You're listening to In Our Headphones. My name's Evie Stokes. Today I'm welcoming into the booth, DJ Yaddy, who's one of the hosts of K-EXP's Street Sounds, a show that airs on Friday evenings. And Yaddy, tell us about Street Sounds.

Street Sounds is a special hip-hop show, 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. and it's ran by Stasi and I. So we alternate every other

Friday curate and, you know, the best vibes ever. Yeah. What can we expect to hear when you're hosting?

They can always expect too short. Yeah. That's a staple.

Yeah, for sure.

Yeah, so, you know, Stasi and I, we're a balance.

You know, on Stasi's show, it's a lot more informational about the music, where it's coming

from as well as just like, you know, projects that she's touched as well as an artist.

And then you listen to my show and you're going to sweat through your clothes.

It's a party, you know, just curing right and going into the energy, going into the weekend

on good vibes. That's normally what I like to bring. Of course, we read back the tracks and

tell a little information, but I like to use it as it's the end of my week. You know, like, I want to connect with you. And then also, you may need to connect with me going into the weekend because you had a rough week or a long week, whatever the case may be. So you brought a song today from Seattle rapper Obelay Reed and this is actually the second time that we've

featured Obla in the last couple of months we had another track of his on when Travis Thompson

came in to talk. Nice. And I'm excited to have him back on the podcast. Do you want to tell us about

this song? Yeah. So this song that we're going to be talking about is, of course, you said, Oblay Reed,

and the name of the song is Tears. Yeah. Most educated person is the black woman. Same reason most patient people is black woman. And they lax and they braids they hold the energy. A nigga got a platform to say because of black woman. You know, at first, I kind of dug on the internet so that I can see, like, what was the background of this song, you know?

And I found a couple things.

It was about just, you know, being a black mother in America.

But today, I talk to him, and it's actually about his half-sister and they're 11 years apart.

He just basically talked about how he really didn't understand the differences in the eras of them growing up and her growing up in a mixed household.

And, you know, overall, he just wanted to give her, you know, her credit and her flowers, you know,

because he didn't understand as a black boy growing up, you know. It's basically a love letter to the

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