1999- 5 days after the Columbine horror left the nation licking an open wound, 5 shots from a .357 Smith & Wesson echoed in the alley behind Roger Tee Enterprises, and funk machine Roger Troutman was dead at the hands of his older brother Larry, who saved the 5th and final bullet for himself.

1996- Tupac needs a hit to launch his first album since Suge bailed him out of jail. Dre cooks up “California Love” which features Roger freestyling the now iconic hook.

1980- More Bounce to the Ounce gives a generation of khaki creasing, house shoe slidin’ ridahs something to bump out the back of the lac, as they scrape through the streets of Compton and Long Beach.

1970-1977- After learning to play the guitar from a local bum in exchange for food, Roger soaked up the funk from his fellow Ohio natives: Slave and The Ohio Players. Roger first saw the talkbox (or as he called it the ghetto robot) between Stevie Wonder’s gums on a 1973 episode of Sesame Street, and started using the technique to sing hits originally recorded by women.

2010- Dudes like Dam-Funk and DJ B. Cause are keeping the Troutman legacy alive with muthafunkin mixes like this here
DJ B. Cause – Playin’ Kinda Ruff

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