Underground Railroad 2001 (Tom Kat)

Tom Kat playing some 45's and other treats. Peep the way J-Smooth comes in at the end, hilarious. Underground Railroad 2001

Stretch & Bobbito - Valentine's Day 1997

This is a Stretch & Bobbito show from Valentine's Day, 1997. Actually, the show was broadcast Thursday the 13th, but technically the show was running in the early, early morning hours of the 14th.




Stretch & Bobbito - 2-13-1997

Tape 1

Tape 2

There's no hip hop on this one, but two hours of funky Valentine originals courtesy of DJ Maximillian, Tito & Delon Watson. The tracks range from Ultimate Breaks (Marva Whitney, Joe Quarterman, The Headhunters) to some funk (Curtis Mayfield, Bill Dogget, The Meters) to smooth R&B & jazz (Evelyn King, The Jacksons, Bob James, Kool & the Gang). Stretch Armstrong Show rarely featured non hip hop records for an entire show, so this one is kind of a treat. Enjoy. *Updated full version comes courtesy of nobs, Steve B & Aleph, and Philaflava

Sticker Game

Arsonists Freestyle Hot 97

Kind of a lengthy freestyle session for a Hot 97 show, at 15 minutes, but who's complaining. I think all of the original lineup is on this appearance on Stretch & Bobbito's Boogie and the Barber show..

Arsonists Freestyle (Hot 97 Feb 1997)

Stretch & Bobbito 8-14-1994

Here's another classic Stretch & Bobbito tape courtesy of the homie Nate in Boston via FJP. This tape features the El-P and J-Treds freestyle session (over Gangstarr's 'Speak Ya Clout') that was featured on the 'Farewell Fondle Em' compilation. Here you get the full 20 minute session, and another 25 minutes or so of Stretch in the mix.

Stretch & Bobbito 1996

Here's another Stretch & Bobbito 'Boogie and the Barber' show. This one's unlabeled, but I'm guessing it's from summer, 1996. 79 minutes with commercials cut. Peace to Greg T.

CM Famalam Show (Indelible MC's)

Another one from Nasa at Uncommon Music, a CM Famalam Show featuring the Indelible MC's and a gang of other MC's. This tape is seemingly one long freestyle session, lot of syllables being used. Mr Len was on the wheels providing the instrumentals.

Radio

I was chopping it up with Nasa at Uncommon Records (who's been providing a lot of the treats this week) about all the classic hip hop radio shows that used to run back in the 80's and 90's, and man, there is so many one could name... But just to give credit where it is due, with help from the readers, I'd like to see how many classic hip hop radio shows we can shed light on...

I was a teenager in the mid 90's, so I missed all the 80's hip hop shows, but I know my weekly radio routine back then, for a while, was- Evil Dee's Hot 97 show on Mondays or Tuesdays, Then there was the Underground Railroad on WBAI on Tuesday nights, later Saturday nights, then Wednesday and Thursday nights Martin Moore/Mayhem/Sunset/Riz had their WNYU shows Club 89/New York Live (later reinvented as the Halftime Show), then there was the Stretch Armstrong Show hosted by Bobbito on Thursday nights, and Future Flavors with Marley Marl and Pete Rock on Hot 97, Sunday nights.

Thinking back, that was a pretty sick line up of hip hop shows and I wish I cut some kind of bulk deal with TDK or Sony on cassettes to record every minute of radio possible. Fortunately, this blog, and blogs/forums like this seek to preserve these old classic radio shows and inspire one to dig through the dusty shoebox for gems.

So I'll ask all the readers out there, worldwide, what radio stations really set you off? past or present? Let's see how many different shows we can reminisce on in this post, let me know your favorite shows in the comments section. Let me know the DJ's, the stations, the area, the air times, the show's life span, what you remember from it, etc...

Check this promo from Natural Element's L Swift
for WNYU's New York Live show. He breaks down
all the radio shows that were poppin' at the time...

L Swift promo

Hank Love & Half Pint show 105.9

The Hank Love and Half Pint Show, on 105.9, is not one that I was all that familiar with back in the day. Nasa at Uncommon Music, who provided this treat, informs me that they were part of the Saturday night block on 105.9, WNWK, with Awesome Two at 12, dirty dozen at 1am, and Hank love and Half Pint from 2-4am. This is a 30 minute clip from an episode in December, 1995.



Hank Love and Half Pint Show 12/1995