Droppin' Bombs

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{{Infobox album

| name = Droppin' Bombs

| type = Compilation

| artist = Trouble Funk

| cover = DroppinBombs album.png

| alt =

| released = August 25, 1998

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = {{hlist|Go-go | funk | old-school hip hop }}

| length = {{duration|h=01|m=38|s=20}}

| label = Harmless Records

| producer = {{hlist|Reo Edwards|Robert Reed|Tony Fisher|Rob Fraboni}}

| prev_title = Early Singles

| prev_year = 1997

| next_title = All the Way Live

| next_year = 2000

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|title=Trouble Funk: Droppin' Bombs: The Definitive Trouble Funk |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/droppin-bombs-the-definitive-trouble-funk-mw0000358826 |first=Don |last=Snowden |website=AllMusic |access-date= 29 November 2016}}

| rev2 = ARTISTdirect

| rev2Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|title=Droppin Bombs: The Definitive Trouble Funk |url=http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,372774,00.html |publisher=ARTISTdirect |access-date=29 November 2016}}

| rev3 = musicHound R&B

| rev3Score = (4/5){{cite book |last1=Graff |first1=Gary |last2=Freedom du Lac |first2=Josh |last3=McFarlin |first3=Jim |editor-last=Change |editor-first=Jeff "DJ Zen" |year=1998 |title=musicHound R&B: The Essential Album Guide |location=Detroit |publisher=Visible Ink Press |edition=1st |chapter=A-Z Guide to R&B Acts: Trouble Funk |pages=[https://archive.org/details/musichoundrbesse00graf/page/574 574-575] |isbn=1-57859-026-4 |title-link=MusicHound }}

| rev4 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev4Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |publisher=Simon & Schuster |edition=4th |year=2004 |editor1-last=Coleman |editor1-first=Mark |editor2-last=Scoppa |editor2-first=Bud |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/824 824] |title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide }}

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Droppin' Bombs (also titled as Droppin' Bombs: The Definitive Trouble Funk) is a double-compilation album released on August 25, 1998, by the Washington, D.C.–based go-go band Trouble Funk.{{cite book |last1=Lornell |first1=Kip |last2=Stephenson, Jr. |first2=Charles C. |date=2001 |title=The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop |publisher=Billboard Books |page=[https://archive.org/details/beatgogosfusion00lorn/page/252 252] |isbn=0-8230-7727-6 |title-link=The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop }}{{cite news|title=Go-go back to the 1980s with Washington DC rap legends Trouble Funk |url=http://metro.co.uk/2013/03/15/go-go-back-to-the-1980s-with-washington-dc-rap-legends-trouble-funk-3543081/ |first=Arwa |last=Haider |date=March 15, 2013 |newspaper=Metro |access-date=28 November 2016}}{{cite web |title=TROUBLE FUNK Droppin' Bombs – The Definitive Trouble Funk |date=June 2, 2014 |url=http://www.willardswormholes.com/archives/23020 |last=Staff Writer |publisher= Willard's Wormholes |access-date=28 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421025110/http://www.willardswormholes.com/archives/23020 |archive-date=21 April 2016 |url-status=dead }}

Track listing

;Disc 1

  1. "Don't Touch That Stereo" – 5:56
  2. "Pump Me Up" – 6:33
  3. "Drop the Bomb" – 5:55
  4. "Don't Try To Use Me" – 6:13
  5. "Trouble Funk Express" – 6:40
  6. "Hey Fellas" – 7:12
  7. "Supergrit" – 10:13

;Disc 2

  1. "So Early in the Morning" – 7:03
  2. "Freaky Situation" – 3:58
  3. "Let's Get Small" – 5:33
  4. "Say What" – 5:13
  5. "E Flat Boogie" – 8:47
  6. "Still Smokin'" – 5:08
  7. "Good to Go" – 8:04
  8. "I'm Chillin'" (featuring Kurtis Blow) – 5:52

Personnel

References

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