Origin of funk
The word "funk", once defined in dictionaries as body odor or the smell of sexual intercourse, commonly was regarded as coarse or indecent. African-American musicians originally applied "funk" to music with a slow, mellow groove, then later with a hard-driving, insistent rhythm because of the word's association with sexual intercourse. This early form of the music set the pattern for later musicians.[1]
Now somebody tell me that is not the PERFECT basis on which to build a musical foundation. This is a genre of music born from the desire to dance and to fuck like a couple of alley cats. Go get your bellbottoms.