**Join DJ Bee LIVE via uStream at 5p est for a salute to LL Cool J live!!**

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We have your chance to win tickets to this Thursday’s #ThrowbackThursday f. Dru Hill at 5p

8a et: #FreshRadio Mixtape Salute to Slick Rick including interview with DJ Bee (Philly/VA/SMC)

Noon et: #LegendsAtNoon Live performance by LL Cool J

1p – 2p et: Taking your Slick Rick and LL request via V.I. (Verbal Intercourse) and FB Real Fresh Radio 

2p et: #TheExperience with the Superfunkregula Celo (DC)

3p et: #ThePotluckHour with DJ Cornbread

5p et: #FreshRadio Mixtape LIVE salute to L.L. Cool J with DJ Bee (Philly/VA/SMC)

6p et: #SkratchMakaniks Radio

9p et: #FreshRadio Mixtape salute to Slick Rick with DJ Bee

This Friday!!! #Fresh Friday

LL Cool J turns 45 today (Monday).

• LL was born James Todd Smith in Bay Shore, New York.
• His stage name is short for Ladies Love Cool James.
• As a kid, LL performed in the church choir, participated in the Boy Scouts and delivered newspapers.
• Shortly after securing a recording deal with Def Jam in 1985, LL dropped out of Andrew Jackson High School to record his debut album.
• LL will release his 13th studio album, Authentic Hip-Hop, next month.
• His acting resume includes Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Any Given Sunday and Deliver Us From Eva. He currently stars on NCIS: Los Angeles.
• Check Fresh Radio out all day as you will hear various L.L. tribute mixes and classics!

Richard Walters (born 14 January 1965), better known by his stage name Slick Rick, is a Grammy-nominated British- American rapper. He has also been known as Rick the Ruler. He began his career in late 1983, in the hip hop genre, where he recorded a series of acclaimed recordings such as “La Di Da Di” and “Children’s Story“. He is known for the use of narrative in his raps and has been called “hip hop’s greatest storyteller.””^[1]

Slick Rick rose to stardom in an era known to fans as the Golden age of hip hop. His music has been frequently sampled and interpolated by other artists such as TLC, Black Star, The Notorious B.I.G. and Snoop Dogg, with many of these songs later becoming hit singles. About.com ranked him #12 on their list of the Top 50 MCs of Our Time,^[2] while The Source ranked him #15 on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time.^[3]