Hip-Hop
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Urban Village Fundraiser Concert – Saturday
The Urban Village is a center for learning, sharing and growing. The space is available for self directed learning and research, facilitated programs and classes, meetings, presentations, and administrative support. Primarily focusing on the youth. We are looking for cash donations, blankets, socks and bags (all kinds of bags in New or clean used backpacks,duffel…
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WIB Rap Radio – DJ Dick Vegas + Show & Prove
For the latest edition of Word is Bond Rap Radio, we bring you a guest mixset from DJ Dick Vegas. He spins some of his favourite records in an all-vinyl hour-long set. For the last hour of the program, we featured the live hip-hop trivia game show that Chase March did for Radio Western’s 24…
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Hip-Hop Anonymous – Saturday
Hip-Hop Anonymous is a monthly hip-hop event thrown by DWG Entertainment. Tomorrow night, DJ Wiskaz will be holding down the 1s and 2s and cutting it up nicely all night long. With performances by Andro Joseph Bray Doniot Chase March Diztrikt Apolo Don Markx G Premacy Henny Honey Ice Boy I.G. Johnny Bars Nate Oh…
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Celebrate National Radio Day with Word is Bond
Word is Bond Rap Radio hit the airwaves on National Radio Day to celebrate what campus radio is all about. DJ Chase March started off the show by spinning some classic hip-hop tracks about radio by Public Enemy, LL Cool J, and Run-DMC. He then kept things moving by spinning live on the Technics 1200 turntables.…
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Rapper Pens Great Fiction (Supermarket)
Supermarket by Bobby Hall I enjoy listening to audiobooks. I borrowed this one on the Libby App from the public library without really looking closely at it. It was recommended to me by a page I work with. The story captured me from the start and I whipped through the audio book quicker than usual.…
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WIB Rap Radio – Listen 2 Me Now
Word is Bond Rap Radio broadcasts out of the heart of Western University in London, Ontario, Canada every Tuesday night from 10:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight EST of 94.9 fm Radio Western. DJ Chase March serves up mixsets, interviews, know your history segments, special guests, and even some trivia. If you miss an episode, they…
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Celebrate Hip-Hop’s Birthday with Word Up!
August 11th, 1973 is recognized as the first hip-hop event. Last year, we celebrated hip-hop’s birthday with the first ever Word Up spectacular. Well, this weekend we did it again. I did a special on breakdancing and talked to Midus to debunk some of the myths surrounding this often-misunderstood element of hip-hop culture. Later in…
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WIB Rap Radio #378 – High Voltage
Word is Bond Rap Radio comes at you lie every Tuesday night from 10:00 p.m. to 12:00 midnight EST on 94.9 fm Radio Western. We broadcast out of the heart of Western University in London, Ontario, Canada and always bring you high voltage content. This weeks show features these great songs, mixed by yours truly,…
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Show and Prove Your Hip-Hop Knowledge
This Saturday, we are celebrating hip-hop’s birthday with 24 hours of programming on Radio Western. It’s our second annual Word Up! spectacular and I wanted to do something special for it. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time now. I love trivia and game shows and thought it would be amazing to…
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London Hip-Hop History Shines on WIB Rap Radio
London, Ontario, Canada is known as the Forest City and it has a rich history of hip-hop. Alex Kuchma is writing a book on Canadian hip-hop history and will have an entire chapter dedicated to the scene. He was on CBC radio talking about it this week. I had to feature a clip of that…