Editing Funk (section)

=== Late 1980s to 2000s nu-funk ===
While funk was driven away from radio by slick commercial [[hip hop music|hip hop]], [[contemporary R&B]] and [[new jack swing]], its influence continued to spread. Artists like Steve Arrington and Cameo still received major airplay and had huge global followings.  Rock bands began adopting elements of funk into their sound, creating new combinations of "[[funk rock]]" and "[[funk metal]]". [[Extreme (band)|Extreme]], [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]], [[Living Colour]], [[Jane's Addiction]], [[Prince (musician)|Prince]], [[Primus (band)|Primus]], [[Urban Dance Squad]], [[Fishbone]], [[Faith No More]], [[Rage Against the Machine]], [[Infectious Grooves]], and [[Incubus (band)|Incubus]] spread the approach and styles garnered from funk pioneers to new audiences in the mid-to-late 1980s and the 1990s. These bands later inspired the underground mid-1990s funkcore movement and other funk-inspired artists like [[Outkast]], [[Malina Moye]], [[Van Hunt]], and [[Gnarls Barkley]].

In the 1990s, artists like [[Me'shell Ndegeocello]], [[Brooklyn Funk Essentials]] and the (predominantly UK-based) [[acid jazz]] movement—including artists and bands such as [[Jamiroquai]], [[Incognito (band)|Incognito]], [[Galliano (band)|Galliano]], [[Omar Lye-Fook|Omar]], [[Los Tetas]] and the [[Brand New Heavies]]—carried on with strong elements of funk. However, they never came close to reaching the commercial success of funk in its heyday—with the exception of Jamiroquai, whose album ''[[Travelling Without Moving]]'' sold about 11.5&nbsp;million units worldwide and remains the best-selling funk album in history.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Best-selling album of funk music|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/74163-best-selling-album-of-funk-music|access-date=2022-02-09|website=Guinness World Records|language=en-gb}}</ref> Meanwhile, in Australia and New Zealand, bands playing the pub circuit, such as [[Supergroove]], [[Skunkhour]] and [[The Truth (Australian band)|the Truth]], preserved a more instrumental form of funk.
[[File:MeShell NdegeòCello (222747).jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Me'shell Ndegeocello]] playing electric bass]]
Since the late 1980s, [[hip hop music|hip hop]] artists have regularly [[sampling (music)|sampled]] old funk tunes. [[James Brown (musician)|James Brown]] is said to be the most sampled artist in the history of hip hop, while [[P-Funk]] is the second most sampled artist; samples of old [[Parliament (band)|Parliament]] and [[Funkadelic]] songs formed the basis of [[West Coast rap|West Coast]] [[G-funk]].

Original beats that feature funk-styled bass or rhythm guitar riffs are also not uncommon. [[Dr. Dre]] (considered the progenitor of the G-funk genre) has freely acknowledged to being heavily influenced by George Clinton's psychedelia: "Back in the 70s that's all people were doing: getting high, wearing [[Afro]]s, bell-bottoms and listening to Parliament-Funkadelic. That's why I called my album ''[[The Chronic]]'' and based my music and the concepts like I did: because his shit was a big influence on my music. Very big".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://musicstrands.com/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060220104429/http://www.musicstrands.com/artist/6599/biography|url-status=dead|title=MusicStrands|archivedate=February 20, 2006|website=Musicstrands.com|accessdate=February 25, 2021}}</ref> [[Digital Underground]] was a large contributor to the rebirth of funk in the 1990s by educating their listeners with knowledge about the history of funk and its artists. George Clinton branded Digital Underground as "[[Sons of the P]]", as their second full-length release is also titled. DU's first release, ''[[Sex Packets]]'', was full of funk samples, with the most widely known, "[[The Humpty Dance]]", sampling Parliament's "Let's Play House". A very strong funk album of DU's was their 1996 release ''[[Future Rhythm]]''. Much of contemporary club dance music, drum and bass in particular has heavily sampled funk drum breaks.

Funk is a major element of certain artists identified with the [[jam band]] scene of the late 1990s and 2000s. In the late 1990s, the band [[Phish]] developed a live sound called "cow funk" (a.k.a. "space funk"), which consisted of extended danceable deep bass grooves, and often emphasized heavy "wah" pedal and other psychedelic effects from the guitar player and layered Clavinet from the keyboard player.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Whitman|first=Marc|date=2007-03-02|title=Phish Friday {{!}} Fall '97, Not Just the Cow Funk Era|url=https://livemusicblog.com/features/phish-friday-fall-97-not-just-the-cow-funk-era/|access-date=2020-12-23|website=LIVE music blog|language=en-US}}</ref> [[Phish]] began playing funkier jams in their sets around 1996, and 1998's ''[[The Story of the Ghost]]'' was heavily influenced by funk. While Phish's funk was traditional in the sense that it often accented beat 1 of the 4/4 time signature, it was also highly exploratory and involved building jams towards energetic peaks before transitioning into highly composed progressive rock and roll.

[[Medeski Martin & Wood]], [[Robert Randolph & the Family Band]], [[Galactic]], [[Jam Underground]], [[Soulive]], and [[Karl Denson's Tiny Universe]] all drew heavily from the funk tradition. [[Dumpstaphunk]] builds upon the New Orleans tradition of funk, with their gritty, low-ended grooves and soulful four-part vocals. 

Since the mid-1990s the nu-funk or funk revivalist scene, centered on the [[deep funk]] collectors scene, is producing new material influenced by the sounds of rare funk 45s. Labels include Desco, [[Soul Fire Records|Soul Fire]], [[Daptone Records|Daptone]], Timmion, Neapolitan, Bananarama, Kay-Dee, and Tramp. These labels often release on 45&nbsp;rpm records. Although specializing in music for rare funk DJs, there has been some crossover into the mainstream music industry, such as Sharon Jones' 2005 appearance on ''[[Late Night with Conan O'Brien]]''. Those who mix [[acid jazz]], [[acid house]], [[trip hop]], and other genres with funk include [[Tom Tom Club]],<ref>Walters, Barry. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20081010233404/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/tomtomclub/albums/album/127680/review/5940822/the_good_the_bad__the_funky Tom Tom Club:The Good, The Bad & The Funky]", ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', 28 September 2000.</ref> [[Brainticket]],<ref>Davis, Lindsay. "Chicken Lips: DJ Kicks", ''[[The Dominion Post (Wellington)|The Dominion Post]]'', 5 December 2003, p. B13.</ref> [[Groove Armada]], et al.<ref>Gold, Kerry. "Groove Armada", ''[[Vancouver Sun]]''. 17 February 2000, p. C15.</ref><ref>Brown, Jonathan. "[http://arts.independent.co.uk/music/features/article2934333.ece Everything you ever wanted to know about pop (but were too old to ask)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071224185113/http://arts.independent.co.uk/music/features/article2934333.ece |date=December 24, 2007 }}", ''[[The Independent]]'', 6 September 2007.</ref>