Wednesday, August 24th, 2005

Terry Gross Fresh Air Hip-Hop Week

More radio madness! Just got word that not only will NPR be rebroadcasting DJ Kool Herc’s interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air next Monday–but the whole week will be dedicated to re-airing Terry Gross’ hip-hop interviews.

Apparently they have a huge library of interviews that Terry has conducted going back to the late 80s, including Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel, DMC, and Arthur Baker. Who knew?

Right now they are apparently still deciding which ones to bring back, but the classic RZA interview will almost certainly be on. No word on the interviews with Russell, ?uestlove, or De La Soul yet. When I get the full lineup, I’ll post it here.

posted by Jeff Chang @ 11:50 am | 1 Comment

One Response to “Terry Gross Fresh Air Hip-Hop Week”

Danyel says:

August 25, 2005 at 1:58 pm

now that’s news. gracias.

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