Trouble Funk was part of the ‘80s hyper funky, highly percussive, “freaky deak” call-and-response music scene in D.C. known as Go-Go. TF’s own worthwhile output were the albums Saturday Night Live and the studio album Drop the Bomb.

The scene was chronicled in a book titled The Beat: Go-Go’s Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop by Kip Lornell and Charles C. Stephenson (Billboard Books, 2001), with a simultaneously released 2-CD set, both now long out of print. Some Go-Go music showed up in Spike Lee films, such as Do the Right Thing.

An important figure in the Go-Go music scene was producer Max Kidd, who was involved in the release of the seminal, and absolutely fantastic, Go-Go collection on the Fourth and Broadway/T.T.E.D imprint, entitled Go-Go Crankin' – Paint the White House Black. The album comes with the Warning This is The D.C. Sound Attack, and is just relentless as it presents music by Trouble Funk, Redds and the Boys, E.U., Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers, Slim, and Mass Extension.