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



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