Radio 1 Rap Show with LL, Gang Starr, Nas & Noreaga (1997)

Hadn't heard this October '97 edition of the Rap Exchange before I found it on a Google deep dive over the weekend. In terms of guests this is up there with the best of them and whoever ripped it - shouts to you - was good enough to leave the interviews in there (most of us seem to have hit the pause button back in the day in order to fit a 2 hour show on a C90 and get maximum tunes). The playlist is decent too: alongside the big tracks of the time by DMX and Busta, there's EZD's Premo produced GunzIs4, plus Calm Down, Firm Biz remix, and the original version of Desperados. And that Nas and Noreaga freestyle I posted a few years ago. Even the songs off LL's Phenomenon LP are decent enough - is that slept on?

Tracklist is below, and it'll be on the Hip Hop Radio Archive in due course if you want the download

Intro

LL Cool J ft Busta Rhymes - Starsky & Hutch

LL Cool J ft Redman, Method Man, Canibus & DMX - 4,3,2,1

LL Cool J - interview

LL Cool J ft Lost Boyz - Wanna Get Paid

LL Cool J - interview

EPMD - Richter Scale

Notorious BIG - Real N!ggaz Do Real Things

DMX - Get At Me Dog

Wu Tang Clan - Triumph

Pretty Boy ft Foxy Brown & Nas - The Firm All Stars

Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See

Spragga Benz - No Way (remix)

Mase - Feel So Good

Yvette Michelle - DJ Keep Playin

EPMD ft Redman & Keith Murray - K.I.M

Janet Jackson ft Q Tip - Got Til Its Gone

DJ S&S ft BBO - So Hot

Dru Hill ft Jermaine Dupri & Da Brat - In My Bed (So So Def mix)

Redman - Pick It Up (Warren G remix)

Noreaga & Nas - interview

Capone N Noreaga - Capone Bone

Noreaga & Nas - interview

Capone N Noreaga - Calm Down

The Firm - Desperados

Noreaga & Nas - Freestyle

The Firm - Hardcore

The Firm - Firm Biz

Nature - on the phone

Capone N Noreaga - Closer

Busta Rhymes - Dangerous

Jagged Edge ft Lost Boyz & ROC - The Way That You Talk (So So Def remix)

Crooklyn Clan - The Franklinz

24/7  - 24/7

Busta Rhymes - When Disaster Strikes

Big Pun - I'm Not A Player

Gang Starr - interview

Gang Starr ft Nice & Smooth - DWYCK

Gang Starr - interview

EZD ft Teflon & Billy Danze - GunzIs4

Gang Starr - interview

Gang Starr - You Know My Steez

Gang Starr - interview

Puff Daddy ft The LOX, Lil Kim & Notorious BIG - All About The Benjamins

The Firm - Firm Biz (World Famous remix)

Outro