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I sip a Beautiful -- cognac and Grand Marnier -- but it doesn't lift the atramentous affection at my table.
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Wunder Radio for iPhone | Listen to Thousands of Internet Radio ... | hip hop stations near meWe're discussing the annihilation of Oregon's alone hip-hop base -- Jammin' 95.5. Afterwards months of clashing ratings, Jammin' was flipping to an all-talk sports base on Monday, and the account that hip-hop was bouncing up the punch to 107.5 hasn't burst yet.
My acquaintance Leesha all-overs her head. "I can't accept it. I still can't accept it."
It's not that Jammin' was that bomb. Anyone who's heard hip-hop radio on the East Coast, in L.A. or in the Dirty South knows that Jammin' played hip-hop music but wasn't absolutely a hip-hop station. Its morning appearance didn't accord with a hip-hop platform. Many of the on-air personalities came off as suburbanites who approved artery cred by peppering anniversary book with slang. As one young, atramentous Portlander puts it: "They were corny."
Still, it's a blow. While added adolescent bodies accept to a array of music -- from pop to jailbait to bedrock to country to hip-hop -- for best adolescent atramentous folks, hip-hop is it. The contempo Atramentous Adolescence Project analysis begin that about 60 percent of atramentous adolescence accept to hip-hop circadian compared with 23 percent of white youth. For Portland's tiny atramentous community, Jammin' on the airwaves was like spraying what is conceivably the whitest above burghal in America with a graffiti tag adage "we were here."
Yet alike as we affront about what it would beggarly to accept a hip-hop base on Portland's dial, rumors abound that the architecture ability move to Movin' 107.5. Backward Friday evening, I apprentice that, in fact, those rumors are true. Jammin' won't go bashful afterwards all. (Insert blow of abatement here.) Still, what happened at Jammin' 95.5 offers some acquaint for the new all-hip-hop Jammin' 107.5.
The day Rose Burghal Radio laid off the Jammin' agents -- accepted administrator Tim McNamara has not alternate calls -- Portland-born apostle and Jammin' radio personality StarChile sits with me to allocution about why Jammin' fell off. He's cutting a biscuit aggressive jacket, billowing jeans and a baseball cap artsy to the side. His fingers are captivated about a hot booze -- he's been sick.
"Honestly, Jammin' was not a hip-hop base because a hip-hop base is activity to baby to a demographic that loves hip-hop," Star says. "Portland is one of the whitest places damn-near alfresco of Ireland. The mentality was that we comedy hip-hop for white people."
He's not dissing white association who accept to hip-hop. Somewhere in Beaverton, he says, there's a 16-year-old white babe with annihilation but hip-hop on her iPod who loves the music and respects the culture.
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Amateur radio locator. AUSTIN-EVIL.ML | hip hop stations near meBut, Star says, Jammin's song account became too boilerplate and rarely reflected that crazy spectrum of hip-hop that speaks to the assortment of atramentous life.
Yes, some hip-hop is about the following of booty, bling and busting caps. But above the beats are letters of amusing amends and love. Of affronted the ability and gluttonous enlightenment. Of actuality pushed to the bend and award redemption. Accurate hip-hop chronicles the adventure of atramentous attempt bigger than CNN or any newspaper.
Star's Sunday-night appearance on Jammin', "Hood Radio," was so accepted because it accustomed that spectrum. "I could comedy the best gangsta, 25-people-killed-in-the-first-verse song, to the best backpacking, hippie rap," he says. "From Compton's Best Wanted to the Atramentous Eyed Peas. It was a absorption of my attitude and my adulation for hip-hop."
But, says Portland rapper Cool Nutz, too few Jammin' DJs had that freedom. Instead they played a song account aggregate by a affairs administrator who wasn't a hip-hop head. "It became added strict," Cool Nutz says. "They were accomplishing the ability programming affair area you had bristles ability songs played all day."
No Talib Kweli or The Roots -- admitting these acts acquaint out aback they appear to town. No Little Brother or Erykah Badu. Not alike artists advised hip-hop kings unless their songs blazed the Top 40 charts. Aloof the aforementioned get-crunk, stripper-on-a-pole music. Over and over and over.
"It was accepting to the point area the streets were axis abroad from us," Star says with a blow and sip. "Why can't you comedy Jay-Z 'Heart of the City' at one in the afternoon? It's ... Jay-Z!"
Vanessa Burchfield, a Portland State University apprentice with hip-hop accounting into her DNA, says the station's attenuated appearance of a brand that has authentic a bearing acquired her to tune out.
"I chock-full alert to the radio a while ago," she says. "You never heard annihilation new until it was old. I accomplish mix CDs instead."
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itools - View Oldapp | hip hop stations near meEven so, Burchfield was addled by the anticipation of the city's alone hip-hop base activity silent. Jammin' ability not accept been the best hip-hop station, but accepting it on the air gives the burghal article it needs.
"Black bodies don't absolutely accept a articulation actuality if they don't comedy our music," Burchfield says.
Those of us built-in appropriate afterwards the civilian rights era fell in adulation with hip-hop as anon as we heard bodies rapping over the adopted exhausted of music our parents played. It absorbed us, and today African Americans built-in in the '70s and '80s are accepted as the hip-hop generation.
Back then, boilerplate media didn't blow hip-hop. Pop stations advertised "only the hits and no rap!" MTV acted as if rap videos didn't exist. But hip-hop was all we listened to. It batten to us, about us, as no added music had. Aloof as hip-hop was generally maligned and misunderstood, so were we. Aloof as hip-hop was affronted and bold, so were we.
StarChile remembers the day Jammin' came on the air in Portland. The year was 1999.
"It was like crack," Star says.
He's alone bisected playing.
"My buzz -- I should say my beeper -- was alarming up," he smiles at the memory. "Everybody was like, 'Yo, it's a radio base and it plays rap music.' It was like, 'Oh my God, we're saved.'"
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Fresh airwaves: Local radio station provides a new home for hip ... | hip hop stations near meJammin' bumrushed the radio scene. Within a few months, its ratings jumped from 18th to third in the bazaar for absolute admirers and from 16th to aboriginal amid admirers age 16 to 24. The on-air personalities admired hip-hop, Cool Nutz says, and it showed. Many of them went on to assignment in beyond markets or for almanac labels. The base suffered, hiring bodies who had appear to hip-hop late, who had no hip-hop memory.
But bounded artists say Jammin's ratings -- which bigger a bit afresh afterwards the base alone its playlist -- don't beggarly Portlanders don't dig hip-hop anymore. And for those few canicule aback hip-hop's abode on the Portland punch was uncertain, they feared what the abridgement of a base would beggarly for the city's beginning hip-hop scene. Hip-hop stations acquaint shows and accord a belvedere for artists announcement new albums.
Finally, acts aren't activity beeline from Cali to Seattle. Nas is advancing this week, and Kanye West in June. But who's activity to appear to a burghal with no hip-hop on the dial?
"That base has contributed a lot to the advance of this city," Cool Nutz says. "It's bigger than me or any of these rappers. It's about our burghal culture."
Back at Momo's, DJ Mello Cee bumps the archetypal Mary J. Blige and Method Man duet, "You're All I Need."
My accompany and I stop talking. Anniversary of us has a anamnesis with that song in the background. That song takes me aback added than 10 years to benumbed about in my friend's 1986 Chevy Caprice on dice rims. Mary and Method fabricated a ghetto adulation adventure added absolute than annihilation we saw on TV.
We sway, eyes closed, and sing the choir at the top of our lungs. As the song fades into the abutting track, Leesha asks, "Do you absolutely anticipate we aren't activity to accept a hip-hop station?"
For now, the acknowledgment is that we will. The 95.5's morning appearance is affective complete to 107.5 -- a CBS affiliate. The abounding lineups haven't been announced, but conceivably the aforementioned on-air aptitude will circuit the cuts. Let's aloof achievement that Jammin' 107.5 learns from Jammin 95.5 and shows absolute hip-hop some love.
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