Bootsy Collins defines funk as "making something out of nothing," a philosophy he's always lived. Growing up in Cincinnati in ...

Click to open image viewer. Framed Ebony Magazine Cover from July 1978. Headline reads: "Hottest of the Hot Groups" with photographs of Chaka Khan of "Rufus and Chaka Kahn," Maurice White of "Earth, ...

Cincinnati, OH (AP, FOX19) - Bootsy Collins met Prince when they were both with the Warner Bros. label back in 1978. Six years later, Prince's music career hit the stratosphere with "Purple Rain." ...

Bootsy Collins' 1976 album Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band has long been considered a funk masterpiece. But what becomes clear all these years later is the way in which the album transcends the ...