Brooklyn Radio

The Rub New Year’s party is coming up! We’ve enlisted our homie Parlé (itsparle.com) to spin the party, plus he gave us a killer set for Rub Radio! We’ll also have Hasan Insane ringing in the New Year with us, so be sure to grab your tickets before they sell out: Link to buy tickets

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Tracklist:

A$AP Ferg – Floor Seats

We don’t know about you but we’re loving the new Gang Starr album.  We thought of doing a mix of classic Gang Starr tracks but remembered that our homie Matthew Africa (who we miss every day) did a really great one, so we decided to revisit his.  Big thanks to DJ Step One for digging up the file and sending it over!  (https://twitter.com/PaulDJStepOne)

Matthew Africa wrote this when he first put out the mix:

“Gang Starr is one of my favorite acts from the 1990s. There is no rap group I listened to more in that era, although De La Soul, Outkast & A Tribe Called Quest all run pretty much neck and neck.

Still, in recent years I haven’t listened to Gang Starr much. Maybe it’s because they haven’t released any new music since 2003. Maybe it’s because in the last decade the school of hardcore hip hop that they defined stagnated and played out so hard.

For me, this mix was about rediscovery. It grew out of an episode of 2 Busy Saying Yeah [Matthew’s rap podcast at the time] from a few weeks ago; after reading about Guru’s health troubles, I devoted a 2-hour episode to Gang Starr’s music. It was my first time mixing a lot of the songs in years and it felt so good, so natural, that I knew I had to turn it into tape along the lines of my previous tributes to $hort, Kells, etc.

Unlike those mixes, which I struggled with for weeks and months each, this was a breeze. I spent an afternoon figuring out the track list, recorded the mix live one evening and then spent a few days puttering with the multi-track to clean it up, add drops and get it down to CD length.

I drew tracks from all six of Gang Starr’s albums, and each is represented more or less in proportion to how much I like it: 1992’s Daily Operation tops them all with 9 selections, although 1990’s Step in the Arena, 1994’s Hard to Earn and 1998’s Moment of Truth all feature prominently with 7, 6 and 5 tracks, respectively. The first and last albums got kind of short shrift, although there were more songs I would have included from each if I hadn’t run out of space. They have one of the strongest catalogs in rap music and there were a lot of additional songs, verses and scratch parts I wish I could have included.

Big thanks to my man XJ, who laced the cover, and my main man DJ Eleven on quality control.”

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Tracklist:

1. Intro

Rub Radio October 2019 is a fat pumpkin full of hip-hop treats, from trap to twerk to pop to backpack rap! Be sure to come party with us at The Bell House on October 26. Buy your tickets right here.

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Tracklist:

Lil Tjay – F.N.

Rub Radio this month is mixed by DJ M!LLS, who will be playing the party on Saturday, September 28. (Plus he has been designing our flyers for the last two years!) The mix is chock-a-block with summer bangers, perfectly wrapping up the season, and even teases a handful of future hits going into fall.

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Tracklist:

B.T. Express – Everything Good to You

This month we’re joined by DJ DirtyFinger, both on Rub Radio and at the party at The Bell House on Saturday 8/31! Our August mix boasts a wide variety of shit we’re feeling, including new rap, dancehall, afrobeats, house, R&B and NOLA brass.

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Tracklist:

The Rub Set

Lil Tecca – Ransom

DirtyFinger Guest Set

Young Blood Brass Band – Pastime Paradise

The Rub residents: DJ Eleven & DJ Ayres are two of NYCs most respected DJs and you can hear why with this slick mix blurring the lines between hip-hop, dancehall, afro beats, grime, disco, house and more. Check the skills, click the heart, download the tracks and head over to the next installment of THE RUB on Saturday June 29th at The Bell House in Brooklyn featuring guest DJs Getlive!, Ric808 and Mike Nasty.

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Tracklist:

Young Thug ft. J. Cole & Travis Scott ­ The London

Rub Radio is back with a mix of new music, their first one in a while after 4 consecutive Hip Hop History mixes.  Ayres and Eleven pay tribute to Nipsey Hussle (RIP), build a vibe with new disco, hip-hop and R&B then close out the set with some deep house and club records.  Enjoy!  And be sure to come back next month for Hip Hop History 2014.

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Tracklist:

ODB – Good Morning Heartbreak (Intro)