Controversy swirls around Milwaukee's first hip-hop song. A group of MCs, DJs and musicians who were there weigh in on the scene, the time, and the true beginning of hip-hop in Milwaukee.

Episode 3: The Majestics Meet Marvell

Jul 15th, 2019 25m 58s

A businessman with a business plan finds a group of energetic local kids who model themselves on James Brown and convinces them to record what might be Milwaukee's first hip-hop song.

Episode 2: Milwaukee was Crackin'

1 Jul 15th, 2019 27m 2s

A fertile music culture in Milwaukee lays the groundwork for a new art form. In the early '80s there is an opportunity to make Milwaukee into the next Motown -- it just needs one charismatic entrepreneur to take advantage of it.

Episode 6: The Friends We Made Along the Way

Jul 15th, 2019 38m 24s

Justin and Tyrone settle the debate. We hear Milwaukee's first hip-hop song in full and put an end to this journey for Milwaukee's first hip-hop song.

Episode 1: Setting the Stage

Jul 15th, 2019 29m 21s

We begin the search for Milwaukee's first hip-hop song. But first we have to understand the origins of hip-hop before it got to Milwaukee, and the fertile ground for the genre that Milwaukee provided in the early '80s.

Episode 5: Arrested Development

Jul 15th, 2019 28m 37s

The leader of one of hip-hop's greatest groups, Arrested Development's Speech talks about the impact that Milwaukee had on him, and the impact he had on the city and the world.

New podcast 'Backspin: The Search for Milwaukee’s First Hip-Hop Song' launches July 15

Jul 4th, 2019 1m 1s

Who made Milwaukee's first hip hop song? Turns out this question is a tough one to Google. So, we're finding the answer.88Nine DJ Tyrone Miller and Music Director Justin Barney journey back to the early 1980s in our new podcast -- Backspin: The

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