Episode #004: Radio

Headland & Delowe

Atlanta Hip Hop has a rich tradition and history in radio. It begins with WIGO and WAOK and quickly became stronger in the college radio scene with stations like WRAS (Georgia State) and WREK (Georgia Tech), The Fresh Party on V103 as well as community radio WRFG. We all know about the stories of Greg Street and Frank Ski. Atlanta is blessed to have had those dynamic DJs help push the scene. This is the other side of the story, the story of DJs that year after year worked the club circuit before graduating into ATL radio. In this episode we hear stories from DJs that started their careers on these stations and others that witnessed these careers grow. We learn more about Lil Jon’s House, Reggae and Hip Hop DJing days, The Beef © between P. Diddy and Atlanta DJs and how early DJs used the radio as a springboard into the Hip Hop industry. Stories heard from: DJ Mars, Smoove Matty Matt, Brian Lassiter, Talib Shabazz, H20, DJ Jaycee, J of Earwax Records, Shannon McCollum, DJ Nabs, Marcel Daniels, DJ Applejac & DJ Mafioso. These episodes first aired on Brooklyn Radio in late 2010 and early 2011. They are being offered as a podcast, as promised, for free. The film version of this documentary is in production. Thanks for listening. All tracks used are from Atlanta Hip Hop artists: Triple Crush - “The Groove” (DUB) D Rock & Swift C - “Who Rocks (Remix) Arrested Development - “Revolution” GooDie MoB - “Goodie Bag” P.A. aka Parental Advisory - “Ghetto Head Hunter” Youngbloodz ft Lil Jon - “Damn” Young Joc - “It’s going down” DJ Unknown aka JBrew - “Untitled” Grip Plyaz - “Untitled” (Live) Headland & Delowe: Atlanta Hip Hop from ‘79- ‘til by Dominick R. Brady is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at www.dominickbrady.com.