XXL: You got your start professional in music in the mid-1970s, correct? Steve Arrington: Professionally, yes. Kind of in high school, but yeah I'd say that. When did you first start hearing hip-hop?

Steve Arrington has attainted a position of righteous funk royalty. Having risen to prominence with the band Slave in the late-’70s, he then flew the roost to form the humbly-monikered Steve Arrington ...

Sampling has quietly reshaped music over the past five decades. A snare hit here, a vocal yelp there, maybe a drum loop that becomes the foundation for an entirely new genre. It’s wild how a forgotten ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Funk music artists with ties to Dayton have connections to thousands of songs, leaving behind a proud history of funk music in the city. Dayton is known as the funk capital of ...

Even if you don’t know psychedelic French jazz-funk legends Cortex by name, you have probably know have probably heard elements of their 1975 album Troupeau Bleu. Tracks from it have been sampled by ...

Salt N Pepa play the Ford stage during Sunfest in downtown West Palm Beach on April 30, 2016. (Richard Graulich / The Palm Beach Post) Dayton is considered the Land of Funk. Here is why. Video by ...