Fast forward to 2014, DJ Chuck has spent the last 7 years of his life in college and commercial radio. For this third installment of The Demonstration, he has drawn on his lifetime of experiences, knowledge, and love of radio. The presentation is amplified and the sonics push high definition range, just as if you were listening to it through an FM dial. These are his influences, past and present, wrapped all into a Lex Luger “Total Package.” This is AMP 97.1, KROQ, 94.7 The Wave, KDAY, Power 106, K-Earth 101, KIIS FM, KCRW, and KXLU all in 73 minutes. This is the elimination of the boundaries, borders, and cultural segregation we place on music blaring through the airwaves. This is his “Demonstration” of radio… KHFP is now on the air. Listen and download below:
Free Mixtape: Dj Chuck – I Was Raised On Nate Dogg
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From my brother from another..Dj Chuck:
“G-Funk. Where rhythm is life. And life is rhythm.”
– Warren G
When musicians past away, I am usually not one to jump on the “tribute bandwagon,” which is a staple in Urban Music. Somebody passes, and the next day, their face can be found plastered on t-shirts on Crenshaw Blvd and dozens of artists, who you have never heard of, try to capitalize of the death by releasing some type of “tribute” song. Sure one may argue it is not right for me to question the motives of possible good intentions, but you can just tell by the quality that is put into a majority of these “tributes” that it is not with the intent of truly honoring the fallen. Honestly speaking, yeah, this thought did cross in mind in the possible reception of being most likely the 100thed billionenth DJ to drop a Nate Dogg tribute mix since his untimely death only less than a week ago, but what change my mind was my immediate reaction to his death.
As news spread throughout the net regarding his death, I logged on to Facebook and Youtube, and started to post one song after another by or featuring the original “King of Hooks.” One song let to five, five let to twenty, and before I knew it, I had posted close to 50 songs on my wall in less than 2 hours. That has NEVER happened to me before. And as I reviewed the laundry list of records I posted, I realized that these joints represented a timeline; a timeline of my upbringing. There is an old saying that music acts as the soundtrack to our lives, and on my Facebook wall, I damn near had the whole soundtrack to my Junior High and High School years right in front of me. That’s when an old junior high/high school friend of mind and fellow DJ, DJ Ken (we used to call him “Ribtip” back in the day. I see you Coach, lol!!!), posted this status: “Man, I was really raised on Nate Dogg.”
And he was right. 40 singles on Billboard and over 20 years in the business, Nate was the man to call when you wanted the lead single for your new LP to pop off properly. His smooth voice and delivery was original, undeniable, and created a certain groove that not one singer in past 30 years of Urban Music, in my humble opinion, has been able to surpass, reduplicated, or even come close to. He defined what a “hook” was in Hip-Hop. While Snoop and Dre maybe the faces of the G-Funk era in West Coast Hip-Hop, along with DJ Quik and fellow 213 member Warren G, he is an unsung hero of that sound. Maybe THE unsung hero. Think about it. Can you imagine Ain’t No Fun, The Next Episode, and Regulate without Nate Dogg? It’s point blank unfathomable. Along with many other classic singles his voice had graced over the course of his storied career. No one could really could do it better. This is why I wanted to include the reflections of Nate’s music in other people’s lives along with the music in this mix.
Free Album: Honor Flow Productions- L.I.V.E. By F.R.E.S.H.
“Released New Years Eve 2010, L.I.V.E. By F.R.E.S.H. (Lifting Intergalactic Vicious Experience By Free Rolling Ecstatics Signaling Hi-Definition) is a collection live recordings highlighting the 2010 on-stage journey of Los Angeles based Hip-Hop band Honor Flow Productions. As a musical collective that has continually built their reputation through high energy performances that dares to break the traditional rules of contemporary music, while giving the audience an out of body sonic experience, L.I.V.E. brings the H.F.P. stage experience to record for the very first time. As performed in such historic Los Angeles venues such as The Roxy Theater, The Key Club, and The Whisky A Go-Go, alongside groundbreaking Hip-Hop artists such as KRS-ONE and Pete Rock, the evolution of H.F.P. as a sonic live collective is chronicled in full stereo through this 11 track musical journey. This is way Honor Flow Productions is meant to experienced and understood, L.I.V.E. and F.R.E.S.H to def, ya dig? Get L.I.V.E, Be F.R.E.S.H.”
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