{"id":94000,"date":"2015-09-06T08:37:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T06:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=94000"},"modified":"2015-09-05T23:40:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T21:40:10","slug":"video-roger-troutman-on-the-talkbox-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-roger-troutman-on-the-talkbox-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Roger Troutman on The Talkbox (1987)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L_CBZkd2tGE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Roger Troutman (November 29, 1951 &#8212; April 25, 1999) was the lead singer of the band Zapp who helped spearhead the Funk movement and heavily influenced West Coast hip hop due to the scene&#8217;s heavy sampling of his music over the years. Troutman was well known for his use of the talkbox, a device that is connected to an instrument (frequently a keyboard) to create different vocal effects. Roger used a custom-made talkbox\u2014the Electro Harmonix &#8220;Golden Throat,&#8221; as well as a Yamaha DX100 FM synthesizer. As both lead singer of Zapp and in his subsequent solo releases, he scored a bevy of funk and R&#038;B hits throughout the 1980s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"94001\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/video-roger-troutman-on-the-talkbox-1987\/2015-09-05-11-38-49-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.38.49-pm.png?fit=459%2C335&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"459,335\" 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=\"Video: Roger Troutman on The Talkbox (1987)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.38.49-pm.png?fit=459%2C335&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.38.49-pm.png?fit=459%2C335&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2015-09-05-11.38.49-pm.png?resize=459%2C335&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Video: Roger Troutman on The Talkbox (1987)\" width=\"459\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-94001\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Troutman (November 29, 1951 &#8212; April 25, 1999) was the lead singer of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-os8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94000","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}