Fans are still waving the Daniel Dumile flag weeks after his untimely death was confirmed. Two radio pioneers celebrated the late great MC's career with a thoughtful and in-depth program.
It’s about damn time. Radio legends and Hip-Hop connoisseurs Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia have announced their debut album and their brand new podcast.
Do your Googles; Stretch Armstrong is one of the preeminent music figures when you are talking about 1990’s New York Hip-Hop. The legendary DJ details his club experience during the golden era in his new book No Sleep: NYC Nightlife Flyers 1988-1999.
Hip-Hop radio legends Stretch & Bobbito are coming back for the culture with a new NPR podcast.
Consider this a Hip-Hop history lesson in podcast form. In its latest episode, The Combat Jack Show welcomed seminal Hip-Hop radio show hosts Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia.
The Source magazine’s “Unsigned Hyped” section gets a lot of credit for putting the world on to future Hip-Hop stars. But another entity deserving of such praise is DJ Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia’s massively influential NYC radio show which gets the documentary treatment in Stretch & Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives.
Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia, collectively known as Stretch and Bobbito, co-hosted the legendary The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show from 1990 to 1998 on New York’s WKCR. The dynamic duo are currently preparing to release a 90-minute documentary of their adventures, and are using Kickstarter to raise funds and offer fans some amazing perks for their contributions.
Rick Rubin is a legend in the world of Hip-Hop, co-founding Def Jam Records with Russell Simmons in the 1980s. Rubin discussed his career, being white and Jewish in Hip-Hop, working with Eminem and more in a recent Shade 45 chat with DJ Whoo Kid.
