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Hip-hop and rap, that's where my heart's at. But I'll play anything so long as it ain't crap!
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October 9, 2020: Put The Needle On The R.I.P. RAP WFMU 2020 Hellraiser Hip-Hop Special Pt 2
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| BAS-One |
intro + “R.I.P. RAP” freestyle over DJ ALF instrumental
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2020 |
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| J Dilla |
People
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Donuts |
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| Crusaders For Real Hip Hop (feat Tony D) |
That's How It Is EDIT
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Déjà Vu - It's '82 | Profile Records | 1992 |
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| Big L |
Put It On (L.G. radio edit)
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1994 | gunned down and killed not far from his Harlem home |
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| Charizma ’ |
Charizma ’93 Freestyle on KUSF with Billy Jam
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1993 | this was early in '93 - later that same year Charizma - the Bay Area emcee partner of Peanut Butter Wolf with a promising career - would be shot and killed while sitting in a car |
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| The Notorious B.I.G vs. 2Pac |
Where Brooklyn At (Madison Square Garden Freestyle October 1993)
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1993 | two icons gone too soon on one track here |
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| Sean Price |
Rap Professor (prod. by Skizz)
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Imperius Rex | Duck Down Records | 2017 | posthumous release from BK legend Sean Price (of solo and Heltah Skeltah fame) released two years after his tragic 2015 death when the artist (in his mid forties) passed in his sleep. |
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| Gang Starr (feat GURU) |
Mass Appeal (+ GURU WFMU drop)
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1994 single from the 1993 album Hard To Earn by the power duo of producer DJ Premier and the late great emcee GURU |
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| Lovebug Starski |
2017 WFMU Billy Jam interview excerpt over DJ Premier/Gang Starr looped instrumental
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2017 | go to archives to hear full interview with this hip-hop pioneer who coined the term "hip-hop" - a year after this interview the 1960 born Bronx artist died from a heart attack |
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| A Tribe Called Quest (feat late Phife Dawg) |
Drop + Buggin' Out
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The Low End Theory | Rest In Beats Phife Dawg - another gone too young too soon |
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| Mac Dre |
Times R Gettin’ Crazy (acoustic version)
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1991 | recorded on HipHopSlam on KUSF with Billy Jam in Sept 1991 with Khayree on acoustic guitar and the late great Mac Dre who at the time was still mourning the shooting murder death of his good friend.fellow artist The Mac who left behind a 3 year old daughter - she would be 32 now! |
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| Run-D.M.C. |
Jam Master Jay
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Run-D.M.C. | 1984 | just recently - nearly two full decades later JMJ's murder in his Jamaica QNs studio was solved |
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| Beastie Boys (feat. the late Adam “MCA” Yauch”) |
Root Down (+drop by DJ Brennie)
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1995 | rest in beats to my pops DJ Brennie - who was not a hip-hop artist but was a DJ and one of my personal biggest initial influences in music since he had a diverse collection that I grew up with - along with my older brother who was both a rock musician and music collector |
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| MC Breed |
Ain't No Future in Yo Frontin EDIT
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Back in 2008 MC Breed died, only in his late 30’s, following been placed on life-support after he collapsed when his kidneys failed |
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| The Coup (feat DJ Pam the Funkstress) |
This One's a Girl
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Genocide & Juice | 1994 |
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| Eazy-E |
Radio Drop + Eazy-er Said Than Dunn
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1989 | At age 30 back on March 26, 1995, the influential West Coast artist and businessman / founding member of N.W.A Eazy-E died from AIDS-induced pneumonia, just weeks after his diagnosis of HIV/AIDS. |
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| Plan Bee |
Quest For Survival (feat Saafir & Pooh-Man)
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1994 | Posthumous release from beloved Oakland artist - founding member of the Hobo Junction Plan Bee (born Jesse Hall) who in 1992 was shot and killed while sitting in a car in Oakland much like how fellow Bay Area emcee Charizma was killed a year later in the South Bay. Plan Bee was killed 28 years ago while his partner in art and music DREAM was killed later that decade on San Pablo Ave in Oakland in an armed robbery. The City of Oakland named this day Dream Day. Last night was the big Dream Day 12 celebration at the Oakland Metro Operahouse. From the early '80s, DREAM was a pioneering Bay Area graff writer and ever since his murder on February 17, 2000 at age 30 his legacy has grown by leaps and bounds. |
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| MC Trouble |
Black Line
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Gotta Get A Grip | 1990 | SoCal femcee who, as noted in this track, was the first female rapper signed to Motown Records. Born with epilepsy, a year after the release of this album she died in her sleep after having an epileptic seizure reportedly “brought on from complications from a brain tumor.” |
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| Lunitic |
Celtic Funk EDIT
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Based on a True Story | Working Class Records | former show guest (during one of the Irish WFMU live remotes from Dublin’s All City store/label - the Irish emcee Lunitic who died at young age from heart problems. This Moschops produced track has been edited down and excludes the guest emcee Ri Ra only to allow for space and squeeze into this all too short one hour radio show |
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Music behind DJ: Billy Jam + BAS-One |
over DJ ALF instrumental recorded for this show
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| Billy Jam + BAS-One |
over DJ ALF instrumental recorded for this show Pt 2
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| Billy Jam + BAS-One |
over DJ ALF instrumental recorded for this show Pt 3
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Listener comments!
Billy Jam:
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tim from champaign (now washington):
chris:
Buddha of Suburbia:
Wendi + Ronny:
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Ken From Hyde Park:
ami ad:
Smilty69:
radioronan:
northguineahills:
Newdonor:
Barney Grubbs:
Billy Jam:
listener 126464:
Smilty69:
Newdonor:
Billy Jam:
Billy Jam:
PHASE2 legendary NY writer
DREAM legendary Bay Area writer
PLAN BEE - down with Mike “DREAM” Francisco who was greatly affected by his 1992 shooting murder - 7 years later DREAM would also be fatal victim of gun violence
SPECIAL ONE of CONSCIOUS DAUGHTERS
ROC RAIDA
DJ SWIFT ROCK - talented Bay Area turntablist
SUBROC of KMD
SEAN PRICE
SEAGRAM
MAC DRE
THE MAC - Mac Dre’s ole skool partner who was murdered back in ’91
DJ CEE from Vallejo down with Mac Dre & all the greats from there
RIVER T of the YOUNG “D” BOYZ fame
DJ KAOS of NJ legends THE ARTIFACTS
APACHE of NJ collective the FLAVOR UNIT
TONY D - Trenton NJ hip-hop pioneer who (like Rappin Ron, Scientifik & Cougnut) died following car crash
2PAC
FRESH KID ICE of 2 Live Crew fame
DJ STEF
PAM THE FUNKSTRESS of THE COUP
CAMU TAO
HEAVY D
BIG L
PHIFE DAWG from A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
northguineahills:
northguineahills:
northguineahills:
Phil:
My name Phil, I'm from Saint-Petersburg,(Russia), thnx for dj set, thnx for music, thnx for u jooooob, hight five ; )
Billy Jam:
MALIK B of THE ROOTS who died earlier this year
RAPPIN RON of Oakland’s Rappin Ron & Ant Diddley Dog / Bad-N-Fluence fame
COUGNUT of I.M.P.
MEEN GREEN LA artist who died recently
SLOW PAIN -SoCal Chicano rap star who died last month
GURU of GANG STARR
SCIENTIFIK Massachussets artist who died in ’98 after a car accident, with a gun found near the crash + cops alleging that he shot his girlfriend and himself in a murder-suicide shooting/crash
MC BREED
THE JACKA
THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls)
MCA from the BEASTIE BOYS
EAZY E
BIG BANK HANK of THE SUGARHILL GANG
MR. MAGIC - the pioneering NYC RADIO DJ
CRAZY RAK - aka DJ UNIVERSE who was Too $hort's DJ and on $hort's record with a scratch track in the late 80s - Many others were introduced to him as one half of the early 90s duo of Rondo & Crazy Rak
MC ANT THE GREAT - pioneering OAKLAND rapper
BIG L
BIG PUN
BIG MOE
PRODIGY of MOBB DEEP
PROOF
TOO POETIC
BUSHWICK BILL
AFRICAN IDENTITY - veteran SF emcee
NATE DOGG
SCOTT LA ROCK of B.D.P.
MC TROUBLE
STRONG SOUL - ole skool North Oakland emcee
NIPSEY HUSTLE
KWANZ + PRIZ of SF underground pioneers BORED STIFF
Foxy Brown:
northguineahills:
northguineahills:
chresti:
Billy Jam:
Phil:
Dance, Dance, Dance!*wag*pump*
Billy Jam:
OLE DIRTY BASTARD (ODB)
LISA “LEFT EYE” LOPEZ from TLC
Irish rapper LUNITIC
JIMMY SPICER
TIM DOG of Ultramagnetic MCs and solo fame ("Fuck Compton") died seven years ago reportedly reportedly due to complications from diabetes
J-DILLA
LOVEBUG STARSKI
COWBOY of GMFF5
PIMP C
FRED THE GODSON - the 35 year old rapper who died five months ago from COVID-19
SOULJA SLIM
YUSEF AFLOAT (of LA outfit The Nonce)
FAT PAT
EYEDEA
JAM MASTER JAY of RUN-D.M.C.
CRAIG MACK
MR. CEE of RBL POSSE
CHARIZMA - PEANUT BUTTER WOLF’s FORMER EMCEE PARTNER
DEREK B - the BRITISH RAPPER
MAC MILLER
JUICE WRLD
POP SMOKE
XXXTentacion
LIL PEEP
northguineahills:
Billy Jam:
Phil:
I haven’t listen on the your air for a long time(( i'm sorry, I recently recalled our e-mail correspondence and your setlists, and then I stumbled upon you randomly, bingo!)
exact time 02-45 (10.10.2020) night
northguineahills:
celeste:
Billy Jam:
Billy Jam:
celeste:
zblargles:
northguineahills:
ami ad:
Marley P. Dogg:
Smilty69:
listener 126464:
chresti:
chris:
Billy Jam:
radioronan:
Phil:
I don't know the song, thanks for the discovery.
Aka:
Tall Paul: