Hip Hop Month – Episode 3 – The Scholarly Approach
This July, Unity Radio, champions the elements of Hip Hop culture, celebrating Rap Music, Graffiti Art , BBOY skillz and Turntablism, with weekly on-air and digital features in, ‘Rap Week’, ‘Graffiti City’, ‘Rock on’ BBoy’s + BGirls, and ‘Cut N Scratch’ week’s as we launch Unity’s Hip Hop Month.
Join DJ Vital on a special Hip Hop breakfast takeover at 7am Monday 6th of July, running all week to Friday the 10th. Expect to hear Big Beats and bigger basslines as Vital cuts up the biggest Hip Hop anthems with Classic gems from Hip Hop’s golden era.
To kick off the month, we are very proud to announce the airing of a 6 part mini-series, from New York City’s Rap legend and, ‘TEACHA’, KRSOne!! Broadcasting from Monday the 6th to Saturday the 11th of July, KRS shares ‘The Truth about Hip Hop
In Episode 3 ‘The Scholarly Approach’, KRS One, provides an accurate and correct version of accounts relating to the birth of Hip Hop. Whilst Hip Hop is given to Kool Herc, KRS One, goes on to share the influences and contributing factors, from Afrikaa Bambataa and the Zulu Nation, who wanted to achieve peace love and ‘unity’, with having fun and gaining knowledge and overstanding, as a generation found an identity they truly owned.
Providing listeners with a first hand account of how the tiny subculture grew from a few neighbourhoods, progressed by Grandmaster Flash in 76, with the significance of the mixer, KRS One shares, the struggle of getting Hip Hop played on radio and keenly sharing the importance of taking the correct approach to learning to DJing. He goes on to explain why learning on vinyl is important for young DJ’s who wish to ascend the culture, to be able to build on the history carved, by DJ’s such as Breakout, Dj Jazzy Jeff, DJ Red Alert, and Chuck Chillout, who created wonderful creations without the use of Serato, or consoles, and who mastered cutting, juggling, and flanging, to be passed to Hip Hop’s next generation, to be built upon.
Catch playouts on air from Breakfast with Vital through to Drivetime with Shaun Lever, or see the video here……
