“Boycott 96.3 FM Detroit”
GENERAL By Beware on January 9, 2008 at 7:12 pm
After Too Short’s underappreciated Chase the Cat album got its fair share of burn in the ride, I flipped on the radio for a few minutes before the next red light’s routine CD swap.
As I hit eject, my favorite flannel-clad rappa-turnt-sanga, Andre 3000, was wailing away on his bubblegum hit, “Hey Ya.” Since I was by my lonesome and in a good mood, I dropped my guard and sang along. When Dre’s vocal chords ran out, Gnarls Barkley made a probable appearance and followed with their radio hit, “Crazy.”
Even though I felt like I was at a thirteen-year-old’s karaoke birthday party, I keep the carefree vibe alive and kept jammin’.
At this point, since I was looking and feeling quite Chris Bridges, I hadn’t even bothered to check which radio station was playing these pop-tarts back to back. It obviously wasn’t either one of Detroit’s rap/hip-hop channels, because they’d surely be playing “Low,” that song I used to like by Flo-Rida. When Gnarls Barkley ended and my chances of getting into a car accident stabilized, the DJ cut in and said the station was ‘96.3, “…The home of your favorite hits from the 80s, 90s and now, without all the rap.”
For the visual, imagine your favorite whiteboy Beware in his best Tyra Banks impersonation, replying out loud to the naive DJ, “Oh no you did not just call out my music!”
Well, it might not have been that drastic, but I was pissed enough to the point where my breezy attitude was looking pretty overcast. Call me easily aggravated, which my girlfriend does, but this wannabe, piece-of-shit radio station for middle-aged moms and men in mid-life crises apparently thinks it can just diss our favorite art form in order to bring in more blissfully ignorant listeners.
Not only that, but immediately after it plays back-to-back songs by rappers.
I don’t know if 96.3 got the memo, but “Crazy” and “Hey Ya” are rap songs. Hate it or love it, these mega-popular pop songs are performed by artists who, if you asked them right now, would unquestionably call themselves rappers over anything else. Just because they’re purposely dumbing down their music for an incoherent radio audience on these particular songs, shouldn’t mean they now fit into the hypocritical station’s ambiguously gay playlist of played-out bullshit.
Actually, when I put it that way, I guess it does.
But they could at least give respect where respect is due, instead of berating the root of the music before and after every commercial break. Whether it be rap, hip-hop or that bullshit chant rap the radio cranks 23-7, the grind is all the same. By ineptly calling out just ‘rap music,’ they’re doing much more than sounding naive. On top of acting pompous, they’re stereotyping all forms of hip-hop in one sentence and calling out all those die-hard-working souls who put their lives into the music.
And for what?
So that 96.3, the former alternative station that yours truly lived for in the sixth grade, can struggle find it’s niche in a world where it’s apparent mortal enemy, ‘rap music,’ is becoming more mainstream by the second.
With their demise inevitably at the doorstep anyways, the title of this piece almost seems like an afterthought.
Fuck ‘em, I’ll leave it anyway.
Dead Prez – Turn Off The Radio
AZ-Undeniable
Estelle Ft. Kanye West – American Boy
Ne-Yo – Dream
Lil Wayne Ft. Sizzla – 10 Years
Lil Wayne And Junior Reid – Pam Pam (Remix)
Faith Evans-Maybe(Unreleased)
Fat Joe – 300
Wiz Khalifa – Say Yeah
Mysonne-Gun Shots
Plies – Buss It Baby
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radio sucks, has for a while. i live in LA and pretty much 90% of the stuff played on POWER106 is complete trash, and thats in one of the biggest markets with a station that is supposedly on the cuttin edge of rap. if i hear fergalicious one more fuckin time on there im gonna kill myself. TSS IS MAJOR!!!!
What no Ice Cube?…The Loosies lost today..
Ice Cube Turn Off The Radio> Dead Prez Turn Off The Radio
Let’s take it one step further & boycott radio all together (except satelite of course)
Ice Cube “Turn Off The Radio”
http://www.zshare.net/download/6357025a9b3b10
With all the technology talks we’ve been doing lately, one change I do hope happens is the phasing out of regular radio and letting Satellite takeover. They play the current hits as well as throwback classics giving you a variety that makes you keep tuning. Fuck these ol’ goofy lame ass local disc jockeys with their half ass promos and inability to spin “new-new” shit unless it’s tossed in their face.
On another note….
That Estelle “American Boy” is will.i.am’s beats. Ya’ll slept on Songs About Girls so hard, Interscope is re-releasing it lol.
Let satellite reign.
for those that ain’t knowin’…this was Mos Def’s old group..
Urban Thermo Dynamics – “Manifest Destiny”
http://www.mediafire.com/?a9mmjmqmrwi
1 – Worldwide
2 – Manifest Destiny
3 – Hardcore Nights
4 – Victory
5 – Luv It Luv It
6 – You Can Run
7 – Moon In Cancer
8 – Do It
9 – My Kung Fu
10 – Flight To Puerto Rico
11 – Frontlines
12 – Like That
Marvin Gaye – “Here, My Dear”
http://www.mediafire.com/?5d10woxgzo2
Track Listing
1. Here My Dear
2. I Met A Little Girl
3. When Did You Stop Loving Me When Did I Stop Loving You
4. Anger
5. Is That Enough
6. Everybody Needs Love
7. Time To Get It Together
8. Sparrow
9. Anna’s Song
10. When Did You Stop Loving Me When Did I Stop Loving You (Instrumental)
11. Funky Space Reincarnation
12. You Can Leave But It’s Gonna Cost You
13. Falling In Love Again
14. When Did You Stop Loving Me When Did I Stop Loving You (Reprise)
and
FUCK CLEAR CHANNEL, RADIO ONE AND VIACOM
Long Live TSS! lol
JESUS CHRIST, you must have nearly had a heart attack going through that incredible and profoundly shocking radio experience, you poor baby.
it was only 2 generations ago when young men our (im presuming) age had fought in a world war, been through the depression, were married with 4 kids, supported their family, looked after their parents & carried the struggle of whole countries on their backs… and now 15 minutes later we have this pathetic excuse for a human being writing the most insignificant drivel about actual insignificant drivel on a meaningless radio station like he’s some kind of cultural zeitgeist.
kill me now please.
Who the fuck listens to radio anymore???!!! Man at least y’all in the U.S.A. have a variety of stations to bitch about, up here in Toronto we ain’t got shit! The local universities have some nice shows on the weekends, but the ONE (yes, ONE) “urban” station that we do have is garbage. Satellite is cool, but I’m not trying to pay for radio. In Canada there is an idea being floated around called “HD Radio”, which is essentially digital radio without the short-comings of analog. The only main advantage I see from satellite is exclusive freestyles and uncensored interviews, other from that you can pretty much hear the latest music on the web.
D-Money – I’d do the honors…but Talons aint cheap these days.
The local station played a neo-soul set the other night & I was pleasantly suprised to hear some Tipping Point Roots on the radio. I took the long way home just to see what all they were gonna play after that.
Dmoney…just do us the favor and kill yourself…you write to snivel about someones snivelling writing? contradiction anyone?…then you toss in a condescending tone and some un-needed jabs at the writer…go masterbate with a noose around your neck
dont like what youre reading?…theres a simple solution…DONT FUCKING READ IT
crank up yo speakers!!!
What y’all know about that DP’s?
lol @ gotty…talons…i got a box if u wanna borrow em… @dmoney – dude, this is a hip-hop blog and, as such, most of the topics you’re gonna hear discussed are gonna be hip-hop related. There may even be some bitchin and whining. Alas, such is the nature of a blog. If you want to whine about WWII bullshit and the greatest generation, at least have the common courtesy to do it amongst people who want to hear it even the tiniest bit. Thanks.
TURN OFF THAT BULLSHIT.
@flea-> The “NEW” flow… Things that make you go hmmmmm…
Ditto Sherm.
No lie, I was gonna let off a copule for NYE & realized I had those in the joint. I thought “Shhheeeiiit. I aint wasting these” lol. Waited til I got home, got a diff blicker & then saluted.
Why do you think they call it radio PROGRAMMING? Hmmm……
Joell Ortiz The Re Up (Back to the Bodega)
http://www.mediafire.com/?bu9i0w5gsa0
Atleast we have something to listen to until aftermath realize what a talented MC they have on their hands!!!
Skyzoo: The City’s Favorite
http://rapidshare.com/files/55835026…_-2005-EGO.rar
Gotty – thanks for that George Benson jawnt. I’m only familiar with the 1st 2 songs: “Give Me The Night” & “Turn Your Love Around”. Nevertheless, I’ve been gettin’ my old man on. lol
Biggga – is that Joell Ortiz new?
Hot Air
@ Non. Misfit
LMFAO. I’ve had that shit for years and those are the ONLY two songs that get play.
Oh, and “On Broadway”.
when I lived in albion I used to bump 96.3 all the fuckin time…they had as show called the hip hopexplosion I used to tape it then take the best songs and mixes put them on a cassette and sell it at school.
TC – I’m lettin this George Benson ride…nah.
*switches to “Two Step Blues” by Tay & Pooh after 4th G.B. song*
i JUST might hafta check to see if it’s really poppin at an Elks Lodge or a VFW…lol
haha im from the area and i had my car in the shop for car audio so all ihad for like 2 days was radio and i fucking heard that “without all the rap” i was like wtf…thats like me making a radio station and saying “playin all the hits..without all the country, pop, rock, so pretty much were a rap and regea station..and reggea has no hits..so were playin bullshit rap”
Hey Chris, whatever happened to Fela Shots Part Two?
lol i asked the same thing….^ It was posted soon after part 1
@ Nonchalant Misfit
It isn’t new. It looks like someone has put together some of his latest joints and features.
Anybody got Raheem Devaughn’s The Healing: Daily Dosage
Biggga – thanks for the info on that. I got “The Brick / Bodega Chronicles”…if Back To The Bodega is newer then I’ll need that…
yo any one got mp3’s of these tracks???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOzLFpdQuG8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7msF87zMgg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irwRaVtCLfY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb4FVYuiWi8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2JWtrUZj1c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJTTn9Fd21A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9maBJwp-5PI
The Hitman who “killed” Stack Bundles is in need o work…
http://www.zshare.net/video/6326106246c0e9/
Will.i.Am=That dude.
Been said that since his work on Doctor’s Advocate and Hip Hop Is Dead.
does anyone have an mp3 rip of Prodigy’s ABC video?
soulz
try this link I think i got Blueberries off it
can’t remeber
http://www.westcoast2k.net/rare2.htm
hey ya, and crazy are not “rap” tracks.
They are pop songs by artists -who happen to rap-, which include no “rap” verses.
c’mon, yo.
The game is the game. If you dont want to play it, I applaud you, but this is a business based on money, not art. ….and quite frankly, I’d like to hear pop before Hurricaine Chris any time of the day.
Your soap box is slippin, homey. Get off it.
http://www.myspace.com/drewskibeats
Yo Gotty, did you ever collect the second half of the Little Brother unreleased tracks that they were leaking on their myspace page like you did the first half? I never downloaded them because I was thinking you probably were going to do that, thanks..
“we have this pathetic excuse for a human being”
all cuz homeboy didn’t like the radio station???
you just gotta love internet cats…
if that story pissed off dude to that extent, I can’t imagine what a Greums rant would do to him… *cold shiver*
TC and Non. Misfit – The BEST’est’ George Benson song (EVER) is easily – This Masquerade
one.eye.deer-
George Benson was wearing gauchos when he made that song.
MIA – Kala
http://www.zshare.net/download/636120119c4881/
DJ Steve1der – In The Rain (Full CD)
http://www.zshare.net/audio/57367231976825/
@ T-Dot: Flow is fucking garbage, let us never ever mention it again!!!
Ban ‘DJ’ White Owl also!!!!
this lame ass so called ‘DJ’ is jackin dudes remixes and usin them like he made em.
check this remix by the homie Massive Trip:
JAE MILLZ, STYLES P, PAPOOSE, & JR RIDER – 4 CHAMBERS (MASSIVE TRIP EXCLUSIVE)
http://www.zshare.net/audio/6347898d5b6133
now peep this joint off 1 of White Owl’s mixtapes:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/6347852c216276
White Owl jacked the track & deleted Styles P’s verse & used it like his own. White Owl never had permission 2 use it or credited Massive Trip as the creator of the remix/blend.
Hey Chris, whatever happened to Fela Shots Part Two?
========================================
“Red, Hot And Riot” – Fela Ransome Kuti (Fela Shots Part 2)
http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/?p=2533
^ somebody bookmark that for the next time it’s asked about lol.
JW – They haven’t upped them all yet. i think we’re still two days short b/c the last day I have is 10 (or is it 9?). Either way, they’re not all out yet. I thought about upping the few I’ve picked up since the last installment. May just do that.
Yo! Anyone holding the OST of ‘A Bronx Tale’?
@ TC
not the ‘dirty ol’ gauchos… LMAO
now every time I hear that song I’ma have some dude in capri pants flash thru my head… damn man, that’s MESSED up! lol
http://www.pasqualinonet.com.ar/images/Amigos-gauchos-765w.jpg
*shudders*
I’m from Detroit and 96.3 used to be a rap friendly station when I was growing up. I wouldn’t exactly call it my kind of rap station because they only played crossover hits like Wreckz N Effect or Biz Markie.
You would never hear Ice Cube or EPMD coming across their airwaves, but you sould catch a Milli Vanilli song every now and then. Their shit has always been wack as fuck. I’ll never forget one day they played “Ice Ice Baby” 96 times in a row as some kind of gimmick.
That was the last day I ever listened to 96.3.
@ Dirk Digga: Thanks for callin’ out that wack-ass fuck “DJ” WhiteOwl, I copped a few of his tapes from the local bootleg spot and wasn’t impressed at all. These fuckin’ cats jack other dudes exclusives, drops and all, then put them on their “mixes” and have the nerve to call themselves “DJs”???!!! Man I hope 2008 is the year of the wack DJs demise. REAL DJs STAND UP!!!
Non Misfit: Anytime, hell the amount of GREAT music I have gotten from TSS; it’s only right to give back.
@ Dirk Digga: If that is true about what DJ Whiteowl did his ass needs to be exposed. I do find that he will put out 1 quality mix tape then put out 2 trash ones. The firewall at work blocked the 2 tracks you posted I will check them out when I get off work. Good Looking out. Flea: You aint lying alot of these cats who call themselves mixtape DJ’s aint nothing but computer literate crooks. This one DJ took a Ryan Leslie joint, I think the name is Girl you are a diamond; took out his ryhme for the song. Put in an old Kanye verse and says its an exclusive Ye joint. These cats are con-men!!!
SUPPORT REAL DJS!!!!
free mixes here (actually mixed! no stolen blends!):
http://www.hurtmesoul.com/2007/10/lets-get-free-mixtapes-updated-with-95.html
http://www.djtrackstar.com
Boogie Bang 11, hosted by DJ Drama, Willie the Kid and La the Darkman, coming late January…
@ U ^^
it IS true, when u get a chance 2 hear the 2 tracks u will see. 2 me what he did is no different than an MC biting anotha MCs rhymes, thats why i wanted 2 air him out here.
yeah, nobody pops shots anymore cos the bullets is so expensive… pfft, tough guy on a budget huh.
but yeah na you are right, i shouldnt be up this piece at all, im not one for hip hop internet message board realness.
peace.
Satellite, for hip hop, your kidding right? Do u have it, first lets get them too up more than what like two of the four hundred stations, the last time I checked. Yeah its current but shit who wants too flip back and forth between two cause they play the same thing at times like regular radio. AND the shit ain’t free, leave the local DJ’s alone, DAMN!!!can one american keep a job?
I’m scratching my head wondering why you even made it that station of all Detroit radio…granted there ain’t much to choose from, but we ALL know that 96.3 has changed formats so many times that you don’t what you’re gonna get when you turn it on…With that said, keep dropping the fire loosies (I LOVE THEM) and I just might shoot you a shot of me rocking my TSS tshirt wet with my nipples hard
thanks for the mention about the White Owl situation.