Cypher — 2026-10-18

Cypher — 2026-10-18

Series: cypher — Theme: MC culture after dark, taught in two halves: first the rhyme side — posse-era hip-hop, Def Jux's avant garde, Madlib mid-dig, and the 1973 funk B-side that grew into the first commercial rap record — then the records the samples were taken from, Larry Young's self-built Arista funk sermon, Stevie's closer on Innervisions, Earland's Van Gelder organ date, pre-disco Kool & the Gang; and at the deep end, Brandee Younger's swung harp handing off to the fifteen-year-old whose album later fed Mariah Carey's number one.
Duration: 1h00m · 11 tracks, fully programmed and narrated on wobuzz radio.

MC culture after dark, taught in two halves: first the rhyme side — posse-era hip-hop, Def Jux's avant garde, Madlib mid-dig, and the 1973 funk B-side that grew into the first commercial rap record — then the records the samples were taken from, Larry Young's self-built Arista funk sermon, Stevie's closer on Innervisions, Earland's Van Gelder organ date, pr