Urban Funk performs Chuck Brown's Bustin' Loose at the Takoma Park Street Festival in Takoma Park Maryland 10-02-2016. In it's 35th year this festival is a fall celebration of music, crafts and delicacies.

Featuring Tommy Lepson on Guitar and Vocals, Wayne Sulc on Saxophone and Vocals, Steve Long on Keys, Dave Chappell on Guitar, Mike Davis on Bass, Gary Crockett on Drums and Vocals, and Tim Cutrona on Percussion and Vocals.

"Bustin' Loose (Part 1)" was a hit song for Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers.[1] Released from the album of the same name, it spent four weeks at the top of the R&B singles chart in early 1979 and peaked at number thirty-four on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.[1][2] The Nelly song "Hot in Herre" contains an interpolation of "Bustin' Loose".

From the opening of Nationals Park until the 2015 season, the song was played after every home run the Washington Nationals hit. It was replaced by the Jessie J song "Bang Bang.

Chuck Brown, funk singer and guitarist of the D.C. scene from the '70s to the present, has died. The Washington City Paper reports that his daughter has confirmed his death, and while the paper does not list a cause, Brown had been hospitalized since April after experiencing a bout of pneumonia. He was 75 years old.

Brown is cited as being the "Godfather of Go-Go," the funk subgenre that stemmed out of D.C. in the mid-'70s, thanks largely to early Brown singles like "I Need Some Money" and particularly "Bustin' Loose," which spent a month on top of the R&B charts in 1979. The hits didn't last for Brown, but he remained a local hero for the next several decades, and "Loose" has even been used as the home run celebration song of the Washington Nationals. (Brown was also recruited to perform the theme song to The Sinbad Show in the '90s, a fact that he may or may not still include on his resume.)

Chuck Brown's music continues to live on, especially in hip-hop, thanks to the highly sampleable nature of two of his songs, "Loose" and "Ashley's Roachclip," which he recorded as the guitarist and singer for band The Soul Searchers. "Loose" most famously had its hook interpolated by The Neptunes on Nelly's "Hot in Herre," with Nelly even taking the time to namecheck his source material, rapping "I feel like bustin' loose / And I feel like touchin' you." Meanwhile, "Roachclip" has one of the most famous drum breaks in funk history, with its breakdown section being sampled on hip-hop classics from Eric B. & Rakim ("Paid in Full") and Run-DMC ("Run's House") as well as pop smashes from PM Dawn ("Set Adrift on Memory Bliss") and EMF ("Unbelievable").

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