| Snapshot | Show Title/ Description | Date Posted | Downloads |  | Welfare Radio Vol. 30
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: First off, Kanye, man, if you were making dope music you could have pulled off that little song and dance the other night at the VMAs. For real though, dude ain't nothing but a fish stick eating gay fish!!! Second and more important, as a little kid in 1984 I was introduced to b-boyin' through a news report on "Wild Style." Soon thereafter, I got to see the film and then one of the neighbors taught me how to toprock. After this, I was subsumed with the dance, and, of course, hip hop music. So, this show goes out to the b-boys and b-girls out there!!! Mad love to all the dancers out there who respect this form of dance at its core and aren't just about acrobatic power moves. Most of these joints are latin soul and breaks - tracks I never got to get down to when I was a kiddo (for lack of knowledge, resources, etc.) - but I also threw in some MJ, Af Bam, Stevie and The Gap Band for fun. If you break, you can just put this edition of Welfare Radio on and let it fly; if not, just enjoy the drums! | 9/17/2009 | 615 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 29
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: Michael Jackson was a huge influence on me growing up, but maybe in a different way than most. When I was five years old I saw MJ grabbing his junk on television as part of his choreography. A couple tugs on the old nilly to a spin move was the sickest dance move I had ever seen and I new I needed it in my repertoire. I worked tirelessly to grab my fruit basket with precision. But I was no dancer. No, MJ's patented move became my rebuttal to authority: "Stamp, clean your room"; "Stamp, go to the office"; "Stamp, go apologize" were all answered with a series of razor sharp nut grabs and me spinning and then running away. It was perfect! So perfect, that even last year when I got married and we did a dance number to "P.Y.T." I strong-armed myself in front of 250 people.
Okay, so I thought it'd be dope to do an MJ tribute show like every other sucker out there; but, instead, I'd rock the hip hop joints that sample MJ and the Jackson 5. Motivation slipped, and now your left with this luxurious edition of Welfare Radio. In all reality MJ did a lot of dope shit and you have to respect that, even if the media and his pops really tweaked him out. Plus, he made grabbing your sack to a legitimate dance move. | 6/28/2009 | 1036 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 28
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: There comes a point in your sports fandom when you know that you've reached an all-time low, which, of course, follows crying into your Paul Pierce jersey and trying to punch a hole in the wall only to selectively hit a 2x4 stud. This pit is when your team has been eliminated from the playoffs and all you can do is root AGAINST teams. Although the media and the NBA want a Bron/Kobe Finals, I'd rather eat a fresh batch of turd than have to watch my two least favorite teams battle it out and then one of them get a banner. I've hated the Lakers since Magic's sky hook, and Kobe just adds fuel to the fire. While Cavs fans actually love their star (Lakers fans, c'mon you know you dislike bitch ass Kobe) and they've always sucked so much balls that I could really give an eff about em, I still could never get behind them bringing home a title to the place they call a city. All my fan bitterness aside, go Nuggets and Magic! I mean seriously, I can't believe I even uttered those words, but I cannot not watch the playoffs, so I'm stuck. Man, I wouldn't even be diatribing like this if KG stayed healthy and we'd be hanging banner 18! Anyway, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay late edition of Welfare Radio here. Occasionally I do a mix featuring new heatrocks; this is one of those shows. | 5/26/2009 | 1019 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 27
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: I'm currently on my 9th college spring break and I ain't doing sh*t but surfing the web and watching ball. This is not The Grind and there is no DJ Skribble or Eric Nies, and especially no bikinis in rainy ass Oregon. The only thing I got in common with most students' break is the binging component. Anyway, the NBA playoffs are upon us and KG is back baby. The C's are gonna beat on people in the playoffs while Cavs will be exposed…mark my words. This edition of “Welfare Radio” is as random as its description, but features some of the joints I've been bumpin' lately (can you tell that I'm musically stuck somewhere?). Enjoy this edition and Buckwild remixes that I had to pepper in. | 3/24/2009 | 1662 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 26
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: The last two years around February 10th, I've done J. Dilla tribute shows to celebrate the late great. However, is that shit played out? Has Dilla just become this commodity for everybody to make some skrilla off of? Is every 16-year-old "head" out there who now sweats Dilla, claiming to be a fan since his 1st Down days (which is just nonsense), really just adding to this commodification? Is a Dilla tribute show totally cliche in 2K9?
I don't know the answers. But, instead of doing a Dilla show I decided to just pepper in some of his beats and set this edition of Welfare Radio off with "Nothing Like This." This edition includes some of my old favs from Lord Finesse and Ice Cube, plus new bangers from Rae and Ghost, Prodigy, The Beatnuts, and Royce. Download this and bump it in your ear buds!!! | 2/8/2009 | 1924 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 25
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: Oh my god damn, it's Xmas time! Your sonic gift: A "Best Of" Fondle 'Em Records. What do I want from Santa: the Lakers to get effed in the A by the "Big Five"!!! Okay, so if you're not familiar with the Fondle 'Em imprint, here's your chance to, as Clinton Sparks says, "Get Familiar." Baller, sneaker guru, and hip-hop visionary Robert "Bobbito" Garcia killed the game back in the mid-90s when he started this label. Not only did he bring us DOOM (he also practically saved Mr. Dumile), but Bobbito sniffed out some of the illest global talent to release on this "vinyl only" (sans Operation: Doomsday and The Cenobites) label.
By no means is this mix a conclusive "best of" Fondle 'Em; however, some of my favs are as follows. Camu Tao (R.I.P.) drops it ridiculously on "Camu" and of course I had to bless you with one of my favorite 12" releases of all time by Mr. Live. Yeshua Da PoED, GRIMM, Juggaknots and J-Treds also come with the fiyah; but, for real, this label reminds me of what hip-hop used to sound like and maybe someday artists will revisit this successful formula (please). Seriously though, Bobbito's morning shit does more for hip hop than most of us will in a lifetime. | 12/28/2008 | 1451 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 24
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: Okay, I must admit that over the last couple years I've been rather disappointed with the majority of hip-hop releases; have struggled to find joints worthy of being labeled “dope” (never mind "classic”); and found that more golden era emcees/producers have faltered into stylistic obsolescence rather than remaining relevant (or even interesting). Obviously, good music comes out here and there, but it's not as easy today to go to the record store and pull a grip of dope vinyl as it were in, let's say, '93 or even '98 (maybe the reason being digitization…of the studio, the store, and most importantly, the music format). Point being: well, I'm damn happy that in this month's Welfare Radio I actually had to exclude new music from making the cut. These releases have also given me hope that some of my favorite musicians of yesteryear can still make dope LPs (i.e. Large Pro, Nas, Heltah Skeltah, etc.), building upon, and therefore evolving past, the music that got me going when I was a kid. Regardless, there are a crapload of dope records dropping right now and I'm getting a bit excited about this music again…this mix celebrates such excitement. And look, man, I'm on time with this mix too for the first time in almost a year. Dang! Peep the game, and I hope you feel the same way about this batch of music as I do. | 9/30/2008 | 1808 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 23 (DJ Food Stamp Wedding Edition)
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: Okay, so every month (or two) I come out with a Welfare Radio show and some b.s. about why I'm so tardy (usually related to school). So two weeks ago I got hitched and had this big ass wedding. I spent all summer working 70 hours a week to buy the booze and other et ceteras, and obviously spent my free time running bitch ass wedding errands, so I think it's a fair excuse on my lateness. One of the gifts I gave people at the wedding was the “Regal Wedding Mixtape,” which, of course, I'm now serving you in the form of a radio show. This is an 80-minute party jump-off and is hosted by my two new 7 and 9-year-old brothers, DJ Boney and DJ Little Man. I really tried to flex the mash-up/mix up muscles here and pieced together a mix you can blast at your next party. Oh, and the wedding was dope: I rocked the ‘82 Air Force Ones and a fedora; had a 5+ hour drunken dance party; did a choreographed dance number to MJ's “P.Y.T” with my Queen; drank many Incredible Hulks; and blacked out. UGHH.com's Quest, Trees, and Jeremy were there to join in. | 9/1/2008 | 1320 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 22
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: It's the first of the fuggin' month…finally! Anyway, no dang theme here; however, you may say NYC “golden era” type ish (whatever that means) minus a couple cuts. I made this mix right before I left the West to come back East for the summer to bump and burn to as I cruised through that sh*tty state of Nebraska. I took my two dogs, my kitty, my studio crap, and a mason jar of Oregon's finest along for the 3300 mile trek - a trip I made dolo in three days sleeping in my girl's small ass VW and eating sunflower seeds. Anyway, I'm back in the East where people walk fast, are on time, yell at each other, and where there's an abundance of white dudes with mullets rather than with stankin' ass dreads…great to be home. No more hippy ass drum circles in my backyard, but dang, I miss the Oregon micro brews. Okay, so I guess this description is more like a diary, but I'll have you know that the joints in this mix are some of my favorites of all time, or, well, dope enough to keep me on blast through parts of Wyoming and into NB. Had to throw in a cut off of the Immortal Tech album that everybody is either hatin' on or jock-riding…my humble opinion: Tech problematically outshines the beats. BUMP THIS ISH!!! | 6/28/2008 | 1811 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 21
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: Oh boy, so yeah, again I am late as hell with this. You'd think that a one hour real-time mixshow every month wouldn't be a much deadline to hold. But for me, nope, it's hella hard. But finally, it's the first of the month (in a figurative manner), and Welfare Radio is jam-packed with a bunch of new bangers from some of your (and my) favorite artists (sans a couple classic head-nod ditties). All I have to say is that if the C's don't win on the damn road, I'm going to lose my mind. You can blame my tardiness with this month's show on the Celts, but I'm waiting on my first ring in over two decades…whatever KG (kidding, but let's quote Deck on how the C's feel: “It's been twenty-two long hard years of still strugglin'”). Enjoy the show…I think you'll like the Biggie/Dilla collabo if you haven't heard that joint yet. | 5/15/2008 | 1747 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 20
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: Holy fugg, it has been way too long. I know, I'm always taking mad time off between these mix shows. But hey, deal with it. Man, so yeah, America is just crazy right now (if you haven't noticed) and I'm having a hard time just passively observing it; however, I'm too lazy to really do anything about it. I mean, what can you really do anyway? I know that's a defeatist attitude, but really, we're left with little agency. Hope=Obama (see the Kidz in the Hall banger), I believe is truth, but politicians are all bullsh*tters anyway. Dang, sorry to bring you down with my little ramble, but I've been seeing and hearing some pretty depressing sh*t. So, here is some Prozac in the form of a mix show. Every once in a while I come across a producer who I think has got mad talent and makes those beats that I want to hear, and then I'll feature some of their music here on Welfare Radio. This time it's my homie G Force, from right here in Oregon. Dude lays it down, and I peppered in some of his dope remixes with a bunch of new underground bangers. Man, be sure to peep the new 9th and Buckshot, E.M.C., Guilty Simpson and the “Criminal Minded 08” joint by KRS and Preem. Hope you like the G Force remixes as much as myself, and, it doesn't end there so peep his myspace: http://www.myspace.com/gforcetheearthworm | 4/8/2008 | 1680 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 19 (J Dilla Tribute Edition 2)
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: God damn, I know I'm about two weeks late on this Dilla tribute show. But hey, I spent eight hours this past February 10th at a record convention fishin' out a grip of 45s that would make you jealous (and for a section 8 price). So yeah, I don't know if I will be able to do a Dilla show every year, or, well, even if I should. But, I would say that judging the way by which Dilla has posthumously released hella albums in the last year it won't be too hard. James Dewitt Yancey was ill before most of the people who now ride his jock even knew it (you hip-hop necrophiliacs). Point is, we were all bumpin' those Pharcyde and Tribe records, listening to and lovin Dilla, without maybe knowing it. Some people are just catching on and errbody wants to make beats like Dilla. But, you gotta get sick of the suckas who didn't live near Detroit who try and say they were down with my man since his 1st Down days. Shhh. Regardless, dude was mad versatile and killed it on all fronts. I think this show is a testament to that skill. Lots of banging shit on this mix and I got real nuts with his unreleased instrumental LP that surfaced last year. I dunno, just sit back and enjoy this. And remember, support this dude on the reals: http://www.jdilla.org. | 2/22/2008 | 2090 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 18
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: Okay, so finally, here it comes: the millennial great depression; 19-0 Patriots; a pair of $230 XX3 Air Jordans; installment #18 of Welfare Radio for sure, it's apocalypse time. Got a hot batch of tracks here for your enjoyment - a platter that includes new flavor from Akrobatik, Dynas, and Nic & Kay with a peppering of some golden era spice. I'm actually at a loss for words this time around, so I'll leave it at that. However, here are some words of wisdom: Never sweat the petty things, always pet the sweaty things (whatever the eff that means). | 1/28/2008 | 1763 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 17
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: Okay, so self-admittedly, I am a hip-hop dinosaur. If most of my shows are not enough evidence of that, the fact that the NYC Live Throw Down: 1979-1985 is my favorite item at UGHH.com should be proof-positive of my staunch adherence to a generation far from todays music and lifestyles. However, once in a while I will try really hard to demonstrate that I got my ear to the concrete and that I'm not another one of those late 20-something white dudes who cant get his mind off the music/culture of his early 90s pubescence (well frankly, that is me). Yep, even I do the Souljah Boy dance at the club and then go home and get laid to the new Aesop Rock album. Hehehe. Episode 17 of Welfare Radio is a potpourri of my favorite underground (or otherwise) bangers. The new Supreme Team ish is crazy, and of course I had to throw in a cut from the Mick Boogie/Dilla/Busta free mix CD. Plus, I waited a long time to get the Boondocks Season 1 on DVD for $17 at Target (not $45), so in honor of that is the Asheru theme to one of my favorite cartoons. For me, this is basically what is hot right now, the ish you should bump. Oh, had to throw in a shout to Donda West too, and my man from Oregon, Braille, is straight murder on the mic. In advance, I apologize for getting a little scratch happy in this one if you don't like it download something else like Xmas carols. | 12/18/2007 | 2019 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 16
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: Long, long, long overdue. But, well, here it is, and it's a special edition of Welfare Radio. This show is a blend mixshow; yep, chop chop chop. This summer a producer named Germ asked me to conjure up a blend CD for him, and after hearing his beats I couldn't say no. So, what you have here is an UGHH.com rendition of the mixtape. If you're feeling my man's beatsmithing skills, hit him up: http://www.myspace.com/germinfected2. Also, stay tuned cause I got another show on lock for next week - one filled with all sorts of new ish that you gotta put on blast. It's almost Christmas time, so you know I got some gifts coming your way. | 12/6/2007 | 1233 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 15
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: Okay, so this show is all about sloppy. These joints are some of my favorite sloppy joloppies which are complemented by sloppy scratches and sloppy doubles mixes... pretty much the same ole sh*t. But hell, try mixing a radio show while watching your baseball team facing elimination. Seriously, try it! Like I say every damn time I put together a show, I promise I will try to get regular with it, and I'll probably say the same thing when I get show 16 together in 3 months. Ahaha. Seriously, if you like or hate the show, but either way want it more, merely harass me…actually, harass CEO Quest! Quest enjoys harassment of all forms, and, as we know, he is the true sloppy joloppy. Btw, I heard that Joe Torre may sign a deal to take over web administration here at UGHH.com. | 10/22/2007 | 1730 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 14
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: For some reason (and there are plenty), I'm totally sick of hearing our president's weasely voice ramble off half-truths in an attempt to band-aid this whole mess he's been pushing. Thus, I'm kicking this one off with the Honey Drippers classic break record Impeach the President, and to stay in line with such an introduction to Show 14, pepper in some other conscious tracks. Man, school already?! Just to keep you from total academic boredom, there is a Crooklyn Dodgers II mega-mix in the middle of this sh*t show, I mean radio show, I mean mix show. Seriously, I love p*ssy but hate Bush and can't believe that holmes hasnt been impeached yet. I hope the Drippers don't try and sue me for using this record (wink wink, nod nod). Anyways, January 20, 2009 is closer than we all think, and hopefully a lesser bag-of-vinegar is sworn in on that day. Rambling, yep! Diatribe, no quite! Enjoy this little bag of sonic WMDs. | 9/7/2007 | 2075 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 13
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: Dayum, it has been a long time coming for show 13, but it's finally here. And, well, the time between mixes shows, as this one is all about shaking off all the rust, crust, and dust. I mean dang, it's summer, so how you gonna coup me up with my decks when outdoor splendors call?! There are a bunch of freshies here - old and new - including the new Common and DJ Premier joint that has got me on bug and some Gravediggaz sh*t for all you macabre folks out there (6 Feet Deep is end to end heata classic). Mixes should be more on the reg too, as I'll be back on the academic grind and living structured life. Excuses, excuses. Keep UGHH on lock, many more to come in the future. | 8/16/2007 | 2255 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 12
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: Cot damn, it's already May?! WTF is up with that?! I don't know about anybody else, but I'm ready as hell for some summer action. I dunno, it's always a joy to see the fine ladies that sun brings out after winter hibernation. Green grass, BBQ action, and baseball basically makes this a damn sweet time of year. Anyways, this weekend is my birthday and I figured that I'd pop out a lil' bday mix before I try to recover from my eternal hangover. Man, it feels nice to get some birthday love too; today I got a package from UGHH Headquarters filled with Tastykakes…thanks fellas! Aight, this is starting to feel like some homo blog entry. Pretty typical mix here, so I don't really know what to say about it other than just listen. | 5/7/2007 | 2674 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 11
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: Man, I am definitely the cliché DJ. First a Dilla tribute show, and now a special 4:20 edition of Welfare Radio; but sh*t, you got to do it. This goes out to all my weed heads out there! What you'll find here is a collection of songs about ganja, chronic, herb, sticky icky, and so forth, as well as some songs that are simply just good to burn to. What else can I say, April 20th IS the holiday for orthodox chronic heads…so crack the Philly or pack the pipe, and get live to this. Happy Holidayzzz! | 4/20/2007 | 2437 |
| Welfare Radio Vol. 10
DJ's: DJ Food Stamp
Description: Man, my shows are starting to show how I definitely have not progressed in terms of musical taste. As much people talk sh*t about that, well, the lack of moving on…F*ck You! Seriously, I know there's a lot of people out there who feel the same. Half the crap that comes out is barely listenable, and our hip hop heroes of yesteryear can't top their first record they made in '92 with a damn 4-track. Anyways, I guess this is more of a diatribe than a description, but man do I feel like a grumpy old bastard. This show is a dedication to some of the older hot sh*t, and to the artists who still make dope records. | 3/22/2007 | 2303 |
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