I Came Home | A 10-Week Love Letter to Hip Hop

September 29th, 2009

My intense relationships with musics were established during my elementary school years. Just like Nasty Nas flows in “Hip Hop is Dead,” “hip hop is”, for all intents and purposes, “my first wifey[/hubbie].” I remember listening to TLC’s “Waterfalls” while on a school bus and finding a base from which to root my socialized existence and experiences. Being a nerd not only drove me to escape via music but also to the search for music knowledge, by all means necessary. Eventually my commitment to organized sounds extended beyond hip hop to include mainly, but not exclusively, those discursively labeled as popular musics stemming from Black, Afro/Latino, and Latino diasporas. My journey has included a four-year stint at UCLAradio.com which is coming to an end as I wrap-up the graduate school grind–a foray into audio/visual representations of Afrofuturism in funk and hip hop.

I decided to come home to hip hop and celebrate its 30-year recorded history during my last ten weeks as a UCLAradio.com DJ.  Listen to my love letter every Monday from 4p-6p(pst) streaming live on UCLAradio.com.

Playlist and show info after the jump.

–Gabmaster Flash



 

¡MUSIQuality!
September 28, 2009
(Season Premiere) Playlist


Various Artists – “Crush On You” – Hidden Beach Presents: Unwrapped, Volume 1 – 2001


Lyrics Born – “Callin’ Out” – Later That Day – 2003
Alex Lee – “I Just Wanna Dance” – Headphone Heroes – 2009
AZ – “Before It’s All Said and Done” – Legendary
Afrika Bambaataa and the Jazzy Five – “Jazzy Sensation” – 12″ -1981
People Under the Stairs – “Jamboree Pt. I” – Stepfather – 2006

Funky 4 + 1 – “Rappin’ and Rockin’ the House” – 12″ – 1979

Raphael Saadiq f/Q-Tip – “Get Involved” – The PJs O.S.T – 1999
Q-Tip – “Feelin’” - Kamaal the Abstract – 2009
Prince f/Q-Tip – “Chocolate Box” – MPLSoUND – 2009
Drake f/Lykke Li – “Little Bit (Remix)” – So Far Gone (Mixtape) – 2009
Guru f/Ronnie Jordan & Dee C. Lee – “No Time to Play” -The Best of Guru’s Jazzmatazz – 2008
Bahamadia – “Uknowhowwedu” – Kollage – 1996
Ugly Duckling – “Yudee!” – Bang for the Buck – 2006
Ozomatli – “Cut Chemist Suite” – Ozomatli – 1998
Erykah Badu – “On and On” – Baduizm – 1997
Eric B. and Rakim – “What’s On Your Mind” – Don’t Sweat the Technique – 1992
Rhymefest – “I Came Home” – El Che – TBR


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One Response to “I Came Home | A 10-Week Love Letter to Hip Hop”

  1. DJ Octoon Says:
    October 1st, 2009 at 11:31 am

    MUSIQuality is one of my favorite shows on ANY radio station.

    Seriously.

    -DJ Octoon

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