One of the first bands to release go-go music on a national level, Trouble Funk
formed in 1978 in Washington, DC. The city had given birth to go-go music one
decade earlier, when artists like Chuck Brown began combining R&B and funk into
a rhythmic, syncopated sound. Trouble Funk added its own spin to the genre by
borrowing heavily from early hip-hop music, which earned the band a devoted
hometown audience as well as a contract from the pioneering hip-hop label Sugar
Hill Records. Originally featuring drummer Emmet Nixon, guitarist Chester Davis,
bassist Tony Fisher, keyboardist ...