Our biggest year yet at Hip Hop Movie Club!

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Welcome to Hip Hop Movie Club, the show that harmonizes the rhythm of hip hop with the magic of movies.

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Today we're giving thanks and recapping our biggest year yet.

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We are three old heads who put their old heads together to vibe on these films for you.

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I'm DynoWright, podcaster, filmmaker, longtime hip hop fan, and I want to know who's been

naughty or nice with a device turning grown men into mice.

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I'm JB, 80s and 90s nostalgia junkie, long time hip hop fan, and I'm too blessed to be

stressed and too legit to quit.

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Ha ha ha ha ha.

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y'all, your guys in the rhymes, man.

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Put me to shame.

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I'm BooGie, a DJ, longtime hip hop fan, and I don't know about you, many of you listening, but this year has absolutely flown by.

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That is

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Yeah.

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year.

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That's a fact.

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Time flies when you're having fun and we had a boatload of fun in 2024.

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We had jokingly called it The Takeover

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because we were trying to take things over here with HHMC, Hip Hop Movie Club.

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I think we did a lot of big things.

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And again, as DynoWright mentioned, we wanted to express our gratitude to our loyal listeners,

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those that attended our multiple live events.

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We appreciate you.

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So thank you.

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Spread the word.

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Keep coming back.

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We're trying to provide these interactive cultural experiences beyond your typical movie

screenings or discussions.

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So once again, thank you.

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Amen.

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Yes, yes.

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So let's recap some of the stuff we did kind of almost in a chronology.

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We can reflect on our favorite aspects of some of these things.

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we kick, hit the ground running, I should say.

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We hit the ground running in January of this year, 2024.

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Multiple episodes released on some movies.

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A live event we did was at Princeton's Wintersession when there's a break in between semesters.

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We did that for a

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DynoWright, you want to talk about some highlights of what we did over there in Princeton?

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in Sure!

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We ran through some highlights of hip hop movies, and especially had some interactive stuff.

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Thank you to DJ ARM 18 for doing a demo of scratching and turntabling.

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And my own brother Jey Prime for a breakdancing demo.

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Pretty great.

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Hmm, dope stuff.

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Yeah, that was great to be interactive.

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had several people there.

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You know, there was a bit of a blizzard.

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We had a handful of people in the building there, Princeton.

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We had some on Zoom, but it was great.

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We have folks scratching records, breakdance demos, you said.

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We talked about some of the hip hop stars that had become actors.

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and just the overall impact of hip hop.

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Try to talk about all the different elements of hip hop.

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So that was a great way to kick off the year.

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Yeah, I got the tag up the wall with some, with the chalk, little graffiti montage on the

wall.

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Yeah, it's cool.

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It was a good event.

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see BooGie's stylings of his graffiti from his younger days, but he's still active with it.

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So it's awesome.

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It's awesome.

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Yep.

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say now that we will be back at Wintersession in January.

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More details to come.

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So those of you in the Princeton community, at least the Princeton campus community, come

check us out.

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More info will be out on our socials.

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HHMC goes Ivy League again.

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Breaking news on the 2024 recap!

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That's right.

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That's right.

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Also in January, towards the end of January, we went to our other home away from home,

SteelStacks in Bethlehem, where we helped support a screening of Wild Style, the original

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Also in January, towards the end of January, we went to our other home away from home,

SteelStacks in Bethlehem, where we helped support a screening of Wild Style, the original

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hip hop themed movie.

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that DJ ARM 18 had actually put on as part of his 50 Years Down the Line.

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And that included a live performance with the Cold Crush Brothers.

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That was incredible.

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So,

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from the director, Charlie Ahearn, as well.

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Charlie Ahearn was in the building, in the flesh, chilling.

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Mm-hmm.

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Grandmixer DXT spinning.

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So that was terrific.

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him cut up a little bit as well, which was dope.

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He was one of the original turntablists, they say, pioneer in the DJ world.

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And Grandmaster Caz, true legend.

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We got to meet and greet with him.

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You may have seen on our socials, we had our photograph with him as well with Charlie Ahearn.

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And they put on a live performance after the screening over there at SteelStacks and they did not miss a beat.

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It was like three-part harmony.

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And I was just wowed by that.

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Yeah, I mean, that was the signature classic

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And that's what made them a hit.

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like, everybody at the time was trying to emulate that style

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of just going back and forth and passing the rhyme from one

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member to the other without missing a beat.

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it was crazy to see that, like, you know, after all of these years.

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they said they hadn't performed in a while together.

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And they just jumped out on there and was just like, boom, here we are.

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And it was just like they just went right into it.

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It was so dope.

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Total pros.

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Total pros.

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Plus they did a panel discussion before the screening

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and that was very insightful with Charlie Ahearn and Grandmaster Caz and Grandmixer DXT.

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That was awesome.

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And yeah, I mean, we learned a little bit behind the scenes how

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Grandmaster Caz had written the lyrics for Sugarhill Gang's Rappers Delight.

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It was his lyrics and it was...

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I don't want to misappropriate it, but it was used without his permission.

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Yeah, misappropriated.

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Yeah, you can say that.

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But it's good to see him get his due now with the Rock the Bells and et cetera, et cetera.

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Yeah, true legend in the game.

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That was an incredible experience.

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We got to hang out a little bit after the show with him as well.

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Thank you to Q and V at Taste Smokers for that.

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Absolutely.

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That was straight up VIP.

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Like I was walking on clouds after that night.

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I couldn't believe it.

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to start the year.

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What a way to start the year.

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as well.

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Also, you know, after that event, some of our highlights were

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heading back to our alma mater, Rider University, and we attended an event, Samples and Friends.

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Naa'san Carr, shout out to him for putting that on.

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Thank you, Naa’san.

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Yessir.

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and he's doing big things.

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And so we participated in that event and BooGie was dominating, answering all the questions.

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And they were playing a sample and you would get points for saying the original sample

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song and artist and then the hip hop song that sampled it.

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they grouped us into teams and...

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BooGie became quite popular with some of the young folks, some of the ladies there saying, you know your stuff.

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He's like, yeah, I've been a DJ for years.

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I was a DJ before you were born pretty much.

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Yeah, no surprise.

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some of your parents were partying.

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You might have been there at the conception.

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That was all fun.

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have been responsible for some of them.

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You might have been the catalyst for their fathers.

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I gotta send some invoices out.

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Yes.

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Ah, man.

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man, continue with live events.

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We did a live screening of the movie Juice, starring Tupac, Omar Epps and others at SteelStacks in Bethlehem.

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And we did a talkback Q &A and we gave out some prizes with some trivia.

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That was very well received.

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Amazing to see Juice on the big screen again.

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Yeah, that's one of my all time favorites right there.

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I will watch Juice anytime it's on.

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So it was great to see it on a big screen.

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Great experience.

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Thank you to DJ ARM 18 again.

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Thank you, Andrew.

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And thank you to Anthony DeSanctis at ArtsQuest for bringing us in on that.

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Very instrumental in our next series of screenings.

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That we have a film series at all.

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We haven't really talked about that directly.

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Yeah, I mean, I can't speak highly enough about Anthony DeSanctis and the team there at

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the ArtsQuest Complex, SteelStacks, Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas.

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Great setup, they do so much for the arts and we are blessed to

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have our own film series, Hip Hop Movie Club film series.

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You can find our information on SteelStacks.org.

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multiple screenings anytime we mentioned SteelStacks.

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It's because of the partnership with Anthony and team.

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They do an amazing job.

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They're very cordial.

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Putting dope events out there and we're just happy to be part of it.

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Yeah, and while we're doing shout outs, we can shout out Loud Radio as well because

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they signed on as our official sponsors and just been promoting and having prizes and giving

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out tickets.

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so we can have more in attendance.

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This has been great.

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It's been great.

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Loud Radio.

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Yeah, Loud Radio.

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They've expanded.

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We're talking to ARM.

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It's like they were just in Lehigh Valley,

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Allentown, Bethlehem area, as well as State College, and now they're up in Scranton as well.

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Taking over all of PA.

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right on, right on.

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You listen on iHeartRadio to Loud Radio, streaming all the time.

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I love their throwback sets at lunchtime.

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Yeah, they do an amazing mix.

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But all throughout the day, yep.

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Can't go wrong with a throwback at noon set.

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Hahaha!

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That’ll get you going.

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Yeah, for sure.

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Expanding our realm, we kind of dove into some of these

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hip hop adjacent films as well, like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

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We love that film.

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A feast for all the senses, and it's got an amazing soundtrack.

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Yeah, the soundtrack, the visuals, top notch.

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lot of hip hop culture in that one.

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And DynoWright, you had hooked up at a prior event with John and Josh from the Serious Rap Shit podcast

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and you got them to come onto our show.

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We interviewed them about their documentary, Another Word for Paradise.

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about hip-hop in India, yes.

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It was great to have them on.

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Yeah, it was great to have them on.

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Shout out to John Morrison and Josh Leidy.

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Thank you to those two guys.

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Yeah, those two guys were great guests.

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Mutual respect between us and those guys.

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We went back to Rider shortly thereafter.

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We did an event called Let's Hear It For The Girls.

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So it was in or around Women's History Month.

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And so our event was geared towards the women of hip hop.

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And we talked about the most influential hip hop artists.

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female hip-hop artists, should say.

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So, I BooGie's expert on all things Queen Latifah.

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She was prominently featured.

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Dana Owens and Lauryn Hill.

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And a lot of these are Jersey-based women that put the female voice on the map for hip-hop.

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So we gave them their flowers.

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Thank you to Cynthia Martinez from Rider and thank you to Djenaba Figueroa for being our panelists.

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Yes, excellent job, ladies.

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Mm-hmm.

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Yep, that was a lot of fun.

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And our brothers from the SigEp, Sigma Phi Epsilon, showed out as well.

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Yeah, they showed up.

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En masse.

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Thank you to the brothers for that.

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That was dope. That was real dope.

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Our next event that we did back at SteelStacks in Bethlehem was Krush Groove.

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So we did the screening of Krush Groove and a talk back.

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We did some trivia and prizes.

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Classic film.

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That was our first of the official Hip Hop Movie Club Film Series.

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That was it.

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That kicked it off.

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And what a way to kick it off with a classic, you know, Krush Groove.

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I mean, talk about iconic hip hop films and you have Wild Style, you know, Breakin', Beat Street.

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Krush Groove is definitely one of them.

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I mean, the story that it tells,

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semi-autobiographical, semi-historical retelling of the founding of Def Jam Records.

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with all of these iconic artists in it, all household names,

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LL Cool J, Run DMC, the Beastie Boys, New Edition's cameo, Fat Boys, and then Sheila E.

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and then Sheila E.

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It was just an amazing movie and it's great to see that on the big screen.

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That was great.

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In April we had the great honor and pleasure

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to be able to meet Chuck D at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem

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all thanks to DJ ARM 18 for putting that on so

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You may remember DJ ARM 18 is a professor at Northampton Community College in addition to being a DJ

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and as the capstone event for the humanities program

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He had Chuck D come to campus and wow, I mean, that was very widely attended.

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So inspirational, his words.

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Yeah. That gymnasium was packed.

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Front to back.

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I was in awe.

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I'm a fanboy too, I'm Chuck D, man.

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That's my man right there.

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I was trying to stay calm.

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Ahahaha!

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know.

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It's funny because we got there early and I was kind of fanboying.

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I saw him walk by and I was tapping.

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I was tapping his shoulders like, just walked by.

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And I was like, all right, stay cool, stay cool.

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And he was nice enough to stay as long as needed to meet everybody.

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was really nice of him and above and beyond.

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Yeah, every fan.

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He didn't turn one fan away.

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That was amazing.

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Yeah, I mean, I know we did a whole episode about his appearance with DJ ARM so I won’t rehash it all but I mean,

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he was just, again, so inspiring that he talked to,

he had students on

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the stage, they had a panel discussion.

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he, he told them take advantage of all the resources they have.

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He was a historian, not only of music, but of, American history, the, the trials and tribulations of

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of the African Americans and their plight and migration from the south up north.

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Just like amazing and multifaceted, multi-talented.

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You may not know that, you know, he created multiple graphic novels in more recent years.

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So he's expanded his horizons and his vision and really just incredible appearance there.

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And how.

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Yep, yep, We continued multiple episodes.

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Dope, The Wood, these are like love letters to hip hop.

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All the Streets Are Silent, which was a documentary about

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the unlikely marriage between skateboarding and hip hop, how they influence each other.

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Talked about the beginnings of some of your favorite brands like Supreme, you know, Zoo York.

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That’s right.

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Yeah, as we head into the summer, multiple episodes.

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And then I was happy to host you guys here at my home for a retreat.

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We had a really nice time.

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So we mixed in business with pleasure.

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Got to hang out, do a little bit swimming.

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The Allentown Farmers Market was a highlight as well.

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Thumbs up, two thumbs up to that.

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Yeah.

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Good eats.

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We had to go back there again.

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We also went to Taste Smokers.

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we went back.

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Q and V didn't happen to be there at the time, but we had a great meal over there as well.

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in on them, but the food was still good.

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And thank you, JB, for hosting us.

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That was a great experience and I appreciate that.

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Yeah, good times.

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on.

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my pleasure.

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shout out to Mrs.

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DynoWright for helping us out as well.

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Our financial wizard.

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Yeah, behind the scenes, helping us out, organizing our business aspect.

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Big time, big time.

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much respect.

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Exactly.

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Yep, as summer wind down and then towards the end, we had

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one of my most memorable events for you guys as well,

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screening of the original House Party movie, but we had the brothers from Full Force

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in the house with us on the stage and

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we had an awesome Q &A with them as part of that.

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Yeah, that was a special treat.

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Yeah, those guys are amazing.

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And so gracious.

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Thanks to thanks to Bowlegged Lou and Paul Anthony and and B-Fine.

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Yes, of course.

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Warrington Hudlin, he was gracious enough to help us out, know, connect us with Full Force.

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Thank you, Warrington.

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Thank you, Warrington Hudlin.

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Thanks for ARM to hook us up with that connection.

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Yet again.

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yeah.

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Out of three of us I got to spend more time with those guys kind of shepherding them around a little bit showing them some of the sights of

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Bethlehem and I had an amazing time

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Bowlegged Lou his character he's just as funny and genuine as as he sounds when you see him in the panel

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He's a born entertainer

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But again, he's very gracious.

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The funny thing is we had this panel and right afterwards he goes, hey, let me take a selfie with you.

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He's acting like we are the celebrities.

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I'm like, wait a second.

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: 00:19:36

I was like, this is amazing.

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: 00:19:37

I was like, no way.

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: 00:19:39

We got him one of our hip hop movie club t-shirts and he donned it, sent a picture with

it.

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: 00:19:45

It was awesome.

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: 00:19:48

We also met Tyrone Lowe through that as well.

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: 00:19:52

that's right.

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And Tyrone has a series called The Legends.

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: 00:19:56

If you haven't checked out Tyrone Lowe on YouTube, he interviews a lot of R &B legends.

353

: 00:20:02

He does an amazing job with these interviews and he was representing us one of his interviews recently as well.

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So shout out to Tyrone.

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: 00:20:10

We'd love to collaborate with you a little bit more in the future also.

356

: 00:20:13

Yes.

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: 00:20:14

Yeah.

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And Tyrone is also a DJ as well.

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: 00:20:16

He pulls some of his mixes up as well.

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: 00:20:18

So yeah.

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: 00:20:19

Good dude.

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: 00:20:20

Mm-hmm.

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: 00:20:21

Yeah, yeah, good dude yeah, Full Force.

364

: 00:20:25

those guys are insane.

365

: 00:20:27

You don't realize, I mean, people may know them only as the bullies in that movie,

366

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such a storied and accomplished career founding acts such as Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam.

367

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They wrote a song or two for Bob Dylan.

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: 00:20:43

They worked with James Brown, Samantha Fox, but their own, I mean, multiple albums of

their own, like

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Almost a dozen albums.

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and and big songs.

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We could go on and on.

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Fantastic.

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: 00:20:56

what a fantastic career and they're still going strong.

374

: 00:21:00

They were at the Pass the Mic event that you went to BooGie recently.

375

: 00:21:03

That's right.

376

: 00:21:03

Yeah, it is funny.

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: 00:21:05

I'm sitting in the audience and I'm texting Bowlegged Lou like, yo, I'm waiting for you guys to come out.

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: 00:21:09

He responded.

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: 00:21:11

He told me when they were coming out and I got a clip of them performing.

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: 00:21:14

Yeah.

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: 00:21:15

Good stuff.

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: 00:21:17

stuff.

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: 00:21:18

That's amazing.

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: 00:21:19

So yeah.

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: 00:21:21

And we didn't stop there.

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I mean, we did multiple episodes.

387

: 00:21:23

We put out an episode about House Party 2.

388

: 00:21:25

We talked about Do the Right Thing versus Boyz n the Hood, two of the most prominent

389

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hip hop-themed movies and kind of debate the merits of both and the relevancy.

390

: 00:21:34

And then as if that wasn't enough,

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: 00:21:37

think this was in September, we had a screening of 8 Mile.

392

: 00:21:42

But again, with our connections, we were able to interview Craig G,

393

: 00:21:45

who ghost wrote some of the rap battle scenes in that movie.

394

: 00:21:52

Hip-hop pioneer Craig G.

395

: 00:21:54

So that was an awesome experience also.

396

: 00:21:56

You want to talk about that, BooGie?

397

: 00:21:58

Yeah, Craig G of the legendary Juice Crew, know, ran with

398

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the likes of Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Roxanne Shante, Masta Ace, you know, et cetera.

399

: 00:22:07

And one of the greatest hip hop collaboration songs of all time, the symphony,

400

: 00:22:13

you know, I mean, he actually sat, you know, in this interview, we talked about his involvement in 8

401

: 00:22:20

Mile, he gave us some background insight into the movie, how he became involved with it.

402

: 00:22:27

It was just a great, great interview.

403

: 00:22:29

And he was just so humble and down to earth.

404

: 00:22:31

Mad chill.

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: 00:22:33

And also, you know, just throw this in there.

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: 00:22:36

He's got a new album, you know, some songs got some new material out.

407

: 00:22:39

So check Craig G out as well.

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: 00:22:42

Shout out to you, Craig.

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: 00:22:43

And check him out.

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: 00:22:45

He's got some good stuff coming up.

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: 00:22:47

Thank you, Craig.

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: 00:22:48

Yeah.

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Yeah, that was amazing experience.

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: 00:22:51

We kind of shift gears a little bit and instead of doing just

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straight up movies or some of these debate topics, we also

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: 00:22:59

just did a deep dive into the career of some of

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: 00:23:02

the most prominent artists that had transformed from straight up,

418

: 00:23:07

just hip hop artists into just these world renowned entertainers on the big screen,

419

: 00:23:12

whether it be silver screen or the big screen and or the

420

: 00:23:15

TV or movies, I should say.

421

: 00:23:16

And it was like, we did LL Cool J, we did Ice Cube, talk about their careers and their transformation.

422

: 00:23:22

Those were lot of fun.

423

: 00:23:24

And we even did an episode on Teen Titans Go.

424

: 00:23:28

The De La Soul episode of course Yes

425

: 00:23:33

classic episode.

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: 00:23:34

That's right.

427

: 00:23:36

You can learn something from an episode too if you pay attention.

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: 00:23:39

So yeah, if you haven't watched that episode,

429

: 00:23:42

don't think it's a silly cartoon, you know, check it out.

430

: 00:23:44

You're gonna learn something.

431

: 00:23:46

You will learn something, guaranteed.

432

: 00:23:50

for short time investment is something like 11 or 12 minutes

433

: 00:23:53

of your time and it's chock full of knowledge.

434

: 00:23:57

Yeah, for you old heads, think Schoolhouse Rock.

435

: 00:24:03

That's right.

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: 00:24:04

That's right.

437

: 00:24:06

And then more recently, we went back to our alma mater once again.

438

: 00:24:10

For the homecoming weekend, we did a live show with Professor Mickey Hess.

439

: 00:24:15

Mickey Hess was just a fountain of hip hop knowledge as well.

440

: 00:24:18

Yeah.

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: 00:24:20

Yes.

442

: 00:24:22

Yeah.

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: 00:24:23

He's such a good guy, man.

444

: 00:24:24

And he had a lot of, he had a lot of insight.

445

: 00:24:26

I was very impressed with his insight

446

: 00:24:29

and even talking about topics that, you know, he wasn't at Rider for, he still had insight into those in the background, little tidbits of

447

: 00:24:36

information, dropping little knowledge nuggets here and there.

448

: 00:24:39

It's like, wow, this is great.

449

: 00:24:41

Mm-hmm.

450

: 00:24:43

Yeah, I mean he's written multiple books about hip hop

451

: 00:24:46

and he wrote one of the most prominent pieces on Ol' Dirty Bastard.

452

: 00:24:52

Yeah.

453

: 00:24:53

Mm-hmm.

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: 00:24:53

Mm-hmm.

455

: 00:24:54

very, very well connected to hip hop.

456

: 00:24:56

And BooGie, you impressed me with your knowledge of

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: 00:25:00

everything as usual and all your experiences back at Rider when you were

458

: 00:25:04

pretty big with the SEC, Student Entertainment

459

: 00:25:06

Council, bringing some of these prominent acts to campus, but also doing crowd control,

hype man, hospitality suite, everything.

460

: 00:25:08

bringing some of these prominent acts to campus, but also doing crowd control, hype man, hospitality suite, everything.

461

: 00:25:19

That's right.

462

: 00:25:19

Yeah, that was probably one of the best decisions I ever made.

463

: 00:25:23

And I joined SEC my first semester as a freshman, had no clue what I was doing, but that

was one of the best experiences I've ever had.

464

: 00:25:31

The best decision was joining that group, man.

465

: 00:25:34

I got stories.

466

: 00:25:35

I got tons of stories.

467

: 00:25:37

yeah, I mean, again, you go back and listen to our episode with Mickey Hess,

468

: 00:25:42

because you will hear some stories BooGie is telling, just sitting here and this guy's kind of

469

: 00:25:47

spouting off and criticizing people about their lyrics as rap battle.

470

: 00:25:52

And it's none other than Jay-Z,

471

: 00:25:56

you know, meeting Phife Dawg and Biz Markie and so many others and Lauryn Hill and the Fugees and just like these.

472

: 00:26:05

Iconic acts right on the Rider small small campus right there in Lawrenceville, New Jersey

473

: 00:26:10

and BooGie's right right in the midst of it all.

474

: 00:26:13

Yep

475

: 00:26:14

Mm-hmm.

476

: 00:26:15

We did our homage to Ronald Young's Leaving the Theater by going to see Piece by Piece.

477

: 00:26:20

So this was something unique that I think I concocted.

478

: 00:26:23

was like, we should really go see a movie together.

479

: 00:26:25

And we met kind of at a midpoint.

480

: 00:26:28

And we saw Piece by Piece, which was the Pharrell Williams biopic, which is done with LEGOs.

481

: 00:26:34

Creative movie for just a creative cat.

482

: 00:26:37

It was an awesome movie.

483

: 00:26:38

So I would recommend doing that.

484

: 00:26:40

And then.

485

: 00:26:41

DynoWright with his creative genius actually LEGOized or LEGO-fied us

486

: 00:26:46

for that for our YouTube For that that was amazing

487

: 00:26:50

Yeah, thank you, DynoWright for that.

488

: 00:26:51

That was fun.

489

: 00:26:53

That was fun.

490

: 00:26:53

The visual on that was so fun.

491

: 00:26:57

So unexpected.

492

: 00:27:00

guys.

493

: 00:27:01

Yeah, that was awesome.

494

: 00:27:02

We literally recorded it at a diner so you could hear in the background a waitress coming

over.

495

: 00:27:07

That was awesome.

496

: 00:27:09

It's a spontaneous thing.

497

: 00:27:12

Yeah.

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: 00:27:12

character.

499

: 00:27:14

Yeah, did.

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: 00:27:14

did.

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: 00:27:15

Ambience, they call it.

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: 00:27:17

man.

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: 00:27:18

That was hurt.

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: 00:27:20

I had a lot of fun.

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: 00:27:22

And then most recently, this was November 13th think the date was, is we did Boyz n the

Hood screening.

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: 00:27:33

So between that time and now, just most recently, the SteelStacks upgraded the Frank Banko Alehouse cinemas to 4K.

507

: 00:27:41

So we showed Boyz n the Hood.

508

: 00:27:44

in 4k and you can tell the difference with the imagery and the sound system.

509

: 00:27:49

To see Boyz n the Hood in that format was almost like an out of body experience.

510

: 00:27:55

It was amazing.

511

: 00:27:56

was fantastic.

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: 00:27:58

Yeah, that's it.

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: 00:27:59

that, had BooGie hosted a very insightful panel discussion with, and again, we're going to do some shout outs and thank yous

514

: 00:28:06

to Ali Akarcesme, professor of film at Kutztown

515

: 00:28:09

University, DJ ARM 18 again, once again, professor

516

: 00:28:13

Northampton Community College, and Vernard James, young filmmaker.

517

: 00:28:16

He works for ASR Media,

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: 00:28:18

graduate of DeSales University, who's won multiple awards for some of his short films.

519

: 00:28:24

What an amazing experience.

520

: 00:28:25

So BooGie, amazing job once again, hosting that panel.

521

: 00:28:29

I learned so much.

522

: 00:28:30

I thought I knew.

523

: 00:28:32

I thought I knew a lot about the movie because we analyzed it, we analyzed it,

524

: 00:28:36

but they just keep, know, new switches keep going on, like new light bulbs.

525

: 00:28:39

wait, I didn't even think about aspect or how did that tie together?

526

: 00:28:42

like, I mean, the aspect of LA being an actual character in the film or like the stop sign

and the symbolism and the imagery and how all these different aspects tie together.

527

: 00:28:52

Talk about the

528

: 00:28:53

socioeconomic impact and deeper dive on gentrification and other key components were, wow, that was just amazing.

529

: 00:29:02

Like, yeah, for sure.

530

: 00:29:06

as one who's I mean, I've watched Boyz n the Hood so many times, probably most recently as maybe a couple of weeks ago.

531

: 00:29:12

And there were aspects that, you know, things that they were talking about in the film

532

: 00:29:16

that I didn't even and hadn't even thought about, like you mentioned those aspects.

533

: 00:29:21

And I mean, as a social as a former sociology major, you know, at Rider, I mean, it was

great to participate in panel.

534

: 00:29:28

So I thank you guys for, you know, allowing me to.

535

: 00:29:31

to host that as well.

536

: 00:29:33

And it was just great to have that discussion.

537

: 00:29:35

I mean, if we had more time, we could have got so deep.

538

: 00:29:40

I kept looking at my watch like, my God, I don't wanna go over, I don't wanna go over, I don't wanna go over.

539

: 00:29:45

But like, it was just amazing.

540

: 00:29:47

That was such a great experience.

541

: 00:29:49

And I thank the panelists again for coming out and being a part of it.

542

: 00:29:55

Yeah, right on.

543

: 00:29:57

and this aligns with ArtsQuest’s mission is bringing these cultural experiences and deeper dives.

544

: 00:30:02

So they appreciated it.

545

: 00:30:03

And I think it's, again, a great partnership we have with the venue over there.

546

: 00:30:09

So shout out to ArtsQuest, SteelStacks.

547

: 00:30:13

Yeah.

548

: 00:30:15

Yeah.

549

: 00:30:16

I love that place.

550

: 00:30:19

It’s definitely become like second home.

551

: 00:30:22

Yeah, yeah.

552

: 00:30:23

At this point, we should, yeah.

553

: 00:30:27

Put a little HHMC in the rafters up there.

554

: 00:30:31

They're joking that we have a, yeah, exactly.

555

: 00:30:34

That's fun.

556

: 00:30:36

speaking of shout outs, man, I gotta just give a shout out to

557

: 00:30:39

my man, Anthony Garcia, once again, he helped furnish us with our big signage and banners that we have on the tables.

558

: 00:30:46

I know he's trying to work on something for BooGie as well, but Anthony Garcia, great,

great guy.

559

: 00:30:52

We have a lot of our regular viewers, my man Bob.

560

: 00:30:56

Coy, you know, my son Iceberg, he, he, surprised me and came all the way from college for that last one Boyz n the Hood.

561

: 00:31:03

So, yeah, proud of proud of our following.

562

: 00:31:07

Yep.

563

: 00:31:07

Our man Caddy Mike, Caddy Mike, Caddy Mike, that's our brother right there, man.

564

: 00:31:13

Caddy Mike comes out.

565

: 00:31:15

Mm-hmm.

566

: 00:31:15

yeah.

567

: 00:31:15

Caddy Mike, man, he's doing an event coming up soon this upcoming weekend.

568

: 00:31:19

Well, actually, by the time this records, I think it'll be passed.

569

: 00:31:22

But yeah, he's doing a lot of shows in and around the area.

570

: 00:31:25

He does work in Stroudsburg, PA.

571

: 00:31:27

He does some work in Brooklyn.

572

: 00:31:29

He has his art there.

573

: 00:31:30

He has some art on display at Taste Smokers that we mentioned before down in Bethlehem.

574

: 00:31:34

So check out his work.

575

: 00:31:36

You can check him out on the socials as well.

576

: 00:31:39

Yeah, And be remiss if I didn't mention Cap Cee as well.

577

: 00:31:41

Cap Cee's another DJ part of our collective.

578

: 00:31:46

He was actually the DJ for that Chuck D event as well.

579

: 00:31:50

So what a thrill was that for him to be DJing as people came in to see Chuck D speak.

580

: 00:31:57

Cap Cee is kind of legend in his own right.

581

: 00:32:01

He's worked with folks like Eminem and MTV and everything, but...

582

: 00:32:05

He was kind of like in awe of that event and being able to meet Chuck D.

583

: 00:32:09

But know, Cap Cee is a huge supporter and we always will support him as well.

584

: 00:32:13

So shout out Cap Cee.

585

: 00:32:14

Shout out to Cap, yes, thank you.

586

: 00:32:16

Yep.

587

: 00:32:19

It's crazy, we got this nice little collective.

588

: 00:32:20

I like this.

589

: 00:32:24

Yeah, we got crew.

590

: 00:32:27

It's not too late to hop on, hop on board the train because this train is moving.

591

: 00:32:31

This train is moving.

592

: 00:32:32

You see all the stuff we accomplished in 2024.

593

: 00:32:34

Big things ahead in 2025 already.

594

: 00:32:36

We have our film series, gaining steam,

595

: 00:32:40

trying to make some inroads, maybe with some podcast conventions and whatnot.

596

: 00:32:46

Shout us out, look us up on the socials, hiphopmovieclub.com.

597

: 00:32:52

We'd love to collaborate more.

598

: 00:32:55

Right on.

599

: 00:32:56

Absolutely.

600

: 00:32:58

But yeah, wonderful year of content, so.

601

: 00:33:02

You know, the good thing about this year coming to an end,

602

: 00:33:05

we got a whole nother year next year to do some more.

603

: 00:33:08

Hey!

604

: 00:33:11

That's right.

605

: 00:33:14

Yeah, mean, reflecting back, mean, we talk amongst ourselves

606

: 00:33:18

as like we started this just two years, little over.

607

: 00:33:22

It'll be three years in April, I think.

608

: 00:33:23

Right.

609

: 00:33:23

So just not even three years.

610

: 00:33:25

And we started it just as like it was DynoWright's brainchild because he was a big podcast aficionado.

611

: 00:33:30

Like, hey, you guys, we should do a podcast about hip hop and movies.

612

: 00:33:34

I don't think anybody's really doing much with that.

613

: 00:33:37

So if nothing else, there's nothing else.

614

: 00:33:39

This keeps us together and meeting us regularly.

615

: 00:33:41

So we stay in touch, but it's grown.

616

: 00:33:45

Very magical.

617

: 00:33:47

Yeah.

618

: 00:33:49

And so, there's a lot to be said about creativity and expressing yourself.

619

: 00:33:55

I've been very thankful for having you guys to experience this with.

620

: 00:34:01

So thank you both, appreciate you.

621

: 00:34:03

Yep.

622

: 00:34:03

likewise.

623

: 00:34:06

This has got me through some stuff.

624

: 00:34:08

God knows it has.

625

: 00:34:10

I'm very grateful for you for that.

626

: 00:34:12

That's fantastic.

627

: 00:34:13

And thank you two guys because what do they say?

628

: 00:34:15

Let's quote our late great friend Tony Whalen,

629

: 00:34:18

you know teamwork makes the dream work Yeah, I feel like we have Tony as a guardian angel watching over us.

630

: 00:34:26

So Always always always carry him.

631

: 00:34:32

Hip-hop movie club is produced by your HHMC's JB BooGie and DynoWright.

632

: 00:34:37

Theme music by BooGie.

633

: 00:34:39

We got a bunch of live events in 2025 coming up.

634

: 00:34:42

You can learn more on our website, hiphopmovieclub.com.

635

: 00:34:45

On February 5th at SteelStacks in Bethlehem, we are presenting a screening of Breakin' with some live breakdancing demos.

636

: 00:34:52

Tickets at SteelStacks.org.

637

: 00:34:55

Whether you're listening to the podcast or watching us on YouTube, please give us a follow.

638

: 00:34:59

It's a real power up for us.

639

: 00:35:01

Thanks for tuning in.

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: 00:35:03

And remember, don't hate, appreciate.

641

: 00:35:10

Thanks, everybody.

642

: 00:35:12

Thank you all.

643

: 00:35:13

Thank you, listener.

644

: 00:35:14

Okay.

645

: 00:35:16

Yes.

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