GTA Wiki

Help required: categories

Hi everyone, please help us by filling out this form!


We are determining how players best define and/or differentiate the terms "game modes", "missions" and "activities". This will be used to help us develop a clear and logical category tree to house articles related to this type of content.


Thank you in advance for help!

READ MORE

GTA Wiki
GTA Wiki
19,871
pages
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 37: Line 37:
   
 
==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
  +
*Many of the songs that are played on this station were sampled by other artists, primarily rap and hip hop artists.
 
*This is the favorite radio station of the [[Ballas (3D Universe)|Ballas]], [[Da Nang Boys]], as well as of [[Sweet Johnson|Sean "Sweet" Johnson]] and [[Big Smoke|Melvin "Big Smoke" Harris]], as evidenced when the player enters their respective vehicles.
 
*This is the favorite radio station of the [[Ballas (3D Universe)|Ballas]], [[Da Nang Boys]], as well as of [[Sweet Johnson|Sean "Sweet" Johnson]] and [[Big Smoke|Melvin "Big Smoke" Harris]], as evidenced when the player enters their respective vehicles.
 
*The station is nicknamed "The Party Ship", and [[Area 53]] host [[Marvin Trill]] phones into the station, believing "The Party Ship" to be an actual spaceship and enquiring as to how he can board.
 
*The station is nicknamed "The Party Ship", and [[Area 53]] host [[Marvin Trill]] phones into the station, believing "The Party Ship" to be an actual spaceship and enquiring as to how he can board.

Revision as of 13:37, 13 December 2017

The indescribable Funktipus plays the indefinable funk. The sound that has had Los Santos partying for twenty years is now on 'The Party', on Bounce FM. The Funktipus will open your eyes to what is really happening out there.
— GTA San Andreas Website

Bounce FM is a funk, disco, soul and R&B radio station in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, hosted by The Funktipus (voiced by George Clinton).

Playlist

Songs marked with * don't appear in the Re-Released versions of the game.

Video

Grand_Theft_Auto_San_Andreas_-_Bounce_FM

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas - Bounce FM

Trivia

  • Many of the songs that are played on this station were sampled by other artists, primarily rap and hip hop artists.
  • This is the favorite radio station of the Ballas, Da Nang Boys, as well as of Sean "Sweet" Johnson and Melvin "Big Smoke" Harris, as evidenced when the player enters their respective vehicles.
  • The station is nicknamed "The Party Ship", and Area 53 host Marvin Trill phones into the station, believing "The Party Ship" to be an actual spaceship and enquiring as to how he can board.
Bounce-FM-T-shirt-GTA Online
  • The song "Loopzilla" by George Clinton plays in the trailer for the mobile version of the game.
  • During the San Andreas Anniversary Weekend, it was possible to find a T-Shirt with the Bounce FM logo in the Special Crate drops in Grand Theft Auto Online.
  • During his radio chatter, the Funktipus utters lines from various Parliament-Funkadelic songs.
  • Some of the songs, such as "Funky Worm" and "I Can Make You Dance", featured on the station were an important backbone to the G-Funk genre which originated in the West Coast in the early '90s, in same era that the events of GTA San Andreas took place.
  • The songs "West Coast Poplock" and "Fantastic Voyage" can also be heard in the film South Central, a film that GTA San Andreas takes influence from. South Central was released in 1992, the same year as the events of GTA San Andreas.
  • The songs "Hollywood Swinging" by Kool & The Gang plays during Rhythm-based Minigames and mission Life's a Beach.

See Also

Template:Gtaiii era radio stations