What's Good? Talking Hip-Hop and Race With Stretch & Bobbito

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🗓️ 26 July 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Shereen and Gene mix it up with the pioneering hip-hop radio hosts Stretch and Bobbito. These impresarios ran a legendary show in New York City during most of the 1990s. Now they're hosting an interview podcast featuring guests like Stevie Wonder, Dave Chappelle and Mahershala Ali.

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0:00.0	Check it out now.
0:02.0	You got it, yada.
0:04.0	The mic is open, yada.
0:06.0	Put a stretch on a shark's show.
0:08.0	Holds by my feet.
0:10.0	How should I start this?
0:12.0	I should up again to send
0:15.0	Brad the mic a phone in my brown phone.
0:17.0	Shrene.
0:18.0	Jean.
0:19.0	That was an old freestyle from Nas.
0:21.0	Before he was, you know, like Nas.
0:23.0	Yeah, the album get ready, come out in January.
0:25.0	The name of that is Elmatic.
0:29.0	This is pretty romantic when he was still a teenager.
0:31.0	And what we were hearing was on the stretch arm strong show on WKC.
0:35.0	The golden age of hip hop,
0:37.0	that if I'm going to be honest, probably started winding down for me.
0:40.0	After Campalos, Uptown Saturday night album.
0:43.0	Do you remember that album, Jean?
0:44.0	Yes, I do remember that.
0:45.0	This is it. What?
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