Feb 12th, 2011 was a historic day at CKLN 88.1FM. As the station continues it battle to retain their broadcast license, some 30 years of hip hop history gathered to celebrate the 1-4PM time slot which is Toronto's staple for hip hop. Mixtape Massacre, who currently holds the time slot, reached out the The Real Frequency to to come and do a final show, which we didn't do at FLOW. We decided to reach out to DJ X of the Powermove (our predecessors) to come through as well. To top it all off the Godfather of Toronto hip hop Ron Nelson, who started the Fantastic Voyage in 1983 in this very time slot, puts in an appearance to make it all complete.

Our last show on FLOW 93.5FM. Yes it's true. RIP The Real Frequency show

P-Plus kicks off this week’s show with some of his personal favourites. Inzane follows up in the 2nd hour with an impromptu soundtrack set with some great rap songs from otherwise questionable films.

MLK celebration and Real Freq nonsense.

No Arcee this week, Rez Digi sits in while P and Inzane hold it down.

Holy crap it's 2011! Good thing we don't change, straight heatery.

Our last show for 2010. P Plus takes us on a journey.

New Shit, Old Shit. Hot Shit.

Some quality hip hop you need to be listening to.

Supplying that what you've come to expect, heateration.

Turntablist pioneer and all around nice guy Q-Bert checks in this week.

Inzane holds it down dolo on the turntables. Joints, joints, joints!

Toronto Hip Hop pioneer Thrust is in studio to discuss his first release in years. "The Chosen One's" is a collob album with producer Salty Jackson. The album is out now on Bandcamp.

New heatery, everywhere!

P Plus holds you down for two hours.

The “hommie” producer Jake One (G Unit, Freeway) was in town this past weekend, and insisted he get on DSG. We did a special Sunday edition just for him. Classic DSG foolery goes down, we get some behind the scene artist stories, verify Jake’s claims that most of Arcee’s slang originates from him, and some “ill” demos you ain’t never heard!

Ton’s of new heat. Also M1 of Dead Prez checks in. Peruse the playlist and see.

Random goodness.

Thanksgiving Monday: We’re thankful for Hip Hop.

A show Arcee can be proud of.

Rez from OTA guest hosts this week while Pac Div checks in on the phones, and Detroit’s Invincible drops by the studio.

P Plus just goes off this week! We had to just let him go he was on a roll. Peep it.

Last week we gave you a preview of Black Milk's Album of the Year, this week we give you Black himself! He joins us for an interview the day before his album drops.

P gives you some Primo classics, and Inzane gives a sneak peak of Black Milk's Album of the Year in the Listening.

Arcee is back as we get back to the usual business. Drex is in studio to debut some new heat.

Ty Haper fills in on a jam packed show. Producer, MC, film maker Rich Kidd provides us with an entertaining interview. Sean P also checks in from NYC before his T-Dot appearence.

New breed MC Quanche gets some spotlight time, in amongst the heat.

Big show this week. One half of Frank-N-Dank, Dankery Harv sits in with us and drops his new single as well we talk to Buckshot about running Duckdown and his tribute show the weekend in Toronto.

Dank of Frank-N-Dank sits in with the DSG crew. He speaks candidly about the Slum Village situation, shares a few studio stories and even dips into his stash of personal, original Dilla Beat CD’s (with original Dilla handwriting – CRAZY!!). We’re already talking about a part 2.

New heat from Frankie Payne, Choclair, Slum Vilage and many others.

We introduce you to Sep. Insiders have heard the name yet little is known about this upcoming emcee. We debut it joint Dot City and gain a little insight into whats to come. You can catch him live along with Frankie Payne this Thursday over at FYI: Follow Your Instinct inside Harlem, 67 Richmond St.

“There is a moment in every man’s life where he must succumb to his selfish, childish desires and nerd out on random rap.” - Arcee.

Quality control since 1993. More heat for ya.

And we don't stop.

Producer C4 drops in to speak on his new mixtape the C4 Experiment, hosted by no other than Christopher Walken. Who explains his connection to C4 on this show.

Another week of heatery.

After an extended hiatus, we back bitches! Arcee’s secret porn stash revealed, Drake hate, Inzauny origins and more nonsensical rambling. You know how we do.

Marco Polo checks in for an update on his Stupendous Adventures.

Mixed bag of joints wrapped up with a Drake set.

The whole team is in the house for the first time in like a month. So it’s and overflow of heateration.

Arcee makes his return and Inzane holds it down while our man P Plus is off winning Stylus Awards (Radio Mixshow Dj of the Year), congrats Pleezy.

Ty Harper returns once again in Arcee’s absence, as well as P to give us some insight on his trip to Haiti.

Inzane for dolo this week as the rest of the team is scattered worldwide. Ty Harper sits in on the hosting duties.

No P this week so Inzane goes ummm, insane.

After the tribute, it’s back to our regularly scheduled programming.

This show is dedicated to Keith “Guru” Elam. When thinking of guests, the only bigger Gang Starr head than Inzane we could think of was Big Sproxx of 16 Bars. We were sure he’d have some strong opinions on Solar as well. As an added surprise OTA Lives’ Ty Harper joins us as we go over our favourite Gang Starr albums, the uniqueness of “The Voice” and Guru’s influence on bringing Jazz and Hip Hop together. Looking back you really begin to appreciate his contributions. R.I.P.

We honor the man Keith “Guru” Elam.

P Plus goes deep and pulls out some Grand Puba and a Rascalz remix we all forgot and you man Inzane brings that Danny Brown and some Little Brother newness. This is what we do people, preserve that illness.

Heavy on the Saukrates and Little Brother this week, we can’t help it if they got heat.

Oh look at that, some content to go along with our usual heat. Homegrown producer Marco Polo drops to discuss his latest collab album with Rustee Juxx “The eXXecution” and the possibility of him rhyming on his next project. Plus Pharoahe Monch checks in from the Slaughterhouse Tour (at Opera House this Thursday) to give us an update on what he’s been up to.

Copious amounts of heatery.

We’ve made a pact that the homie Dj Grouch will appear on all record speed episodes, so expect him back for ep 78. Grouch ask before we started what the topic for this DSG would be, topic? WTF is a topic? We plan nathan around here. Our convo goes from Grouch’s Dj class at Scratch Lab to eating and driving techniques. Random ish, ya know how we do.

Hip Hop is hot again, download to bare witness.

JD Era lets you know you got to download is latest mixttape TH1RTE3N , then proceeds to eat the mic.

Toronto Hip Hop pioneer Dan-e-o passes through to put us up on his many projects, plus a special set for B.I.G.

The Olympic spirit is extremely strong because it got Arcee to watch a hockey game. We actually talk about sports, albeit Olympic sports but, sports! We go from the highs of Canada’s sporting success to the lows of the news that Keith Elam aka Guru has been hospitalized and in a coma, our thoughts are with him and his loved ones.

The Screwface Capital Mayor Theo 3 is in the building, to put you on to some new works and his video release party this Thursday over at Revival. Guru is alive, word is his surgery went well. Our thoughts go out to his family and loved ones, we hope he pulls through. We’ve lost too many in the last few years. We celebrate with a little set.

Producers/Emcee Rich Kidd along with Blake Carrington pay us a surprise visit to drop some freestyles and some new heat from Rich Kidd.

Last week Dilla this week Big L. R.I.P.

James Yancey February 7, 1974 – February 10, 2006
We celebrate his life and music with a Dilla-thon, P Plus goes in on the music of the greatest.

In the words of Arcee, we are the least hated Hip Hop show in the T-Dot. Listen and tell us.

Dr. P-Plus is in the building! For those of you still having trouble getting the ladies, learn the P Plus method of “Letting it be known”, or the Arcee and Inzane method of “Do as little work as possible”. The Freqs go deep on relations.

Sick Sound Syndrome roll through with KRNFX and Scott Jackson and proceed to blow our minds with and ill beatbox session. Man, beatboxing has come a long way since Doug E Fresh and The Biz.

With the Haitian disaster still on everyone’s minds, Flow 93.5 FM decided to do an all day fundraiser. For the day we raised over $20, 000. We were proud to be a part of it and being the last show of the day, to bring us to that amount. We thank everyone that contributed.

In the midst of all that we also talk to Masta Ace and Edo G about their solid Art’s & Entertainment album and what they got in store for the T-Dot this Thrusday over at Revival.

Heat, Heatery, Heateration. The evolution of heat.

New Year, first show. What did you expect? Nothing be heatery. P decides he wants to co-host with Arcee to start of the New Year. Inzane provides the heat for the whole show.

The incomprable DJ Starting from Scratch (Flow 93.5 FM, Amnesia, Sweet Tears, Russell Peters tour Dj, etc, etc, etc) enters the DSG world this week. We go through the history of one of Canada’s top Dj’s, from how knowing Arcee from back then enhanced his career (not really) to the state of Djing today, (Sounds boring) or is it…

As we wrap up 2009, we take a look back at the decade’s best albums. Now this being Hip Hop there is no way you can make a list with out a ‘discussion’, so we brought along Big Jacks (Grand Groove Dj’s) and the homie Dj Agile (Brassmunk, Big Black Lincoln) to add their views and take a look at a decade we thought was weak?

Well we’ve come to the end of another decade of Hip Hop, taking a look back it’s not as bad as we thought it was. Any kind of list is always up for debate and this being Hip Hop that’s guaranteed. We based our list on a combination of artistry and impact, which made for an even more interesting debate. Peep the show as we count them down with our guest host Kardinal Offishall! And of course, enter the debate with your comments.

Heateration.

We continue to celebrate some of the unsung lyricists in Hip Hop, Lil Dap, Tim Dog, Stezo. This episode we step into the world of the Beatnuts Psycho Les, a world of violence and titties. Sounds like a good world, join us won’t you?

Another fresh batch of heatery.

This weeks show….Jam packed with heat.

A short session this week. We touch on the origins of the fucked up spelling of Musiklee Inzane, Arcee’s Indian dad stories and random Hip Hop.

What everyone likes, less talk more music.

Hello bitches, were back! We take a look at the career of the God MC, Rakim. Is he still deserving of such a title, considering his last few efforts have not lived up to his classic works? We attempt to listen to his latest album “The Seventh Seal”, listen to Ra speak on Nas’ Unauthorized Biography, and Arcee’s waning confidence at keeping him as his number one MC.

Toronto producer/emcee Mazaman (1/2 of 16 Bars Entertainment) pops through this week to give us the update on his upcoming full-length project. Plus Real Freq mainstay Frankie Payne drops by in the 2nd hour to officially announce the arrival of his free downloadable mixtape “Street Wisdom”

Finally a break from all that talking. More music. Less talk, well except for the J Cole interview

We wrap up another edition of the New North this week with up and coming producer Lyve. Dude first reached out to us a few years back when he started sending us random remixes and some work he was doing with a crew called Heavyweight. But this year, cats stood up and took notice thanks to his stellar work on “Direct Deposit”, his EP with fellow New North Alumni, Tona. Lyve speaks on his sound, working with Tona and a slew of upcoming projects including a mixtape with DJ Royale, “Payroll”, the follow up to Direct Deposit, and a potential collabo project with Nish Raawks of Monolith fame.

More New North. This week Eternia and Moss talk about their upcoming project "At Last". We give you the exclusive WORLD PREMIER!

The New North continues with D-Sisive. Punctuation, Decadent cookies and awards are on the topic menu.

I must say we were quite amped for this episode. For most of us in our late 20’s to 40’s growing up in Canada and getting the latest in “urban” music was something you planned for since there were so few outlets, so when that one Hip Hop radio show came on in your city, everyone was listening at the same time.
The same could be said for Muchmusic., Canada’s music station. Seeing a R&B/Soul or Hip Hop video only happened originally on one show, Soul In The City, everyone watched or taped it for the latest, oh and when there was a Hip Hop special, it was an event! From that show eventually Rap City became a reality and so on. The original face for both of those shows and others like the Power Hour and New Music, was Michael Williams, he of the sleevless T’s.
We go through a ton of history in one hour, if you hear some names you don’t know, get up on Google the man has a wealth of musical knowledge.

We interrupt our regularly scheduled program! Due to a bout of P1N1 Arcee was down and out for this show. In his sted we had our homie Rez Digital of OTA fame pinch hit. Dude was excited to have the honour of hitting the “Rockin’ You” button, lol.
The usually heatery cannot be stopped, new joints from Royce Da 5′ 9″ ft. Phonte, Jern Eye, (this is hot!) and a leak off the new Empire album “Get It” (out now) plus more homegrown from Regular Robb AKA J Robb.
We return to our regular programming next week with the continuation of the New North featuring Lyve.

Food glorious food! Tell me where that song is from and I’ll give you a candy. P Pleezy sits in on this session as we discuss food, how much would you pay for a good meal, and just because it’s expensive is it really a good meal? That’s not all though, it is impossible for us not to talk about music, record shopping to Acree’s well documented hatred of Neo Soul.

Our final installment of our New North series for 2009. We kick it off with transplanted homegrown producer Marco Polo, who now calls Brooklyn home. We touch on his evolution as a producer and upcoming projects among other things.

Brooklyn's Skyzoo checks in to speak on his debut album The Salvation in stores Sept 29th, which we happen to give a sneak peek to in The Listening. Plus a tribute in honour of Dj pioneer Roc Raida, R.I.P.

This is an unprecedented episode. After repeatedly telling our guests "we got to have you back", and never doing so, DJ Jason Chambers (Attitude Sound Crew, Flow 93.5 Mid-day Mix, Amnesia) has the honourable distinction of being the first ever repeat guest. It was more of just happening to be around the studio at the time, than anything else. we kid, we kid.

We touch on the value of records, the deterioration of the 'music community', and Mr. West.

On this week’s Real Freq: Up and coming artist Mista Bourne (and also 1/2 of 1st Party with partner Luu Breeze) pops by the studio to give us the goods on who he is and what’s he about. The Mista Bourne Identity, if you will (sorry folks – couldn’t resist). We also world premiere his brand new joint “How you wanna”. Plus heat from Jay, Rae, Skyzoo, Tona and more.

A double listening this week. Jay-Z's "Blueprint 3" and Raekwon's "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx". Both will be heavily debated, so listen and talk amongst yourselves. Producer/Emcee, Saskatoon native Toronto resident, Muneshine is in studio discussing his album "Status Symbol".

Empire’s secret weapon, Talk Sick checks in to talk about his new mixtape, entitled, what else… The Secret Weapon. Another secret weapon producer C4, who has worked with JD Era, Rich Kidd, and produced that Taco Bell commercial with the cat throwing money away is also in studio to become less of a secret and show how much of a weapon he really is.

Muchmusic programmer, producer and emcee Gee Wunder drops in to debut his latest, “Karma” featuring New North alum Shaun Boothe.

We brought you the genius of The Nutcracker a few months ago. Now we return with “Classic Wackness” from Tim Dog. “Penicillin on Wax” dropped in ‘91, and Arcee was one of the few to listen to it more than once, or at all. How this guy got away with some of these lyrics is amazing. Someone actually put this out! how did we think any of this was dope, or did we?

A show with no guests = Real Freqs wildin' out.

Former Universal Music Canada A&R David ‘Click’ Cox is our guest this week. We go through some more T-Dot history, going back to the Illemental days and get some inside on how it all came togther. And a look at respect in hip hop. Plus we put a couple of artists on blast!

Toronto and BBE recording artist Notes to Self roll through to take over the mics and turntables Swamp Donkey and Rosh get loose with the words while DJ Dopey does a special set. Mayhem Morearty, Adam Bomb and Navy Sealz form the Mosaic Trifecta, grab their new project for free then

Tons of new heat this week, Raekwon and Wu on a Dilla beat, yup, new Guilty Simpson, Saukates and Drake… much more.

Beat Boxer, DJ, Emcee, Actor, Architect... ummm yes. He's a true renaissance man, or entertainer, or artist, he's a self contained unit AKA Subliminal drops in to talk about his new album TrainAThought. K Fresh the Nem-s-iss is also in the house to put you on to his new project. Plus many heat rocks.

Homegrown producer Marco Polo and NY emcee Torae hang out with us to talkd about their latest project, Double Barrel out on Duck Down Records. Duck Down’s general Buckshot also joins us to talk about the classic Enta Da Stage and Black Moon and Smif-N-Wessons Classics show this Thursday in the T-Dot.

Sometimes people need to take a break, myself and P have been off at times, so why not Arcee. The homie took a night off from the show this week to handle some other B.I. Thanks to Ty Harper from OTA Live for coming through in the clutch, lord knows ya'll don't want two hours of me and P talking, ha!

Our long time hommie and comrade (homrade?) DJ Grouch joins us this week for a good old-fashioned dose of shit talk on Differently Still Guy. Grouch was one of the first people I met when I started at CHRY back in 1994. He held down the Soundcheck show for over 10 years and has been named Underground DJ of the Year by the Stylus DJ Awards twice. He’s laid down cuts and performed with almost every artist you can think of in Toronto – from Sauks to Kardi to Melanie Durrant, Citizen Kane, K-Os and even yours truly. And he’s represented Canada on the world stage as part of DJ crew Turnstylez with Lil Jaz and D-Scratch. But most importantly he’s one of the most stand-up, talented and humble people I know. And in this industry, that should never be taken for granted.

No Guests, No promotions. Random Hip Hop goodness. We cut the talking to a minimum and go rampaging through the crates of P and Inzane.