Five Hip-Hop Classics That Wouldn't Exist Without P-Funk Guitarist Garry Shider (R.I.P.)

Five Hip-Hop Classics That Wouldn't Exist Without P-Funk Guitarist Garry Shider (R.I.P.)
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Parliament-Funkadelic guitarist Garry Shider passed away yesterday from cancer. The 56-year-old musician will be remembered for many things, not the least of which was wearing a diaper onstage. But more importantly, his contributions to music will be known for generations, thanks to both the legendary Parliament-Funkadelic catalog as well as the hundreds of hip-hop classics that were build upon P-Funk samples. Here's a few of our favorite songs that sample P-Funk and Shider.

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