Best Nerd Rapper to Book for Your Party

September 16th, 2009 | By 49

I’m in Tampa Bay’s Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay 2009!

Best Nerd Rapper to Book for Your Party
Steve Rush aka Funky49
Computer jockey by day. Nerdcore rapper by night. Steve has penned a MOSI theme song and recently garnered national press by writing a theme song for the particle physics lab, Fermilab.

funky49 is in print!

April 1st, 2009 | By 49

There is a M-F newspaper in Tampa Bay called the TBT (Tampa Bay Times). funky49 was pimped in the TBT on Friday, 20 March! It was on page 42 (that’s like a blessing from Douglas Adams). I always love a reference between me and the Beastie Boys!

Here is the text from the article:

funky49
Nerdcore is alive and well in Tampa!

funky49, a.k.a. Steven Rush of Temple Terrace, was once mentioned in a Wired article about hip-hop that caters to computer programmers and other proud geeks. He recently released Rapbassador, a digital album about the Tampa Museum of Science and Industry. You’d roll your eyes at the sheer geekiness of it — “Wait a sec, let your eyes focus/ you’re face to face with a diplodocus!” — if only funky49’s Beasties-esque dance-rap wasn’t so tight. “If I can have fun and draw some attention to Tampa’s MOSI,” Rush said, “it is a win.” funky49.com.

FUNKY49 VIDEO RELEASE PARTY!

September 26th, 2008 | By 49

The release party for the “Milk & Doo Doo Video” will be Saturday, October 25th! The show starts at 8pm at the Hip Hop Soda Shop in Tampa, FL, USA!

Performering live will be (so far) the Emergency Pizza Party, Rocket Propelled Geeks… other people once they check their myspace… and funky49 with redvoid! Holding down in the DJ booth will be DJ Q.

Entry is $5 which includes a raffle drawing for a gaming session on the Hip Hop Soda Shop’s Xbox 360s!

You need to be here!

funky49 in Ybor City! Aug 13 (Wed night)

July 16th, 2008 | By 49

That’s riiiight! I’m doing a show in Tampa again… this time in Ybor City! It’s a Wednesday night ALL AGES show so I need you to get off work, have that baby, whatever it takes for you to be there!

PLEASE BUY TICKETS THROUGH ME!

AUGUST 13th at ORPHEUM
1902 Republica De Cuba
Tampa, FL 33605
Show Time 6:15 PM
All-ages & Bar w/ID
$8.00 Adv Tix, $10.00 Door

More info is here

NERDCORE TAMPA EVENT!

August 10th, 2006 | By 49

16 September @ Sacred Grounds Coffee House, Tampa, FL

I tried to get MC Router of Texas to come out. She can’t. She’s likes potatos more than oranges. Jesse Dangerously might be able to come out.. from Canada. That’s another country away. I guess that means this will be the first International Nerdcore Show. Neat. Right now performers include funky49, MC Wreckshin, Sir-Up, JeffMK and Betty Rebel. Hurrah for the Emergency Pizza Party crew out of Orlando! We might have Jesse Dangerously and Egod of Spamtec fame. Neat. Really neat.