Every week for Black History Month, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison is highlighting a different trailblazer and ...
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By Jim Farber In the late ’70s, when the star hip-hop producer Prince Paul was just 10 years old, he heard a song that stopped him cold. “Bra,” by a little-known British funk group named Cym ...
The Roots man is steeped in funk history, but has a particular fondness ... the drummer,” claims Questlove. “In the late ‘70s ...