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- \nHeavy D was a Jamaican-American rapper and\u00a0singer. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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He fronted the group Heavy D & the Boyz<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span>The lineup\u00a0included G-Whiz<\/strong>, Trouble T-Roy<\/strong>, and Eddie F<\/strong>. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Heavy D & the Boyz were the first group signed to Uptown Records. Their first effort, Living Large<\/em>, was released in 1987.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n- Although their first album did well, their sophomore effort, Big Tyme<\/em>, was the most successful. It spun off\u00a0four hit singles on the album.<\/span><\/li>\n
- They gained even more fame by singing the theme song for the popular television shows In Living Color<\/em> and MADtv<\/em>, and also when Heavy teamed up with Michael Jackson<\/strong> and rapped on his song “Jam.”<\/span><\/li>\n
- Heavy went on to become president of Uptown Records, guiding the career of Mary J. Blige <\/strong>and giving Sean “Diddy” Combs <\/strong>his start by hiring him as an intern.<\/span><\/li>\n
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<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n5:30a est: Needle To The Groove<\/strong> (Salute to Heavy D) with DJ Bee (Philly\/VA\/SMC)<\/p>\n
Noon: Legends At Noon<\/strong>…Subsoniq Radio with an deep interview with Heavy D<\/p>\n
3p est: Herkules World<\/strong> salute to Heavy D with Herk and DJ Book (DC)<\/p>\n
5p est: Needle To The Groove<\/strong> (Salute To Heavy D) with DJ Bee (Philly\/VA\/SMC)<\/p>\n
9p est: The 5th Element Of Hip Hop<\/strong> with DJ Bee<\/p>\n
10p est: The Main Ingredient<\/strong> with DJ Puff Dragon (Chi)<\/p>\n
11p est: Da Power Hour<\/strong> with DJ Strez<\/p>\n
Midnight: Mindf*ck Radio<\/strong> with Cymande<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hoping Heavy D went on a #PeacefulJourney Heavy D would have turned 45 today. He passed away in November of a pulmonary embolism. Heavy D was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freshradio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3937,"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions\/3937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsfreshradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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