Jazz & Funk Musician Bernard Wright Passed Away

Bernard Wright, the legendary New York musician who enjoyed chart success with hits such as 1985s Who Do You Love passed away.

Bernard Wright‘s music has been sampled by some of Hip Hop’s biggest stars. Who Do You Love was sampled for LL COOL J‘s Loungin’; and Haboglabotribin was sampled for G’z and Hustlaz by Snoop Doggy Dogg and Lie To Kick It by 2Pac. Skee-lo‘s smash hit I Wish contains a sample of Spinnin’ and there are more than one hundred other Hip-Hop samples that use music from Wright‘s catalog.

BlackoutHipHop extends condolences to Bernard Wright’s family, friends, and fans.

Via Rock The Bells