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I Am Hip-Hop – Cool Conversations
I Am Hip-Hop: Conversations on the Music and Culture by Andrew J. Rausch This is what Dres of Black Sheep had to say when he was asked, “What does hip-hop mean to you?” “It’s kind of grown over the years. I’ve kind of come upon a revelation that it’s the music of the people. I…
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Mastermind Street Jam – Hip-Hop Classics
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. This is the Tuesday night edition and features some…
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Word Up 3.0 – 24 Hr Celebration of Hip-Hop
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 from the Word is Bond Studios. It’s going…
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Change the World – Disrupt Systems of White Supremacy
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad We are living in an unprecedented time right now. We have the power to act in ways that can truly affect change. Social media is one way to capture the attention of the public and steer them toward…
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DJ Russell Peters on Mastermind Street Jam
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 tuned in late that day and only got the last half…
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Highlights from last August
It’s time for another edition of Chasing Content, that monthly feature that has us looking back at the best content featured on this blog from this month one year ago. ‘Read all of the posts from last August or just these highlights. That One Time I Ran Steeplechase In high school, I stayed away from track.…
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I Surrender (Can I Raise a White Flag?)
Surrender, White People!: Our Unconditional Terms for Peace by D.L. Hughley and Doug Moe I’m not sure it’s appropriate to wave a white flag right now, but I truly believe that we need to surrender under the conditions that D.L. Hughley and Doug Moe lay out for us in this brilliant book. So here it…
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Mastermind Street Jam – November 7, 1995
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 Tuesday nights at midnight. This episode is the second hour…
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Mastermind Street Jam – New Time Slot
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 Saturdays was excellent. This late night burial…
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Golden Era Hip-Hop Radio (Mastermind Street Jam)
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 Internet. I even did a tracklisting for this one. It’s on…