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Live from New York and Atlanta, we present to you SLAMradio featuring Janol "Mecca" Holmes and Christal "Cee-Cee" Jordan-Mims.

Tonight, Mecca and Cee-Cee talks with Easy Moe Bee about his overall accomplishments to the music Industry, working with both Biggie Smalls and Tupac and his contributions to the success of Bad Boy Records and his thoughts on the late "The Notorious B.I.G's biographical movie "NOTORIOUS".
  
Blazing Hot Female Singer and Songwriter Crystal " CRISTYLES" Taylor discusses her incredible songwriting resume, music, 2008 and what bigger thingsto expect in 2009 .
 
Mecca and Cee-Cee also discuss the issues, current events in politics, entertainment and the news in a way that they only can..
 
Additional Topic and Discussion of the night: The Sky-Rocketing number of Home Foreclosures in 2008 and some possible solutions moving forward in 2009.
 
Weighing in on the discussion are subject matter experts, Lisa & Clayton Sampson of US Housing Assist

Off the past month with SLAMradio and last weeks XMAS special with BILL ADLER comes a special show From Chuck D, Matt Ianni and David Doctor Octopus Fazekas. A Year End classic Chuck D returns from TOUR in Europe on the way to Australian summer with a show embeded in NEW YORK CITY ice and snow. Vice Presidential candidate Rosa Clemente talks of the upcoming administration, MK ASANTE speaks on his book ITS BIGGER THAN HIP HOP  and film THE BLACK CANDLE. BOB DAVIS speaks on the year in SOUL MUSIC. Rap MUSIC visionary ANDRE Doctor Dre BROWN speaks on the year in urban radio. DR RANI WHITFIELD speaks on the year in health in the URBAN existence. Mike MIZZO Tillery talks on the year in sports and Scott Reading from the Public Enemy Rebel Base in Sydney Australia about the upcoming PE tour down under . All of this and more on the year end classic of ON THE REAL on AIR AMERICA Radio.

This week’s edition of “On the Real” is hosted by yours truly, Bill Adler. Chuck and I met over twenty years ago, when I was director of publicity at Def Jam and he and Public Enemy were cutting their first albums. I left Def Jam in 1990, but I’ve never left hiphop.In recent years I ran the hiphop-oriented Eyejammie Fine Arts Gallery, wrote and directed the VH1 documentary series “And You Don’t Stop: 20 Years of HipHop,” and advised the Smithsonian Institution on the establishment of its hiphop collection. I am also the co-author with Cey Adams of “DEFinition: the Art and Design of HipHop,” which was published this past October by Collins Design. >

The idea is create a personal soundtrack to fight off the Christmas blues and get me and my friends and family through the season with our sanity intact. Despite my seeming grinchiness, there’s a ton of Christmas music that I love. A lot of it is on this show. My personal favorite is probably Irma Thomas’s “O Holy Night.” It’s damn near enough to make a believer out of me. Hope you enjoy it.

But please weigh in yourself. What are your favorites Christmas recordings?

Segment 1:

Kurtis Blow, “Christmas Rappin’,” 1979

Season’s Greetings from DJ AJ, 2000

Segment 2:

Riff Ruffin, “Xmas Baby,” 1956<

Al & the Vibrators, “Merry Christmas”

Sister Hazel, “The Dreidel Song,” 2007

Season’s Greetings from Johnny Cash

Robert Earl Keen, “Happy Holidays, Y’all,” 1998

Segment 3:

Sonny Boy Williamson, “Santa Claus,” 1960

Big Tyme, “Xmas Blues,” 1996

Action Packed 48 hours the legendary BUN B of UGK who's organized rappers from TEXAS, to make the essential OBAMA get out and vote theme song, Obama 08.  Dr Angela Woodson from OHIO, Carl Dix from the Revolutionary Communist Party , why Demo, Repub and Green all JMJ Tribute. Hakim from Channel Live talking Stop The Violence and the elections a hair away. Hip Hop pioneer Busy Bee talks the future.And Cory  ZOOMAN Miller brings the noise with ZOOBAMA...

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ROSA CLEMENTE United States community organizer, independent journalist and Hip-Hop activist. She is the vice presidential running mate of 2008 Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney...
PASTOR KENNETH GLASGOW  Lawsuit .. going inside the prisons and registering over 2,000 inmates in the past 3 weeks who will be voting by absentee ballots.
DADDY O / STETSASONIC Founder of the first hip-hop crews to use a live band, and their positive, uplifting lyrics have made the group forerunners of alternative hip hop and jazz hip-hop. Their reunion in NYC...
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Political Commentary, Political Cartoons. The countdown to a new reality is coming. On The Real, Off The Record with Chuck D in NYC with Matt Ianni, and David DOC OCK Fazekas Bring The Noise , 25 stations, XM Satellite radio and worldwide across te world on the web.

From the West Coast studios blastcasting with 16 days remaining until the US Presidential election comes a well rounded show talking about past, present and future. Michael Tillery talks the silence of the 40th annversary of Tommie Smith , John Carlos at 68 Olympics. Keli Goff on the the rap generations vote her book PARTYCRASHING: How the
Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence. Dwight and Jennifer Issacs on the The Georgia Voter Registration Project 2008 - Rally for Change. Bob Davis of Soul-Patrol.com talks on the passing of the great Levi Stubbs of the FOUR TOPS and other reaches of new soul music. Cey Adams and Bill Adler talk the revolution of rap graphics in the book DEFinition: The Art and Design of Hip-Hop.