We continue to celebrate some of the unsung lyricists in Hip Hop, Lil Dap, Tim Dog, Stezo. This episode we step into the world of the Beatnuts Psycho Les, a world of violence and titties. Sounds like a good world, join us won’t you?
A short session this week. We touch on the origins of the fucked up spelling of Musiklee Inzane, Arcee’s Indian dad stories and random Hip Hop.
Hello bitches, were back! We take a look at the career of the God MC, Rakim. Is he still deserving of such a title, considering his last few efforts have not lived up to his classic works? We attempt to listen to his latest album “The Seventh Seal”, listen to Ra speak on Nas’ Unauthorized Biography, and Arcee’s waning confidence at keeping him as his number one MC.
I must say we were quite amped for this episode. For most of us in our late 20′s to 40′s growing up in Canada and getting the latest in “urban” music was something you planned for since there were so few outlets, so when that one Hip Hop radio show came on in your city, everyone was listening at the same time.
The same could be said for Muchmusic., Canada’s music station. Seeing a R&B/Soul or Hip Hop video only happened originally on one show, Soul In The City, everyone watched or taped it for the latest, oh and when there was a Hip Hop special, it was an event! From that show eventually Rap City became a reality and so on. The original face for both of those shows and others like the Power Hour and New Music, was Michael Williams, he of the sleevless T’s.
We go through a ton of history in one hour, if you hear some names you don’t know, get up on Google the man has a wealth of musical knowledge.
If you need more, you can catch Mike, George Stroumboulopoulos (yes the guy from The Hour), K-Os, and Your Boy Brian over at 206 Beverly next Thursday Oct 29th for Stay Gold
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Food glorious food! Tell me where that song is from and I’ll give you a candy. P Pleezy sits in on this session as we discuss food, how much would you pay for a good meal, and just because it’s expensive is it really a good meal? That’s not all though, it is impossible for us not to talk about music, record shopping to Acree’s well documented hatred of Neo Soul.
This is an unprecedented episode. After repeatedly telling our guests “we got to have you back”, and never doing so, DJ Jason Chambers (Attitude Sound Crew, Flow 93.5 Mid-day Mix, Amnesia) has the honourable distinction of being the first ever repeat guest. It was more of just happening to be around the studio at the time, than anything else. we kid, we kid.
We touch on the value of records, the deterioration of the ‘music community’, and Mr. West.
We brought you the genius of The Nutcracker a few months ago. Now we return with “Classic Wackness” from Tim Dog. “Penicillin on Wax” dropped in ’91, and Arcee was one of the few to listen to it more than once, or at all. How this guy got away with some of these lyrics is amazing. Someone actually put this out! how did we think any of this was dope, or did we?
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Former Universal Music Canada A&R David ‘Click’ Cox is our guest this week. We go through some more T-Dot history, going back to the Illemental days and get some inside on how it all came togther. And a look at respect in hip hop. Plus we put a couple of artists on blast!
Our long time hommie and comrade (homrade?) DJ Grouch joins us this week for a good old-fashioned dose of shit talk on Differently Still Guy. Grouch was one of the first people I met when I started at CHRY back in 1994. He held down the Soundcheck show for over 10 years and has been named Underground DJ of the Year by the Stylus DJ Awards twice. He’s laid down cuts and performed with almost every artist you can think of in Toronto – from Sauks to Kardi to Melanie Durrant, Citizen Kane, K-Os and even yours truly. And he’s represented Canada on the world stage as part of DJ crew Turnstylez with Lil Jaz and D-Scratch. But most importantly he’s one of the most stand-up, talented and humble people I know. And in this industry, that should never be taken for granted.
We add on to the millions of Michael Jackson tributes. P-Plus, Rych Kydd and Ricochet of Sweet Touch join Arcee and Inzane to share their thoughts on the King of Pop.
