Funk You Up
| "Funk You Up" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sugar Hill | ||||
| Songwriter(s) | Angela Brown, Cheryl Cooke, Gwendolyn Chisolm, Sylvia Robinson | |||
| Producer(s) | Sylvia Robinson | |||
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"Funk You Up" is a 1979
Sugarhill Gang.[1]
Sampling
The opening guitar and synth-drums were sampled in
Love of My Life Worldwide" appeared on Erykah Badu's album, Worldwide Underground. Erykah Badu's version contained rap vocals from herself, Queen Latifah, Bahamadia and Angie Stone
a.k.a. the Sequence's Angie B in her later R&B persona.
In 1997, En Vogue sampled the song on their remix of "Whatever" featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard.
In 2016, the Sequence claimed that Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk" infringed their single "Funk You Up". They decided to sue a year later.[3][4]
In 2022, Katy Perry did an advertisement for food delivery service Just Eat which interpolated "Funk You Up" (There were alternative versions for the Menulog and SkipTheDishes adverts).
References
- ISBN 0-609-80503-7
- ISBN 0-312-24298-0
- ^ Minsker, Evan (October 29, 2016). "Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars Sued Over "Uptown Funk"". Pitchfork. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
- ^ Fabio, Michelle (December 30, 2017). "Bruno Mars And Mark Ronson's 'Uptown Funk' Faces (Yet Another) Copyright Infringement Suit". Forbes. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
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