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Know Your History: Episode 8 – Graffiti
Welcome to Episode 8 of Know Your History, your monthly dose of hip-hop knowledge. Today we will be focusing on graffiti art, which may prove to be a challenge because I can’t show you what we are talking about on this radio show (download this show for free, stream it with the player below, or […]
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A Baseball Bat, Golf Club, and Tennis Racket to Use in Your… Livingroom?
When I was growing up we had an Atari and then we moved up to a Commodore 64. I was playing games and doing some BASIC programming on both of these computers. My dad and my brother would play along with me. However, I don’t ever recall my mom playing a video game with us. […]
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Awesome Christmas Images
I found these great images online this Christmas and thought I’d post them all up here. from Agent M from Andy Beal from Fox Trot by Bill Amend from Parade I so love that Santa Hulk one. How cute is that? Baby Wolverine is right on character too. Perfect! Stormtroopers watching How The Grinch Stole […]
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Best Gift I Gave This Year
About a month ago, I found the remastered DVD box set of Season 3 of the original series of Star Trek. I found it in a cheap bin and couldn’t believe that it was priced at $19.99. When the show first came out on DVD years ago, I remember seeing it priced at $199.99. I […]
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Canadian Christmas Rappin’
Every year George Stroumboulopoulos assembles some of the best musical talent we have in this country for a special Christmas Eve broadcast of his talk show. This year is no different. Tonight’s extravaganza features this amazing remake of Kurtis Blow’s Christmas Rappin’. It really is a Christmas treat to hear Kardinall Offishall, Maestro Fresh Wes, […]
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In 1986 Rap Moved to Philly
Today we continue our coverage of Know Your History: Episode 7 – Rap Moves Out of New York. If you missed Part 1 you can go back and read it now or you can stream the entire show with the player below. Don`t forget that you can download it for free as well. Without further ado, […]
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Know Your History: Episode 7 – Rap Moves Out of NY
Welcome to Episode 7 of Know Your History, your monthly dose of hip-hop knowledge. You can stream this show with the player below, download it for free, or read this transcript. It’s important to remember that everything is built upon what has come before. We take it for granted that we have samplers, laptops, and […]
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Top 10 Albums of ’10
Here are my picks for the best albums of 2010. 10) Eternia & Moss – At Last I really wish this album had made it further up the list. Eternia is a fierce emcee who consistently drops some amazing underground hip-hop. Moss is a rising star producer and has done some amazing work this year. […]
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Teaching Tip – Take a Break
Image via Wikipedia Teaching can become an all-encompassing profession. It is so hard to fit everything we need to do into the small amount of time we have at school. Most teachers I know either come in early, stay late, or take work home with them. Many teachers actually do all three. I know that […]
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How Rap Got Popular – Part 2: Whodini & Run-DMC
We just played a track called “Friends” by Whodini that gets classified as an old-school track. However, it is important to note that when that track was released, old-school as a genre or a term didn’t even exist. Now we define old-school hip-hop as containing a simple drum pattern, a bass-line, and a few sparse […]