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The week of Nipsey Hussle's death, the Black Arts Ecology project invited Donovan Smith to helm a pop up podcast in a trailer in the parking lot of In N Out Food Market. Community members got to pop in and give their reflections on the late rapper's death and legacy. In this conversation, Donovan phones across the country from the trailer to his friend Abdi Dahir in a Nashville, TN.

Donovan Smith and Abdi Dahir talk Nipsey Hussle

Rapper Kunu joins '106 & Quarantine' to discuss his video "Trap God" alongside director LaRonn Katchia, using music and filmmaking to share Indigenous stories, the disproportionate  number of missing Native women in America and Canada, Bay Area influences and how the two connected.

106 & Quarantine is a bi-weekly online screening and discussion of NW Hip Hop's most provocative videos. 

Hosted by Bruce Poinsette and Donovan Smith. 

Presented by Bruce Poinsette & Gentrification is WEIRD!

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Weekly '106' NW Hip hop 10-track playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/onovanmith/sets/106-quarantine-vol-4?fbclid=IwAR3D7F3IZMbGNWE2oEJyjUJeCAA8QNizKCwutdA2xmOuPd338P7ZHiecHPE

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Kunu & LaRonn Katchia Talk Indigenous Hip Hop, Resistance In Art, and Missing Native Women

Gentrification is WEIRD!'s Donovan Smith and Andre Middleton of Friends of Noise spend time with organizers from Beyond Black, Germaine Flentroy and Beto Contreras. They spend time discussing the Juneteenth holiday, and their respective programs Breakin the Chainz which helps men with addiction and Healthy Families which provides health food for Black folks.

Beyond 1865: a radio discussion on Juneteenth, Beyond Black, and the future of Black Oregon

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