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How did funk influence other music genres?

Funk influenced the disco music of the late 1970s. In the 1980s musicians mixed funk with the gritty realism of hard rock and punk, and funk underlay the experimentation of much of the electronic music of the time. The music also provided a rhythmic basis for hip-hop culture (including rap) and most American dance music of the 1990s.