Date: 11/19/09
Note(s): ThaiMex was flying solo on this show for the second week straight due to the fact that Santanna was out of town for business with his "real" job. The basic concept for the show is that ThaiMex was a bit bored due to Santanna's absence and decided to play a bunch of songs that were basically "crew cuts" and contain multiple artists and celebrate the fact that company is always welcome and the more, the merrier.
01. Digital Underground - Same Song
02. 2Pac - Loyal 2 The Game Feat. Treach, Riddler & Stretch
03. Souls of Mischief - '94 Via Satellite Feat. Del tha Funkee Homosapien
04. Visionaries - The Blessings (Remix)
05. Xzibit - 3 Card Molly Feat. Saafir & Ras Kass
06. The D.O.C. - Grand Finale Feat. Ice Cube, Eazy E & MC Ren
07. Tha Alkaholiks - Hip Hop Drunkies Feat. Ol' Dirty Bastard
08. Tha Alkaholiks - All The Way Live Feat. King Tee & Q-Tip
09. Xzibit - Eyes May Shine (Remix) Feat. Mobb Deep
10. Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight
11. A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario (Remix) Feat. Leaders of the New School & Hood
12. Craig Mack - Flava In Ya Ear (Remix) Feat. Notorious B.I.G., Rampage, LL Cool J & Busta Rhymes
13. Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says (Remix) Feat. Lady Luck, Redman, Method Man, Shabam Shadeeq & Busta Rhymes
14. Cella Dwellas - Ill Collabo Feat. Organized Konfusion
15. Fu-Schnickens - La Schmoove Feat. Phife
16. Del tha Funkee Homosapien - Undisputed Champs Feat. Pep Love & Q-Tip
17. Da Bush Babees - The Love Song (Remix) Feat. De La Soul & Mos Def
18. Das Efx - Mic Mastas (Remix) Feat. Mobb Deep
19. Heltah Skeltah - Leflaur Leflah Eshkoska Feat. Originoo Gunn Clappaz
20. Raekwon - Ice Cream Feat. Ghostface Killah & Capadonna
Date: 11/12/09
Note(s): ThaiMex was flying solo on this show due to the fact that Santanna was out of town for business with his "real" job. Due to the fact ThaiMex occasionally has to travel at his "real" job as well, the song selection consisted of tracks that identify various cities across the country. In addition, songs about the travel itself.
Travel Begins:
01. DJ Honda - Traveling Man Feat. Mos Def
California:
02. Xzibit - Los Angeles Times
03. 2Pac - 2 Live and Die in L.A.
04. DJ Quik - Born and Raised in Compton
05. Compton's Most Wanted - This is Compton
06. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
07. Aztec Tribe - Diego Town
08. Celio Skilz - Dagocated
09. Hieroglyphics - Oakland Blackouts
10. Hue of Intuition - Californians
Travel Continues:
11. Black Eyed Peas - Cali to NY Feat. De La Soul
12. Heltah Skeltah - Brownsville II LBC Feat. Dogg Pound
13. Gangstarr - JFK2LAX
Midwest:
14. Eminem - 313 Feat. Eye Qyu
To the East Coast:
15. Queen Latifah - Jersey
16. Pharoahe Monch - Queens
17. D-Nice - Straight From the Bronx
18. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Brooklyn Zoo
19. NaS - NY State of Mind
And Down South:
20. GooDie MoB - Dirty South
21. Mad Skillz - VA in the House
Pack it up:
22. Saafir - Goin' Home
Date: 11/05/09
Note(s): This show focused on those artists who have an unmistakable presence on the mic be it for their voice, flow, etc.
01. Big Daddy Kane - Ain't No Half Steppin'
02. Slick Rick - Hey Young World
03. Cypress Hill - Stoned is the Way of the Walk
04. Gangstarr - Take It Personal
05. GooDie MoB - Goodie Bag
06. Outkast - Ain't No Thang
07. Andre 3000 - She Lives In My Lap
08. Brand Nubian - Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down (Remix)
09. Grand Puba - A Little of This
10. Onyx - Evil Streets
11. EPMD - Crossover
12. The Pharcyde - Passin' Me By
13. Talib Kweli - Get By
14. Method Man - Bring the Pain
15. Keith Murray - The Rhyme (Remix)
16. Raphael Saadiq - Get Involved Feat. Q-Tip
17. Organized Konfusion - Stress
18. Nine - Any MC
19. Busta Rhymes - Everything Remains Raw
Date: 10/29/09
Note(s): In preparation for the Halloween weekend, we decided to pick songs that somehow displayed a scary or spooky element.
01. The Pharcyde - 4 Better or 4 Worse
02. Boogie Monsters - Old Man Jakob's Well
03. Immortal Tecknique - Dance With the Devil
04. Notorious B.I.G. - Suicidal Thoughts
05. Gravediggaz - 1-800-SUICIDE
06. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Nightmare on My Street
07. Method Man - Mr. Sandman Feat. Carlton Fisk, Inpectah Deck, RZA & Blue Raspberry
08. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Drunk Game
09. Funkadelic - You Scared The Lovin' Out of Me
10. Bootsy Collins - Countrackula
11. Parliament - Dr. Funkenstein
12. Bootsy Collins - Bootzilla
13. Geto Boyz - My Mind's Playing Tricks on Me
14. Ras Kass - Interview With a Vampire
15. Gravediggaz - Diary of a Mad Man
16. Tricky - 2nite Is a Special Nite Feat. Gravediggaz
17. Michael Jackson - Thriller
Date: 10-22-09
Note(s): Volume 1 in a series designed to explore family/crew associations in music. This week's featured family was non-other than the legendary Native Tongues Collective.
Originally founded by Jungle Brothers, De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest in the late 1980's; the crew grew to a large number of associate, extended and peripheral members including Black Sheep, Chi-Ali, Fu-Schnickens, Monie Love, Queen Latifah, Leaders of the New School, Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Da Bush Babees, Truth Enola, & Slum Village.
The songs selected for this show were those that included at least two of the different members/crews from Native Tongues.
01. Jungle Brothers - Black is Black Feat. Q-Tip
02. De La Soul - Buddy Feat. Jungle Brothers & A Tribe Called Quest
03. De La Soul - Description Feat. Q-Tip & Prince Paul
04. Jungle Brothers - Doin' Our Own Dang Feat. Q-Tip & De La Soul
05. A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario Feat. Leaders of the New School
06. Black Sheep - Intro
07. Black Sheep - La Menage Feat. Q-Tip
08. De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Called Saturdays Feat. Q-Tip
09. De La Soul - Fanatic of the B-Word Feat. Mike Gee & Dres
10. Chi-Ali - Let The Horns Blow Feat. Dres, Trugoy, Fashion & Phife
11. Fu-Schnickens - La Schmoove Feat. Phife
12. A Tribe Called Quest - 1, 2, Shit Feat. Busta Rhymes
13. De La Soul - Sh.Fe.MC's Feat. A Tribe Called Quest
14. Busta Rhymes - Ill Vibe Feat. Q-Tip
15. Da Bush Babees - 3 MC's Feat. Q-Tip
16. Da Bush Babees - The Love Song (Remix) Feat. De La Soul & Mos Def
17. De La Soul - Stakes Is High (Remix) Feat. Truth Enola & Mos Def
18. Jungle Brothers - How You Want it We Got it - Feat. De La Soul & Q-Tip
Date: 10-15-09
Note(s): Volume 1 in a series designed to explore concepts in Creative Writing at The Barbershop. Songs selected were those that displayed elements of Narrative, Metaphor, Personification, and Time & Meter.
Narrative - A story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious.
Metaphor - A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in "She's a brick house."
Personification - The representation of a thing or abstraction in the form of a person, as in "Rhythm is a dancer."
01. Slick Rick - Children's Story
02. Special Ed - The Mission
03. There'z A Partee Goinz On - Kwame & A New Beginning
04. Jeru The Damaja - You Can't Stop The Prophet
05. Jeru The Damaja - Revenge Of The Prophet
06. Public Enemy - Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos
07. J-Live - Them That's Not
08. Organized Konfusion - Invetro
09. NaS - Fetus
10. NaS - I Gave You Power
11. Organized Konfusion - Stray Bullet
12. Hue of Intuition - Her
13. Common - I Used To Love H.E.R.
14. D'Angelo - Shit, Damn, Motherf*cker
15. The Pharcyde - Otha Fish
16. Abstract Rude & ATU - Slow Light
17. NaS - Rewind
Date: 10/08/09
Note(s): Wide-ranging mix. Santanna in chatroom but not present. ThaiMex flying solo.
01. The Pharcyde - Bullshit
02. A Tribe Called Quest - The Chase, Part 2
03. Aceyalone - The Guidelines
04. Curtis Mayfield - Kung Fu
05. Erykah Badu - Think Twice Feat. Roy Hargrove
06. D'Angelo - Chicken Grease
07. Cody Chestnutt - The Seed
08. Bilal - For You
09. Common - Heat
10. The Pharcyde - Why? (Remix)
11. D-Nice - My Name is D-Nice
12. EPMD - Crossover
13. EPMD - The Headbanger Feat. K-Solo & Redman
14. Poor Righteous Teachers - Easy Star
15. Anthony David - Smoke One
16. Eric Roberson - Couldn't Hear Me
17. Angie Stone - The Ingredients of Love
18. Dwele - Free As A Bird
19. Amel Larreiux - INI
20. Anthony Hamilton - Comin' From Where I'm From
21. Erykah Badu - Back In The Day Feat. Lenny Kravitz
22. Lenny Kravitz - If You Can't Say No
23. Prince - The Ballad of Dorothy Parker
24. Terence Trent D'Arby - Delicate
25. Wu-Tang Clan - Rainy Days (Remix)
26. The Pharcyde - Runnin' (Remix)
Date: 10/01/09
Note(s): More Soulful this time. Special Guest, Tantrum from Metal Sock Hop
01. Erykah Badu - Love of My Life Feat. Common
02. D'Angelo - Lady Feat. AZ
03. Bilal - Reminisce Feat. Common & Mos Def
04. Dwele - Keep On Feat. Slum Village
05. Mya - Fallen' Feat. The Pharcyde
06. Mary J. Blige - I Love You (Remix) Feat. Smif 'n' Wessun
07. Twisted Mind Kids - I Feel You
08. Lenny Kravitz - What Goes Around Comes Around
09. Groove Armada - The Sun Toucher Feat. Jeru The Damaja
10. DJ Mark Ronson - Tomorrow Feat. Q-Tip & Debi Nova
11. The Herbaliser - New+Improved Feat. What What
12. Natural Resource - Negro League Baseball
13. Bahamadia - One-4-Teen (Funky For You) Feat. Slum Village
14. J-Dilla - Crushin'
15. Illa J - We Here
16. The Pharcyde - Hey You
17. k-os - Emcee Murdah
18. Promoe - Dawn
19. Janet Jackson - Til It's Gone Feat. Q-Tip
20. Raphael Saadiq - Get Involved Feat. Q-Tip
Date: 09/24/09
Note(s): Still a random selection due to technical difficulties although much was fixed from the previous week.
01. De La Soul - Ego Trippin' (Part II)
02. Mos Def - Body Rock Feat. Q-Tip & Tash
03. Freestyle Fellowship - Hot
04. Sublime - Doin' Time Feat. The Pharcyde
05. Slum Village - The Reunion Feat. J Dilla
06. A Tribe Called Quest - Vibes & Stuff
07. NaS - Life's A Bitch Feat. AZ
08. The Pharcyde - Y?
09. Gangstarr - Mass Appeal
10. Erykah Badu - The Healer/Hip Hop
11. Hieroglyphics - You Never Know
12. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Undisputed Champs Feat. Q-Tip & Pep Love
13. Lords of the Underground - Tic Toc
14. Little Brother - What You Do Remix
15. Crooklyn Dodgers - Crooklyn
16. Crooklyn Dodgers - Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers
17. Keith Murray - The Rhyme (Remix)
18. Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)
19. Common - Nag Champa
20. Jungle Brothers - How You Want It We Got It Feat. Native Tongues
21. The J.B.'s - Pass the Peas
Date: 09/17/09
Note(s): Random song selection due to technical difficulties
01. De La Soul - Trying People
02. Common - Tekzilla
03. Jungle Brothers - Jungle Brother
04. InI - Fakin' Jax
05. Das EFX - Microphone Mastas (Remix) Feat. Mobb Deep
06. J Dilla - So Far To Go Feat. Common & D'Angelo
07. Brand Nubian - Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down (Remix)
08. Da Bush Babees - Gravity
09. AZ - Rather Unique
10. Bahamadia - One-4-Teen (Funky for You)
11. Camp Lo - Luchini (This Is It)
12. Craig Mack - Flava In Ya Ear (Remix) Feat. Notorious B.I.G., LL Cool J, Rampage & Busta Rhymes
13. Jamal - Keep It Real
14. Black Eyed Peas - Empire
15. Busta Rhymes - Everything Remains Raw
16. Black Sheep - Flavor of the Month
17. Beatnuts - Props
18. Chino XL - Don't Say A Word
19. AZ - The Essence Feat. Nas
20. Da Bush Babees - 3 MC's Feat. Q-Tip
21. Common - The Light (Remix) Feat. Erykah Badu
22. De La Soul - Breakadawn
23. Busta Rhymes - Ill Vibe Feat. Q-Tip
Welcome to The Barbershop.
Broadcasting Thursday nights from 9pm-11pm Pacific. Your hosts, ThaiMex and Santanna Hill are ready to offer you a place to lay low and vibe out. The Barbershop is a study in hip-hop music, it's influences, and all things related... near or far.
ThaiMex is a writer, producer and performer native to San Diego, CA. Although not exclusive to any genre of art, he is primarily recognized as a producer and performer in San Diego’s hip-hop music scene as a former member of both the Hue of Intuition and Infinite Shades of Gray collectives as well as in the literary scene as a former member of the seminal Chicano spoken word poetry collective The Taco Shop Poets. He was co-creator of the former hip-hop showcase known as Elemental and, in addition to his personal endeavors, ThaiMex has provided musical production for many of San Diego’s hip-hop elite including ICONS, Scribe Sayar, and Riccasshay.
Also a San Diego native, Santanna Hill was actually born musically deaf until he came across his first Sony Walkman back in 1985. While surfing across the radio waves, Doug E. Fresh’s classic “The Show” caught his attention and thus began his love affair with hip-hop. Having lived in various locations across the country from Upstate New York to the Dirty South in Hotlanta, Santanna’s musical tastes are diverse. Favorite artists range from A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, and The Pharcyde to Terence Trent D’Arby, Portishead, and Esthero. Although he’s the first to admit that he’s no Audiophile, he cannot deny the penetrating effects of hip-hop as the background theme song for his life.
Both ThaiMex and Santanna attended high school together where their first incarnation of The Barbershop took form. Quite frequently, their group of friends would trade off clipper duties on each other’s fades while listening to and critiquing music and life in general. This is nothing new from crowded garages of teenagers to grown folks in established barbershops or salons across the country. The Barbershop is simply an extension of that vibe.
So come on thru, have a seat, and get ready for the weekend with some fresh cuts at The Barbershop.
