March 26th Playlist

Artist	Song Title	Album
Big L	All Black	Lifestyles ov Da Poor and Dangerous
Mobb Deep	Nighttime Vultures (Featuring Raekwon)
Smif-N-Wessun	Wontime
Hell Razah	The Renaissance (Featuring Tragedy Khadafi, Timbo King & RA The Rugged Man)
7L & Esoteric	The Most Rotten	1212
DJ Premier	Married to The Game (Featuring Styles P)	Get Used To Us
Black Milk	The Matrix (Featuring Pharoahe Monch & Sean P.)	Tronic
Elzhi	The Leak	The Preface
Celph Titled & Buckwild	Swashbuckling (Featuring Apathy, Ryu & Esoteric)	Nineteen Ninety Now
Brotha Lynch Hung	Don't Worry Momma, It's Just Bleeding (Featuring Tech N9ne)	Dinner & A Movie
Kane The Poet	Stereotype Pt. 1	The Ghostwriter
Jedi Mind Tricks	Blood Runs Cold (Featuring Sean P.)
Danny!	You Owe Me	The Charm
Sean P	60 Bars
Lootpack	When I Be On The Mic
Nneka	Walking (J. Period Remix) (Featuring Jay Electronica)
Evidence	Frame of Mind	I Don't Need Love
PackFM	Nasty	I F****** Hate Rappers
Set 2
Ghostface Killah	Ghetto (Featuring Raekwon, Cappadonna & Inspectah Deck)	Apollo Kids
Statik Selektah	Get Out (Featuring Skyzoo, Rapper Big Pooh & Torae)	100 Proof
Sha Stimuli	Runaway Slavestyle	Unsung
Cunninlynguists	Dying Nation	Southernunderground
Pete Rock	In The Basement (Featuring 9th Wonder & Phonte)
Phonte	Paper Lines
The Roots	Silent Treatment (Featuring Cassandra Wilson)	Do You Want More?!?!
Nas	Who Are You

Policy on Requests

This statement needs to be made after these last few weeks. While I'm flattered that people listen and call in for requests, all listeners should note that all requests may not be fulfilled. Please understand that although I appreciate the great requests that I receive, rap music is a genre that requires extensive editing in order to be deemed FCC safe. Our policy at WRAS is that DJs actively listen to the music that is being played on the air while in the studio, in order to prevent any accidental broadcasts or to prevent the exacerbation of situations in which FCC unsafe songs are aired. Thus, it is extremely difficult for me to concurrently edit new music while listening to the music being played on air. Moreover, each set list is specifically tailored in a fashion that allows each track to transition smoothly into the next. While I'd like to play some of the tracks that listeners request, it may force the transitions to be very abrupt and sonically unpleasing. Due to this complication, many of the requests that I receive are usually forced to wait until the subsequent week, after I've had a chance to thoroughly edit the tracks and place them in a reasonable position on the playlist.

 

Also, please realize that I—and I alone—have full discretion over what is played on the show. In the past, I have refused to play several requests, either due to extremely explicit content, or due to the fact that I simply do not like the song. If I refuse to play a song, this is not a personal matter at all and it does not mean that I have anything against a listener or his/her personal taste in music. However, please do realize that I reserve the right to refuse to play any song at my whim; constantly calling to request the same song after the initial request has already been refused WILL NOT change my mind. With this being said, I do enjoy receiving requests for the show, and I've been introduced to several new artists from listeners' requests.

 

Additionally, although I do accept track submissions from new artists, sending me a track for the show IS NOT A GUARANTEE THAT IT WILL BE PLAYED. I try to respond to the e-mails that I receive in regards to tracks, but I may forget on occasions, for which I apologize. In those instances that I do not personally like a track that is sent to me, I tend to be as candid as possible, while not attempting to be abrasive. Telling your fans to request a track after I've explicitly stated that I do not wish to play the track will not change my mind. Once again, the selection of tracks for the show is up to my sole discretion. If I personally do not wish to play a track, that track will not be played regardless of whether I receive one call or one hundred calls. My show is not based upon a format in which tracks are played based on their popularity. In the event that I do wish to play a song, I will notify the artist via e-mail and attempt to fit the song on the playlist when time permits.

 

As always, if you have any comments, questions or concerns, feel free to contact me via e-mail at themessagewras@gmail.com.

 

Thank you all for listening.

 

 

March 19th Playlist

Artist	Song Title	Album
Nate Dogg	G-Funk
Set 1
Dr. Dre	The Watcher	2001
Jay-Z	The Watcher 2 (Featuring Truth Hurts, Dr. Dre & Rakim)	Blueprint 2
Pharoahe Monch	Hitman	W.A.R.
Reflection Eternal	Strangers (Paranoid) (Featuring Bun B)	Revolutions Per Minute
Talib Kweli	Drugs, Basketball & Rap (Featuring Planet Asia & Phil Da Agony)	Right About Now: The Official Sucka Free Mix CD
Lupe Fiasco	Switch
Set 2
Lupe Fiasco	Coming Up (Featuring MDMA)	Lasers
Apathy	East Coast Rapist	Honky Kong
Tonedeff	Quotables (Featuring Substantial, Wordsworth, PackFM, Session, Superstition & Rise)	Archetype
Reks	Kill 'Em	Rhythmatic Eternal King Supreme
7L & Esoteric	Handle (Featuring Sadat X)	1212
Johnson & Jonson	Spell Check	Johnson & Jonson
Set 3
Notorious BIG	The What (Featuring Method Man)	Ready to Die
Roc Marciano	It's A Crime	Marcberg
Pharoahe Monch	The Grand Illusion (Circa 1973) (Featuring Citizen Cope)	W.A.R.
Set 4
Roy Ayers	Ain't Got Time
Black Star	Little Brother
Raekwon	Masters of Our Fate (Featuring Black Thought)	Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang
GZA	Cold World (Featuring Inspectah Deck & Life)	Liquid Swords
Nas	Memory Lane	Illmatic
Black Star	Respiration (Remix) (Featuring Black Thought)
Jay-Z	December 4th (Remix)
Nas	Rest of My Life	Streets' Disciple
Kno	If You Cry (Featuring Natti)	Death Is Silent
Cunninlynguists	The Gates (Featuring Tonedeff)

The Payback (March 12th James Brown Sample Playlist)

Artist	Song Title	Album
James Brown	Funky President
1st Sample Mix
James Brown	Hot Pants
Marley Marl	The Rebel (Featuring Tragedy Khadafi)	In Control, Vol. 1
2nd Sample Mix
James Brown	Blind Man Can See
Das Efx	They Want EFX	Dead Serious
3rd Sample Mix
James Brown	Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved	In the Jungle Groove
Boogie Down Productions	South Bronx	Criminal Minded
Marley Marl	He Cuts So Fresh
MC Shan	Juice Crew Law	Born to Be Wild
Nas	Where Are They Now	Hip Hop Is Dead
Big Daddy Kane	Set it Off	Long Live The Kane
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo	Poison	Road To Riches
Gang Starr	Gotch U	No More Mr. Nice Guy
Three Times Dope	No Words	Original Stylin'
Beastie Boys	The Sounds of Science	Paul's Boutique
4th Sample Mix
James Brown	Blues And Pants
Super Lover Cee & Cassanova Rud	Do The James Brown	Girls I Got 'Em Locked
Notorious BIG	Just Playing (Dreams)
5th Sample Mix
Pharcyde	I'm That Type of N****	Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
James Brown	Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
6th Sample Mix
James Brown	The Boss
Nas	Get Down	God's Son
Lord Finesse	Bad Mutha
Poor Righteous Teachers	Words from the Wise
7th Sample Mix
James Brown	Bring it Up
Gang Starr	Words I Manifest	No More Mr. Nice Guy
8th Sample Mix
James Brown	Don't Tell It
Boogie Down Productions	Poetry	Criminal Minded
9th Sample Mix
James Brown	Get On The Good Foot
De La Soul	Freedom of Speak	3 Feet High And Rising
10th Sample Mix
James Brown	Talking Loud And Saying Nothing
Masta Ace	I Got Ta	Take A Look Around
11th Sample Mix
LL Cool J	Boomin' System	Mama Said Knock You Out
Ultramagnetic MCs	Yo Black
Das EFX	Hard Like A Criminal
King Tee	Payback's a Mutha
Big Daddy Kane	Somethin' Funky
2pac	Souljah's Revenge	Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.
Ice Cube	The Wrong N**** To F*** With	Death Certificate
James Brown	The Payback
12th Sample Mix
James Brown	Funky Drummer
DJ Jazzy Jeff	Mastermix
Sweet Tee & Jazzy Joyce	It's My Beat
Run-DMC	Run's House	Tougher Than Leather
Stestasonic	Sally	In Full Gear
Eric B. & Rakim	Lyrics of Fury	Follow The Leader
Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo	It's A Demo	Road To Riches
yU	InTheReign (Featuring EyeQ & Omun)	Before Taxes
Public Enemy	Rebel Without A Pause	It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
Lupe Fiasco	The Cool	Food & Liquor
Slick Rick	The Moment I Feared	The Adventures of Slick Rick
13th Sample Mix
James Brown	It's A Man's Man's World
J. Dilla	Man's World
Guilty Simpson	Stones Throw