Okayplayer's exclusive Loop De Lah birthday mix for Chuck D! Hear Raydar spin live online every Wednesday and Friday from 2pm to 4pm: mixlr.com/raydar-ellis

Okayplayer Presents: The Chuck D Birthday Mix by DJ Raydar Ellis

Hosted by veteran DJ Toast and broadcast live every Sunday night at 10pm (ET) from 91.5 WRPI (Troy/Albany NY), Toast brings you the best in vintage & contemporary true school Hip Hop.

This is Episode 358 | Genuine for '89 - DJ Toast

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Grown Man Rap Show - Episode 358 | Genuine for '89 - DJ Toast

Tracklisting : 

00 Samples
01 S Eyes Finest - Shootin My Shot ft Pop Da Brown Hornet
02 GP Wu - Black On Black Crime
03 Shyheim - Shaolin Style (L.E.S. Remix) ft Pop Da Brown Hornet
04 Knoah Tha Sinna - Murderous Type Slang (ft Inspectah Deck, Dirty Boogs & Pop Da Brown Hornet)
05 Pop Da Brown Hornet - Can You Wu-Wu-Wu (Street Mix)
06 Pop Da Brown Hornet - One Shot Deal ft Big Trife & No Smiles (Phat Ron)
07 Shyheim - 5 Elements ft Pop Da Brown Hornet
08 GP Wu - 1st Thing First
09 Pop Da Brown Hornet - G.P. Connection
10 Pop Da Brown Hornet - Let's Go The Lap (Street Mix)
11 Pop Da Brown Hornet & Dark Skinned Assassin Stretch & Bobbito Freestyle
12 Shyheim - Dear God ft Pop Da Brown Hornet
13 Pop Da Brown Hornet - Endangered Species ft Smoke (Rns)
14 GP Wu - Chamber Danger
15 Shyheim - Pass It Off (D-Side Remix) ft Pop Da Brown Hornet
16 Pop Da Brown Hornet - Straighten It Out (ft Don Dollars)
17 Lifesavas ft Da Brown Hornet - Sabotage (From Bomb Threat)

Pop Da Brown Hornet BTL Mix

MONASTAKZ SEXYMIX, PT.1 - 10-11-24 LIVE

Sunrise And Sunsets Vol 2

Rumble mix live on Shade 45 Sirius XM.  CRTL ALT DSTROY SHOW. DJ Tahleim interveiw and live mix 1/17/25
Classic Hip Hop to Latin Funk and Covers

RUMBLE MIX (CTRL ALT DSTROY SHOW) on Shade 45 SiriusXM 1/17/25

KELLEN DE VOS - GRAND SLAM

Yo, professors sleep while the planet burns,  
Eyes in books, but blind to turns.  
Civilisation cracks, collapse in sight,  
They sip their coffee, pretend it’s all right.  
Prayerless prayers for their own kin,  
But the gauntlet waits — who steps in?  

They manage to survive, keep their jobs,  
While the streets collapse, the system robs.  
Safe in halls, they write their notes,  
But the world outside can’t stay afloat.  
Survival ain’t wisdom, it’s coward’s play,  
The gauntlet calls — they look away.  

Talk of justice, talk of peace,  
But their silence lets the chaos increase.  
Publish papers, chase the fame,  
But never step in the global game.  
Hypocrisy dressed in academic gowns,  
While the planet drowns, the silence pounds.  

Civilisation crumbles, biosphere breaks,  
Yet they debate in abstract stakes.  
Philosophy trapped in dusty halls,  
While the jungle burns and the ocean calls.  
Collapse ain’t theory, it’s blood and dirt,  
But they hide in trance, immune to hurt.  

Praying for kin in prayerless ways,  
Hoping their children survive the haze.  
But if the world resets, kin won’t last,  
Future erased, swallowed fast.  
Protecting kin means saving all,  
Take the gauntlet, hear the call.  

They wear the mask of intellect bright,  
But fear the gauntlet, dodge the fight.  
Cowards cloaked in scholar’s pride,  
While truth and courage run outside.  
The mask is thin, the world can see,  
They failed the test of destiny.  

The gauntlet waits, heavy, raw,  
A call to act, a cosmic law.  
Not for the meek, not for the tame,  
But for those who rise and claim the flame.  
Academics hide, but history knows,  
Cowards fall, the brave compose.  

Silence louder than bombs and guns,  
While collapse devours daughters and sons.  
They write, they talk, but never act,  
Their silence is betrayal, fact.  
The gauntlet screams, the planet bleeds,  
But intellect fails to meet the needs.  

Ivory towers, built so high,  
Blind to the streets, deaf to the cry.  
Walls of books, walls of lies,  
While civilisation slowly dies.  
The tower falls, the truth revealed,  
They hid from gauntlet, fate concealed.  

Reset comes, extinction near,  
But they sip wine, dismiss the fear.  
History marks their coward’s role,  
Failed to act, betrayed the whole.  
Reset burns their legacy down,  
Ashes left where minds should crown.  

Prayerless prayers, whispered low,  
Hoping their kin survive the blow.  
But prayers without action are empty dust,  
The gauntlet demands a higher trust.  
Cowards pray, but warriors fight,  
Only action births the light.  

They betrayed the youth, betrayed the flame,  
Chose survival, chose the same.  
Betrayed the planet, betrayed the sky,  
Watched collapse, refused to try.  
The gauntlet waits, but they won’t stand,  
Blood on their coward’s hand.  

Yo, academics, hear the roast,  
Your silence kills, you failed the most.  
Your intellect ain’t worth a dime,  
If you won’t act in collapse time.  
Take the gauntlet, stop the trance,  
Or history ends your dance.  

Protecting kin means saving all,  
Not hiding in halls, ignoring the call.  
Your children die if the world resets,  
No ivory tower protects from debts.  
Take the gauntlet, rise and fight,  
Or kin dissolve in endless night.  

Legacy of cowards, books unread,  
While the planet starves, the oceans bled.  
Your names erased, your fame denied,  
History marks the ones who lied.  
Legacy lives in those who act,  
Not cowards hiding from the fact.  

The fire burns, the jungle cries,  
But intellect hides behind disguise.  
The gauntlet waits, the world in pain,  
But scholars dodge the sacred chain.  
Fire consumes, the reset near,  
Cowards vanish, the brave appear.  

Fifteen years, the youth awake,  
See the coward’s fatal mistake.  
They take the gauntlet, claim the flame,  
Rewrite history, change the game.  
Youth ascend, the coward’s fall,  
The gauntlet passed to those who call.  

[NO MORE SPACE]

Take the Gauntlet

Hosted by veteran DJ Toast and broadcast live every Sunday night 10pm-12 midnight (ET) from 91.5 WRPI (Albany NY), Toast brings you 2 hours of the best in vintage & contemporary true school Hip Hop.

This is Episode 201 - Enter the Wu-Tang samples - DJ Toast - originally aired on February 17, 2019

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Grown Man Rap Show - Episode 201 - Enter the Wu-Tang samples - DJ Toast

A mix of strictly original acapella blends by DJ JS-1. There is only hip hop blends, with hundreds of different acapellas and beats. Many of them are very rare acapellas you won't hear elsewhere. This is a mix you need in your collection, and certainly have nothing like it... If you know DJ JS-1's Cold Cutz Remixes mixtape from 1996, you'll enjoy this one as well....

DJ JS-1 "Sound Waves" Mix

Ring the alarm shot callers, world-renowned DJ/producer PF Cuttin has teamed up with legendary emcee Labba for their third studio album release. “The 9” on Hendrix Street Records. Warning: get a mop before you press play, because Brooklyn’s Don Dada has returned with nine tracks that flow like blood over mess hall prison floors. “The 9” is a socio/political manifesto for everyone from the immigrant turned gang member, the gun and drug trafficker, to the die-hard Hip-Hop head that has lost all hope due to the confines of a plastic, bubble gum music corporate take over run amuck. With guest appearances by El Da Sensi, Royal Flush and Vic Spencer, there’s no need to second-guess if Labba’s latest release is raw. You can smell the struggle through the album cover.

- Monte Smith
Internationally acclaimed street poet and one half of Grandmaster Flash Drive & The Furious Files

Bocarotam

Host of the GROWN MAN RAP SHOW on 91.5fm WRPI and worldwide at www.WRPI.org on Sunday nights. Golden era rap radio DJ in the Albany, Troy NY area who started playing rap music on the radio back in 1989. I'm a grown ass man and life's too short to listen to bad music.
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