‘Funky Drummer’ by James Brown was recorded in 1969 and released as a single in 1970. Its drum break, improvised by Clyde Stubblefield, is one of the most frequently sampled music recordings of all time, used in over two-thousand other records. In 1986, the tracks "South Bronx", ‘Eric B. is President’ and ‘It's a Demo’ sampled Stubblefield's drum break, helping popularize sampling. The drum break was further sampled by hip hop acts including Public Enemy, N.W.A, LL Cool J, Run-DMC, the Beastie Boys, and the theme music to The Powerpuff Girls on Cartoon Network, as well as later pop musicians such as Ed Sheeran and George Michael, notably on Freedom! '90.