Years active 2007 – present | Record label Daptone Records | |
Origin Brooklyn, New York, United States Labels Dunham Records, Daptone Associated acts Antibalas, Budos Band, El Michels Affair, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Charles Bradley Members Thomas Brenneck (guitar)
Nick Movshon (bass)
Homer Steinweiss (drums)
Mike Deller (organ)
Dave Guy (trumpet)
Leon Michels (saxophone) Albums Make the Road by Walking, The Crossing Genres Afrobeat, Funk, Jazz, Soul music Similar Charles Bradley, The Budos Band, The dap‑kings, El Michels Affair, Lee Fields Profiles | ||
Menahan street band make the road by walking 2008
Menahan Street Band is a Brooklyn, New York-based instrumental band formed in 2007, that plays funk and soul music. The band features musicians from Antibalas, El Michels Affair, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and the Budos Band. The group was founded by Thomas Brenneck while living in an apartment on Menahan St. in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick. Their debut album, Make the Road by Walking, was released in 2008 on Dunham, a sublabel of Daptone Records.
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Various songs from Make the Road by Walking have been sampled by hip hop artists, including the title track, which was sampled by Jay-Z on the track "Roc Boys (And the Winner Is)...", "Going The Distance", which was sampled by Kid Cudi on his song "Solo Dolo Pt.II" featuring Kendrick Lamar on Cudi's third studio album Indicud, and "The Traitor," sampled by 50 Cent on his mixtape War Angel LP and by Cudi on his debut album Man on the Moon: The End of Day. In addition, the song "Tired of Fighting" is used as a primary sample in Kendrick Lamar's "Faith" from his eponymous 2009 EP.
Songs
The TraitorMake the Road by Walking · 2008
Tired of FightingMake the Road by Walking · 2008
The CrossingThe Crossing · 2012