Trouble Funk

{{Short description|American band}}

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{{Infobox musical artist

|name = Trouble Funk

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|origin = Washington D.C., United States

|instruments = {{hlist| Electric guitar | bass | trombone | trumpet | saxophone | drums |keyboards }}

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

|years_active = 1978–present

|label = {{hlist| Sugar Hill | Island | Infinite Zero | American Recordings }}

|website =

|current_members = Timothius "Tee-Bone" David
Big Tony Fisher
others

|past_members = Emmett "EJ Roxx" Nixon
Mack Carey
Timothius "Tee-Bone" David
Chester "Boogie" Davis
Big Tony Fisher
James "Doc" Avery
Gerald Reed
Robert "Syke Dyke" Reed
Taylor "Monster Baby" Reed
David Rudd

}}

Trouble Funk is an American R&B and funk band from Washington, D.C.{{cite book|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Virgin Books|date=1998|edition=First|isbn=0-7535-0252-6|page=346}} The group helped to popularize funk and the subgenre go-go in the Washington metropolitan area. Among the band's well-known songs is the go-go anthem "Hey, Fellas". They released several studio albums including Drop the Bomb, In Times of Trouble, Live, and Trouble Over Here Trouble Over There (UK No. 54),{{cite book

| first= David

| last= Roberts

| year= 2006

| title= British Hit Singles & Albums

| edition= 19th

| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited

| location= London

| isbn= 1-904994-10-5

| page= 567}} and two live albums, Trouble Funk: Straight Up Go-Go Style and Saturday Night Live. In 1982, they released a single "So Early in the Morning" on D.E.T.T Records, later reissued on diverse labels as 2.13.61 and Tuff City. Trouble Funk sometimes shared the stage with hardcore punk bands of the day such as Minor Threat and the Big Boys.

Trouble Funk's song "Pump Me Up" was sampled by many other artists, including Dimples D.'s one-hit wonder "Sucker DJ", which went to No. 1 in Australia, Public Enemy's "Fight the Power", Kurtis Blow's song "If I Ruled the World" and M.A.R.R.S.'s song "Pump Up the Volume". The song is also featured in the film Style Wars and on the fictional old-school hip hop radio station Wildstyle in the game, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

Keyboard player Robert "Syke Dyke" Reed died at the age of 50 on April 13, 2008, from pancreatic cancer.{{cite news |title=Robert Reed, Band Keyboard Player, Dies at 50 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/arts/music/23reed.html?_r=1 |first=Ben |last=Sisario |newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 23, 2008}}

Trouble Funk remains active in the Washington, D.C. area live-music scene.