Drop the Bomb

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Drop the Bomb
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Studio album by
Trouble Funk
Released1982
Genre
Length36:43 [1]
Label Sugar Hill Records
Producer Reo Edwards (exec)
Trouble Funk chronology
Live
(1981)		Drop the Bomb
(1982)		 In Times of Trouble
(1983)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Drop the Bomb is a studio album released in 1982 by the Washington, D.C.-based go-go band Trouble Funk. [1] [7] The album included the songs "Drop the Bomb" and "Pump Me Up" which have been sampled numerous times by many hip hop artists.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Hey Fellas" (Emmett Nixon/Robert Reed/Tony Fisher)7:18
2."Get On Up" (Emmett Nixon/Robert Reed)4:50
3."Let's Get Hot" (Emmett Nixon/Robert Reed)4:38
4."Drop the Bomb" (Chester Davis/Emmett Nixon/James Avery/Robert Reed/Taylor Reed/Timothy Davis/Tony Fisher)6:58
5."Pump Me Up" (Emmett Nixon/Robert Reed/Taylor Reed/Tony Fisher)6:34
6."Don't Try to Use Me" (Robert Reed/Tony Fisher)6:15
Total length:36:43

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Stephen Cook. "Drop the Bomb - Trouble Funk | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved 2016-12-19.
  2. ↑ Cook, Stephen. Trouble Funk: Drop the Bomb > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "Trouble Funk Albums Releases & Reviews". ARTISTdirect . Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  4. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "Review: Trouble Funk". Robert Christgau . Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  5. ↑ Graff, Gary; Freedom du Lac, Josh; McFarlin, Jim (1998). "A-Z Guide to R&B Acts: Trouble Funk". In Change, Jeff "DJ Zen" (ed.). musicHound R&B: The Essential Album Guide (1st ed.). Detroit: Visible Ink Press. pp.  574-575. ISBN   1-57859-026-4.
  6. ↑ Colelman, Mark; Scoppa, Bud, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p.  824. ISBN   0-7432-0169-8.
  7. ↑ Lornell, Kip; Stephenson, Jr., Charles C. (2001). The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop . Billboard Books. p.  252. ISBN   0-8230-7727-6.
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