hip-hop

DJ Mastermind spun great hip-hop jams live on the radio twice a week back in the 1990s for one hour Monday nights and one hour Tuesday nights. The show was the only hip-hop show on Energy 108, 107.9 fm, serving the Hamilton and Toronto, ON. area. [Keep Reading]

Word Up! 3.0 is our 3rd Annual Celebration of Hip-Hop Culture on Radio Western. It starts tonight at 9:00 p.m. as we have a live DJ mixset party going on via Zoom. Follow Radio Western on Instagram to get your invite code. I will be spinning live [Keep Reading]

Hip-hop has lost another one of its own. Rest in Peace, Malik B. We start out with a mixset of your music featuring some great songs from The Roots and your solo work. Then we keep things moving with a mix of new and classic material. Chase March [Keep Reading]

Russell Peters is a hilarious comedian and actor. But did you know that he’s also a DJ? He appeared on several episodes of the Mastermind Street Jam back in the 1990s. This is the first time I captured it on cassette. And unfortunately, I [Keep Reading]

Last night Word is Bond Rap Radio featured two hours of underground hip-hop with that boom-bap aesthetic. We didn’t have any interviews and delivered some classic and brand new joints mixed by yours truly, Chase March. Remember to keep [Keep Reading]

Last week’s edition of the Mastermind Street Jam throwback was from Monday November 6th, 1995; the first time the show aired in its new time slot. Instead of a two-hour long show once a week, the program was split into two and ran Monday and [Keep Reading]

Chokeules just dropped his twentieth project, Nepotism, in as many years. I’ve been a fan of his for quite some time. It’s a crime that it has taken me this long to get him on the program. We start off this episode of Word is Bond Rap [Keep Reading]

This is Tape 21 of my collection of The Mastermind Street Jam that I taped off the radio back on November 6th 1995. It was the first episode of the show in it’s new time slot. Mondays and Tuesdays at 12:00 a.m. Midnight. The two hour format on [Keep Reading]

Capone (of Capone and Noreaga) has teamed up with Lak (pronounced “Lock”) to drop a new EP entitled Wolves. They both called in to Word is Bond Rap Radio to discuss the new project, hip-hop history, positive lyrics, and much more. You [Keep Reading]

The Mastermind Street Jam was golden-era hip-hop radio at its finest. It was required listening and thanks to the invention of blank cassette tapes, it was something I could listen to again and again. Now you can too, thanks to this thing called the [Keep Reading]