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Ill Doctrine Radio 8/19/23: History and New Beginnings

This week we broadcast live from the Bronx, NY! And we had a good long conversation with our fam Jesi Kelley about Hip-Hop's 50th anniversary celebrations, from her perspective as a fellow old-head who came from Jamaica to the BX back in the 70s and witnessed that history from almost day one. 

I also let my radio (and now Pat...

Ill Doctrine Radio 6/10/23: One More For Wallace

Hey y'all, 

It's been a month now since I lost Wallace. I'm definitely still feeling it, in those capricious waves you keep hoping will, over time, take on some identifiable arc that passes for a grieving "process." 

I'll always be grateful for our last months together, the tenderness and intimacy of that last caregiving st...

Ill Doctrine Radio 5/13/23: Fullfillingness [Has No] Finale

This past Saturday just happened to be the birthday of our greatest living artist Stevie Wonder, and there was no way I was gonna let that pass by without giving some flowers. This week we start out with a mix of Stevie's classics and then dig deeper into his lesser known compositions for other artists...I bet there will be a few you haven't hea...

Ill Doctrine Radio 5/6/23: One for Belafonte

This week we paid tribute to one of our most formidable figures in the culture, Mr. Harry Belafonte, with his voice woven into the mix thanks to our old friend Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. As stated in the last missive I'm holding off on compiling the playlist while I catch up on this big of backlog, so let me know if you need ...

Ill Doctrine Radio 4/22/23: The Last Ride in Brooklyn

Hey y'all, before we get to this batch of uploads let me say: I was shocked to see that it's been since late February that I last posted here! I knew it had been a while but would've never guessed it had been that long. 

This does track almost exactly, though, with Wallace being diagnosed with this rare, maddeningly elusive and intrac...

Ill Doctrine Radio 2/25/23: Trugoy/De La Tribute (PART TWO)

Hey y'all this week we continued paying tribute to Trugoy the Dove and De La Soul, and I think I may have enjoyed this one even more than last week. We got into a bunch more hits, some of the classic/rare sample sources for my favorite De La tracks, and a bunch of Trugoy's non-De La guest appearances (including some pretty rare ones there as wel...

Ill Doctrine Radio 2/18/23: He Did It For Us

"Years just blow by
My eyes stay fixed but the picture's kinda out of focus
I cry a lot but admit to it
Enjoying life now but I've been through it
Sometimes I wish that I can go back
No bills no kids just getting tore back
I want a wife, I love women
How could I front like I don't be in love wit em?
A little man that I ca...

Ill Doctrine Radio 2/4/23: If We Tell The Whole Story

Hey Y'all on this episode we marked the beginning of a Black History Month that comes in the shadow both (what's been pegged as) hip-hop's 50th anniversary, and the threat of our history being erased and obscured as the right-wing keeps ramping up its last-ditch "culture war" tactics. And to that end we had a great convo with the hip-hop journal...

Ill Doctrine Radio 1/21/23: Wild Style/Charlie Ahearn interview

Hey y'all!

As we settle into what's been coronated as hip-hop's 50th birthday(!), I'm gonna be looking for ways to dig into all that history and connect with voices who can really speak on it. And to start off this week I'm going into the archives for a conversation with Charlie Ahearn, director of the GOAT early hip-hop film Wild Style (1...

Ill Doctrine Radio 1/14/23: The Raw and Uncut MLK Day Mix

Hey' y'all!

This week we carry on our tradition of digging deeper into the full message of the Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and building the mix around his "Why I Oppose The War In Vietnam" speech (delivered right up the road from here at Riverside Church!). And you'll find a healthy dose of the great Jeff Beck in the set as well <3 2023-01-17 00:26:49 +0000 UTC View Post

Ill Doctrine Radio 1/7/23: The Pointer Sisters episode

This week we took a deep dive into the catalog of Oakland's own Pointer Sisters, in honor of Anita Pointer who passed last week at the age of 74. They're best known for their crossover (yet still funky) 80s hit, but the Pointers have a deep well of jazz/funk/blues joints in their earlier years, and I hope you'll enjoy this foray as much as I did...

Ill Doctrine Radio 12/17/22: the Stax Records episode

Hey y'all, in the first hour this week we paid tribute to one of the greatest record labels bar none, Memphis' own Stax Records, whose co-founder Jim Stewart passed earlier this month at the age of 92. (And in the second hour we had another bonus mix from DJ Tee Money!)

We'll be running a classic episode for Xmas eve so I can chill with th...

Ill Doctrine Radio 12/10/22: Back to the Essence

This episode of the show was a special one for me, as we had the full live DJ experience for the first time in our Bondfire era! 

Carlito TCK and A1 Supreme came through with their Technics 1200s and rocked strictly vinyl sets, including an all-45s set in the second hour. Basically a trip back in time the sort of mixes we w...

Ill Doctrine Radio 12/3/22: Don't Call It A Comeback

Okay y'all!

It's a been a long time, I shouldn't have left you.

I've been planning to make a video checking in and talking about my time away but, as these things go, that in itself has turned into another reason to put off starting again. So I'm just gonna get to it.

Long story short as some of you will know I joined the team ...

Ill Doctrine Radio 5/28/22: The Heavy D Episode

Okay y'all we are back, with an episode we had a lot of fun with paying tribute to the great Dwight "Heavy D" Myers who would have been 55 last week. To make sure I don't keep falling behind on uploads while I work on the Secret Podcast Project, I'm going to try sharing a screenshot of the playlists instead of typing them out for now, please let...

Ill Doctrine Radio 4/30/22: Keep Your Head to the Sky

Hey y'all, this week we focused on the great Earth Wind and Fire in remembrance of their saxophonist Andrew Woolfolk who passed last week, w/ an emphasis on the earlier jazz/funk heavy side of their catalogue. 

PARTIAL PLAYLIST

 Earth Wind & Fire - Spasmodic Movements

Earth Wind & Fire - Brazilian Rhyme

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Ill Doctrine Radio 4/16/22: We're Back

Hey y'all, 

I know it's been a long time since the last upload, and I appreciate your patience. For the last month I've been getting started on a pretty big new project that I can't specify yet (it's big enough that I need the okay from higher-ups to say more) but hopefully I can tell you more soon!

In the meantime I'm getting...

Ill Doctrine Radio 2/26/22: Love is Still Lovely and War is Still Very Ugly

This week as all the dark news kept coming in, we tried our best to represent for peace, with as many pro-love/anti-war jams as we could find and even some Ukrainian rap requests directly from our friends in Kyiv. Hope you and yours are safe, wherever you are <3

PARTIAL PLAYLIST:

Prince - Party Up

Gene Hunt ft Rob...

Ill Doctrine Radio 2/12/22: Betty and Syl

Okay y'all thanks for your patience and moral support as I was caught up in my kitty emergency, we should be ready to restore normal service now. <3

On this episode we devoted the whole show to two of our titans that passed in the same week, 2022-02-22 23:32:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Ill Doctrine Radio 2/5/22: I, Too, Spin America

This week we kick off BHM with another reading, this time putting the spotlight on James Mercer Langston Hughes, who would've turned 121 on 2/1/22, and give a little extra run to a couple of my favorite new releases from Moonchild and 2022-02-08 03:55:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Ill Doctrine Radio 1/29/22: Critical Bass Theory

This week we continue sprinkling history into the mix, through the voice of Angela Davis who marked her 78th birthday last week. This audio is from 1969, when Davis had just been suspended from teaching by the state of California, and brings a reminder of just how long they've been trying to keep truth and liberation out of the classroom. <...

Ill Doctrine Radio 1/22/22: Mixing To Transgress

Hey y'all! This week we've got the customary dosage of funk from past present and future, and we're trying something new as well: as you may know I got to do some audiobook recording over the last few years and it really made me appreciate ...

Ill Doctrine 1/8/22: To Sir With Love

"I was expected to be dead within two, three days. I was born two months  early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my  life. She went throughout the black sections of Miami, where I was born,  looking for help to save her child. She went to the church, and she  went to the few people she knew. Absolut...

Ill Doctrine Radio 1/1/22: Don't Delay, Send Yours in Right Away

Hey y'all! So apparently it's another "New Year"? I feel like I have some vague memory of more innocent times, when I believed that was a thing. And I must say, despite all the madness that blends these past few years into a fog, I come into this one choosing to...kinda sorta...low key...believe it again. 

I'm choosing to believe that...

Ill Doctrine Radio 12/18/21: All About Love

This week, like many of you I'm sure, we had our plans spoiled last minute by the coming of Omicron, and I had to scramble to set up a show from home...but we still got it in! And paid tribute to the incredible bell hooks and the genius of Robbie Shakespeare. 

P.S. I know the holiday season can be rough even in the best circumstances ...

Ill Doctrine Radio 12/4/21: To Struggle Relentlessly

This week we started out with some Rebellion Rapping to mark the anniversary of Fred Hampton's assassination, and looked back on the past year with our fam Jesi Kelley...the 12/11 show will come shortly after!

Partial Playlist:

dead prez - hip-hop

public enemy - rebel without a pause

lady leshurr - juice

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Ill Doctrine Radio 11/27/21: Props To The Masters

Hey y'all! This week we sprinkled some Sondheim in with the funk to honor one of the GOAT songwriters, and celebrated one of the GOAT hip-hop djs with a special history lesson: a classic radio mix from Kool DJ Red Alert, taking you on a journey through the eras of music & radio he helped define. 

Partial playlist: