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Every Sunday, 2-3 PM CT, on KOOP 91.7FM in Austin, TX, or koop.org. Sundays 2-3:30pm CST on KOOP 91.7 fm + http://koop.org.

A crew of local DJs bring you the best roots, golden age, underground, conscious and world hip hop. Submit your radio clean tracks to [email protected].

12/31/2025

🎉 Our last show of the year features friends and collaborators and

✨️ Fresh from the success of a Blues on the Green performance, veteran local rapper Blakchyl pitched an idea for a residency at . Support from the iconic venue is a testament of Blakchyl's talent and dedication to craft and community

✨️ Houston born R&B singer/songwriter Ni****ne's emerging track "Running" (2019) reached 37 million streams on Spotify. They recently moved back to Austin with a new found sense of focus and drive

✨️ Their band debuted at Blakchyl's November Tiny Cookout show

🎉 Ni****ne and the Warmtones will play as the residency house band all three nights, with Blakchyl selecting each preformer

📍Word Of Mouf Residency
Sunday's ➡️ January 4th, 11th, and 18th
(Doors at 7PM)

🎧 Our playlist features career expansive tracks from both artist's, and many who will be featured during the residency

featuring and - Top 5
- Pull Up
- SITW
.yt - CARTOGRAPHY
- Slow Dreamz
- All i know (Mindz)
Ni****ne - JiNKX MONSOON
Ni****ne - Running
Blakchyl - Ja Morant
- Spectrum
- Memphis, Texas
- Block Walkin' Whitney (Voodoo) [instrumental]

💐 Special thanks to for helping us play this pre-record 💕

🎆 Wishing you the happiest New Year and safe celebrations! Stay tuned for what we've got coming up! 🎆

📷 Photo is from a reel posted on Instagram

12/24/2025

✨️ Our holiday episode celebrates Austin Hip-Hop history. Chuk Roberts is credited as the first local rapper to obtain a major label record deal at Pendulum/EMI

✨️ He relocated to Houston, and became embedded in the culture and community there. Like Roberts, his peer Erika "Mz Dank" Sodie also relocated. She is widely recognized for co-founding the pioneering Austin teen Hip-Hop group "Cooly Girls" alongside friends and family

✨️ Terrany "Tee-Double" Johnson is at the turning point of the first and second generation of local Hip-Hop. In our interview the three discuss their impact, how they navigated that, and current moves

🎶 Papa Chuk will soon release a new project coming in the first quarter of the new year. We hear one of his first hits 1994's "Desolate One" and a recent collaboration between him and Mz Dank "Hole Up". We also hear Mz Dank's 2017 "UNDENIABLE"

🎧 Full playlist here and in current stories

- 3 Ringz [instrumental]
💕🕊 - All I Want For Christmas Is A Black President ▶️ playing in post
Tee Double, Various Artists - Christmas in Hollis (Austin Version)
Papa Chuk - Desolate One
Mz Dank - UNDENIABLE
Papa Chuk featuring Mz Dank - Hole Up
💕🕊 - Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer ▶️ playing in stories

🎊 Wishing you a holiday filled with deep peace and kindness. Thank you so much for tuning in, and we will see you next week to round out the year 🎊

📷 Photo of Chuk Roberts, Mz Dank and Teddy Lee of the pioneering Austin Hip-Hop group Project Crew is courtesy Chuck Roberts. Photo of Tee-Double, and DJ Cassanova also of Project Crew, is from DJ Cassanova's Facebook. That photo is by .studio and was taken at the 2023 Austin Hip-Hop Honors Awards, in celebration of Hip-Hop's 50th anniversary

12/16/2025

🎁 Tomorrow, December 16th, RichesArt Gallery will be delivering toys at Zavala Elementary. Community organizer Marvis "The Middleman" Dixon has collaborated with the gallery on a Toy Drive for several years. He joins us in our most recent episode to give us more details. DM to ask about donating

🎮 Game Developer Kamau Vassall also visits with .7 radio host Wyldthang and speaks to the importance of inspiring the next generation of creatives. Kamau is currently working on a new project called "Gravity's Edge"

✨️ Wyldthang will be hosting a Hip-Hop community portrait that he calls "A Great Day in Austin" to commemorate the Hip-Hop exhibit currently located at .

💐 He is inviting local past, present, and future Hip-Hop artists to gather at the exhibit on December 28th to take part in the portrait, 11 AM to 4 PM

✨️ Wyldthang is the creator of which dedicates a monthly music mixer panel series. Check their Instagram for more info, and you can hear his show "Awesome Texas Soul Sessions" on .7 every other Monday, from 7-10 PM

💕 Our heartfelt prayers go out to local artist JayKaveon Jones who is currently recovering from an accident. Please see our current stories, and his Instagram bio for the GoFund Me link to support his healing. Playing in post is his song "Pray That Much!"💕

🎶 Thank you so much to and for sending in new tracks this week! ✨️ Full playlist here ✨️

- WYA?!
- Mustard Seeds
- Somebody Prayed for Me
- El Diamante
- La Vida De Un Genio
- 1Hunna Man Pt. 4
- Peace
Erni-Ski (Certified South) - Lessons
Adrian Quesada - CG Forever

12/14/2025

✨️ For our most recent episode, community leaders and curators Desiree Bermea and Caesar co-interviewed

✨️ Desiree founded Do Good ATX , an organization dedicated towards providing basic needs to local low-income families

🎁 For the past six years, Do Good has held a community Toy Drive. This year's will be Saturday, December 20th, at the George Morales Dove Springs Recreation Center from 9 AM to 12 PM

💐 Send a DM or check their Instagram for ways that you can volunteer, and help support during the event

✨️ Ceasar created .dot a multifaceted accessible community space. They have a Winter Solstace Jazz event tonight, December 13th, at .austin from 7 PM to 10 PM. Sounds by DJ

🎉 Huge thanks to Alise Richardo and for shadowing the show as part of their training 🎉

🎶 And thank you so much to and .lemons for sending in new music. Check out the all local playlist here:

🕊💕 - Belly of the Beast
- Fall
Jackie Venson .the.robot - epilogue [soundbite]
featuring - Running With The Clouds
- Not Enough
Noriko Kose - Downtown Tokyo ▶️ playing in post
Kaleidoscopes - Say to You
featuring Laura Jane Jones - Silence Your Mind
- goodmorning!lemons - Presents
- Ja Morant

12/07/2025

💐✨️ Born and raised here in Austin, celebrated artist has nurtured her talent and a deep local fan base. She utilized her lived experience to create Found Sound ATX a rehearsal and venue space, now open in North Austin

✨️ She recently held a soft opening this past week, backed by veteran Hip-Hop artist Reggie Coby and the longtime community staple band

✨️ For our November 30th episode, Jackie co-interviews with Reggie, a founding remember of the local iconic supergroup League of Extraordinary Gz

🎶 We hear a few tracks from Jackie, and pay tribute to the League, and ATX Prospect (formally Yung Prospect, playing in post) who recently passed on

🎧 Thank you so much to and for sending in new music, check out our full playlist here and in current stories, and see you soon for a new episode at 3 PM CT

🕊💕 featuring - Love and Mistakes
- Destruct
🕊💕 - We Gon Make It
- Connection
featuring - Too Much of Me [Holiday Version]
& - In The Way *sneak peak*
- Breaking Me Down
- WHO KNOWS?
WHO KNOWS?
- I Tried
- Native Tounge

11/26/2025

💐 Today, November 26th, is the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll Tina Turner's heavenly birthday. With boundless talent and determination, she taught us how to turn greif into purpose, and purpose into art

✨️ Recording and visual artist Ms. Cashmere draws deep inspiration from Tina. Her current Cashmere love line project asks "what do you know about love?" Participants are invited to text or leave a voicemail for Ms. Cashmere at

🪷 In this special episode, we celebrate the life of one of the most influential voices in music and pop culture, and reflect on our own relationships with her legacy

✨️ Check out future updates on Instagram for her upcoming group art show with in January

🎧 Our playlist features our favorite Tina tracks, and a local music mix. Thank you to and for sending in new music! 💐

- GOLDEN
& - The Math
Tina Turner - I'll Be Thunder ▶️ playing in post
- You Don't Want It
featuring - Lean Not
- Peanuts
Tina Turner - Missing You
Tina Turner - Private Dancer

📷 Collage photo of Tina Turner is by Herb Ritts (1989)

11/23/2025

💐 Iconic Rapper created and curated Black Divas, a special on that highlights maternal health. The live taping with a studio audience is on December 6th

✨️ Riders Against the Storm, the celebrated local Hip-Hop movement Qi began with her husband , created history as the first Hip-Hop act to headline Blues on the Green in 2024, and is the first Hip-Hop group to win the Band of the Year multiple times in a row from 2013 to 2015, with Qi being the first African American woman to win the award

🎶 She will soon release her upcoming EP "MAMMY'S MONEY, and we feature her single "Black Girl Payday" playing in post

💐 Check out Instagram bio for tickets to attend the Black Divas live taping

⏰️ December 6th
7-9 PM
studios 6101 Highland Campus Drive

🎧 We hear music from and premire "Talk About It" by and , and also premire a new track "Who's This", which was featured as a "Song of the Day" on November 18th

✨️ Check out the full playlist here, and we'll see you for a new episode soon today at 3PM ✨️

featuring - Talk About It *Hip-Hop Hooray premier*
of - Black Girl Payday
- Who's This *Hip-Hop Hooray premier*
Riders Against the Storm - Holy Water
Riders Against the Storm - Satellite
- AS U WISH
- HEARTBREAK
- I Tried
- Clap Your Hands
- Como Tu

11/15/2025

🤍 A prolific and multi deminsional artist with a storied career, blazed her own path with a sound she calls alternative rock soul.

✨️ She is a Grammy nominated artist for her closing song "Keep Rising" in the major motion picture "The Woman King", and has collaborated with superstars like and

✨️ She tells us her process of pivoting from music to visual art, and speaks towards how they are one in the same.

🤍 You can find her art at and on display at today, November 15th, and tomorrow too.

📍2032 B South Lamar behind .bar
⏰️ 12-6 PM
✨️ With sounds by and coffee from .coffee

🎶 Our playlist for this episode celebrates a time line of Jessy's career, and features and with their Grammy/Oscar nominated closing song "Like a Bird" in the movie "Sing Sing"

🎧 You can check it out here, and find the episode link in our current stories and bio

featuring - Maxine
Jessy Wilson, - Keep Rising () ▶️ playing in post
featuring John Legend - Leave It to the Sky
- Like a Bird ()
Jessy Wilson - Clap Your Hands
Jessy Wilson - waiting on...

11/06/2025

✨️ will spin a special all vinyl hip-hop set tomorrow, November 7th, at The Carver Library branch

✨️ "Hip-Hop America: The Mixtape Exhibit" is currently on display at . You can check out a free pass for up six visitors at your local Austin library, ask a librarian for details

✨️ will also host another opportunity to visit the exhibit for free during their "Mic Check: The Arts as a Voice of Democracy" panel on November 18th at 6:30 PM. Check their Instagram bio to register

✨️ joins our most recent episode, and dives into her personal history within Austin Hip-Hop culture, sharing how she continues to navigate social media and gigs

✨️ You can also see her at Soho House afterwards, DM her Instagram for guest list info and times

⏰️ BEATS & U.N.I.T.Y.
Carver Branch Library 1161 Angelina St.
Friday, November 7th from 5:30 to 9 PM
set from 6-8PM

🎶 In this epispde playlist, we premire some new tracks by and , and hear from more of the artists that represented Austin during

💜 Check here and in stories for a full playlist, and a reminder that hunger relief resources are shared in our stories continously

featuring - Too Eazy *Hip-Hop Hooray premiere*
featuring - CG Forever ▶️ in post
of - Grandma's Recipe
featuring - Poppin It
featuring - Hope *Hip-Hop
- Welch's Grape *Hip-Hop Hooray premier*
featuring Karuna - Lake House

11/01/2025

✨️ is at now for the iconic venue anniversary! 🦩🎉 CHHK is preforming tonight with and of

✨️ Our most recent episode features members of both and who just got back from Australia representing Austin at

✨️ Solo artists and were among the artists selected to preform at the official CHHK showcase "The Dean's List Down Under" along with

✨️ followed the artists to Sydney to help with content, and speaks towards his volunteer work with

✨️ of co-hosts this episode and amplifies his mission to uplift women creatives of color in community through interviewing. 2 Hour Lunch Break is a staple podcast filmed at

🎶 Our playlist from this episode premieres new music by and , and also features tracks from the members of CHHK and . Check it out here and in current stories

- Best Work *Hip-Hop Hooray premier*
featuring and - Lo Que Quiera
- CON MANÍ *Hip-Hop Hooray premier*
featuring and - Big Waves
- It's A Way
- Eastside Celebration ▶️ playing in post
- So Throwed
- Risk

📣 💕 Community hunger relief efforts will be posted in stories continously

📷 Photo of at Australia's May Lane by photo of and at on Mic Trey's social media

10/24/2025

🎉 Congratulations a community staple, with countless talents and endless dedication to uplift our local talent

✨️ Haris is a much needed bridge to our local community radio stations. You can also hear him weekly Monday's and Tuesday's on .7 "Morning Grind" program, and check out his pieces in

💐 We deeply appreciate you, and are so proud of your accomplishments and drive to help community and culture thrive

🎶 Playing in post is a collaboration Haris made with and "Native Tounge"

10/24/2025

✨️ Headed out to new album listening party tonight at 💐 the rising star rapper co-interviwed our most recent episode with and

✨️ is a veteran of our local music industry, active since 2012, and has a decade of experience navigating the scene with her experimental band "Trouble in the Streets".

✨️ Dallas based joins us for his birthday! 🎉 He just played at with legends Te'rell Shahid and .

💐 Our interview centers around advice and maintaining relationships in music, with sharing stories of touring Texas with our very own as a mentor

🎶 Up next, you can see again hosting the and produced event Thee Freaknik at Friday, and hear at this Saturday from 12-2 PM

🎧 Check out the full playlist featuring singles from all three featured artists, and local musicians below and in current stories.

🎶 Playing in post is "Heaven Must Be Like This" by D'Angelo, our first song heard in tribute to the Neo-Soul pioneer

💕🕊 D'Angelo - Heaven Must Be Like This
- Slow Dreamz
- dans tes yeux
featuring - Best Way I Know
featuring - Country Girl
featuring - Always You
- Connect The Dots
featuring and - The Next Kendrick
Ter'ell Shahid - Still Love You Everydayduke - 1987

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