"Funky Worm" - Ohio Players - a G-Funk classic.

When he comes out of his hole he sounds a little like... well, like a lot of 90's hip hop that's for sure. This track has been sampled over and over again and has been the basis of some of hip hop's best moments (and, unfortunatly, also its worst) moments.


"Funky Worm" by Ohio Players.

That's the original from 1973, though it sounded just as crazy in 1983 and 1993,
or in 1987, when NWA dropped this:


"Dopeman" - NWA

And then again in '88...

"Gangsta Gansta" by NWA.

After NWA dispanded Dr Dre went solo and in so doing introduced the world to a whole new form of music, G-Funk, and a new rap superstar, Snoop Doggy Dog.
And when he introduced his album - The Chronic - he introduced it with the Funky Worm.

The Following year, Dre followed it up by producing "Doggystyle", for then-newcomer Snoop Doggy Dog.


Not to be outdone, Ice Cube dropped his 1992 solo album, The Predator.

"Wicked" - Ice Cube

This song also proved a hit with the emerging rap-metal scene and would later be covered by nu-metallers Korn
(with the famous synthesizer part now played by guitar) as well as covered by Limp Bizkit (complete with Slayer's Angel of Death Riff)

The Beastie Boys also sampled Funky Worm, as well as Barrington Levy's "Unda Mi Sensi" for their track "Funky Boss" (Special bonus, the YouTube video I selected has scenes from Fawlty Towers cut to it including John Cleese's hilarious Nazi walk)

Here's MC Breed mixing Funky Worm with Zapp and Roger.

"Ain't No Future In Yo' Frontin'" - MC Breed


And the
rest is
history...