Chicago's DJ Funk pioneered the ghetto house subgenre, influencing numerous dance producers and DJs around the world. His music was fast, raw, and minimal, generally focusing on banging four-to-the-floor drum machine rhythms and sexually explicit lyrics, usually in the form of brief, repeated samples rather than full verses. Throughout the '90s, he released dozens of records on labels like Dance Mania and his own Funk Records, containing DJ staples like "Pump It" and "Work Dat Body" (to name some of his cleaner track titles). He also issued several mixtapes and CDs, with 1999'...