“The Beat is nice and everything but I would like to wake up to some Tribe Called Quest and some Method Man, you know, like POWER does it. This is more underground hip hop that you can’t hear every day. It just makes me happy. It gives you a different taste of the other side of hip hop and rap, the side that has all sorts of artists and all sorts of meanings.
One of the Beat’s October playlists shows they played Big Bad Mamma by Foxy Brown featuring Dru Hill 32 times. It is a great song but it’s been out for a while. She does have a new cut, “Firm Biz,” off the Firm album. Power is playing that cut. Can we get some publicity for Ms. Brown? Hello? REPRESENT, handle your business. It’s not fair to an artist if their old song constantly gets played, when they have a whole new song with a new message that barely gets airplay at all.
Power has bypassed the Beat a little bit on some notes. Just try going to bed listening to Power’s Cherry Martinez pumping up some Busta Rhymes, Redman, Jamiroquai, Mac 10 and SWV. You’ll see what I mean. You know the Beat is a very successful radio station, in some aspects and because of Theo. But have you heard the 10 o’clock Loco Mix on Power? Once again, off the hook, they REPRESENT! I’m not knocking the Beat, but there is tons of new music out there, that should be played more and represented so it could break more color lines, make it universal. Power doesn’t play you out with all that commercial hip hop; they mix it all up for you so you don’t get tired of it.
But you don’t have to take my word for it. Look at these two playlists for the week of Tuesday, Oct. 28.
KPWR 106 and KBBT 92 playlists
for Oct. 28, 1997
Power 106
Spins/wk Song and artist
78 “You Make Me Wanna” by Usher
74 “We Just Wanna Party” by Snoop Doggy Dogg
72 “Backyard Boogie” by Mack 10
70 “Put Your HandsWhere My…” by Busta Rhymes
68 “If I Could Teach The World” by Bone, Thugs & Harmony
50 “Lovin’ You Tonight” by Notorious B.I.G.
49 “Been Around The World” by Puff Daddy
46 “Smokin’ Me Out” by Warren G
43 “Feel So Good,” Mase
42 “Señorita,” Puff Daddy
The Beat 92
Spins/wk Song and artist
50 “You Make Me Wanna” by Usher
48 “I Can Love You,” by Mary J. Blige w/ Lil’ Kim
46 “Backyard Boogie” by Mack 10
44 “Loving you Tonite” by Notorious B.I.G.
42 “Everything” by Mary J. Blige
38 “We just wanna party with you” by Snoop Doggy Dog
36 “Butta Love” by Next
34 “4 Seasons of loneliness” by Boyz II Men
32 “Big Bad Mamma” by Foxy Brown
30 “Mo money mo problems” by Notorious B.I.G.”