April 16 - College. Play an album that you either first heard on a college radio station, or that you think all college students should be forced to listen to today.
Redman "Whut? Thee Album" - CKLN 88.1FM will always have a special place in my heart! Not only was it an amazing college radio station but it played a huge part in my musical education especially when it came to hip hop.
They had an amazing Saturday afternoon show called The Powermove Show that was an institution in the city! Me and my friends would pop a cassette into the deck hit play/record and go out and get into whatever trying to time it just right so you got back in 45 minutes to flip the tape and continue recording!
You'd bring the tape to school on Monday and blast it on the boombox, someone always seemed to show up with a boombox, you'd analyze each song, try to figure out the name and who performed it with very little help, this was pre internet afterall! It was so much fun!
Anyways, one Saturday afternoon I caught the world premiere of the new Redman song "Tonight's Da Night", I had no idea who Redman was but I was excited! What made it even better is the DJ gave out a warning about explicit lyrics, he basically said "this has some explicit lyrics so if your too young to listen just go into the other room and listen on headphones or turn it down real low!". Then they played the song and GODDAMN!!! That shit hit hard, I had no idea who this guy was but I wanted more! I made it my mission to hunt this album down, I mean it wasn't out and I had no idea when it was coming out but I looked for it every chance I could!
When it finally dropped I bought it right away went over to the homies house and we must have played it like 20 times that night! I still love this album and miss the Powermove show!! This is the only tape I have of the show left and it's hanging on for dear life! Anyways all that is to say that everyone that's ever been to college, heard of college or seen the word college written down should listen to Redman!!
