Electro Boogie

This week I'd like to shine our funky search light into the eighties so that we can take a stroll though the genre of electro-funk. The track we're going to highlight today is one that is a well kept secret that has a significance that echos even into today's music. The track we are going to look at is none other than Ronnie Hudson and the Street People - West Coast Poplock. Now Ronnie Hudson wasn't really a famous cat outside of the recording studios of his day. He was a session bassist and played for folks like Marvin Gay. Now Ronnie only ever released one song, and boy was it funky! The track came out in 1982, and at the time  was damn near the funkiest and newest thing on the the market. Now this track went on to "inspire" the lyrics to the chorus of Tupac's arguably most famous song "California Love". Now this is just another example of Funk really being the foundation of so much of the sampling done in early hip hop. Now it is a shame that poor Ronnie Hudson made this song and gets virtually no recognition for it. That is one of the reasons I wanted to spread the love to you guys! Another whistle blower to this songs amazingness waws Rockstar Games when they featured the song on a radio station in GTA: San Andreas. Anyways that is all for this week, please post a comment and I hope this track shakes your tail feather!