Posts Tagged ‘Microphone Check’
Notorious B.I.G. Commemorated By Some Of Those Who Knew Him Best (Video)
September 25, 2014
From NPR Microphone Check’s Frannie Kelly and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (of A Tribe Called Quest fame) comes this presentation of a panel exploring the late great veteran Notorious B.I.G. for this, the 20th year since “Ready To Die” dropped. Including Biggie’s first DJ Hubert Sam, jazz musician Donald Harrison Jr., writer Dream Hampton and The Source Magazine’s “Unsigned Hype†columnist (who gave him his first major writeup) Matty C., the panel gave classic commentary on the life and times of a classic Brooklyn emcee who left us with classic Hip-Hop music.
Watch part 1 of the recording of the historic happening above; part 2 after the jump.
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Souls Of Mischief Talk About Their Past, Influences, Music And Future Moves On NPR’s Microphone Check
September 4, 2014
Oakland group Souls of Mischief is the invited guest on this episode of NPR’s Microphone Check. The emcees speak to Adrian Younge, producer of Souls’ recently-released LP – “There Is Only Now” (which Mic Check co-host Ali Shaheed Muhammad, of A Tribe Called Quest, narrates. Great conversation, memories and insights shared by three Souls members (Tajai, Phesto and Opio) with Younge, Ali and Mic Check co-host Frannie Kelley.
Listen below. Take a trip back to last century. The Golden Age of Hip-Hop; from a unique West Coast Oaktown perspective. From the ’80s and early ’90s – still taking it to the next level today their way. Respect. Souls.
“We respected it all but we wanted to be different. We didn’t want to sound like anybody else. Those were the rules of the greatest rappers that we heard.”
Mission accomplished. Stream and download this episode of Microphone Check below.
DOWNLOAD: SOULS OF MISCHIEF ON NPR’S MICROPHONE CHECK | THERE IS ONLY NOW
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NPR: Ali Shaheed Muhammad hosts ‘Microphone Check’ with the Legendary ‘Pete Rock’ On His Career Path, Influences, and More (Audio)
July 5, 2014
Mutual admiration expressed right from the start of the interview. Ali Shaheed Muhammad (of A Tribe Called Quest) talking with Golden Era producer extraordinaire Pete Rock.
“I was musically charged, man. I had some adrenaline going on then. I’m serious, ever since I — I think after I met James Brown as a kid. I was seven years old. I wasn’t the same since.”
– Pete Rock
Ali Shaheed and Frannie Kelley host NPR’s Microphone Check. They talk with PR about his meeting James Brown the great and later attending his funeral, his other influences and upcoming in Hip-Hop, 9/11, J Dilla and so much more. Settle in and listen to the audio stream. It’s an hour-and-a-half… a wonderfully worthwhile trip between then and now.
DOWNLOAD: MICROPHONE CHECK WITH PETE ROCK
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