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((Short description|American band))
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((Infobox musical artist
|name = Trouble Funk
|image = 
|caption =
|origin = [[Washington D.C.]], United States
|instruments = ((hlist| [[Electric guitar]] | [[Bass guitar|bass]] | [[trombone]] | [[trumpet]] | [[saxophone]] | [[Drum kit|drums]] |[[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]] ))
|genre = ((hlist| [[Funk]] | [[go-go]] | [[old-school hip hop]] ))
|years_active = 1978–present
|label = ((hlist| [[Sugar Hill Records (rap)|Sugar Hill]] | [[Island Records|Island]] | Infinite Zero | [[American Recordings (US)|American Recordings]] ))
|website = 
|current_members = Timothius "Tee-Bone" David<br />Big Tony Fisher<br />others
|past_members = Emmett "EJ Roxx" Nixon<br />Mack Carey<br />Timothius "Tee-Bone" David<br />Chester "Boogie" Davis<br />Big Tony Fisher<br />James "Doc" Avery<br />Gerald Reed<br />Robert "Syke Dyke"  Reed<br />Taylor "Monster Baby" Reed<br />David Rudd
))

'''Trouble Funk''' is an American [[Rhythm and blues|R&B]] and [[funk]] band from [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name="LarkinDM">((cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=1998|edition=First|isbn=0-7535-0252-6|page=346))</ref> The group helped to popularize funk and the subgenre [[go-go]] in the [[Washington metropolitan area]].<ref name="LarkinDM" /> 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 (Trouble Funk album)|Live]]'', and ''[[Trouble Over Here]] Trouble Over There'' (UK No. 54),<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">((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))</ref> and two live albums, ''Trouble Funk: Straight Up Go-Go Style'' and ''[[Saturday Night Live (album)|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 Records|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 [[Sampling (music)|sampled]] by many other artists, including [[Dimples D.]]'s one-hit wonder "[[Sucker DJ]]", which went to No. 1 in Australia, [[Public Enemy (group)|Public Enemy]]'s "[[Fight the Power (Public Enemy song)|Fight the Power]]", [[Kurtis Blow]]'s song "If I Ruled the World" and [[M.A.R.R.S.]]'s song "[[Pump Up the Volume (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]].<ref>((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))</ref>

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

== Discography ==

=== Albums ===
*''[[Live (Trouble Funk album)|Live]]'' (also titled as ''Straight Up Funk Go Go Style'') (Jamtu Records, 1981)
*''[[Drop the Bomb]]'' ([[Sugar Hill Records (rap)|Sugar Hill]], 1982)
*''[[In Times of Trouble]]'' (D.E.T.T. Records, 1983)
*''[[Saturday Night Live (Trouble Funk album)|Saturday Night Live]]'' ([[Island Records]], 1983)
*''[[Say What! (Trouble Funk album)|Say What!]]'' ([[Island Records|Island]], 1986)
*''[[Trouble Over Here]]'' ([[Island Records|Island]], 1987)
*''[[Early Singles (Trouble Funk album)|Early Singles]]'' (Infinite Zero, 1997)
*''[[Droppin' Bombs]]'' (Harmless, 1998)
*''[[E Flat Boogie]]'' (Funky Delicacies, 2000)
*''[[The Complete Collection of Trouble Funk]]'' (TF Records, 2015)

=== Charted songs ===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
! rowspan="2" |Title
! rowspan="2" |Year
! colspan="3" |Peak chart positions
! rowspan="2" |Album
|-
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" |[[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|US<br>R&B]]<br /><ref>Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart positions:
* "Hey Fellas": ((cite web |title=Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs |date=May 28, 1982 |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/r-b-hip-hop-songs/1982-05-28/ |access-date=September 29, 2023 |website=Billboard))
* "Trouble Funk Express": ((cite web |title=Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs |date=July 1, 1983 |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/r-b-hip-hop-songs/1983-07-01/ |access-date=September 29, 2023 |website=Billboard))
* "Still Smokin'": ((cite web |title=Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs |date=November 2, 1985 |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/r-b-hip-hop-songs/1985-11-02/ |access-date=September 29, 2023 |website=Billboard))
* "Good to Go'": ((cite web |title=Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs |date=August 30, 1986 |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/r-b-hip-hop-songs/1986-08-30/ |access-date=September 29, 2023 |website=Billboard))
</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" |[[Dutch Charts|NL]]<br /><ref>((cite web |title=Discografie Trouble Funk |url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Trouble+Funk |access-date=September 28, 2023 |website=Dutch Charts |language=nl))</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:2.5em;font-size:90%;" |[[UK Singles Chart|UK]]<br /><ref>((cite web |title=Trouble Funk |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/22318/trouble-funk/ |access-date=September 28, 2023 |website=Official Charts))</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |"E-Flat Boogie"
|1980
|72
|—
|—
|((Non-album single))
|-
! scope="row" |"Hey Fellas"
|1982
|63
|—
|—
|''Drop the Bomb''
|-
! scope="row" |"Trouble Funk Express"
|1983
|77
|—
|—
|((Non-album single))
|-
! scope="row" |"Drop the Bomb"
| rowspan="2" |1985
|—
|—
|99
|''Say What?''
|-
! scope="row" |"Still Smokin'"
|80
|—
|79
|rowspan="2" ((Non-album singles))
|-
! scope="row" |"Good to Go"
|1986
|66
|—
|—
|-
! scope="row" |"Woman of Principle"
| rowspan="3" |1987
|—
|39
|65
| rowspan="2" |''Trouble Over Here''
|-
! scope="row" |"Trouble"
|—
|—
|95
|-
! scope="row" |"Trouble Still Smoking"
|—
|—
|99
|((Non-album single))
|-
| colspan="6" |((Small|"—" denotes a song that did not chart or was not released in that region.))
|}

== References ==
((Reflist))

== External links ==
* [http://www.troublefunk.com/ Official Trouble Funk website]
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Trouble+Funk Trouble Funk discography at Discogs.com]

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[[Category:Go-go musical groups]]
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