This week's episode landed on the 82nd birthday of Mr. Otis Redding, and no further introduction should be necessary,
Out of all the many artists we lost at or around that age of 26, lo...
2023-09-12 21:23:59 +0000 UTC
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Continuing our 50-ish Anniversary deep dive into the Railroad archives, this week we unearthed a 2005 visit to the show from none other than Boots Riley. We starte...
2023-09-08 23:12:19 +0000 UTC
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As you may have noticed if you follow my instagram, I've been inspired by all the 50th Anniversary love to dig through ...
2023-08-28 21:28:22 +0000 UTC
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This week we broadcast live from the Bronx, NY! And we had a good long conversation with our fam Jesi Kelley about Hip-Hop's 50th anniversary celebrations, from her perspective as a fellow old-head...
2023-08-23 20:25:37 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all,
It's been a month now since I lost Wallace. I'm definitely still feeling it, in those capricious waves you keep hoping will, over time, take on some identifiable arc that pas...
2023-07-06 22:34:28 +0000 UTC
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This past Saturday just happened to be the birthday of our greatest living artist Stevie Wonder, and there was no way I was gonna let that pass by without giving some flowers. This week we start ou...
2023-05-18 17:21:04 +0000 UTC
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This week we paid tribute to one of our most formidable figures in the culture, Mr. Harry Belafonte, with his voice woven into the mix thanks to our old friend Amy Goodman of Democ...
2023-05-18 01:52:13 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all, before we get to this batch of uploads let me say: I was shocked to see that it's been since late February that I last posted here! I knew it had been a while but would've never guessed ...
2023-05-18 01:16:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all this week we continued paying tribute to Trugoy the Dove and De La Soul, and I think I may have enjoyed this one even more than last week. We got into a bunch more hits, some of the class...
2023-02-27 21:12:23 +0000 UTC
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"Years just blow by
My eyes stay fixed but the picture's kinda out of focus
I cry a lot but admit to it
Enjoying life now but I've been through it
Sometimes I wish that I can go back
2023-02-24 02:11:06 +0000 UTC
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Hey Y'all on this episode we marked the beginning of a Black History Month that comes in the shadow both (what's been pegged as) hip-hop's 50th anniversary, and the threat of our history being eras...
2023-02-24 02:10:43 +0000 UTC
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As we settle into what's been coronated as hip-hop's 50th birthday(!), I'm gonna be looking for ways to dig into all that history and connect with voices who can really speak on it...
2023-01-27 22:46:15 +0000 UTC
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This week we carry on our tradition of digging deeper into the full message of the Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and building the mix around his "Why I Oppose The War In Vietnam"...
2023-01-17 00:26:49 +0000 UTC
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This week we took a deep dive into the catalog of Oakland's own Pointer Sisters, in honor of Anita Pointer who passed last week at the age of 74. They're best known for their crossover (yet still f...
2023-01-08 19:35:18 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all, in the first hour this week we paid tribute to one of the greatest record labels bar none, Memphis' own Stax Records, whose co-founder Jim Stewart passed earlier this month at the age of...
2022-12-24 00:53:31 +0000 UTC
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This episode of the show was a special one for me, as we had the full live DJ experience for the first time in our Bondfire era!
Carlito TCK and A1 Supreme came through with ...
2022-12-17 21:07:25 +0000 UTC
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Okay y'all!
It's a been a long time, I shouldn't have left you.
I've been planning to make a video checking in and talking about my time away but, as these things go, that in itself has...
2022-12-10 21:45:31 +0000 UTC
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Okay y'all we are back, with an episode we had a lot of fun with paying tribute to the great Dwight "Heavy D" Myers who would have been 55 last week. To make sure I don't keep falling behind on upl...
2022-06-04 20:24:08 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all, this week we focused on the great Earth Wind and Fire in remembrance of their saxophonist Andrew Woolfolk who passed last week, w/ an emphasis on the earlier jazz/funk heavy side of thei...
2022-05-06 21:16:20 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all,
I know it's been a long time since the last upload, and I appreciate your patience. For the last month I've been getting started on a pretty big new project that I can't spec...
2022-04-17 18:15:04 +0000 UTC
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This week as all the dark news kept coming in, we tried our best to represent for peace, with as many pro-love/anti-war jams as we could find and even some Ukrainian rap requests directly from our ...
2022-03-04 00:30:28 +0000 UTC
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Okay y'all thanks for your patience and moral support as I was caught up in my kitty emergency, we should be ready to restore normal service now. <3
On this episode we devoted the whole sh...
2022-02-22 23:32:37 +0000 UTC
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This week we kick off BHM with another reading, this time putting the spotlight on James Mercer Langston Hughes, who would've turned 121 on 2/1/22, and give a little extra run to a couple of my fav...
2022-02-08 03:55:13 +0000 UTC
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This week we continue sprinkling history into the mix, through the voice of Angela Davis who marked her 78th birthday last week. This audio is from 1969, when Davis had just been suspended from tea...
2022-02-01 20:43:45 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all! This week we've got the customary dosage of funk from past present and future, and we're trying something new as well: as you may know I got to do some 2022-01-25 21:26:56 +0000 UTC
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"I was expected to be dead within two, three days. I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life. She went throughout the black section...
2022-01-10 18:33:54 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all! So apparently it's another "New Year"? I feel like I have some vague memory of more innocent times, when I believed that was a thing. And I must say, despite all the madness that blends ...
2022-01-07 19:42:55 +0000 UTC
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This week, like many of you I'm sure, we had our plans spoiled last minute by the coming of Omicron, and I had to scramble to set up a show from home...but we still got it in! And paid tribute to t...
2021-12-20 17:30:58 +0000 UTC
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This week we started out with some Rebellion Rapping to mark the anniversary of Fred Hampton's assassination, and looked back on the past year with our fam Jesi Kelley...the 12/11 show will come sh...
2021-12-17 23:09:12 +0000 UTC
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Hey y'all! This week we sprinkled some Sondheim in with the funk to honor one of the GOAT songwriters, and celebrated one of the GOAT hip-hop djs with a special history lesson: a classic radio mix ...
2021-12-03 21:47:54 +0000 UTC
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