Fresh Video Of The Day

I used still have a crush on Dawn from En Vogue..but wouldn’t mind a 2 night stand or a manage a 4 with S.W.V.(of yesterday not today)

Due to me (DJ Bee) having to do the AM show on the FM station in Norfolk, VA this am HNN will air at 8p est!

9a est: The House Sound Of Chicago with DJ Chicago Kid

Noon: Legends At Noon

3p est: The Shelter with DJ Mista Nice

5p est: Fresh Radio Mixtape with DJ Bee

6p est: Skratch Makaniks Radio

8p est: Hate Night News with DJ Bee and Bodacious

9p est: The 5th Element Of Hip-Hop with DJ Bee

10p est: Subsoniq Radio

This week escape the heat wave and cool out with new music from:

Hassaan Mackey/Apollo Brown, Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar,

Mr. J Medeiros, Dice Raw, Random Axe (Sean Price, Black Milk, Guilty Simpson),

Black Milk/Jack White,  Mr. J Medeiros, Common/Nas, K-Murdock,

Damu, K-Def, Raw Poetic and much more!

Hassaan Mackey/Apollo Brown - Volume
Mr. J Medeiros - Neon Signs (f/Stro)
Dela - Chill (f/Large Professor)
DJ Jazzy Jeff - All I Know (f/ C.L. Smooth)
Dice Raw - 1995
The Roots - How I Got Over
Jay Rock - Hood Gone Love It (f/Kendrick Lamar)
Random Axe (Sean Price, Black Milk, Guilty Simpson) - Monster Babies
Black Milk/Jack White - Brain (demo)
Saul Williams - Explain My Heart
J Dilla - The Money > Won't Do
The Pharcyde - Bullshit
Fatlip - Today's Your Day (Whachagonedu f/Chali 2na)
Lee Dorsey - Give It Up
Common - Ghetto Dreams (f/Nas)
I Self Devine - Ice Cold
K-Murdock - Wu-Tang Joint > Slaves
Gang Starr - Work
Damu - Truly Get Yours
K-Def - Times Change > Portal (f/Raw Poetic)
A Tribe Called Quest - Butter > Verses From The Abstract

Midnight: GO LIVE!

MJB

I was 10 when what’s the 411 album dropped. It was like the 1st cassette I owned ,that I bought w/ “my own money”. 10!! That means for the greater part of my life I’ve been influenced by the lyrics, beats, hair colors, and attitudes of Ms Mary J Blige! I’m 29 now and until I was about 20 or so Mary could literally do no wrong in my eyes. Every song was perfect and spoke to my emotions. When she sang I’m going Down, I along with other females in cities across the world went down right with her. When she sang Be Happy it seemed to sum up every feeling, & every bad day. Mary spoke for US. Who’s us? Women who would now be anywhere  from 25 to near 40. Women who were a little rough around the edges ,a little street. Women who loved Wu Tang & Whitney! Hood Girls & Sorority Sisters. She somehow at that moment spoke for all of US. She was our coming of age soundtrack. She experienced heartbreak and moments, brief hints, of Joy. I’m not saying anything new but w/ her recent episode on VH1s behind the music  all the “pretty memories” come rushing back to me. I clearly recall summa’s in 92/93 trying get my ponytail to pop out the top of my baseball cap. Rocking a jersey and shades and swearing I was Mary. We were the female hip hop generation previously spoken for by the femcees of the 80s & 90s but now Mary hit the pain of love & life that they missed. She made the song cry! My Life might as well be the only album that existed the year it dropped (it wasn’t but u feel me). W/ samples from Curtis Mayfield to the Mary Jane Girls to Issac Hayes Mary said things we needed to hear. When i got older i realized Mary was a little off vocally/ technically and really didn’t smile a lot. When I turned 19/20 & the Mary LP then No More Drama were released I was old enough to absorb that someone w/ such grit and pain in their voice had to be experiencing things beyond my understanding. I paid attention more to the person who had touched so many. I saw that Mary was broken and insecure but ALWAYS kept hanging in there, & kept giving us music. I remember as she evolved and left behind some of her listeners who were still broken , people hated on “no more drama”. Claimed it wasn’t street that it didn’t speak to “us” anymore. How selfish to expect an artist or a person period to stay where they started in ’92. Mary was not proclaiming that she was perfect but she was in a different place. She began her career on tracks w/ like Father MC, & hit hard w/ Meth (best R&B/hip hop Collabo EASY), but was now creating music w/ Bono & numerous other huge stars. She wasn’t living in the projects of Yonkers she was international. But those who didnt hate kept a special place in our iTunes where both Mary’s could exist the around the way girl & the mogul. I keep all my Mary albums in rotation cuz some days I need to here real love, you remind me, reminisce, love no limit & SWEET THING all in sequence but some days Just Fine and I Feel Good sum me up perfectly. The point is that the essence of who Mary J is still speaks to women of varying ages and backgrounds and gives us something to hum in project buildings and Bentleys. And everywhere in between. She’s still just Mary and she’s still not perfect…and that’s just fine!

Angie C.
Theater Coach, Playwright, Vocalist, Educator

Fresh Video Of The Day

Fresh Radio Video Mix Ep. 3 (5th Element Of Hip-Hop from Dj Bee on Vimeo.

9a est: The Kurtis Didn’t Blow Mix…this was at a club in Virginia Beach, Va and I (@DJBeeOnline) was hired to rock this party with a special perfomance by Kurtis Blow.  I knew it wasn’t gonna turn out and I knew Kurtis Blow wasn’t gonna perform when it was only 20 people there..long story short I recorded the night and rocked like it was 2000 people there!

Noon: Legends At Noon

3p est: The Potluck Hour with DJ Cornbread

5p est: Fresh Radio Mixtape with DJ Bee

6p est: Skratch Makaniks Radio with DJ Impulse

9p est: The 5th Element Of Hip-Hop with DJ Bee