"You get these boys calling to request Hendrix whose voices haven't changed yet." -- Steven Van Zandt, E Street Band guitarist and Garage Rock DJ The year is 2106. Archaeologists have excav  

Radio Activity "I ain't gotta love it even if they play it a lot." -- dead prez WIZF-FM Program Director Phillip David March barely winced when I told him that I hadn't listened to hi  

"Tell the truth -- James Brown was old/'Til Eric and Rakim came out with 'I Got Soul' ..." -- Stetsasonic, "Talkin' All That Jazz" "Those rappers need to stop using other people's mu  

"All that beef ... is done, we had our fun. Let's get this money." -- Jay-Z I imagine that somewhere "up there," 'Pac and Biggie are high-fiving each other over the public display of unit  

"But can you detect what's coming next from the flex of the wrist?" -- "Eric B. Is President," Eric B and Rakim Your love of Hip Hop, like anything else, can often be traced back to a sing  

"You could find the Abstract listening to Hip Hop/ My pops used to say, it reminded him of Be Bop ..." ­ A Tribe Called Quest A few months back, Common was in Cincinnati for a brief appea  

"Rappers are getting rich and starting businesses and corporations and once you get to that level you have nowhere else to go but politics." -- Wise Intelligent (of Poor Righteous Teachers) For th  

These rules (prohibiting payola) serve the important purpose of ensuring that the listening public knows when someone is seeking to influence them." -- Kevin Martin, FCC Chairman July 27 -- a  

"The girls don't seem to care what's on/As long as it plays till dawn ..." -- Steely Dan, "FM" I haven't been sleeping well lately. For the last few weeks, I've had this recurring dre  

"But then she broke to the West Coast, and that was cool/'Cause around the same time, I went away to school ..." -- Common, "I Used to Love H.E.R" I used to tell friends that if they ever