with the funk rock of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Incubus, the metal funk of Rage Against The Machine, lounge-pop funk of Jamiroquai, as well as the R’n’B funk stylings of OutKast and Gnarls ...

That included grunge, of course, but it also encompassed alt-rock, funk-metal and retro rock that, ironically, sounded fresh again on the heels of so much bloated, overproduced pop-metal.

Nu metal may not be as big as it once was during its heyday in the late 1990s, but the spirit of the genre is still well and alive, especially for Enrique ‘Rekay’ Myrick.