George Clinton
To be fair to the groups George Clinton led, Parliament and Funkadelic, the eclectic band leader had a lot of help with creating his pioneering funk style. And in that regard, the aggressive bass lines and unrelenting passion that Clinton eked out of his bands pushed forward a sound that would ultimately inform a bulk of Dr. Dre’s early hits and much of the “G-Funk” sound. Other regions got down with Clinton too, with groups like De La Soul, 2Pac, Eric B. and Rakim, Nine Inch Nails, Digital Underground and others sampling tracks like “(Not Just) Knee Deep” and “Cosmic Slop.”
