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Hip Hop Hooray | KOOP 91.7 fm, 3823 Airport Boulevard Ste B, Austin, TX (2025)

01/28/2025

🐐 Our January 26th episode features a special two hour presentation full of Texas Hip-Hop treasures. In Audrea’s first solo show as an official programmer, former Houston’s KPFT’s radio personality Matt Sonzala joins her as a co-host, filling in for DJ Hollapino.

💎 Sonzala is renowned as a promoter, manager, booker, and “Talk So Real” podcaster. In the first hour, we are joined by his longtime friends author/musician Lance Scott Walker and Austin rap staple Sertified.

💎 Lance is a Galveston native, he wrote the iconic books, "Houston Rap Tapes" and "DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution". Lance’s research for “Slow Revolution” spanned twenty years! He speaks to the process of multiple small scene research, and the importance of building trust as a journalism practice in community. He’s based in Brooklyn, and is now taking time to balance on making more music with his band Bull Thieves.

✨️ The second hour, in collaboration with our neighbor show Pure Energy, we are with Conway the Machine's official DJ Cory KNDRX and his LNS Crew mate Haris Qureshi. With Conway, they traveled on a forty day tour across Europe! Sertified joined along the way on a content tour. We expand on our central theme of building a chosen family, and what that means for their personal Hip-Hop culture.

💎 KNDRX is also a rapper, who spent the majority of his formative years in Austin, he is back home for a couple of days. You can catch him DJing for Rittz and Pirscription tonight (the 28th) at Come and Take It Live, and tomorrow at Saturn for the Wu Tang Wednesday residency.

🌍 Next for them is touring South America with Conway this year. KNDRX’s "The UnMixtape 2" is out now.

🎧 Our playlist features a sneak peak of Mindz of A Different Kind BZA's new solo EP, out January 30th! We hear his track, “Elemental” produced by Ruler Why, and celebrate the history of Austin Hip-Hop past and present:

Part 1
The Leauge Of Extraordinary Gz - Loftin-N-Austin
BZA - Elemental (Produced by Ruler Why) *Hip-Hop Hooray SNEAK PEAK*
MIRAGE THE GR8 - I'M UP
MzDank & Ms Cookie - 2 Playa

Part 2
LilJayfromDaO, Chingo Bling, Bunz - Blessed
KNDRX - Me, Myself, and I
Mindz of a Different Kind - Black & Brown (Produced by Kydd Jones)
Third Root - CG Forever (Produced by Made by Mellow Marcy and Adrian Quesada)

💖 Swipe to see how it started, vs how it's going 🥹

01/28/2025

🎉 We are gearing up to celebrate the station's 30th anniversary party at Antone's on February 1st! Chief Cleopatra will be headlining the show, and is our guest for another × collab, on January 24th.

✨️ Chief Cleopatra, Jalesa Jessie, has made deep waves in the local music scene with her original melodies and a sound she describes as soul rock.

🌟 We talk about the dynamics of culture and community, and the affects this has on her recognition.

👀 We discuss the upcoming Austin Music Awards, and it's home publication, The Chronicle.

✨️ Together we focus on the responsibilities we have as media professionals to continuously uplift artists of color, and the crucial impact local Black women artists have in this rapidly gentrified city.

🎧 The tracklist below features songs from Cleopatra's new EP "Luna", and her single "Cold Dancer".

- Dreamlights
- Chief Cleopatra Interview Pt. 1
- Cold Dancer
- Chief Cleopatra Interview Pt. 2
- Afrodite
- Chief Cleopatra Interview Pt. 3
- Nine Inch Nail

💖 A very special thank you to KOOP programmer Mary Beth for helping us run the show last night!
✨️ Photo courtesy Instagram 💖

01/26/2025

🚀 Our January 19th episode features Austin Hip-Hop history in full effect!

✨️ Both local genre pioneers Dana “Mirage The Gr8” Thompson Dana Thompson , and Erika “MzDank” Sodie are native Austinites.

🌟 MzDank is an original member of the 1980’s teen rap group, The Cooly Girls. She moved to Houston to find her sound as an adult.

🌟 Along with his close friend Terrany "Tee Double" Johnson Terrany Johnson, Mirage was one of the first local acts to obtain a label deal with the famed Good Vibes Records. He is based in Dallas.

🌟 Now in their 50s, Mz Dank and Mirage speak to the history of the city's rap culture, growing into their own as artists from a young age, and the impact of other local pioneers like Donnell "MC Overlord" Robinson. Overlord is credited for helping Hip-Hop transition from East Austin to the downtown nightlife by performing with a live band.

✨️ All artists mentioned were honored together at The Austin Hip-Hop Awards held at the Central Library, as part of the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop.

💖 MzDank is featured in pictures 1 and 3 wearing a T-Shirt in support of Jade's Heart, the movie. To order, reach out to .tk.henderson.

🎧 Tracklist below:

Blu & Exile - Pearly Gates
Mr. Muthaf**kin’ eXquire & - Black Mirror
Strong Arm Steady - Best Of Times
In Search Of Stoney Jackson (Instrumentals)
Hip Hop Hooray - MzDank & Mirage the Gr8 Interview Pt. 1
- Seasoning
2:40 PM
& Crystal Reed - All Thangz
6YNTHMANE & - TEXAS PHONK
Hip Hop Hooray - MzDank & Mirage the Gr8 Interview Pt. 2

01/15/2025

🎸Homegrown hero Jackie Venson is a singer, songwriter, guitarist and YouTube superstar. She currently has a January residency at Antone's every Saturday.

🌟 She is joined in studio with rapper Faaris and KAZI 88.7FM The Voice of Austin own H+, Haris Qureshi.

🌟 Faaris opened up a 2023 Coral Snake show for her passion project Jackie the robot.

✨️ Faaris has recently garnered 2.3 million streams on Spotify. He and Haris are both Pakistani-Texans, a generation apart. The two share their similar experiences navigating both their cultures and the local Hip-Hop community.

🎙 You can hear Haris on Monday's and Tuesday's from 7:30-10 AM on KAZI's program, "The Morning Grind".

📣 And tune in Wednesday morning January 22nd, at 8 AM to hear Jackie's interview with KAZI! Her next residency show will feature Kiko Villamizar opening.

🎧 This episode plays the radio premiere of “Alone”, a track off of Jackie’s new album “The Love Anthology”, out on January 25th!

01/15/2025

✨️ It is a great responsibility to be in media. To hold space for community and history. To collectively grieve. To collectively honor. To collectively find peace, amongst each other and ourselves.

✨️ And so, Doomscrolling and Hip-Hop Hooray will be collaborating for the next few weeks on Friday's (8-9 PM) and Sunday's (2-3 PM). Audrea has been taking her time to learn the boards, and will serve as your host for both, when Dj Hollapino is out.

✨️ Our second collaboration episode on January 10th, features artist, event producer, and as of recent podcaster Dorian delafuente, DJ BabiBoi, in her first radio interview.

🌠 We are joined by our KOOP apprentice, DJ Violeta of the collective Babe ATX; and Xtina with Evonne's Art House comes back to visit the studio.

🌠 The group celebrates and uplifts eachother in a transparent conversation of authenticity, lived experience, and self-care.

✨️ BabiBoi has just released her new album, CONTROL FREAK. She speaks to the importance of body positivity, and q***r representation.

🎧 We hear her past and present tracks, as well as the highly anticipated KOOP debut of BabiBoi and Quienten Arispe's K*NT remix.

✨️ Her podcast "Babi Talk", is filmed at DAWA - Diversity Awareness and Wellness in Action Studios , with the most recent episode featuring DJ Ella Ella. Check out the Instagram, for the past episode featuring Houston based DJ Amarji King.

01/13/2025

🌻 A photo exhibit honoring the lives of the children lost at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, is currently housed locally at Canopy Projects Gallery (916 Springdale).

✨️ The exhibit "77 Minutes in Their Shoes" by photographer Sarah Sudhoff features images of the children's families holding their shoes and one, a backpack.

🦋 Last Saturday (January 11), parents of the children gathered at Canopy Gallery for a day of panels with Texas Representatives, survivors of gun violence, artists, activists, and each other.

🌻 Together, the families of the children lost, formed Lives Robbed . Lives Robbed is an issue advocacy non-profit mission to honor each child's legacy advocating for gun reform at both state and federal levels.

✨️ Local Latino arts non-profit Mas Cultura led a mural project to honor the 21 lives robbed in Uvalde.

🦋 A 2022 story by Luz Moreno-Lozano in the Austin American Statesman features each mural, photographed by Aaron E. Martinez. You can read this, along with more information about the exhibit, at a link in our Instagram stories, which will be saved in the archive up top too.

✨️🌻🦋✨️ "77 Minutes in Their Shoes" will be at Canopy Gallery now until January 19th.

01/12/2025

💖Holding space for LA based artists from and loved in Austin, and working on a mix to weave songs continuously throughout our weekly programming. Stay tuned today for a new episode shortly!

✨️ Our recap of the January 5th show features Los Kemet and G-smith .

Los Kemet is Mississippi born, and describes his sound as “Southern Gangsta Musik”. We hear his title track of the same name, along with some of his viral hits. He has lived in Austin for the past five years, and here he met Austin Hip-Hop staples J Soulja and promoter Jamal McKinney of the ever growing . Los describes their working relationship, and how he has honed his craft locally.

Kemet has grown his TikTok platform to major success and shares tips — including posting consistently and catering to listener wants of cross-promotion on Instagram.

✨️At the start of the year, rapper G-smith released his new project, “A intergalactic ride through space : The John Doe chronicles”, and we hear this music throughout the episode. Smith is also a chef and a caterer. He has partnered with community staples College of Hip-Hop Knowledge to bring a wide menu range at their shows, like soups, sandwiches, salads, and sustainable entrées. He is open to catering weddings, quinceañeras and like events!

🎧Tracklist below:

- THAT GUY
- Southern Gangsta Musik
- Miss Me
- LOS KEMET Interlude 1
- Block Walkin’ Whitney (Voodoo)
- Barter 7 (Dig Dat)
- LOS KEMET Interlude 2
- Riding Through
- G Smith Interlude 1
- John Doe
- So Good
- G Smith Interlude 2
- Indifferent
- Un Chien Perdu

01/09/2025

💐💖Holding space for Los Angeles and California. Thinking of the many artists from Austin, and deeply loved in Austin. Our hearts are with you.

Here, preforms locally at . He has a GoFundMe circulating with the loss of his home from the wildfires.

More information is in our stories, along with resources for preparation. Stay safe 💖💐💖

(September 10, 2022. Pretty sure DJ Baby Roo took this with Audrea's phone) 💗✨️

01/05/2025

🎉 Hope you’re having a wonderful start to the new year! To round out 2024’s programming we are joined by DJ Ella Ella and Doug Leveton , the Signature Events Coordinator of Health Alliance for Austin Musicians (HAAM).

HAAM is an organization that helps provide an access point to full body, health, and wellness care for working local musicians and music teachers. It is currently unique to Austin, being the first of its kind in Texas.

📍Doug shares to qualify, potential members need to reside in Travis County, or the surrounding Williamson, Burnett, Blanco, Hays, and Bastrop Counties.

Ella Ella is a HAAM member, along with the majority of her friends. She began DJing around 2016, transitioning from non-profit event production, and has played some of the largest spaces like and

Like Ella Ella, Doug is a DJ preforming under the moniker Dug Fresh. He is also a drummer for the staple band Canned Beats . Before working for HAAM, he was a member and received services like dental, vision, and custom ear plugs.

The SIMS Foundation is also local, and helps provide mental health services to Austin's music industry. HAAM helps you get connected to SIMS, which Doug shares helped him navigate the pandemic.

In an interview highlight, both Ella Ella and Doug discuss the dynamics of gender and race as working DJs in Austin, and how their indenties have shaped their lived experience.

📣 For those interested, the deadline to apply for open enrollment is coming up on Wednesday, January 15th. You can call (512) 541-4226 (press option 2) for more information, and go to myhaam.org to request a membership application.

✨️ Check out this episode on the KOOP website, and now on our Mixcloud archive! Link to both is in our bio.

🎧 Tracklist in comments below:

12/29/2024

🇫🇷 Our December 22nd episode features transcontental rap group, MDK & Da French Touch, in their first interview together.

In 2016, longstanding Austin native rap quartet Mindz of a Different Kind (MDK) , released their album “Foursight”, to major local success. The year proved pivotal, meeting French Hip-Hop artists Cerbère Baobabtwo and beatboxer Mic Breathe , during SXSW.

Their friendship has resulted in tours across Europe, helping Mindz of a Different Kind return to their roots as youth educators, visiting schools and showcasing overseas.

🎙In our interview, we hear the orgins of MDK, beginning in 2007 as members of a nonprofit youth enrichment program, the Cipher ATX.

At 14, Te’aunna “Blakchyl” Moore was the youngest in the program, which ran for six years. She is the designated leader of MDK, and the first to achieve noterity as a solo artist, and budding filmmaker.

All members have followed suit with Darrion “Chi-Clopz” Borders releasing his first solo endeavor, “Despite Our Differences” (produced by ), this November. We hear “Holdin’ On” and a collaboration with Servant Saivonne , “Team Player”, from the project. The video is directed by community staple , who is teaming up with Breez “BZA” Smith to produce his solo music.

📼 Another staple, Ben Buck joins us. He and MDK member, Nick Cruz , released the album, “Low Brow Purists”, with .equality , as a pandemic outlet. He runs a local business manufacturing casset tapes, and helped the group release their self-titled project that we hear throughout the episode.

🌟 As one of Buck’s earlier artist influences, the friends discuss healthy competition, a comittment to their music, and eachother.

🎵 Buck and Mic Breathe give an in-studio beatboxing set, and we close with Blakchyl’s solo track, “Come Up,” off of the 2023 EP, “Call Me Sometimes.”

🎉 See MDK, along with Ben, Kydd Jones, , and at , as part of Free Week, January 3rd.

12/21/2024

✨️ Our December 15th episode centers around local Hip-Hop history, legacies, and family.

✨️ Juana Esperanza , member of the foundational Austin Hip-Hop Group the Cooly Girls is joined by her son LaDarrian “NorthSide Bully (N$B)” Torry . They share the interview with some of Winner Circle , a collective of longtime solo rappers.

🎵 We begin the episode with “Lights Camera Action”, by Winner Circle and “Here It Is”, an early track by the Cooly Girls.

🎵 Preforming since adolescence, Esperanza took a 20 year hiatus. She will release her first solo album “Jackie”, on her birthday next year, January 8th. We hear a song off this project, entitled “Flights”, produced by Reggie Coby .

🎤 N$B asks his mother what touring was like in her teen years. Along with the Cooly Girls, Esperanza toured amongst the likes of The Geto Boys and DMX. As they’re talking, an Instrumental of MzDank’s “Undeniable” plays. MzDank , Erika Sodie, is Esperanza’s group mate from the Cooly Girls.

🎵 N$B’s new album is set to drop on January 25th, and we hear an earlier track, “CNTRL THE ROOM”.

✨️ Octavis “Esbe da 6th Street Bully” Berry is Esperanza’s brother. He passed in 2011. Along with Coby, Esbe was a member of the rap duo Dread Skott, and the prolific group “The Leauge of Extraordinary G’z” .

✨️ “This group is what he left me,” N$B says of his uncle, in a 2012 cover story from the Austin Chronicle. “He created the League of Extraordinary G’z and in passing away, he gave me the League.”

🎵 We near the end of the episode hearing “Don’t Play”, by members of Winner Circle, and close with The Leauge’s, “We Gon Make It”.

🎁 Both Winner Circle, and Keep Austin Live have toy drives today, December 21st. Swipe for details!

💝 The Hip-Hop Hooray team wish you and yours a very happy holiday season. We are grateful to be in community, and thank you for being our greatest gift of all. For last minute holiday gift ideas, check out Esperanza’s business, for lifestyle and beauty.

🎧 Tracklist below:

12/13/2024

💐 For our special two-part presentation that aired on December 4th and 8th, we highlight $3 Shows , an organization that bridges local arts and social justice. Tomorrow, December 14th, $3 Shows will showcase a full day of music and panels to benefit LoveHub ATX .

🕊 Rooted in the Southeast Austin neighborhood of Dove Springs, LoveHub ATX is an enrichment program for Dove Springs students and families, based in Mendez Middle School.

Lauren Bruno , the director of $3 Shows is our co-host for this episode. She introduces Ofelia Zapata, the founder of LoveHub ATX. Zapata is a longtime community organizer and advocate for Dove Springs.

🕊 Abe Hernandez, DJ Abe the Ambassador , will be performing at $3 Shows. Like Zapata, Hernandez is also an organizer and advocate for Dove Springs. The KLRU-PBS/Decibel documentary centering the neighborhood, “Navigating Dove Springs”, will play at $3 Shows. Hernandez helped to create the soundtrack for the documentary, “Dove Springs Anthem”. We premier the track, which features and .

🎵 Also performing tomorrow in their hometown debut, for $3 Shows, is FreeBloo&theFreak . FBF is a radical rap trio with members Free Hamze , Kardinal Bloo , and Xochitl “Loca” Bugguru .yt

FreeBloo&theFreak give a live in-studio performance where we hear “Rotary Phone”, “Oxygender”, “Bubble Rap”, and “La Lucha”.

Beatboxer, Ben Buck , booked FreeBloo&theFreak for $3 Shows. In the first half of the episode, he speaks to the importance of connecting the dots in community.

In our second hour, Zapata, Bruno, Hernandez, and FreeBloo&theFreak continue this conversation together.

🎉 Catch $3 Shows live tomorrow at dadaLab .io , from 3 PM to 12 AM. Information for the run of show and speakers is on our stories, and on the $3 Shows Instagram.

Our own DJ will be a guest speaker, along with Councilwoman Vanessa Fuentes , whom he interviewed on December 11th. Links to these three episodes will be live on our stories.

🎧 Tracklist in comments below:

12/13/2024

💐 For our special two-part presentation that aired on December 4th and 8th, we highlight $3 Shows , an organization that bridges local arts and social justice. Tomorrow, December 14th, $3 Shows will showcase a full day of music and panels to benefit LoveHub ATX .

🕊 Rooted in the Southeast Austin neighborhood of Dove Springs, LoveHub ATX is an enrichment program for Dove Springs students and families, based in Mendez Middle School.

Lauren Bruno , the director of $3 Shows is our co-host for this episode. She introduces Ofelia Zapata, the founder of LoveHub ATX. Zapata is a longtime community organizer and advocate for Dove Springs.

🕊 Abe Hernandez, DJ Abe the Ambassador , will be performing at $3 Shows. Like Zapata, Hernandez is also an organizer and advocate for Dove Springs. The KLRU-PBS/Decibel documentary centering the neighborhood, “Navigating Dove Springs”, will play at $3 Shows. Hernandez helped to create the soundtrack for the documentary, “Dove Springs Anthem”. We premier the track, which features and .

🎵 Also performing tomorrow in their hometown debut, for $3 Shows, is FreeBloo&theFreak . FBF is a radical rap trio with members Free Hamze , Kardinal Bloo , and Xochitl “Loca” Bugguru .yt

FreeBloo&theFreak give a live in-studio performance where we hear “Rotary Phone”, “Oxygender”, “Bubble Rap”, and “La Lucha”.

Beatboxer, Ben Buck , booked FreeBloo&theFreak for $3 Shows. In the first half of the episode, he speaks to the importance of connecting the dots in community.

In our second hour, Zapata, Bruno, Hernandez, and FreeBloo&theFreak continue this conversation together.

🎉 Catch $3 Shows live tomorrow at Dadalab, from 3 PM to 12 AM. Information for the run of show and speakers is on our stories, and on the $3 Shows Instagram.

Our own DJ will be a guest speaker, along with Councilwoman Vanessa Fuentes , whom he interviewed on December 11th. Links to these three episodes will be live on our stories.

🎧 Tracklist in comments bellow:

12/07/2024

✨️ For our December 1st episode, we kick off a new month with founder of the non-profit record label Superwoman Records Cat Carter and recording artist, Jennun .u.n.

📝 Carter is a recipient of The City of Austin’s Elevate Grant as an individual artist, and Superwoman Records received the Thrive Grant. She gives tips on how to succeed with grant writing. The city holds informational sessions through the Economic Development Department, where you sign up for free through Eventbrite.

Carter is an advocate for AI, and uses ChatGBT as a resource. She tailors her AI towards the mission statement of Superwoman Records, which is to empower and elevate Black women artists in the Austin music industry.

🎤 The first cohort of Superwoman Records features and . Voting will be live in January to vote for the second. Superwoman Records is a recipient of another grant as part of the city’s Future 35 project. We play Gio’s tracks, “Thirty Five (35)” and “Can’t Nobody”.

We also hear “never have I ever” by Keearah. She is a student in Nashville, and a member of the Grammy U program.

As an ambassador for this program, Jennun shares the process to apply. Applications are open to students and non-students ages 18 through 29. Jennun brings her Public Relations intern, Monica Sanchez , a UT student who is also a part of Grammy U.

🎉Jennun will be performing at Flamingo Cantina on December 10, as part the PRE-ROLL open mic and concert series. This is a competition where one male, and one female artist will be selected to preform at their SXSW stage, as an official artist.

🕰 Open mic sign ups begin at 7 PM sharp, with Jennun’s set at 10:50

🎧 Tracklist from this episode bellow:

- 3:AM (Slowed and Throwed in Dallas)
- Black Popstar
- Thirty Five (35)
- Can’t Nobody
- never have i everu.n - Sensualu.n - Between You and Me
- Base Hit (Slowed) [Bonus]

11/30/2024

⚾️ Fresh off of their new full-length album, “Major League”, Geto Gala joins us in studio for our November 24th episode.

✨️ Both successful solo artists, Deezie Brown and Jake Lloyd joined with longtime collaborator Danny Saldivar II , to release their self-titled 2021 EP (Extended Play). Saldivar serves as a both producer on “Major Leauge”, and plays keys for the band.

✨️ The group has enjoyed critical acclaim, and an extensive press run, being named November Artist of the Month.

⚾️ In our interview, they discuss friendship, balancing off of eachothers strengths, and making room for other creative endeavors.

🎵 We hear tracks from the new album, and their EP, as well as collaborations with Austin staple artists Kydd Jones , Blakchyl , and Sweet Limb .

✨️ Deezie tells the orgin story of Geto Gala, and remembers meeting Jake at local venue Hotel Vegas , where they just finished a month long residency.

✨️ In a strategy originated locally by Donnell “MC Overlord” Robinson, Jake expands on both the politics and joy of rap backed by a live band.

✨️ We begin the program with Kendrick Lamar’s new music, and close with Third Root’s new single “CG Forever”, that celebrates DJ Chicken George. The single is part of a new Third Root album, “MIND ELEVATION 2”.

🎉 Hip-Hop Hooray is immensely proud to congratulate DJ Chicken George and his family, rap artist Queen Deelah , and DJ Kay Cali on their proclamations from the City of Austin — naming CG’s birthday, November 22nd, in their honor.

🎧 Full track list below:

11/26/2024

🥳 Ya'll know your fav co-host loves surprises! Stay tuned for something special with our BFF's .7!

💐 Thank you so much to the We Flex Podcast Network hosts Junior Flexwell , Nubia Emmon , Ayanna , and Porschia Taylor for having Audrea on tonight!

💖 She talks her orgin story within Austin and Texas Hip-Hop, building strong relationships first and foremost, how the community and DJ Chicken George helped her get here, and the importance of being a bridge for local artists and creatives -- in between the local radio stations.

🎉 We appreciate all that ya'll do in community, and are very proud to collaborate! Can't wait to share the interview when it's out!

11/23/2024

💫 As a singer, dancer, and choreographer, our featured November 17th artist, Quentin Arispe has taken the local music scene by storm.

🎤 Arispe preforms as Neptune, the lead singer of The Past Lives . Coming from the success of their debut album “Purple Dreams”, she released a solo LP — “As Above, So Below”, with a live version of the album filmed at .

✨️ Arispe talks the scope of gender expression, identity, q***rness, and how music helps him cope through the stages of grief, loss, and vulnerability.

📣 ”You can deny me all you want. You can kill us. You can do whatever you want. But at the end of the day, duality and androgyny and feminine energy is what makes the world go ’round.” — Arispe tells from their September cover story with The Austin Chronicle.

✨️ Arispe highlights stories with close friends in community, and how essential the connections are to bounce off eachother’s accomplishments.

🎉 Chrographing for Sheila Gonzalez’s ACL set, proved to be nucleus of growing talent and opportunity for local artists and creatives , , and .

🦋 The most defining of these friendships is with Daniel Sahad, the lead singer of the prolific local band Nanè , who passed in 2022. Arispe now preforms in tribute to him with Nanè, and details the magnitude of Sahad’s everlasting spirit, providing a sense of guidance and grounding to Arispe’s soaring career.

🎵 We hear a mix of Arispe’s discography, and close with “Always On My Mind,” a mega hit by Nanè. The remix of Arispe’s “Kunt”, with DJ is out now!

Full track-list featured below:

- Gemini
- Kunt
- Dance Revolution
& St. Yims - Pokémon
- cover girl
- chemical
- Always On My Mind

[Photo 3 features Arispe’s tattoo of Daniel Sahad’s own tattoo stencil. Photo 4 features Arispe’s cover with The Chronicle, courtesy the Austin Chronicle Instagram].

11/16/2024

🌟 The interview sparked lots of conversation over the history of Austin Hip-Hop supergroups. Our November 10th episode features another local supergroup, College of Hip-Hop Knowledge, CHHK .

Formed in 2015, CHHK is a label and conglomerate --- having produced a variety of shows, events, residencies, and the self-funded 2017 "Rhyme Time Fest".

🎵 We hear tracks by each CHHK rap artist featured in studio. Casino ATX of and multiple other local supergroups, breaks down the difference between a supergroup and a crew.

The group emphasizes balance, community support, space, and trust as the elements that help supergroups work.

🌟 Audrea celebrates CHHK and Soopafrendz member Mic Trey's mother, pioneering local DJ TraCee Farrow for helping her get a footing in radio at .7 --- and remembers MC Overlord -- who preformed as Big Don at the same venue, the morning of Rhyme Time Fest.

🎟 See the next CHHK show, The SAT’s – The Sound of Austin Talent Open Mic & Showcase, held at this coming Tuesday, and look out for their monthly event Fresh Fridaze. Swipe for details!

🥳 Congratulations to the call-in winners of the first show we are presenting TONIGHT, November 15th, at ➡️ Egyptian Lover featuring , , DJ , and .

🕐 Doors at 8 PM, show starts at 9!

🎧 Full tracklist from this episode featured below:

- Movin’ (Egyptian Lover Dub)
- Stack That
- Big Waves
CasinoATX - Cherry Mints
- Video
- It’s A Go
- Egypt Egypt

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📷 [Photo 5 features Donnell "MC Overlord" Robinson, preforming as Big Don with . Photo 6 features Hip-Hop Historian at Rhyme Time Fest].

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