Schwa. Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 Kae Sun is completely clueless as to who booked him. If I were an interviewer, i'd have researched this a lot better.Kae Sun shuns the nu funk tagBRAD WHEELER - Globe and MailFebruary 21, 2008Who's got the funk? Urban musician Kae Sun is booked to play Clinton's Tavern tomorrow, and although the show is part of a multi-venue nu funk festival, don't ask the Hamilton-based artist what exactly "nu funk" is. "In my opinion, funk is very much alive," says the 25-year-old Sun, who released his EP Ghost Town Prophecy last year. "You can hear it in elements of what hip hop artists and R & B artists do." And the term "nu funk?" "You'd have to ask the guy putting the festival together, but I think it's more of a marketing thing."Funk music has always been a hybrid of sorts, a mix of soul, jazz and rhythm and blues, famously popularized by the likes of James Brown, Sly Stone and George Clinton, a crazy-great weird-haired pioneer who brings his Parliament-Funkadelic collective to the Phoenix on Monday. Sun, born and raised in Ghana, doesn't regard Clinton as a prime influence on his own music (a blend of spoken word, soul, reggae and spiritual rock), but does count funk-informed hip hop duo OutKast as heroes. As for other shapers - "all across the map" - Sun draws on Bob Marley, K-OS and the sly and lithe Curtis Mayfield. In sum, Sun's package is as hard to define succinctly as it is to describe "funk," a danceable music with more extensions than George Clinton's hair and just as freaky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffhead77 Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 hahahahahahahahahahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afro poppa Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 hey Jay you should write into the Globe and tell the world what nu funk is all about!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewRider Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 Clearly the journalists at Globe and Mail don't come to jambands.ca to see the 25 weekly postings of nufunk shows! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwa. Posted February 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 hey Jay you should write into the Globe and tell the world what nu funk is all about!!my thoughts exactly...these schmucks need to investigate before they go throwing crap in a nationally distributed paper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chameleon Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 Kae Sun needs to get off the pipe. He doesn't know who booked him? Dude better ask someone... NUFUK fo' Lyfe!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Funk Dawg Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 I was pretty pissed to read this yesterday. uggh..Kae Sun phone me today to explain...... his side of the story is this:He was completely clueless as to who booked him - he knew it as "Jay from Toronto" not NUFUNK.He thought he was being asked if his sound was in the genre "NUFUNK" - he said he thought he was more hiphop. Brad asked him - so do you think this is more of a marketing thing ? Kae Sun then said -yes maybe, you'd have to ask the guy putting the festival together.words were kinda put in his mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 to be fair...a person who isn't well versed in the sub genres and all these new fangled music names doesn't really know that nufunk festival is a festival put on by nufunk productions or whatever jay's calling his enterprise these days (way to go jay keep workin hard)....and could be mistaken for a festival entirely comprised of bands that play nufunk (why do i keep typing nufuck) music. i can see where the confusion came in....kae sun is actually a very humble person and i don't think he'd intentionally diss any of the people who've helped him along the way to where he is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ol'Hickster Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 What a douche!, I mean if your producing something like music ir entertainment, im sure you would know what your repersenting or who is getting you repersented from read what I did I thing Kid Sun there is a Douche and Jay Keep Rock cause you keep the Jams flowing steady in the heady TO Brother! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 what?none of the people in this story are douches, sounds like a big misunderstanding to me. what's the big deal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ol'Hickster Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 I just re read what I typed and it does sound funy but in the end I think I just like calling people douches That word just seems to flow freely for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 great reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Funk Dawg Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 Ol'Hickster you never cease to amaize me with your hillarious posts - keep posting while drunk!Kae Sun played a great set - he definitely was bigging up the NUFUNK Tonight at Clinton's.Funny thing about that article is that it says at the bottom the wrong date of the show! I guess bad press is better than no press! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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