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Dec 20

Christmas in Hollis - Run DMC
Beautiful Thing - Phynite & The Visiting
talk talk
Slap - Talib Kweli & Saigon
All I Know - Jazzy Jeff & CL Smooth
Mutilate the Beat - Necro
Bad Boy - Shine
Shopping Bags - de la soul
talk talk
Light Works - Mick Boogie Busta Rhymes J Dilla
Radio - Northern Lights & Brooklyn Academy
Addiction - Penzo & Dialect
Put em Up - Partners Affiliated in Crime
rap hour half hour freestyle hour
Man Like Me - Malicious
Stop Look Listen - Static Selektah
Shine - CNN
Things Done changed - Big Noyd
YBTV - Yakk Ballz
Freaks Come out at Night - FBI
Gimme The Loot - The Notoroius BIG
Freezing in The Cold -Classified

DEC 13
Back to the grill - MC Serch nas
blue magic - green lantern remix
talk talk
88 - the cool kids
portrait of a death rapper - necro
No holding back - AZ
the number one - atmosphere
Harder - Malicious
talk talk 0 malicious interview
open up - Malicious
bow down - nygz
gods plan - hi tek
rapp hour half hour hour -
gangsta gangsta - NWA
trying to build - Oddeo - loes
tether - blu rum 13
hiphop head - d ray - cale sampson (super toke 2)
hood famous - super stars
Yuk - malicious
camp fire - Wu tang clan
Slums - Rochster

Born to lose

Ya gotta love The Smoking Gun

playlisteses

Dec 6th

Love Me or Leave Me Alone - Brand Nubian
Pro Style - AZ & Cormega
talk talk
YBTV - Yakk Ballz
I Still Love Her - Sico Syrus & Skyyzoo
Dropping Flows in Toronto - Super Toke
About That Time - Termanology
talk talk
Shaky Dog - Ghostface starring Lolita
Some Get Back - Necro
The One - Reks
I'm Jazzy - Guru & Slum Village
Freaks Come Out at Night - FBI
Lightworks - Mick Boogie, Busta Rhymes, J Dilla
Rap Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour
Walk With Me - Grand Analog
Mad-Izm - Channel Live
Piano - Hi Tek
Barrle Brothers - J Love presents Ghostface
We Need Order - Arab Summit
Stop Look Listen - Statik Selector
Top 3 - Malicious


Nov 29th

Night of the Living Baseheads - Public Enemy
Stop, Look, Listen - Static Selecter
talky talk
Piano - Hi-Tek
Step Up - Mick Boogie ft. Busta Rhymes
88 - The Cool Kids
16th Chamber - Wu-Tang Clan
The Milky Lowa - 9th Wonder
talky talk
It's Brooklyn - 5MH
Wu-Tang - Tribute to ODB
Rap Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour
Noupie - Skillz
Blue Magic - Jay-z(Green Lantern rmx)
Think Big - Hangar 18
718 - Cormega & Lil' Fame
I Am Legend - Bunz
How Ill -Jeru The Damaja
Addiction - Penzo & Dialect
Success - Jay Z & Nas
Fuck You Mean - PAckFM Slug Brother Ali


nov 22

Watchu Want - 9ine
The Rap Game - Cormega
Talk talk
Atom Bomb - Bunz
Trouble Man - Jean Grae
Freaks Come Out At Night - FBI
Success Jay-Z & Nas
My World -Boot Camp
Talk Talk
Buck Shot Interview
Untitled - Dialect & Penzo
Radio - Northern Lights
Rap Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour
Boston to Bucktown - Special Teamz & Buckshot
Ice Cream Freestyle - L-Blast
what it is - Keith Murray
So amazing - Termanology
Harder - Malicious
Chunky - Ghostface
The Office - Gray Skull, Slug, Aesop Rock

Our hearts go out to the friends and family of Simon Lortie, who we unfortunately lost on Dec.1 2007.

Chucky says "Don't Litter"

Chucky says "Don't Litter", originally uploaded by inkerboy.

Face or word?

Wow

Michael Jordan has to pay up 168 million bucks ($168 000 000!!) in divorce settlement.

Story

I hope he had some lube because he just got ass fucked.

Playlists

Nov 15th

PP Ain't Taking It - Poison Posse
Success - Jay Z & Nas
talk talk
El Barrio - DJ Muggs & Sick Jacken
Freaks Come Out At Night - FBI (MTL)
This is the Underground - Rythmicru
The Alps - 3rd Eye & Nine
talk talk - Penzo Gritty Stem Interview - Freeway Interview
Untitled - Penzo Gritty
Rap Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour
Rhymin' With The Biz - Biz Markie
Sirens - Little Brother
Addiction - Penzo Gritty & Dialect
Till I Retire - Pete Rock
Surviving the Times - Nas
Shake That Shit - Faculty
And I'm Out - Galactic Feat .Mr Lif

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Nov 8

Gangsta Gangsta - NWA
This is - Ill Brown
talk talk
Lyrical High - 3rd eye & Zone 7
Taking it Back - Wu Tang
Red Light Green Light - J live
talk talk
Things Done Changed - Famn (mtl)
Tether - Blu Rum 13(MTL)
Rap Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour
Freaks Come Out At Night - FBI (MTL)
Camouflage Life - Arab Summit(MTL)
The Ambush - Oddeo(MTL)
Thin Big - Hanger 18
She Won't Stay Home - Guilty Simpson
Harder - Malicious(MTL)
Welcome All - Red Cloud

New comic out; the life of MF Grimm

Click here for description

Click here for Amazon link

Playlists

Nov. 1st
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Haunted House of Rock - Whodini
Take it Back -- Wu-Tang Clan
talk talk
What is Evil/Game of Death - Esham
Murder - Ill Bill
Uncle Rahiem - Consequence
Freaks Come Out at Night - FBI
talk talk
Break Your Face - Psynlangwage
2 Cups of Blood/Blood Brothers - Gravediggaz
Simian Drugs - Ill Bill & El-P
None Shall Pass - Aesop Rock
Da Graveyard - Big L
Rap Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour
Untitled - Logic & Steam
The Art of Story Telling - Outkast
El Chupa Nibra - Danger Doom
24 Deep - Brother Lynch Hung
Sound Bwoy - Smif N Wessun
Can't Win For Losing - Little Brother
Redrum - Nine


Oct. 25th
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Grand Finale - Doc
Incredible - J-Live
talk talk
Chunky - Ghostface
Play It - Big Shug
Exactly - Domingo
Low IQ - Terminology
Wheels of Steel - Outkast
talk talk
Get It In - El De Sensei
Mash Out - Jojo Pelegrino
Prophet - Jeru
Mash's Revenge - MF Doom & Guilty Simpson
Gently Weeps - Wu Tang Clan
Rap Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour
Poet's Comin - Blaq Poet
Brass - Narcy
Spectacularific - Cracked Lips
Ya Dayz R Numbered - NYG'z
Cold Steel - Phat Kat
I Want Mine - Boot Camp Click
Voodoo Children - FBI

Playlists? Wazzat?

The future van of rappers?



"My name is Dennis and I like bears."

Human LCD Display in Korea





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Playlists; oct 18

Fat boys are back - Fatt boys N.Y. - Jeru

talk talk

sirens - Little brother

Feel like spitin - j live

never - scareface

record kingz - heat

tal talk

im like u - u-rock (mtl)

suviving the times - Nas

boston to buck town - special teams

bk on my mind - 9th wonder

rap hour half hour hour

poets coming - blaq poet

makes the sun come out - atmosphre

chunky - ghostface

gently weeps - wu tang

express yourself - statik selector

MAsk and the assasian - Dj Muggs


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oct 11th

DOC & the doctor - DOC

Mash's revenge - MF Doom

talk talk

till i retire - Pete Rock

Gently weeps - Wu Tang (NEW)

You aint nobody - keith murray

truth is - brother Ali

talk talk

chunky - GhostFace

your dayz R # - NYGz

surviving the times - NAS

Uncle rahim - Consequence

keep on clucking - thirstein howl the 3rd

Rap hour half hour hour

We gonna Ill - Blaq Poet

fall Back - Poison Pen

Tramp - BluePrint

Peyote - Atmosphere

Cause im Jazzy - Guru

Non Shall Pass - Aesop Rock

Mr SLow FLow - Evidence
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Where're the playlists?

Beats me. Watch this instead.

But only for a couple of minutes, it gets old after a while.

Kanye West, king of...

...alright, enough already.

10TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW ROUND UP

Lethal Weapon - Ice-T

Smash Dubs - Revolution

Talk

We Need Order - Arab Summit

So Amazing - Terminology

Year Of The Gun - Cinematik

Get Down - Special Teamz

Talk

Keepin' It Gangsta - Psycho Les

Drivin' Me Wild - Common

Coffee - Aesop Rock

My World - Boot Camp Click

Pat wreck get's on the tables;

Some Lox track

Boom - Royce 5'9

Talk

Living Proof - Group Home

Crosstown Beef - Medina Green

Thick - D.I.T.C.

Ghostwriter - Mad Skillz

We Gonna Make It - Jadakiss (end of Black Lung's set)

Talk

Untitled Track - Narcicyst

Talk

Ras - Narcicyst

Get Drunk - Penzo Gritty

Mask & Assassin(?) - Sick Jackson

Mash Out - Jojo Pelligrino

Harder Than You Think - Public Enemy

Harder - Malicious

MCs Act Like They Don't Know - KRS One

SixToo Super Sampler Set

Rap Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour

Break Your Face - Psynlangwage

Flow does a mini set;

Checkin' Out The Avenue - Pudgee Tha Phat Bastard

Gorilla - C.E.B.

Rough House Survivors - Rough House Survivors

Who You Be - Bro-N X

Then Don Smooth came through to drop some goodness

Thanks for listening for 10 years.

Thanks to everybody who came through;

Logic Johnson

Psynlangwage

Narcicyst

Sixtoo

Loes

Penzo Gritty Stem

Deuce & Justice of Northern Lights

Cracked Lips

Don Smooth

Jaz

Kate

Steph

"The People Upstairs" aka CKUT staff

Thanks to Guru drink for the physical boost

And to Moog Audio for the equipment to set up extra turntables

Playlists for August 30 & September 6

Sept 6

Grand Finale - NWA

Heat - Record Kings

Talk Talk

Fuck You Mean - Pack FM

Coffee - Aesop Rock

Turn Up The Mic - Bumpy Knuckles

It's A Must - Rakim & Rahzel

Talk Talk

News Shooting - Psynlangwage

Driving Me Wild - Common

Mission - Jaylib

Give Me Love - Gray Skull

Rap Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour

We Need Order - Arab Summit

Tether - Blue Rum 13

Flashlight - Kanye West

Mask & Assaisin - DJ Muggs & Sick Jackson

Treason - Akir IT

Uncle Rahiem - Consequence

Boot Camp - My World

No Place Like Home - FBI

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Aug 30

Cosmic Slop - Redman

Uncle Rahiem - Consequence

Talk Talk

Mash Out - Jojo Pellegrino

My World - BCC

So Amazing - Terminology

Driving Me Wild - Common & Lilly Allen

talk talk

Harder Than You Think - Public Enemy

Whole Lotta Bad News - Logic Johnson (mtl)

The Final Test - Chemistry - (mtl)

Rap Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour

We Need Order - Arab Summit (mtl)

Watch Your Step - Percee P

Hot Thing - Talib Kweli

No Holding Back - AZ & Cormega

Mask and Assassin - Sick Jackson & DJ Muggs

Flyentology (Cassette Won't Listen) - El P

Talk

Rock the Convoy - Rob Sonic

Sorry for no playlists. Blaze, ya slippin'!!

But be sure to check out this week's show, it's our 10th anniversary. We'll be doing 4 hours, from 11 to 3am. If things go as planned we should have guests coming through. Listen in. If you can't listen live you can always check out ckut.ca to listen online, the show is archived there.

What's going on

So Under Pressure went over like a leaf blower... or something.
The new issue of the magazine is out now and there were some nice New Era caps too.

















































































Budda was out of town last show and I walked in from an operation on my hand for a minute, so Orion was forced to hold it down by himself, despite the fact that he didn't get a chance to grab his records. Luckily Malicious came through; Mr.Malish's Myspace, check it.

We need better TV

The Bronx Bunny Show, 2 puppets that don't give a fuck.
Starz network, 15 minutes each episode.
We don't get this in Canada, somebody torrent it for me!




Some clips from the show, unfortunately bleeped versions.

Playlist for August 2 2007

It's Tricky - Run DMC

Be There - Havoc

TALK TALK

No Streets - Marvel (cancon)

Dope - Greyskull

Hour of Reprisal - Ill Bill ft. Killa Priest

Sharks - M.O.P.

I'll Walk Alone - Grand Analog(cancon)

Talk Talk & interview w/ Grand Analog (winnipeg) Check his Myspace

Low IQ - Terminology & Evidence

Some Get Back (Revenge) - Necro

Things Done Changed - FAMN (mtl)

Rap hour half hour freestyle hour

The Prowl - Heltah Skeltah

Don Smooth's Mix

I Used to Love H.E.R. - Common

Wrong Side of the Tracks - Artifacts

Come Clean - Jeru

Southern Playalistic - Outkast

Regulate - Warren G

Tonight - DJ Quik

Rebirth of Slick - Digable Planets

1nce Again - A.T.C.Q

Passin' Me By - The Pharcyde

Where have you been?

If you haven't noticed, we've been off the last couple of weeks. Off The Hook radio has been hosting some club shows the past 2 Wednesdays. First there was the Souls of Mischief/Masta Ace show and then there was the Ice-T show which saw Shades of Culture re-unite to perform a song during D-Shade's set.
The lovely Corrine hooked us up with an interview with comedian Robert Kelly during the Just For Laughs festival , Budda said he'd hook him up with some rez smokes and he called Flow a serial killer numerous times, you'll be hearing the no holds barred, chopped up version soon, he's a good guy, check him out; http://www.myspace.com/robertkellylive

We'll be back August 1st. Don't forget, Under Pressure on August 12th.

Guest and guests

This past week, we attended the Nasty Show at Just For Laughs here in MTL. On the bill were host Nick Dipaolo, Robert Kelly, Jim Jeffries, Dave Attell, and Louis CK.

Dave Attell came by the radio show after the club show, you may remember that he used to do a show called Insomniac on Comedy Central and he came by the radio show and put us on TV.

We also had Freestyle Love Supreme on the show, they're an improv freestyle troop, complete with beatboxer for sound effects. They'll be playing at Cabaret Juste Pour Rire during the festival.

On a side note, I was just listening to this guys Myspace page; mrkoichi beats and was liking what I was hearing.

Playlist for July 5

The Hunted Child - Ice-T
Cold Steel - Phat Kat
Talky Talk
O.C. - What I Need
Small Town Boys - Grand Analog
I Will Not Lose - D-Well & Woodman (MTL)
Good Clothes - Little Brother
Talking Part
Run For Ya Life - Keith Murray
No Place Like Home - FBI (Cancon)
Big Spender - Freeway & Jay Z
Cup on Full - Aristo (Cancon)
Rap Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour
Calm Yourself - Omni
Thin Line - Rasco
Well Know Asshole - Obie trice
Spit it Clearly - Dialated Peoples
3 Wisemen - Ill Bill with O.C. , Jeru
Nowhere, No More - Eternia (Cancon)
Let's Ride - Sean P & C.O.D.
20 - Dead Prez
Legion of Doom Renegades - Keith Murray

U.P. comes

Some event that's been goin' on for like 12 years or sumtin' is coming up apparently.

Shows coming up.

Go. Watch. Enjoy.

Playlists

None from tonight's show, too much going on, we suck, you know it.

June 21

Drop the Needle - Maestro Fresh Wes
Do This Like Me - Eternia
Talk talk
Dont Touch That Dial - Q Unique & Ill Bill
Play it - Big Shug
Knowledge God - Raekwon
Rollin' - Marco Polo
Talk talk
Die Already - Nyce & Mobb Deep
Fuck The Police - LOX
Play The Drum - Zeph & Azeem
We On - Gemini - Lupe Fiasco
Summer Time - Mos Def
rapp hour half hour hour
Abracadabra - Apani B Fly
Serious - NL5 (mtl)
Alphabetical Slaughter - Papoose
Rest In Beats - Oddeo
Welcome To The Terrordome - Pharoah Monche
Do It Again - Kool G Rapp
Go See The Doctor - Jazzy Jeff
Screwface Capitol - Bunz & Friday (TO)

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June 14

Rock This Funky Joint - Poor Righteous Teachers
A Serpent's Love - Lifesavas
Talk Talk
Novelas - Tony Touch
The People - Common
Vic Flaie - Rusty Juxx
Talk Talk - Sack Money interview
Sack Money track
Play it - Big Shug
Welcome to the Terrordome - Pharoah Monche
Keep Pace - Mr. J Medeiros
Death Is Forever - Tek
Where Da G's - Dizzee Rascal & UGK
Rapp Hour Half Hour Hour
FLOW'S OLD SCHOOL
King Tim III - Fatback
Do You Like That Funky Beat - Kool Kyle Starchild
New Rap Language - Spoonie Gee & The Treacherous 3
That's The Joint - Funky 4 Plus 1
Disco Dream - The Mean Machine
Do it Do it - The Disco 4
On The Radio - Crash Crew
It's magic - The fearless 4
Punk Rock Rapp - The Cold Crush Brothers
Fast Life - Dr. Jeckyl & Mr.Hyde
Get Tough - CD III
Starski Live @ The Fever - Lovebug Starski

Fixed gear fun in Japan

I'd love to re-score this video

Play lists for June 7th and May 31 '07

Can I get slack on this blog?

You bet your ass!!!

June 7

It's Nasty - Grand Master Melle Mel
Yah, yah, yah - Tony Touch & The Beatnuts
talk talk
Pussy Ol - Dizzee Rascal
Body Baby - Pharoah Monche
One Step Forward - Strong Arm Steady
Can't Tell Me Nothin' - Kanye West
talk talk
Things Done Changed - FAMN (mtl)
The People - Common
Angry Black Man in an Elevator - Rhyme Fest
Stories From Hell - Ransom
Rap Hour Half Hour Freesyle Hour
Rize - Median
Over 30 - KRS ONE / Marley Marl
Hood in the USA - Jurassic 5
Old Milwaukee - Dead Indians
Serious - NL5 (mtl)
Sleep - 9th uno
Blah, blah, blah - Brother Ali /Slug

MAY 31

How To Survive In South Central - Ice Cube
Brothers Ain't Brothers - Cilvaringz
Talk Talk
The Exorcist - Lil' Vic
Split Second - HD & Hi Tek
Plus One - Hyphen One
Old Shit - Doompasaga & Ill Bill
Talk Talk
The Game - Common
Can't Tell Me Nothin' - Kanye West
Heavy Metal Kings - Jedi Mind Tricks & Ill Bill
Hip-Hop Lives - KRS ONE / Marley Marl
Rap Hour Half Hour Freesyle Hour
Don Smooth's Slum Village/Jay Dee Mix

Playlist for May 24th 2007

Redman - Time 4 Sum Aksion
Big Shug - It Just Don't Stop
Talk talk
KRS ONE & Marley Marl - The Victory
Blaq Poet - Nigga, Bitch, Ho
Tek - Death is Forever
Sean P & C.O.D. - Let's Ride
Jazzy Jeff - Let Me Hear You Clap
Talk Talk & FAMN interview (mtl)
FAMN - Things Done Changed
Jurassic 5 - Hood In The USA
Common - The Game
Evidence & Parrish Smith - Mr. Slow Flow (remix)
Rapp Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour
Ghostface Killah - The Champ
Little Vic - The Exorcist
Split Second - Free HipHop Now
Doompassage & Ill Bill - doompassage
Strong Arm Steady - Movement

We had FAMN roll through the studio; http://www.myspace.com/mdotodot

Be sure to check them out May 26th '07 at Les Minots 3812 St.Laurent, Montreal.
Video shoot, live performance, free crap, and our peoples Psynlangwage will be there too.
PSYN UP!!!

Playlist for May 17 '07

Ain't No Future in Frontin' - MC Breed
Click - SkyZoo
Talk talk
Gimme One - Red Man
I Was There - KRS One & Marley Marl
Hard as a rock - Joell Ortiz
Talk Talk
Saturday - Ludacris
The Game - Common
Back Home - Blue Scholars
New York, New York - Method Man
Rapp Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour
Bottom Top - Lupe Fiasco
Stories From Hell - Ransom
Break Your Face - Psynlangwage(mtl)
Just A Child - Narcissist(mtl)
Breakfast - Malicious(mtl)
Growning Pains - DJ Manifest/Offsides/D Shade(mtl)
Voodoo Children - FBI (K-Town/mtl)











http://peopleagainstcensorship.org/

You're screwed, I'm screwed, she's screwed, he's screwed, we're screwed

Radio is not meant to be used as entertainment anymore. First Imus gets fired for saying "nappy headed hos", then 2 NYC jocks get fired for a prank phone call to a Chinese restaurant, then Opie & Anthony are suspended for 30 days(still under threat of being fired) because a homeless guy alluded to having violent sex with Condoleezza Rice, Laura Bush and Queen Elizabeth on an XM satellite radio channel that is branded 'XL' for 'explicit language' and you have the option of blocking that channel. Why is it OK for movies and TV to make jokes but radio has to be a serious medium? Why is it that a paid TV service, such as HBO or Showtime can air things that a paid radio service can't? If you hear any of these recent incidents out of context it's easy to jump to conclusions, but the Imus and O&A incidents were unscripted things that happened... things happen.

Link; Comedian Patrice O'Neal(regular guest on O&A) on Fox News(listen to the crew laugh;

Link; Story on CNN about PC special interests groups taking over your freedom to be entertained

Now given, all these jokes are not always funny, the hosts realize this but it is not against the law to offend somebody or bomb on a joke.

Further reading on JV & Elvis' career ending joke;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070515/ennew_afp/usmediaasiaracism_070515035242

More on O&A's current suspension;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070515/ap_en_ot/shock_jocks_sex_comment;_ylt=AvNkM47upgnPrDrNhfDkBR1xFb8C


By the way, Imus was fired in the middle of a yearly telethon he does for sick children and he has a ranch for terminally ill children and kids with cancer, which will both be affected by a couple of words. But Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson continue to be 'black leaders'.. who voted these guys as leaders?
There was recently a rape case of a black woman accusing 3 white Duke students of rape, it continued for a year during which time Jesse Jackson said that no matter how it turned out, he'd pay for the stripper/accuser to get a university degree, well, the case just closed and it turned out she was lying.

And as for Al Sharpton, just research Tawana Brawley and you'll see what a piece of crap that guy is.

Video Time

D-Shade - More To Say

D-Shade clip "More to Say" ICM records

...featuring an angry white guy.

Playlist for May10 '07

Rappin' ain't no Thing - Boogie Boys
Giving Up - Red 1 (cancon)
talk talk
It Just Don't Stop - Big Shug
The Exorcist - Lil' Vic
Brooklyn Bullshit - Joell Ortiz
Brooklyn Remix - Joell Ortiz
talk talk
Luchini - Camp Lo
Mack 10 Handles - Prodigy
How You Like That - Redman
Hip-Hop Retrospective - Wordssmith & Jaz O
Under the Hook - Specifics (MTL)
Rapp Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour
Uncle Sam Goddamn - Brother Ali
Live Hard, Die Harder - Showbiz n AG
The Paper - Skyzoo
Squeeze Your Ratchet - Termonoloy
The Hardest - Styles P & AZ
Feel the Bass - Sa-Ra
She Was So Fly - Jazzy Jeff & Kardinal Offishal(cancon)
Memory Lane 07' - Doo Wop

Playlist for last week; M.I.A.

It's votin' time

So the Montreal Mirror's "Best of Montreal" is coming up, show your support and vote for 'Off The Hook radio' for 'Best local radio show', also throw Budda Blaze and or Revolution for 'best local radio host' and 'best club DJ'. Also vote CKUT as 'best radio station' and of course you gots to put Under Pressure for 'Best Festival' .

http://www.hdot.net/BOM/bom_ballot.html

Off The Hook, LIVE and in the flesh!!!!!

What're you doing? You'd better be coming out on Wednesday April 25th, Off the Hook radio will be broadcasting live from Club Lambi, 4465 St-Laurent Blvd (corner Mont Royal), we're going to have live performances by Narcycist and Cracked Lips. We'll be on at our regular air time of midnight to 2am. We'll be giving away 2 tickets to the upcoming El-P show that is happening in Montreal on May 2, we'll also have various CDs and Under Pressure magazines to give away. Come by, you know you wanna!

2007 STYLUS DJ AWARDS

The Stylus DJ Awards are here, the public cab vote until April 23rd;

After a successful kick-off year, the Stylus Group returns with the 2007 Stylus DJ Awards. Once again, Stylus will unify DJs from across the country, awarding their achievements and celebrating their craft.

Canada's top urban DJs are some of the world’s most respected and recognized talents in the entertainment industry. These DJs are more than conveyers of music; they are tastemakers and trendsetters to thousands nationwide. They influence what people listen to, how people dress, and what people buy. They break new music and can influence the success of a new artist, fad, and even the latest technology. Their love of music is the lifeblood of this country’s thriving musical entertainment industry and vast club scene.

On June 4th, the most influential players in urban lifestyle will come together again for an evening of recognition and celebration of Canadian DJs and the Canadian Urban Music Industry. This annual event continues to increase public awareness of the dynamic urban music scene in Canada and sheds light on the significant contributions DJs have on pop culture.

So head over to http://www.stylusgroup.ca/home.php and vote... p.s., your mizzan Budda Blaze is in the running, so throw him a bone and vote for him. Malicious is also in there for single of the year, show your favorites some love.

Playlist for April 19 2007

Hashim - Al Nafayish
Jazzy Jeff / Big Daddy Kane - The Garden
talk talk
Terminology - I Did It
Planet Asia - Havin' Thangs
The Lox - We're Back
Brooklyn Academy - Work
Joell Ortiz - Block Royal
Grand Daddy I.U - Veteran
Shine - Bad Boy
Joell Ortiz - Modern Day Slavery
Royce 5'9 - Hit'em
J - Bru / Eternia - How r We Doin?
Rapp Hour Half Hour Hour
Northern Lights(mtl) / Brooklyn Ac - DWI
Hochii - That Sound
Prince Ali - I Miss 1994
Jazzy Jeff - Whatever You Want
Tango & Cash - Hip-Hop Ain't Dead
Royce 5'9 / Terminology - Whatcha Call That
Kanye West , Nas , Rakim - Classic remix

It's about more than hos

Source

COMMENTARY
Imus isn’t the real bad guy
Instead of wasting time on irrelevant shock jock, black leaders need to be fighting a growing gangster culture.
By JASON WHITLOCK - Columnist

Thank you, Don Imus. You’ve given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem.

You’ve given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality.

You’ve given Vivian Stringer and Rutgers the chance to hold a nationally televised recruiting celebration expertly disguised as a news conference to respond to your poor attempt at humor.

Thank you, Don Imus. You extended Black History Month to April, and we can once again wallow in victimhood, protest like it’s 1965 and delude ourselves into believing that fixing your hatred is more necessary than eradicating our self-hatred.

The bigots win again.

While we’re fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant, bad shock jock, I’m sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50 Cent’s or Snoop Dogg’s or Young Jeezy’s latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps and hos.

I ain’t saying Jesse, Al and Vivian are gold-diggas, but they don’t have the heart to mount a legitimate campaign against the real black-folk killas.

It is us. At this time, we are our own worst enemies. We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.

Rather than confront this heinous enemy from within, we sit back and wait for someone like Imus to have a slip of the tongue and make the mistake of repeating the things we say about ourselves.

It’s embarrassing. Dave Chappelle was offered $50 million to make racially insensitive jokes about black and white people on TV. He was hailed as a genius. Black comedians routinely crack jokes about white and black people, and we all laugh out loud.

I’m no Don Imus apologist. He and his tiny companion Mike Lupica blasted me after I fell out with ESPN. Imus is a hack.

But, in my view, he didn’t do anything outside the norm for shock jocks and comedians. He also offered an apology. That should’ve been the end of this whole affair. Instead, it’s only the beginning. It’s an opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and elevate themselves and their agenda$.

I watched the Rutgers news conference and was ashamed.

Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for eight minutes in 1963 at the March on Washington. At the time, black people could be lynched and denied fundamental rights with little thought. With the comments of a talk-show host most of her players had never heard of before last week serving as her excuse, Vivian Stringer rambled on for 30 minutes about the amazing season her team had.

Somehow, we’re supposed to believe that the comments of a man with virtually no connection to the sports world ruined Rutgers’ wonderful season. Had a broadcaster with credibility and a platform in the sports world uttered the words Imus did, I could understand a level of outrage.

But an hourlong press conference over a man who has already apologized, already been suspended and is already insignificant is just plain intellectually dishonest. This is opportunism. This is a distraction.

In the grand scheme, Don Imus is no threat to us in general and no threat to black women in particular. If his words are so powerful and so destructive and must be rebuked so forcefully, then what should we do about the idiot rappers on BET, MTV and every black-owned radio station in the country who use words much more powerful and much more destructive?

I don’t listen or watch Imus’ show regularly. Has he at any point glorified selling crack cocaine to black women? Has he celebrated black men shooting each other randomly? Has he suggested in any way that it’s cool to be a baby-daddy rather than a husband and a parent? Does he tell his listeners that they’re suckers for pursuing education and that they’re selling out their race if they do?

When Imus does any of that, call me and I’ll get upset. Until then, he is what he is — a washed-up shock jock who is very easy to ignore when you’re not looking to be made a victim.

No. We all know where the real battleground is. We know that the gangsta rappers and their followers in the athletic world have far bigger platforms to negatively define us than some old white man with a bad radio show. There’s no money and lots of danger in that battle, so Jesse and Al are going to sit it out.

Playlist for April 12 '07 aka the Nappy Headed Ho's edition

Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Lots of Lovin'
Skillz - Dont Act Like You Don't Know
Talk Talk
Kanye, Nas & Krs-one - Better Then I Ever Been
Devin the Dude - Broccoli & Cheese
Prodigy - Bang On 'em
Pharoe Monch - Gun Draw
Joell Ortiz - HipHop
Talk Talk - (Crayzdom interview)
Crayzdom - Classic Like
Strong Arm Stready - All Out
Evidence - Born in L.A
Brooklyn Academy - Streets iz Buzzin'
Rap Hour Half Hour Hour

Flow's Native Tongues set

The Chambers Bros. - Funky
ATCQ - I Left My Wallet In El Segundo (Vampire Mix)
ATCQ - Mr.Incognito
ATCQ - It's Yours
ATCQ - If The Papes Come
Jungle Brothers - Straight Out The Jungle (remix)
Jungle Brothers - In Time
Jungle Brothers - J Beez Comin' Through (remix)
Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y.
Monie Love - It's A Shame (Ultimatum Mix)
Black Sheep - Try Counting Sheep (Caveman Funky Organ Extended Mix)
Black Sheep - Let The Horns Blow
De La Soul - Sweet Dreams
Download the Native Tongues set here, 42.5 mb

We also had Crayzdom come through the studio, check his space;
www.myspace.com/crayzdom

Playlist for April 5 2007

LL Cool J - Around the Way Girl
LL Cool J - Whatcha hood Like?
Talk talk
Devin the Dude - What a Job
KRS-One - Kill A Rapper
Verbal Threat - Autobiography
RedMan - Walk in the Gutta
Talk Talk
Prodigy - Mack 10 Handle
Joell Ortiz - Exactly
Royce 5'9 - Hit 'em
Kool G Rapp - 1st Nigga
Kool G Rapp - Hood Tales
Trunks - Dance With Wolves
Rapp Hour Half Hour Hour
Brooklyn Academy - Back In Effect
Sean P - Hearing Aid
Evidence - Things You Do

Are you done yet?

What the hell happened to 'the nigga you love to hate'?


THEN:

NOW:










































































Here's an older Ice Cube song that all the white folks love;

Ice Cube - Wicked -download-

Playlist for March 28 '07

Run DMC - Peter Piper
KRS ONE - Hip Hop Lives (I Come Back)
Talky Talk
Anonymous Twist - Sweet 16 (can con)
Brassmunk - Take It Easy (cancon)
MadVillain - Accordians
MuneShine - What Now? (can con)
FunkDoobiest - Tomahawk Bang
Talk Talk
SkyZoo - Lock Shit
Brooklyn Academy - The Growler
Talib Kweli - Say Somthing
Evidence - I Know
Akrobatik - Back With Her Mother
Rapp Hour Half Hour Hour
DJ @Large Mix (from Winnipeg) - Clash of the Titans mix 06/07

Mario drums

You may have heard us play a snippet of this video on our last show, it's an Italian guy drumming to the Mario Bros. theme.
I guess it's more interesting to us old game-heads.

Playlist for March 22 2007

Tim Dog- I Get Wrecked
Raekwon - Fly Poetry
Talk Talk
Brother Ali ft/Sligg - Blah Blah Blah
Redman - Gimme One
Michie Mee - No Complaints
Alchemist - E=MC 2
Talk Talk
Nine - The Cypher
Company Flow - Vital Nerve
M.O.P. - Cold As Ice
Gravediggaz - Constant Elevation
Rap Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour

Chang's Farewell Set;
Evidence ft/Planet Asia - A Moment in Time
Ayatollah ft/Rakim - Cold Feeling
Joell Ortiz - Hip-Hop
Cilvaringz ft Raekwon, Ghostface, Rza - The Weeping Tiger
Snowgoons ft/Edo G - Nothin You Say
Jedi Mind Tricks - Serenity in Murder
Domingo ft/Guru - Major Game
Royce Da 5'9 ft/Termanology - What You Call That
Northern Lights - (unkown)
Consequence - Job Song

In Other News, unfortunately we have to report that the Canadian portion of the Evidence & Alchemist tour is cancelled due to border difficulties... this is getting annoying. We need some big name like Sony to buy these people's way across the border.

Montreal haps

If you're in Montreal, drop by Off the Hook, the store (no relation) for the Evidence and Alchemist in-store before their show, March 28, '07

Expanding grounds

So you may have noticed that a Montrealer named Billy Nova has been getting a lot of play on our show recently. No, it's not because we're trying to up our cancon (Canadian content), Budda Blaze has been liking him lately, be sure to check out Billy Nova's Myspace page











In other news, be sure to catch Alchemist and Evidence on their '07 tour,

Mar 28 FOUFOUNES ELECTRIQUES MONTREAL, Quebec
Mar 30 BABYLON NIGHTCLUB OTTAWA, Ontario
Mar 31 KATHEDRAL TORONTO, Ontario

2 Playlists

March 15th

Onyx - Throw Ya Gunz
Michie Mee - No Complaints
Talk talk
Rasco ft. Planet Asia - Take It Back Home
Screwball - H.O.S.T.Y.L.E.
Eminem - Brain Damage
Pep Love - Crooked Angles
Talk talk
GhostFace - You Know I'm No Good
Billy Nova - Studio Gangster
Public Enemy - Black Steel In the Hour of Chaos
Rap Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour

Download Flow's Old School for March 15 '07 - 42.56MB;
Diamond D - No Wonduh (inst)
Public Enemy - Public Enemy #1
Alkoholics - Make Room
The Flavor Unit Mcs - Roll Wit Tha Flavor (Shandis S Oxford Mix)
Main Source - Just A Friendly Game Of Baseball
3rd Bass - Steppin' To The A.M. rmx
Pun C.R.E.A.M.
Fat Joe ft. Grand Puba & Diamond D - Watch The Sound
The 45 King - The 900 Number (Ced Gee rmx 2)


Playlist from March 8th, late beyond my control

Black Sheep - Strobe Light Honey
Snow Goons - Heads or Tails
talk talk
Big Pooh - Heep It To The Side
Terminology - 50 Bodies
Sheek Louch - Excuse Me Buddy
Joell Ortiz - Modern Day Slavery
Talk talk
Brother Ali - Blah, Blah, Blah
F.B.I. - Native Thing Called Hip-Hop
Evidence - Hot/Cold
Billy Nova - Studio Gangsta (mtl)
Diamond D - Stunts, Blunts and Hip-Hop
Rap Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour
Krumb Snatcher - Strike Back
Teflon - Married To The Game
Joell Ortiz - 125 Grams
Sean P - Stop
Funkdoobiest - Ke Sera Sera
Blaq Poet - Hood Crazy
Cypress Hill - Funk Freaks
Gangstarr - Soliloquy of Chaos
Nas - The World is Yours

Download whole or parts of shows from CKUT's site

Portrait of some pieces of shit

Kids Encouraged To Fight By Parents - Click Here for more great videos and pictures!

...disgusting

New Grounds

We've been trying out a new phone system for the half-hour freestyle hour, so far it seems pretty good. We now answer the calls off air, then you get transferred to 'on-air' and if there's already somebody on-air, you get put on hold and put in line until the on-air line frees up, you then get automatically put on air.


Here's the playlist for March 1 2007;

A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It
Snow Goons - Snow Goons Sonata
Talky Talk
Hangar 18 - Think Big
Billy Nova - Studio Gangster (Montreal artist)
Malicious - Reign (Montreal artist)
Jedi Mind Tricks - Pretty Little Whores
Talky Talk
Little Brother f/ Mick Boogie - Never Leave
Brooklyn Acadamy - Raise Your Hand
Lords of the Underground - The Clinic
Rap Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour

We closed out the show with a set by DJ Skware, check out his Myspace page; http://myspace.com/djskware



Recommended reading;

Watchu watchin'?

Fat Joe ft. Grand Puba & Diamond D - Watch the Sound

Download the damn mp3 already!

- Diamond D is the man

Expanding grounds

Here's a couple of Montreal movers and shakers that we've been feeling recently;


Producer extraordinaire and 'big in Japan', Think Twice; www.myspace.com/thinktwicemtl
Check the 'People Wanna Know'
track, with Manchilde
and Shogun







And the ever exciting/excited Psynlangwage; www.myspace.com/psynlangwage
Check the 'Psynfeld' track.



PSYN UP!!!

Flow's Old School Bitches

Every second show of the month I do a half hour of classic hip-hop, sometimes it'll be true old school ('79-'84) and sometimes it'll go up to '94ish, here are some recent ones. I like December's.

Download Flow's Old School for Oct 12 '06 - 23.73MB;
The Mean Machine - Disco Dream (Sugarhill 1981)
The Treacherous Three - Put The Boogie In Your Body (Enjoy 1981)
The Disco Four - Do It, Do It (Enjoy 1981)
Whodini - Magic's Wand (Jive 1982)
Dr.Jeckyll & Mr.Hyde - Gettin' Money (Profile 1983)
Rock Master Scott and The Dynamic Three - The Roof is on Fire (Reality 1984)
UTFO - Leader of the Pack (Select 1985)
Disco 3 - Fat Boys (Sutra 1984)
Love Bug Starski - Live at the Fever (The Fever 1984)

Download Flow's mid/late School for December '06 - 53MB;
He Say, She Say - Showbiz & AG
They Want EFX - Das EFX
Stunts, Blunts & Hip-Hop - Diamond D
True Fuschnick - Fu-Schnickens
Code of The Streets - Gangstarr
I'm Kurious - Kurious
You Know What I'm About - Lord Finesse & Big L
Chief Rocka - Lords of The Underground
Everything's Gonna Be Alright - Naughty By Nature
Straighten It Out - Pete Rock & CL Smooth


Download Flow's mid/late School for February '07 - 52.7MB;
Steady B - Serious (Ceereeus B.D.P. Remix)
Black Sheep - Strobelight Honey (No We Didn't Mix)
Intelligent Hoodlum - Underground
Run DMC - Down with the King
Stetsasonic - Uda Man
De La Soul - You Got It
EPMD - Let the Funk Flow
True Mathematics - For the Money (Phone Mix)
Just Ice - Latoya

Playlist for February 22 2007

Grandmaster Flash - Nasty
Joell Ortiz - Modern Day Slavery
Sean P - P-Body
CL Smooth - All I Know
Royce 5'9 - Street Hop
Freddie Foxx- Hard Ghetto
Talky Talk
Little Brother - Cross The Line
Brooklyn Acadamy - Raise Your Hands
Smif n Wesson - Walk Like a Champion
Psynfield - Psynlanguage (Canadian content)
Blackmack - B.E. (Canadian content)
Rap Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour
Budda Blaze Sex mix

To download, go to the archives;
CKUT's site

First things first

I know, who the kcuf does this guy think he is starting a blog? That's how I've always fealt. But hey, it's a new world. For now it's a one guy thing but maybe this'll become a crew effort.

So what'll go down here? Tracklists and links to grab our weekly shows, some hip-hop news, various links to uploaded songs and whatever else comes up. Hopefully this is a blog you'll put in your 'check every couple of weeks' folder.

Welcome and enjoy.