Trouble Funk

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Trouble Funk
Origin	Washington DC, United States
Genre(s)	Go-go Funk
Years active	1978–1994
Label(s)	Sugar Hill Island
Former members
Emmett "EJ Roxx" Nixon Mack Carey Timothius "Tee-Bone" David Chester "Boogie" Davis Big Tony Fisher James "Doc" Avery Gerald Reed Robert "Syke Dyke" Reed Taylor "Monster Baby" Reed David Rudd

Trouble Funk was an influential and successful R&B and funk band from Washington DC. They helped to popularise the Washington, D.C. funk subgenre go-go. Among their well-known songs is the go-go anthem "Hey Fellas". They released several studio albums including Drop the Bomb, In Times of Trouble, and Trouble Over Here, Trouble Over There, and two live albums, Trouble Funk - Straight Up Go-Go Style and Saturday Night Live. In 1982 they released a single "So Early In The Morning" on D.E.T.T Records (Both sides are 7:00 Min. long - Vocal and Special Mix). They sometimes shared the stage with hardcore punk bands of the day such as Minor Threat and the Big Boys.

Their song "Pump Me Up" has been sampled by many other artists and is featured in Style Wars and the fictional R&B radio station Wildstyle in the game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

Keyboard player Robert "Syke Dyke" Reed passed away aged 50, on April 13, 2008 from pancreatic cancer.^[1]