A nice postscript for today and a musician who has our admiration for stepping outside of the box . . .
KCUR: Kansas City's Eems On Inventing Ukulele Hip-Hop: "I Don't Think I Have A Genre"
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Now, he's a touring musician with fans all over the country, a new EP and a unique sound that defies genre: a mix of hip-hop, R&B and lots of ukulele. That's right: ukulele.
As he was getting his hip-hop career off the ground, he wanted to change things up, so he started playing around with different instruments — "different toys" as he calls them — to see what he could do. He was always hanging around the music store. One day, he saw a ukulele on the shelf. For reasons he said still can't explain, he needed to have it.
"Everyone thinks I'm crazy," he recalled. "I'm walking around in my white tee and baggy jeans with the ukelele and even my mom is like, 'What are you doing?' And I'm like, 'Just trust me on this.'"
The Only Eems!
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