This isn’t really funky. But I didn’t want to put it on the Cheesy Dance thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phwOOmFYudU&feature=related
This is funky however.
Well, this is pretty funky, or cool, however you wish to classify it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz-oKWEYJgY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_HveDoYfos
People have beaten me to War, Prince, and The Chili Peppers on this thread (though I posted that song elsewhere). There is some good music here 
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What’s this? No Curtis Mayfield?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9FNeVR8nv8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAh_4s_-tas&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cmo6MRYf5g&feature=related
Dyke & the Blazers:
Curtis Mayfield! I should have thought of that 
I posted it first 
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This is why the 70s had the best music 
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Jorge Ben: “Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)”
Claudia Lennear - Everything I Do Gonna be Funky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjQUblWNy6E&feature=related
Marva Whitney - Things Got to get Better
Perhaps not in the ‘funkiest ever’ category, but someone’s got to keep the new school funk alive.
For me it falls under the catagory of scary 80’s.
I love this version of Rappers Delight (which famously nicked Chic’s bassline from Good Times) funked up by some Brazilian guys.