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So Erick Sermon, and Parrish Smith formed EPMD six decades ago! In Hip-Hop years, that’s a century! I don’t mean that as a diss. I mean that as that as the upmost compliment. Us Hip-Hop heads need to lead the charge in giving, as the late great Shock G of Digital Underground so eloquently phrased, "Heartbeat Props”, to living legends like EPMD (since we’re too hardcore to ‘give em flowers’). […]
TUNE IN EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR #WESTSIDERIDAHREPORT 5PM PACIFIC-2AM PACIFIC/8PM-5AM EASTERN WSRR 8.25 We start this off by wishing a heavenly Born Day to Shock G of Digital Underground. This past weekend in Oakland, Shock G was celebrated by a Block Party and tribute show. We send his family and friends much Love. Of Course some of his music in the MIX tonight. We are also throwing it back to […]
TUNE IN EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR #WESTSIDERIDAHREPORT 5PM PACIFIC-2AM PACIFIC/8PM-5AM EASTERN WSRR 8.18 Its with heavy hearts that we do this weeks report. News broke this past weekend, that Steve “Zumbi” Gaines from Zion I had passed. Steve Gaines started Zion I, after collaborating with Amp Live from Morehouse college. Originally rapping under the name Zion, Steve took on the names of Zumbi, and Baba Zumbi. Zumbi was a […]
Black August Resistance 2021!! The Concept of Black August grew out of the Black Liberation Prison Resistance Movement. Black August is NOT a celebration, but a COMMEMORATION and honoring of the Warriors, Freedom Fighters and Black Liberators who have fought behind the walls against this New Slavery with the Prison Industrial Complex, and within the Afrikan Liberation movements worldwide. The work of George Jackson has been a source of inspiration, […]
TUNE IN EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR #WESTSIDERIDAHREPORT 5PM PACIFIC-2AM PACIFIC/8PM-5AM EASTERN WSRR 8.11 QUICK Loaded !! Me and the crew been at this hip hop thang, since the early 90s. We were apart of a groundbreaking Hip Hop show and Black Controlled Music Format. Blessed to play music on radio in the 1990s. One artists we have followed since he dropped is Dj Quik. My first memory was going to […]
TUNE IN EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR #WESTSIDERIDAHREPORT 5PM PACIFIC-2AM PACIFIC/8PM-5AM EASTERN WSRR 8.4 The world’s most dangerous group. August 8th, 1988 N.W.A. released “Straight Outta Compton.” Originally the crew was Eazy-E and Dr. Dre, after Eazy started Ruthless Records with Jerry Heller. A Kelly Park Compton Crip, Eazy made a lot of money as a street pharmacist, who decided to put a crew together. The group then added and […]
TUNE IN EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR #WESTSIDERIDAHREPORT 5PM PACIFIC-2AM PACIFIC/8PM-5AM EASTERN WSRR 7.28 West Up Fam. Hopefully the summer heat is treating you well, and you are healthy and doing well. This week we give Love to 2 Westcoast albums, including love to a Legend of West Coast hip Hop. July 30st 2001. Snoop Dogg presents Tha Eastsidaz Dueces & Treys. 2nd Studio album by Tha Eastsidaz.. Tha Eastsidaz are […]
TUNE IN EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR #WESTSIDERIDAHREPORT 5PM PACIFIC-2AM PACIFIC/8PM-5AM EASTERN WSRR 7.21 This week we are giving it up to another WestCoast Classic Hip Hop Film from the 90s…. Poetic Justice. This will film was the late John Singleton’s 2nd film, and it was released July 23rd 1993. With a cast consisting of Janet Jackson, the late great Tupac Shakur, Regina King and Joe Torry… it was destined to […]
First of all, the Native Tongues are not an official Hip-Hop group, crew, click, organization, or squad. Unofficially, they are more than the all of the aforementioned. Here is the when, why, where and how. This story begins in the 1980’s in New York City. By this time, Harlem’s Kool DJ Red Alert is already a well-established and respected Hip-Hop DJ having rose to fame on WRKS 98.7 KISS FM. […]
TUNE IN EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR #WESTSIDERIDAHREPORT 5PM PACIFIC-2AM PACIFIC/8PM-5AM EASTERN WSRR 7.14 2 OG’s get a shout out this week on Westside Ridah Report. Week of 7/14. Coolio, and Too Short. The Godfather of the Bay Too Short, released his 7th studio album .. yes 7th, July 14th 1994, “Shorty the Pimp”. Now this classic album is actually based off a Blaxploitation film of 1973, named “Shorty the Pimp”, […]
