WEFUNK Radio

WEFUNK is an award-winning weekly radio show held on Montreal's CKUT 90.3, McGill University's radio station since 1996 and online since 1999. The show is usually very light on talk as both DJs Professor Groove and DJ Static play a symbiotic mix of Funk, Soul, R&B and Rap, both old and new. The name of the radio show comes from the Parliament song "P. Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)", in which WEFUNK is a fictional radio station broadcasting "directly from the Mothership, top of the Chocolate Milky Way, 500,000 kilowatts of P Funk-power."

WEFUNK expanded to include its own Internet radio stream in 1999, becoming one of the oldest continuously operating radio streams on the Internet, as well as one of the longest-running online radio shows. Since 2001, Apple has featured WEFUNK in its iTunes radio directory, introducing the show to a large worldwide audience.

Every Friday at midnight, WEFUNK's recurring introduction music kicks in, a sampled production of unknown source, and is usually finished off with a few rhyming words by Professor Groove; after that, two hours of music follows. Professor Groove is the one responsible for most of the Funk as DJ Static takes care of most of the rap. The duo often divide the show in four to six parts of 20 to 30 minutes.

The show features little talk. Typically there are two voiceover segments, at the start and end of the show, that usually last the length of a song. During those, the duo often report on the local music scene in Montreal, upcoming shows and news about CKUT.

Shows sometimes includes guests, some of them part of the 'WEFUNK family', to either perform sets, give interviews, perform live rapping, freestyling and beatboxing. Members include Butta Beats (rapper/beatboxing), Tony Ezzy (singer), Rawgged MC (rapper/beatboxing), and Rawsoul (DJ). There have also been a number of interviews with important members of the music community or part of history. Some of these include Marva Whitney, Kool Herc, Sharon Jones, Miles Tackett, etc.

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