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DJ Funk
Person · male · United States · Chicago · born 1971 · died 2025
American musician
Timeline
1970s
2020s
Biography
Biography
Charles E. Chambers III (Jan 25, 1971 – March 4, 2025), better known by his stage name DJ Funk, was an American DJ who pioneered the ghetto house subgenre of house music. Through the 1990s, he built a regional reputation in the Chicago-Detroit region and in the Midwest rave scene. His 1999 album Booty House Anthems was distributed nationally and sold over one million copies. He founded the Funk Records label in 2006. He is included in Modulations, a 1998 film documentary of electronic music.
DJ Funk died from cancer on March 4, 2025, at the age of 54.
Albums
1992: Ghetto House Anthems
1993: Ghetto House Anthems 2
1999: Booty House Anthems
2006: Booty House Anthems 2
2013: Booty House Anthems 3
Additional album mixes:
I Love Ghetto
Freaky Stylz
Freaky Stylz 2
Mr. Big D**k
Bootyology
Booty Bounce 2000
Guest appearance on DJ V's Juke-A-Licious Side A
Remixes
Justice – "Let There Be Light (DJ Funk Remix)"
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put DJ Funk head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DJ_Funk.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3011294genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3011294seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Funkbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Funk
Why this artist is in the database
- List of hip-hop musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Alkivar · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q3011294 · MusicBrainz: 9c446bec-9272-4828-a958-9dd43e33cc97
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