{"id":110631,"date":"2016-09-29T12:27:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T10:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=110631"},"modified":"2016-09-29T12:27:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T10:27:16","slug":"the-30-best-funk-songs-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/the-30-best-funk-songs-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The 30 Best Funk Songs Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"110632\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/the-30-best-funk-songs-ever\/mdj-image-1438690614-374645_500\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/mdj-image-1438690614-374645_500.jpg?fit=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mdj-image-1438690614-374645_500\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/mdj-image-1438690614-374645_500.jpg?fit=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/mdj-image-1438690614-374645_500.jpg?fit=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/mdj-image-1438690614-374645_500.jpg?fit=640%2C540&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"mdj-image-1438690614-374645_500\" width=\"640\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-110632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/mdj-image-1438690614-374645_500.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/mdj-image-1438690614-374645_500.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Funk songs formed the foundation for Big Gigantic&#8217;s rise in dance music &#8212; both saxophonist <strong>Dominic Lalli<\/strong> and drummer <strong>Jeremy Salken<\/strong> cut their teeth playing live funk music in bands before joining forces. Billboard Dance asked the Colorado duo to list their top 30 funk tracks of all-time and they didn&#8217;t disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading and check out the list via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/photos\/7511389\/best-funk-tracks-of-all-time-dance-music\/2\" target=\"_blank\">billboard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funk songs formed the foundation for Big Gigantic&#8217;s rise in dance music &#8212; both saxophonist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-sMn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}