electric bass, drums, electric guitar and keyboards—is the heartbeat of the funk sound. Pictured here are the Meters.
Bootsy Collins performing in 1996 with a star-shaped bass
The drum groove from "Cissy Strut"